Benny Goodman
The King of Swing! Famed clarinetist, composer ("Stompin' at the Savoy") and conductor, educated at the Lewis Institute in Chicago and a student of Schillinger and Schoepp. He was a clarinetist with the orchestras of Bix Beiderbecke, Jules Herbuveaux, Arnold Johnson and Ben Pollack, and also played in Broadway theater orchestras. He began to lead his own orchestras in 1934 at the Billy Rose Music Hall, then conducted the orchestra on the weekly radio program "Let's Dance" in 1934-1935, and played at numerous hotels, colleges and theaters. Expanding his musical efforts, he performed in chamber music concerts, later touring throughout the US, Europe, the Far East, South America and the USSR and made many recordings. Joining ASCAP in 1945, his chief musical collaborators included Count Basie, Harry James, Mitchell Parish, Andy Razaf, Edgar M. Sampson, Chick Webb, and Teddy Wilson. Some of his other popular songs and instrumental compositions include "Lullaby in Rhythm," "Don't Be That Way," "Seven Come Eleven," "Flying Home," "Two O'Clock Jump," "Air Mail Special," "Dizzy Spells," "If Dreams Come True," "Georgia Jubilee," "Four Once More," and "The Kingdom of Swing".
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.456 |
Birthday | 1909-05-30 |
Place of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Also Known As | Benjamin David Goodman, The King of Swing, The Benny Goodman Sextet, |
1946
Make Mine Music
5.84/247
In the tradition of Fantasia, Make Mine Music is a glorious collection of musically charged animated shorts featuring such fun-filled favorites as "Pe...
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Make Mine Music
1938
Hollywood Hotel
5.2/9
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her curre...
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Hollywood Hotel
2000
The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV
0/0
One of the greatest comedians of early television, Sid Caesar hasn't had his work shown in perennial reruns, so it's especially gratifying to see a co...
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The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV
1948
A Song Is Born
6.5/39
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub...
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A Song Is Born
1943
The Gang's All Here
5.786/35
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
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The Gang's All Here
1941
Birth of the Blues
5.3/7
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which...
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Birth of the Blues
1944
Sweet and Low-Down
5.2/6
After their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are packing up to go to their next engagement when a kid...
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Sweet and Low-Down
1936
The Big Broadcast of 1937
5/3
The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
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The Big Broadcast of 1937
1944
The Shining Future
4/2
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosper...
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The Shining Future
1943
The Powers Girl
6.5/4
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photog...
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The Powers Girl
1929
Me and the Boys
0/0
A film featuring some of best jazz musicians from the early twenties.
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Me and the Boys
1943
Stage Door Canteen
6.1/14
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreati...
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Stage Door Canteen
1942
Syncopation
6.8/4
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
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Syncopation
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
5.7/7
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1955
Music Land
6/1
Walt Disney animation animated cartoon musical compilation ("The BIG Parade of MIRTH and MELODY"; "Offering hits re-released from 'Make Mine Music' an...
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Music Land
1976
Copland Conducts Copland
0/0
This concert film made in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles in 1976 captures a memorable performance conducted by the doyen of American com...
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Copland Conducts Copland
1978
Mitzi... What's Hot, What's Not
0/0
Mitzi Gaynor and her guests Gavin MacLeod (The Love Boat), John McCook (The Young and the Restless), and musician Benny Goodman explore trends of the...
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Mitzi... What's Hot, What's Not
2022
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
6.8/4
In 1955, on his report, a medical examiner wrote in the box: age, “about 53 years”. Charlie Parker nicknamed Bird just died, at 34. His death will be...
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Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
1993
Benny Goodman - Adventures In The Kingdom Of Swing
6/1
This biography of musical legend Benny Goodman contains testimonials from various contemporaries and scholars, and offers several clips of the man in...
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Benny Goodman - Adventures In The Kingdom Of Swing
1955
Allen in Movieland
5/1
TV goes Hollywood when Steve Allen visits Universal-International to prepare for his upcoming title role in "The Benny Goodman Story."
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Allen in Movieland
1954
Two for the Record
0/0
Animated sequences are set to two Benny Goodman numbers.
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Two for the Record
1959
John Gunther's High Road
10/1
John Gunther, a great traveler in many parts of the globe, presented on the American ABC channel the documentary program "John Gunther's High Road" fr...
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John Gunther's High Road
1983
Åke Hasselgård story
0/0
Hasselgård died in a car accident 75 years ago, aged just 26, he became a legend like so many other young dead in jazz history. The clarinetist Åke St...
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