Albums Songs Releases Events Lists Members Activity ✦ Plus

✦ Plus Albums Songs Releases Events Lists Members Activity

Jukebox — a diary for everything you listen to.

Albums Songs Lists Members Profile

Catalog, artwork and previews provided courtesy of iTunes / Apple Music. Sample content is labelled.

Terms Privacy Copyright Contact

A BR, KR, & HB Production

Albums Songs Releases Events Lists Members Activity ✦ Plus

✦ Plus Albums Songs Releases Events Lists Members Activity

Get Happy by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra • Jukebox

Preview provided courtesy of iTunes.

5.2K

listens

141

on lists

2.3K

loves

Sample

Song

Get Happy

by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra · from The Birth of Swing (1935-1936)

1991Jazz3:09Track 9

Play 30-second preview

Courtesy of Apple Music

Your rating

What people are saying

Review by Tomasz W.★★★½Sample

Overhyped? Maybe. Did I still cry at “Get Happy”? Also maybe.

3.6K likes

Review by Oskar Lind★★★½Sample

Not every song lands, but when it does it LANDS. “Get Happy” is the keeper.

3.2K likes

Also on The Birth of Swing (1935-1936)

Tracklist

Rate each song as you listen

Disc 1
1
Hunkadola (Take 1)
sample avg 3.7
3:00
2
Hunkadola (Take 2)
sample avg 3.2
3:02
3
I'm Livin' In a Great Big Way
sample avg 3.9 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Buddy Clark
2:33
4
Hooray for Love
sample avg 3.0 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
2:37
5
The Dixieland Band
sample avg 3.6 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
3:04
6
Japanese Sandman
sample avg 4.0
3:32
7
You're a Heavenly Thing
sample avg 3.8 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
3:00
8
Restless
sample avg 3.8 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
3:27
9
Always
sample avg 3.4 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Horace Henderson
2:49
10
Get Rhythm In Your Feet (And Music In Your Soul)
sample avg 3.6 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
2:26
11
Ballad In Blue
sample avg 3.5
2:41
12
Blue Skies
sample avg 3.2
3:36
13
Dear Old Southland
sample avg 3.5
2:20
14
Sometimes I'm Happy
sample avg 4.0
3:46
15
King Porter Stomp
sample avg 4.1
3:11
16
(You've Got Me In Between) The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
sample avg 3.5 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
2:50
17
Jingle Bells
sample avg 4.1
2:38
18
Santa Claus Came In the Spring
sample avg 3.9 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Joe Harris
3:12
19
Good-Bye
sample avg 2.9
3:29
20
Madhouse (Take 1)
sample avg 4.1
2:50
21
Madhouse (Take 2)
sample avg 3.3
2:52
22
Sandman
sample avg 3.7
2:40
23
Yankee Doodle Never Went to Town
sample avg 3.9 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
2:33
24
No Other One
sample avg 3.2 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
2:45
Disc 2
1
Eeny Meeny Miney Mo
sample avg 3.1 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
1:59
2
Basin Street Blues
sample avg 3.8 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Joe Harris
2:59
3
If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
sample avg 3.7
2:18
4
When Buddha Smiles
sample avg 4.0
3:13
5
It's Been So Long (From "the Great Ziegfeld")
sample avg 3.8 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
3:30
6
Stompin' At the Savoy
sample avg 3.9
3:17
7
Goody Goody
sample avg 3.9 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
2:33
8
Breakin' In a Pair of Shoes
sample avg 3.8
2:35
9
Get Happy
sample avg 3.2
3:09
10
Christopher Columbus
sample avg 3.9
3:36
11
I Know That You Know
sample avg 3.9
2:06
12
Stardust
sample avg 3.9
2:55
13
You Can't Pull the Wool Over My Eyes
sample avg 3.0 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
2:36
14
The Glory of Love
sample avg 3.9 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
2:41
15
Remember
sample avg 3.7
2:44
16
Walk, Jennie, Walk
sample avg 3.3
1:59
17
House Hop (Take 2)
sample avg 2.9
2:25
18
House Hop (Take 3)
sample avg 4.0
2:33
19
Sing Me a Swing Song (And Let Me Dance)
sample avg 3.5 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
2:26
20
(I Would Do) Anything for You
sample avg 3.1
2:51
21
In a Sentimental Mood
sample avg 2.9
3:40
22
I've Found a New Baby
sample avg 3.8
2:13
23
Swingtime In the Rockies
sample avg 3.7
3:12
24
These Foolish Things Remind Me of You
sample avg 3.5 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
2:45
Disc 3
1
There's a Small Hotel
sample avg 3.0 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
2:30
2
You Turned the Tables On Me
sample avg 3.0 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
2:51
3
Here's Love In Your Eyes
sample avg 3.9
2:24
4
Pick Yourself Up (From "Swing Time")
sample avg 3.4 · Benny Goodman
2:53
5
Down South Camp Meeting
sample avg 3.9
3:20
6
St. Louis Blues (Take 1)
sample avg 3.4
3:24
7
St. Louis Blues (Take 2)
sample avg 3.9
3:29
8
Love Me or Leave Me (Take 1)
sample avg 3.7
3:40
9
Love Me or Leave Me (Take 2)
sample avg 3.9
3:37
10
Bugle Call Rag (#1)
sample avg 3.9
2:37
11
When a Lady Meets a Gentleman Down South
sample avg 3.7 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
2:40
12
You're Giving Me a Song and a Dance
sample avg 3.1 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
3:21
13
Organ Grinder's Swing
sample avg 3.4
3:14
14
Peter Piper
sample avg 3.3 · Benny Goodman and His Orchestra & Helen Ward
2:48
15
Riffin' At the Ritz
sample avg 3.8
3:30
16
Alexander's Ragtime Band
sample avg 3.8
2:10
17
Somebody Loves Me
sample avg 3.3
2:52
18
'Tain't No Use
sample avg 3.6
2:46
19
Bugle Call Rag (#2)
sample avg 3.9
3:00
20
Jam Session
sample avg 3.2 · Jimmy Mundy & Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
2:56
21
Goodnight, My Love (feat. Ella Fitzgerald)
sample avg 3.0
3:11
22
Take Another Guess (feat. Ella Fitzgerald)
sample avg 2.9
2:32
23
Did You Mean It? (feat. Ella Fitzgerald)
sample avg 3.1
2:24

Your rating

Ratings

3.3K ratings

Sample Sample ratings, not real votes

3.2out of 5

5★

4★

3★

2★

1★

Review by Yuki Tanaka★★★Sample

vibes immaculate, lyrics occasionally a little 'live laugh love'

1.6K likes

Review by DeShawn Price★★½Sample

Respectfully: no. “Get Happy” is the only thing I'd revisit.

820 likes

Review by Priya Raman★★½Sample

Too long by about four songs. Trim it down and we talk.

391 likes