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Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing". His orchestra did phenomenally well commercially.
Beginning in the 1970s, he began recording as a leader, issuing many tributes to musicians of the 1930s. He toured several times with Benny Goodman until Goodman's death in 1986. He performed with Benny Goodman [8] at the White House in Washington, D.C., and he performed for presidents Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, [9] and First Lady Pat Nixon. [10]
With Benny Goodman 25 11/15/41 "Winter Weather" Duet with Art Lund with Benny Goodman 24 1/10/42 "Blues in the Night" With Benny Goodman 20 2/14/42 "Somebody Else is Taking My Place" With Benny Goodman 1 3/7/42 "My Little Cousin" With Benny Goodman 14 4/11/42 "We'll Meet Again With Benny Goodman 16 5/23/42 "Full Moon (Noche de Luna)"
That included several reunion concerts of the original Benny Goodman Quartette. [1] On April 17, 1973, the Gene Krupa Quartet, composed of Eddie Shu (tenor and clarinet), John Bunch (piano), Nabil Totah (Bass) and Krupa (drums), recorded a live performance at the New School featuring the Louis Prima composition "Sing, Sing, Sing".
Like his main rival, [13] Benny Goodman, and other leaders of big bands, Shaw fashioned a smaller "band within the band" in 1940. [10] He named it Artie Shaw and the Gramercy Five after his home telephone exchange. [9] Band pianist Johnny Guarnieri played harpsichord on the quintet recordings, and Al Hendrickson played electric guitar.
He died of complications from a stroke on June 11, 1994, in Palm Springs, ... The Benny Goodman Story (1956) - John Hammond Jr. Four Girls in Town (1957) - Ted Larabee;
Nixon, who died in 1994, had a net worth of $988,522 in 1973, according to a Dec. 9 issue from that year by The San Francisco Examiner. That amounts to about $6.03 million in today’s dollars.
He also had trouble with finances. When the band split up in 1934, he was forced to sell some of his popular arrangements to Benny Goodman to keep them together. [7] After about 1931, his own arrangements became influential. In addition to arrangements for his band, he wrote arrangements for Teddy Hill, Isham Jones and Benny Goodman. His ...