Benny Goodman
Biography
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...
Also Known As
Benjamin David Goodman, The King of Swing, The Benny Goodman Sextet
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Benny Goodman's Movies
Make Mine Music
30 Jun 1946
A Song Is Born
19 Oct 1948
The Gang's All Here
24 Dec 1943
Stage Door Canteen
24 Jun 1943
Hollywood Hotel
15 Jan 1938
All the Cats Join In
15 Aug 1946
Birth of the Blues
07 Nov 1941
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
06 Aug 1975
Sweet and Low-Down
21 Sept 1944
The Big Broadcast of 1937
05 Oct 1936
Syncopation
22 May 1942
The Powers Girl
15 Jan 1943
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
09 Jan 2022
Allen in Movieland
02 Jul 1955
The Shining Future
11 Apr 1944
Benny Goodman - Adventures In The Kingdom Of Swing
08 Dec 1993
John Gunther's High Road
07 Sept 1959
Music Land
11 Jun 1955
The All-Star Christmas Show
01 Dec 1958
Two for the Record
23 Apr 1954
Benny Goodman's TV Shows
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
01 Oct 1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
01 Oct 1962
Jazz
09 Jan 2001
What's My Line?
02 Feb 1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
20 Jun 1948
The Dick Cavett Show
06 Jun 1968
The Kennedy Center Honors
28 Dec 1978
The Mike Douglas Show
11 Dec 1961
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
05 Oct 1956
DuPont Show of the Month
29 Sept 1957
The Bell Telephone Hour
12 Jan 1959
The Danny Kaye Show
25 Sept 1963
Le Grand Échiquier
12 Jan 1972
Star Time
02 Sept 1950
Bio’s Bahnhof
09 Feb 1978
The Big Party
08 Oct 1959