Benny Goodman Quartet Plays “I’m A Ding Dong Daddy”

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"I'm A Ding Dong Daddy" was written by Phil Baxter in 1928 and it was Louis Armstrong who made the first recording in one take complete with forgetting the lyrics and scatting through the recording before blowing the studio walls down with two sizzling choruses on his trumpet. The Benny Goodman Quartet literally plays for all their worth in this lightning fast performance. Goodman fluidly plays through brilliantly with a lightning fast solo by Teddy Wilson on piano that literally flies by before Goodman comes through with another daredevil solo. Lionel Hampton takes up the slack with one his great fleet footed vibe solos complete with vocal exhortations. Gene Krupa plays one of his more torrid drum solos to wind up this whole performance in a smasher of an ending.

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