POMPTON TURNPIKE CHARLIE BARNET

[@lisaaudreyjacintaskinner8578]

🌠💛✨ Legendary George Pal’s 1946 Jasper's In A Jam,... that's what inspired me to search out this awesome Classical Jazz masterpiece!!!

[@williamhighfill539]

Great song by a great bandleader and composer....danced to it many times!!

[@CPorter]

Barnet didn't compose this. Will Osborne and his singer Dick Rogers did

[@zachwheeler9846]

Must mellow sounding song ever made! 😎

[@51pogo]

First heard "Pompton Turnpike" as a kid, on the radio, probably the early 1960s, either on Martin Block's version of "Make Believe Ballroom" or possibly Joe Franklin? The reason it resonated with me was simply the title. The (Newark) Pompton Turnpike was the main road in our town - about 8 miles north of the big band club, Frank Daly's Meadowbrook. Thanks for making it available on KZbin!

[@dubman1975]

Your town must have been Cedar Grove. (I'm from Verona)

[@angusbrownfield8901]

When I was the same age, 51pogo, I had a sister 12 years older and a brother 10 years older, who were swing and jazz enthusiasts, and the call and response between the clarinet and trumpet stayed in my minds since. I liked Charlie Barnet, his band had good arrangements.

[@williampfeiffer4536]

Used to play my dad’s 78 over and over

[@jeffirish3402]

Likewise. Took a while to find this on U-Tube.

[@alexnewman8173]

kENNY g CAN'T HOLD A CANDLE TO THIS.

[@kymheilliette-laflamme5160]

I like it, my man too. 💋💋💋💋

[@sentientimaginary]

I love songs that get the rhythm from the words in it/title ie; Salt Peanuts

[@SurferJoe46]

.... another Pompton-Plains ex-pat here. Class of '64.

[@jacklippman5063]

Although there's no singing on this, Isn't that a young Frank Sinatra in the center background of this video?

[@NewFrontier4.0]

No. Sinatra was with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey bands. Never Charlie Barnett

[@GeorgiosB]

Should be named "The Annoying Clarinet". Sounds like a whiny clarinet to me. And Sirius plays this song CONSTANTLY on the 40s station.