Bluebird’s Best: The King of Swing/Benny Goodman (2002) Although Benny Goodman and his orchestra were favorites of my mother-in-law, they are also on my soundtrack of life. They evoke memories of the many old black and white wartime movies my mom and I watched on Sunday afternoons when I was a girl, like “Stage Door Canteen” that featured “Bugle Call Rag.” My son goes to Hollywood U where their marching band famously plays “Sing, Sing, Sing” on the field. I especially like “Swingtime in the Rockies” and “It’s Been so Long.”

Track Listing:
1 King Porter Stomp
2 Sing, Sing, Sing
3 Swingtime in the Rockies
4 Don’t Be That Way
5 Sometimes I’m Happy
6 Bach Goes to Town: A Fugue in Swing Tempo
7 Wrappin’ It Up
8 It’s Been so Long (From “The Great Ziegfield”)
9 And the Angels Sing
10 If Dreams Come True
11 Bugle Call Rag
12 Peckin’ (From “New Faces of 1937”)
13 Roll ‘Em
14 Good-Bye