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“Never Should Have Told You” by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra 1936
Vocalist: Margaret McCrae
Victor 25500-A

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From: https://swingandbeyond.com/2020/02/08...

Benny Goodman, clarinet, directing: Ziggy Elman, first trumpet; Chris Griffin and Irving Goodman, trumpets; Red Ballard and Murray McEachern, trombones; Hymie Shertzer, first alto saxophone; Bill DePew, alto saxophone; Arthur Rollini and Vido Musso, tenor saxophones; Jess Stacy, piano; Allan Reuss, guitar; Harry Goodman, bass; Gene Krupa, drums. Margaret McCrae, vocal.

“Never Should Have Told You” was a mid-1930s pop tune composed by Tin Pan Alley songwriters Dave Franklin and Cliff Friend. They are best known for the song “The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down,” which became the theme song for the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoon series. One of their lesser-known collaborations was “Never Should Have Told You.” It was featured in the 1937 Max Fleischer cartoon featuring The Bouncing Ball, and a performance by pianist and sweet music bandleader Nat Brandywynne.

The Benny Goodman performance as one would expect, is rather muscular, but at the same time beautifully performed swing-styled dance music, skillfully arranged by Jimmy Mundy. The annunciatory four-bar introduction spots the brass quintet on open horns at first played without any rhythm accompaniment, then with a mellow bit of rhythm. The first sixteen bars of the first chorus show off the unity and blend of the four man saxophone section under the glowing lead alto of Hymie Shertzer, playing the main melody, with warm emphases provided by the open brass, led by Ziggy Elman. BG plays the bridge, gently swinging the secondary melody. The saxophones return to finish the first chorus. (Above left: Ziggy Elman and Irving Goodman, fall 1936.)

By the time this recording was made, three quarters of the saxophone section had been together for well over a year. The fourth man, Vido Musso, who had arrived in August of 1936, was an explosive jazz improviser on tenor saxophone, but a less than good reader of music. The man who took charge of Vido’s reading assistance was his fellow tenor saxophonist Art Rollini, one of the most impeccable section players of the swing era, and a more than capable jazz soloist. As we can hear in this recording, Vido fit into the saxophone section beautifully.

The band then plays the modulation which takes the key up a bit for the vocal chorus. Margaret McCrae sings the melody well, on pitch and with good voice quality. She obviously knew what she was doing as a singer, that is why she had been hired and worked successfully at CBS. I doubt if her employment by the Goodman band was ever intended to be anything other than temporary. She returned to CBS after 1937 began, but soon thereafter disappeared from the scene.