Editing Benny Goodman (section)

===From sideman to bandleader===
Goodman moved to New York City and became a session musician for radio, Broadway musicals, and in studios.<ref name="Ruhlmann">{{cite web |last1=Ruhlmann |first1=William |title=Benny Goodman |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/benny-goodman-mn0000163133/biography |website=AllMusic |access-date=November 26, 2018}}</ref> In addition to clarinet, he sometimes played alto saxophone and baritone saxophone.<ref name="Swing" /> His first recording pressed to disc (Victor 20394) occurred on December 9, 1926, in Chicago. The session resulted in the song "When I First Met Mary", which also included [[Glenn Miller]], Harry Goodman, and Ben Pollack.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Connor|first=D.|title=Benny Goodman: Listen to His Legacy|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=1988|isbn=0-8108-2095-1}}</ref> In a [[Victor Talking Machine Company|Victor]] recording session on March 21, 1928, he played alongside Miller, [[Tommy Dorsey]], and [[Joe Venuti]] in the All-Star Orchestra directed by [[Nathaniel Shilkret]].<ref name=connorhicks>{{cite book |title= BG on the Record: A Bio-Discography of Benny Goodman |last1= Conner |first1= D. Russell |last2=Hicks |first2=Warren W. |year= 1969 |edition=2nd |url=https://archive.org/details/bgonrecordbiodis00conn |publisher= Arlington House |location= New Rochelle, New York |isbn=0-8700-0059-4 }}</ref><ref name="Shilkret">{{cite book |last1=Shilkret |first1=Nathaniel |editor1-last=Shilkret |editor1-first=Barbara |editor2-last=Shell |editor2-first=Niel |title=Nathaniel Shilkret: Sixty Years in the Music Business |date=2005 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location=Lanham, Maryland |isbn=0-8108-5128-8}}</ref><ref name="Stockdale">{{cite journal |last1=Stockdale |first1=Robert |title=Tommy Dorsey on the Side |journal=Studies in Jazz |date=1995 |volume=19 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location=Metuchen, New Jersey }}</ref> He played with the bands of [[Red Nichols]], [[Ben Selvin]], [[Ted Lewis (musician)|Ted Lewis]], and [[Isham Jones]] and recorded for [[Brunswick Records|Brunswick]] under the name Benny Goodman's Boys, a band that featured Glenn Miller. In 1928, Goodman and Miller wrote "[[Room 1411]]", Miller's first known composition, which was released as a Brunswick 78.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://syncopatedtimes.com/benny-goodmans-boys/ |title=Benny Goodman's Boys |date=May 6, 2020 |publisher=Red Hot Jazz Archive |access-date=May 6, 2020}}</ref>

He reached the charts for the first time in January 1931 with "He's Not Worth Your Tears", featuring a vocal by [[Scrappy Lambert]] for [[Melotone Records (US)|Melotone]]. After signing with [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] in 1934, he had top ten hits with "Ain't Cha Glad?" and "I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreamin{{'"}} sung by [[Jack Teagarden]], "Ol' Pappy" sung by [[Mildred Bailey]], and "Riffin' the Scotch" sung by [[Billie Holiday]]. An invitation to play at the Billy Rose Music Hall led to his creation of an orchestra for the four-month engagement. The orchestra recorded "[[Moonglow (song)|Moonglow]]", which became a number one hit and was followed by the Top Ten hits "Take My Word" and "[[Bugle Call Rag]]".<ref name="Ruhlmann" />

NBC hired Goodman for the radio program ''[[Let's Dance (radio)|Let's Dance]]''.<ref name="Ruhlmann" /> [[John Hammond (record producer)|John Hammond]] asked [[Fletcher Henderson]] if he wanted to write arrangements for Goodman, and Henderson agreed.<ref name="Firestone" />{{rp|114}} During the Depression, Henderson disbanded his orchestra because he was in debt.<ref name="Schuller1991">{{cite book |last=Schuller |first=Gunther |title=The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930–1945 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zc4Lh9KC2MIC&pg=PA3|access-date=November 25, 2018 |year=1991 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-507140-5|pages=3–}}</ref> Goodman hired Henderson's band members to teach his musicians how to play the music.<ref>Charters, Murray (2009). "The Road to Carnegie Hall". ''Brantford Expositor''.</ref>

Goodman's band was one of three to perform on ''Let's Dance'', playing arrangements by Henderson along with hits such as "[[Get Happy (song)|Get Happy]]" and "[[Limehouse Blues (song)|Limehouse Blues]]" by [[Spud Murphy]].<ref name="Vallance">{{cite web |last1=Vallance |first1=Tom |title=Spud Murphy |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/spud-murphy-308792.html |website=The Independent |access-date=November 26, 2018 |date=August 29, 2005}}</ref>

Goodman's portion of the program was broadcast too late at night to attract a large audience on the east coast. He and his band remained on ''Let's Dance'' until May of that year when a strike by employees of the series' sponsor, [[National Biscuit Company|Nabisco]], forced the cancellation of the radio show. An engagement was booked at Manhattan's Roosevelt Grill filling in for [[Guy Lombardo]], but the audience expected "sweet" music and Goodman's band was unsuccessful.<ref name=Clarke/>

Goodman spent six months performing on ''Let's Dance'', and during that time he recorded six more Top Ten hits for Columbia.<ref name="Ruhlmann" />