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    1969) Benny Goodman Today (London, 1970) This Is Benny Goodman (RCA Victor, 1971) Benny Goodman – A Legendary Performer (RCA, 1977) Benny Goodman Live...
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  • The Benny Goodman Story is a 1956 American musical biographical film starring Steve Allen and Donna Reed, written and directed by Valentine Davies, and...
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  • Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) (category Benny Goodman songs)
    Henderson and, most famously, Benny Goodman. On July 6, 1937, "Sing, Sing, Sing" was recorded in Hollywood with Benny Goodman on clarinet; Gene Krupa on...
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  • The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert by Benny Goodman, Columbia Records catalogue item SL-160, is a two-disc LP of swing and jazz music recorded...
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    and bandleader. Hampton worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich, to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones...
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    in 1934, he was forced to sell some of his popular arrangements to Benny Goodman to keep them together. After about 1931, his own arrangements became...
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    is best known for her 1939 recording of "And the Angels Sing" with Benny Goodman. Tilton was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, United States. Her family...
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  • Musicians of the swing era include Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Benny Carter, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Earl...
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  • The Fabulous Peggy Lee (recorded 1953–56) 1957 Peggy Lee Sings with Benny Goodman (Harmony) 1957 The Man I Love 1958 Things Are Swingin' 1958 Jump for...
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    decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, Lee created a sophisticated persona, writing music for films...
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    for three of the most popular big bands of the Swing Era (Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James), thereby earning a reputation as "the voice of the...
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    numerous musical careers, including those of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Charlie Christian, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Teddy...
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    Franny Beecher (category Benny Goodman Orchestra members)
    having performed and recorded with the Benny Goodman Orchestra, which he joined in 1948, at a time Goodman was experimenting with music in the bebop...
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    arrangements (other than the clarinet-led orchestras of Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman), many Duke Ellington songs had clarinet parts, often replacing or doubling...
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    influential bandleaders of this period were Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway and Fletcher Henderson. Goodman's band became well-known from the radio...
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    bebop and cool jazz. He gained national exposure as a member of the Benny Goodman Sextet and Orchestra from August 1939 to June 1941. His single-string...
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    Gene Krupa (category Benny Goodman Orchestra members)
    influential drummers in the history of popular music. His drum solo on Benny Goodman's 1937 recording of "Sing, Sing, Sing" elevated the role of the drummer...
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  • primarily by horns and cymbals. This segment again featured Benny Goodman and The Goodman Quartet (Teddy Wilson, Cozy Cole and Sid Weiss) as six anthropomorphized...
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    composition, "Room 1411", with Benny Goodman, and Brunswick Records released it as a 78 rpm record under the name "Benny Goodman's Boys". In 1928, when the...
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    Teddy Wilson (category Benny Goodman Orchestra members)
    jazz, including Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald. With Goodman, he was one of the first black musicians to...
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    Vol. 2 (1997) The Complete Columbia Recordings – with Harry James and Benny Goodman (1998) Little White Lies: 25 Original Mono Recordings 1942-1050. Living...
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  • Zigman 8:04 7. "Noah's Journey" Aaron Zigman 6:03 8. "Always and Always" Benny Goodman & His Orchestra 3:17 9. "A String of Pearls" Glenn Miller & His Orchestra...
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  • Sing (song)", 1936 big band song by Louis Prima, famously performed by Benny Goodman Sing Sing Sing (album), live album by Mel Tormé Sing! Sing! Sing!, 1987...
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  • The jazz singer., ISBN 978-1-78543-944-5, OCLC 970692281 Goodman, Benny (2006), Benny Goodman live at Carnegie Hall, 1938: complete., AVID Entertainment...
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  • Benny Goodman in Moscow is a jazz album by clarinetist Benny Goodman, recorded live in Moscow during his tour of the Soviet Union. It was released in December...
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  • Jordan 1945–46 922 Lionel Hampton 1945–46 923 Benny Carter 1943–46 924 Erroll Garner 1945–46 925 Benny Goodman 1938 926 Coleman Hawkins 1945 927 Albert Ammons...
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  • Ain't She Sweet (Milton Ager and Jack Yellen, 1927) Air Mail Special (Benny Goodman, James Mundy and Charlie Christian, 1941) Ain't We Got Fun? (Richard...
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  • "Let's Dance" is a jazz standard, an instrumental, used by Benny Goodman as his opening theme for over 50 years. "Let's Dance" was adapted from the piece...
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  • legends, including Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman (with Al Hendrickson as cameo), Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and Benny Carter. Other notable musicians...
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  • by guitarist Kenny Burrell featuring standards associated with the Benny Goodman Sextet and Charlie Christian recorded in 1966 and 1967 and released...
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