Don't Be That Way - Benny Goodman - Clarinet Transcription

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When Benny Goodman formed his big band in 1934, he brought in a number of talented arrangers, initially Dean Kinkade and Lyle "Spud" Murphy; from 1935 onwards he used the arrangements of the brothers Fletcher and Horace Henderson as well as Edgar Sampson, who worked for the bandleader Chick Webb. In 1936, Benny Goodman sold two of his compositions, Stompin' at the Savoy and If Dreams Come True. Goodman's version of Stompin', like Chick Webb's, made it into the charts. Edgar Sampson had arranged his composition Don't Be That Way in 1934, which Webb's orchestra recorded in 1934. On January 16, 1938, the Goodman orchestra performed at his legendary concert in New York's Carnegie Hall; Goodman opened the evening with "Don't Be That Way" in tribute to Chick Webb and Edgar Sampson. A month later, he performed the song for RCA Victor, which became a number one hit in the United States at the end of the year.