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(Benny Goodman/Lionel Hampton/Eddie DeLange/Sid Robin)
(o):Benny Goodman Sextet (1939)label: Columbia
 With Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton and the young guitar player Charlie Christian, praised by John Hammond Sr. According to Hammond, Christian came up with the musical theme for Flying Home, but he's not credited.
(c):Lionel Hampton (1940) , Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band (1940s) , Woody Herman (1943) , Ella Fitzgerald (1945) [scat version], Amos Milburn (1952) , Pee Wee King (1955) , Bill Doggett (1957) , Chuck Berry (1969) , Ray Gelato's Giants Of Jive (1989) , Senders (1996) , Clarence Gatemouth Brown (1997) , Duke Robillard & Herb Ellis (1999) ,
 
The definitive Lionel Hampton version, with the famous tenor solo by Illinois Jacquet, role model for so many honking sax solos, was cut in 1942.
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