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Day said: " During this long, boring period, I used to while away a lot of time listening to the radio, sometimes singing along with the likes of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller [...].
Benny Goodman said in 1976, " In late 1937, before his band became popular, we were both playing in Dallas.
Benny Hixon said that Ross, a businessman, was the first active Republican in Mangham in the 20th century.
Hitch came out, Benny said: ' I thought you ’ d like a copy of this.
She claims that John Hammond and Benny Goodman arranged to buy Henderson's arrangements as a way to support Henderson, and points out that Goodman always gave Henderson credit for the arrangements and said that the Henderson band played them better than the Goodman band.
Ted Lewis said that Murray was the greatest clarinetist he ever had in his band — high praise indeed since Jimmy Dorsey and Benny Goodman had also been in Lewis's band.
In a June 2006 interview, former DS9 producer Ira Steven Behr said that he contemplated making the entire Deep Space Nine series a writing of the character Benny Russell.
Other boxers who fought with Stars of David embroidered on their trunks to reflect their ethno-religious pride included world lightweight champion Benny " the Ghetto Wizard " Leonard ( who said he felt as though he was fighting for all Jews ), world light heavyweight boxing champion Battling Levinsky, Barney Ross ( world champion as a lightweight, as a junior welterweight, and as a welterweight ), world flyweight boxing champion Victor " Young " Peres (" Young "), and more recently World Boxing Association super welterweight champion Yuri Foreman and light middleweight Boyd Melson.
Also playing for Jackson at the time was Benny Golson, who also was to become a jazz composer ; Golson has said Dameron was the most important influence on his writing.
In the episode " Boots ' Cuddly Dinosaur ", Benny said that he can not sleep without nine dolls which he calls his " guys.
" Your jokes got lots of laughs ", said the note Benny sent with the check.
Among the galaxy of celebrities who frequented Ciro's were Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Sidney Poitier, Anita Ekberg, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Joan Crawford, Betty Grable, Marlene Dietrich, Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Dean Martin, Mickey Rooney, Cary Grant, George Raft, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Judy Garland, June Allyson and Dick Powell, Mamie Van Doren, Jimmy Stewart, Jack Benny, Peter Lawford, and Lana Turner ( who often said Ciro's was her favorite nightspot ) among many others.
" The long laugh resulted from Benny NOT responding at all ; finally, Leonard said " Well !?
Together with Flip Phillips, he became a stalwart of Benny Goodman's group in 1959, although it has been said that Goodman was frequently irritated at Harris because of Harris ' indifferent approach to " sight-reading ," the skill of playing off of written music with fluency, an ability notable in Goodman and trumpeter Harry James.
Benny Parsons said that " watching Richmond go through the Esses was unbelievable ".
When one missile rose about 6 inches before toppling over and exploding, Ramo reportedly beamed and said: “ Well, Benny, now that we know the thing can fly, all we have to do is improve its range a bit .”
Benny Ray said he would miss his kids, even his ex-wife and Shania Twain.
Some of the people to use it extensively were Keith Emerson, John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin ( who later sold his to Keith Emerson as a spare instrument ), Stevie Wonder ( who is said to have bought two, one of which is on display at Madame Tussaud's in Las Vegas ), Benny Andersson of ABBA ( this GX-1 is now located at Riksmixningsverket, his studio in Stockholm ), Hans Zimmer ( who bought Keith Emerson's old GX-1 ), Jürgen Fritz of Triumvirat, Rick van der Linden of Ekseption who did an entire album on it, entitled GX1, and Richard D. James ( Aphex Twin ) who acquired Mickie Most's GX-1.
Their ambivalence about the record has surfaced occasionally in interviews where Benny has said " we shouldn't have released that one " and Bjorn called the recording " really lousy ".
You know, so, one day I turned ' round to him and said ' Benny, it's time to shit or get off the pot '.
Benny said later it drove him nuts that he couldn't get the four girls to laugh at anything.
As he approached her in a hallway, she smiled and said, " Hello, Mr. Benny, I'm ..." But he curtly cut her off with a " Hello ," and continued on his way down the hall without pausing ; she learned much later that when Benny was deep in thought about his work, it was nearly impossible to get his attention otherwise.

Benny and Sunday
The CBS talent raids broke up NBC's hit Sunday night, and Benny also convinced George Burns and Gracie Allen and Bing Crosby to join his move.
* Jack Benny and Joan Benny, Sunday Nights at Seven: The Jack Benny Story.
In 1946, Harris and wife Alice Faye began co-hosting The Fitch Bandwagon, a comedy-variety program that followed the Benny show on Sunday nights.
After finding an audience with Kate Smith's listeners, The Aldrich Family was launched in its own series as a summer replacement program for Jack Benny in NBC's Sunday night lineup, July 2, 1939, and it stayed there until October 1, 1939, when it moved to Tuesday nights at 8 p. m., sponsored by General Foods's popular gelatin dessert Jell-O, which also sponsored Jack Benny at the time.
His best known running feud has been with the Isle of Man ever since his first review in The Sunday Times of 22 January 2006 of Ciappelli's restaurant in Douglas also included a critique of the island which, Gill wrote, had: managed to slip through a crack in the space-time continuum ... fallen off the back of the history lorry to lie amnesiac in the road to progress ... its main industry is money ( laundering, pressing, altering and mending )... everyone you actually see is Benny from Crossroads or Benny in drag ....
Kompas features the Benny & Mice and Panji Koming comic strip every Sunday.
There were the Calvert Extra Sunday Concerts – 40 per year, the Jazz Puppet Show, the Jazz Film Festivals, the Jazz Panorama – an audio visual history of jazz, The Jazz Store, Information Center, the exhibits – Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Bird & Diz: The Bebop Era, The Sax Section, Count Basie and His Bands, Billie Holiday Remembered, About John Coltrane and the Jazz Trumpet.
ARENA ARTISTS ● Sunday, September 23: Esperanza Spalding ; Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, directed by Paul Contos with Ambrose Akinmusire ; Top High School Big Band from the 2012 Next Generation Jazz Festival ; Pat Metheny Unity Band with Chris Potter, Antonio Sanchez, Ben Williams ; Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour / 55th Anniversary Celebration with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Christian McBride, Ambrose Akinmusire, Chris Potter, Benny Green, Lewis Nash.
In Sunday Nights at Seven ( 1990 ), her father's unfinished memoir that she completed with her own recollections, Joan Benny revealed she rarely felt close to her mother, and the two often argued:

