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The correct answer is Dave Tough!

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photo by William Gottlieb/Library of Congress

Dave Tough, Eddie Condon’s (basement), New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946

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…..In George T. Simon’s  classic 1967 book The Big Bands, he writes that several days after the January 16, 1938 Carnegie Hall performance, Gene Krupa and Benny Goodman “had been having some pretty sharp disagreements about how their music should be played.  In addition, Gene had been gaining a great deal of national publicity, and possibly Benny wasn’t overjoyed at being upstaged by one of his men.  Tremendously popular, Gene felt he could make it on his own, and so a few weeks after the Carnegie Hall triumph and a few hours after an outburst in Philadelphia, Gene announced he was leaving.

…..“Goodman wasn’t unprepared.  He hired another former Chicago drummer, Davey Tough,” a “…tremendously talented, sensitive, swinging drummer,” who “didn’t last long [with Goodman], victim of one of a series of collapses that hounded him throughout his career.  Davey was an extraordinary human being with many fine qualities — exceptional intelligence, a keen intellect, a great wit and an amazing compassion for other people. ”

…..An epileptic who also had issues with alcohol, Tough died in 1948 after falling and hitting his head on a sidewalk in Newark, New Jersey.  He was 41.

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Click here to read Tough’s Wikipedia page

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A 1938 recording of Benny Goodman’s orchestra playing “Caravan,” with Dave Tough on drums

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