Room 1411

"Room 1411" is a 1928 instrumental composed by Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman and released as a Brunswick 78 by Bennie Goodman's Boys. The song was Glenn Miller's first known composition and was an early collaboration between Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman, who would become the most successful bandleaders of the Big Band Era during the 1930s and 1940s.

"Room 1411," also known as "Goin To Town," "Pieza 1411" in Spanish on the label, was composed with Benny Goodman in 1928 when Glenn Miller was part of "Bennie Goodman's Boys". The instrumental was recorded on June 23, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois and was released as a 78, 4013, on Brunswick, paired with "Jungle Blues". The instrumental, Matrix # E27639=C, was described as a "shimmy one-step" on the original Brunswick 78 label as released in 1928.

"Bennie Goodman's Boys" was made up of an all-star ensemble that featured Glenn Miller on trombone, Ben Pollack on drums, Dick "Icky" Morgan on guitar, Bud Freeman on tenor saxophone, Fud Livingston on clarinet and tenor saxophone, Jimmy McPartland on cornet, Vic Breidis on piano, Harry Goodman on bass and tuba, and Benny Goodman on clarinet, saxophone, and cornet. The band continued to record in 1928 and 1929. Tommy Dorsey on trombone and Wingy Manone on trumpet were also members of the group on other sessions.

Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman lived in the same suite at the time in the apartments in The Whitby in New York whose number was 1411. The title of the composition derives from the apartment number. In Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Story Of Jazz As Told By The Men Who Made It (1955) by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Jimmy McPartland recalled how the title originated: "[A]fter a couple of weeks we moved into the Whitby Apartments, where Gil Rodin, Dick Morgan, Benny Goodman, and Glenn Miller had a suite. We all moved into that, practically the whole band. ... The number of that apartment was 1411. And that is how that title came up, Room 1411, by Benny Goodman's Boys."

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