Benny and Nights
Other Macy roles of the 1990s and 2000s included Benny & Joon, Above Suspicion, Mr. Holland's Opus, Ghosts of Mississippi, Air Force One, Boogie Nights, Pleasantville, Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho, Happy, Texas, Mystery Men, Magnolia, Jurassic Park III, Focus, Panic, Welcome to Collinwood, Seabiscuit, The Cooler, and Sahara.
Weber and commentators Wally Dallenbach, Jr. and Benny Parsons made cameo appearances as themselves in the 2006 Will Ferrell NASCAR comedy Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

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Andersson's musical background comes from his father and grandfather ; they both enjoyed playing the accordion, and at six, Benny got his own.
Benny Andersson Orchestra at a concert in Minnesota in 2006.
It was recorded in her presence on October 21, 1958, at Decca's Pythian Temple, with Dick Jacob, Coral-Brunswick's new head of Artists and Repertoire, serving as both producer and conductor of the 18-piece orchestra, which included members of the New York Symphony Orchestra, NBC Television's house orchestra and Abraham " Boomie " Richman, formerly of Benny Goodman's band.
The most important jazz guitar soloists of this period included the Manouche virtuoso Django Reinhardt, Oscar Moore who was featured with Nat “ King ” Cole ’ s trio, and Charlie Christian of Benny Goodman's band and sextet, who was a major influence despite his early death at 25.
On the second play after receiving the ensuing kickoff, Morton was intercepted again, this time by Dallas defensive back Benny Barnes at his own 40-yard line.
Benny Green, in particular, derided Whiteman for being a mere " mediocre vaudeville act ," and suggesting that " today we only tolerate the horrors of Whiteman's recordings at all in the hope that here and there a Bixian fragment will redeem the mess.
Lombard's final film, " To Be or Not to Be " ( 1942 ), directed by Ernst Lubitsch and co-starring Jack Benny, a satire about Nazism and World War II, was in post-production at the time of her death.
A crowd of young people at the concert of the Benny Goodman Band which took place in a local dance hall.
* Listen to Jack Benny Show 1941-03-09 ( 402 ) Guest Peter Lorre-Murder at the Racquet Club
Fatah needed Black September, according to Benny Morris, who was at the time a professor of history at Ben-Gurion University.
Miller's huge success in 1939 culminated with his band appearing at Carnegie Hall on October 6, with Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, and Fred Waring also the main attractions.
Comedian Jack Benny, who once worked at Warner Bros., quipped, " Jack Warner would rather tell a bad joke than make a good movie "; Warner frequently clashed with actors and supposedly banned them from the studio's executive dining room, with the explanation, " I don't need to look at actors when I eat.
Winning the contest in 1927, the design of Benny Benson, a 13-year-old Alaska Native residing at the Jesse Lee Home for Children in Seward, was chosen to represent the future of the Alaska Territory.
Tromeo lives in squalor with his alcoholic father Monty and works at a tattoo parlor with his cousin Benny and friend Murray.
Until August 2005, the golf pro at Loma Linda was Benny Pell.
During the big band era, many nationally known recording acts appeared at the resort, including Frank Sinatra and Benny Goodman.
After several unsuccessful attempts at walking, the pair left the arena in tears, both mother and daughter visibly upset at being turned aside and crying as they explained to the undercover reporters that all Grace had wanted was for Benny to pray for her, but the staffers rushed them out of the line when they found out Grace had not been healed.
A week later at a service in Toronto, Baptist evangelist Justin Peters, who wrote his Masters in Divinity thesis on Benny Hinn and has attended numerous Hinn crusades since 2000 as part of his research for his thesis and for a seminar he developed about the Word of Faith movement entitled A Call for Discernment, also demonstrated to the hidden cameras that " people who look like me "— Peters has cerebral palsy, walks with arm-crutches, and is obviously and visibly disabled —" are never allowed on stage [...] it's always somebody who has some disability or disease that cannot be readily seen.
He later studied at the Academy of Music in Cleveland with jazz saxophonist Benny Miller.
It was a collection of celebrity snippets such as this one, in the May 1946 issue: " Benny Goodman was dining at Ciro's steak house in New York when a very homely girl entered.
* " Stompin ' at the Savoy " w. Andy Razaf m. Benny Goodman, Chick Webb & Edgar Sampson
* Live at Carnegie Hall – Benny Goodman

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