Benny Goodman: Lucky, 1945

One thing leads to another. After posting yesterday on a Benny Goodman TV interview from 1981, I wound up listening to Goodman in the mid-1940s and four takes of Lucky from the end of 1945. The song, by Edgar Sampson and Goodman, was arranged by Sampson, who had worked with Chick Webb and wrote Stompin' at the Savoy and Don't Be That Way, among other so…