Afrs Benny Goodman Show, Vol. 9

The latest edition of this popular series featuring the Benny Goodman Orchestra which documents the complete series of radio programs broadcast during the latter part of the 1940s. This CD volume nine features actress and movie star Shirley Booth. Her most significant role was as Lola Delaney in the stage play and later movie of "Come Back Little Sheba" for which she won an Academy Award as best actress and also a Golden Globe. Also guesting is author, songwriter and gossip columnist, known as the "hostess with the mostest" Elsa Maxwell. Benny as usual is on hand with his orchestra, his sextet and the Mobilgas Orchestra which was the Benny Goodman Orchestra augmented with a string section. The whole package is held together by popular comedian Victor Borge. Show # 19 Guest: Shirley BoothJohn Best, Nate Kazebier, Dick Mains, Dale Pierce (tp), Cutty Cutshall, Leon Cox (tb), Addison Collins (fr-h), Larry Molinelli, Clint Bellew (as), Cliff Strickland, Zoot Sims (ts), John Rotella (bs), Johnny White (vib), Joe Bushkin (p), Barney Kessel (g), Harry Babasin (b), Louis Bellson (d), Eileen Wilson (vo). Sextet: BG, White, Bushkin, Kessel, Babasin, Bellson. Tracks are: Introduction: Comedy By Victor Borge, Clinton "Bud" Collyer and "Mack" Miller; BG O: I May Be Wrong; Comedy by Victor borge and "Mack" Miller; BG O: For You, for Me, for Evermore (voc: Eve Young); Comedy by Victor Borge and Shirley Booth; BG Sextet: Flying Home; BG Sextet: Red Horse Boogie Woogie-Goodbye. Show # 20 Guest: Elsa MaxwellSame personnel. Mobilgas Orchestra: Augmented Benny Goodman Orchestra. Tracks are: Introduction; Comedy by Victor Borge, Benny Goodman and Clinton "Bud" Collyer; BG O: Old Buttermilk Sky; Comedy by Victor Borge and Clinton "Bud" Collyer; BG O: Stealin' Apples; Comedy by Victor BorgeElsa Maxwell and Benny Goodman; Victor Borge: Claire de lune; Comedy by Victor Borge, Elsa Maxwell and Benny Goodman; Mobilgas Orchestra: Poor Butterfly - Goodbye.