Göran Bror Benny Andersson () ( born 16 December 1946 ), known professionally as Benny Andersson, is a Swedish musician, composer, former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA ( 1972 – 1983 ), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia !.

The duo named themselves Gemini, and a second album with more music by Björn and Benny was released in April 1987, containing the big hit " Mio My Mio "; also to be found on the soundtrack to the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, for which Andersson co-produced the music.

Benny Andersson Orchestra at a concert in Minnesota in 2006.

Andersson currently performs with his own band of 16 musicians, BAO ; " Benny Anderssons Orkester " (" Benny Andersson's orchestra "), utilising the vocal talents of fellow Swedes Helen Sjöholm ( from Kristina from Duvemåla ) and Tommy Körberg ( of Chess fame ), with lyrics to new material sometimes written by his song-writing partner and best friend of 40 years, Björn Ulvaeus.

Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").

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Bogart was also featured on The Jack Benny Show.

Benny Morris adds that ' he Israelis ' collective memory of fighters characterized by " purity of arms " is also undermined by the evidence of dozen case of rapes committed in conquered towns and villages.

Beny Moré also lived in Mexico between 1945 and 1952 ; it was there where people started calling him Beny or Benny instead of Bartolo.

In this time Benny also recorded with the orchestra of Jesús " Chucho " Rodríguez.

Competition was also intensifying, as African-American and white swing bands began to receive popular attention, including those of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Jimmie Lunceford, Benny Carter, Earl Hines, Chick Webb, and Count Basie.

Lieber has played with Paul Whiteman's Band and also with the Benny Goodman Sextet.

Invitation to the Dance also served as the thematic basis for Benny Goodman's swing theme song for the radio program Let's Dance.

" Margie " has been recorded by Louis Armstrong, who also covered the band's " Tiger Rag ", Ray Charles, Al Jolson, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra in 1935, the Billy Kyle Swing Club Band, Claude Hopkins, Red Nichols, Django Reinhardt, George Paxton, the Dutch Swing College Band, Fats Domino, Sidney Bechet, Don Redman, Cab Calloway, Jim Reeves, Gene Krupa, and Benny Goodman.

He also co-wrote his first composition, " Room 1411 ", written with Benny Goodman and released as a Brunswick 78, 4013, credited to Bennie Goodman's Boys.

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.

They also felt that Miller's brand of swing shifted popular music away from the " hot jazz " bands of Benny Goodman and Count Basie toward commercial novelty instrumentals and vocal numbers.

During this period, Karloff was also a frequent guest on radio programmes, whether it was starring in Arch Oboler's Chicago-based Lights Out productions ( most notably the episode " Cat Wife ") or spoofing his horror image with Fred Allen or Jack Benny.

Adding to their play book, Basie received arrangements from Jimmy Mundy ( who had also worked with Benny Goodman and Earl Hines ), particularly for " Cherokee ", " Easy Does It ", and " Super Chief ".

Pitcairn was also the birthplace of Dewees " Cutty " Cutshall, a trombonist who played with the Jan Savitt orchestra, Benny Goodman Band, Eddie Condon Band, and an original member of the Larson / Haggart " World's Greatest Jazz Band ".

Maurice Gosfield, who played Private Duane Doberman on The Phil Silvers Show, also provided the voice for Benny the Ball in Top Cat ( Benny's rotund appearance was based on Gosfield too ).

He also recorded a series of group recordings for Granz with, among others, Ben Webster, Jo Jones, Buddy DeFranco, Benny Carter, Harry Sweets Edison, Roy Eldridge and Lionel Hampton.

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 also conducted broadcast performances of Copland's El Salón México ; Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with soloists Earl Wild and Benny Goodman and Piano Concerto in F with pianist Oscar Levant ; and music by other American composers, including marches of John Philip Sousa.

* The Benny Hill Show also spoofed the dance troupe as " Pam's People ," with Benny Hill, Henry McGee, Bob Todd, Jackie Wright and Earl Adair appearing in drag.

On January 16, 1938, the Benny Goodman Orchestra gave a sold-out swing and jazz concert that also featured, among other guest performers, Count Basie and members of Duke Ellington's orchestra.

Billboard also noted that Benny Goodman had a hand in writing the tune " back in the old Goodman Sextet Days ".

In 2000, Benny wrote the music for fellow Swede ( no relation ) Roy Andersson's film Songs from the Second Floor ( the music later re-recorded, featuring new lyrics, with BAO!

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Louis Prima wrote the swing classic " Sing Sing Sing " which was covered by Fletcher Henderson and Benny Goodman.

Benny Green wrote in his collected work of essays, The Reluctant Art, that " Tatum has been the only jazz musician to date who has made an attempt to conceive a style based upon all styles, to master the mannerisms of all schools and then synthesize those into something personal.

During the 1920s and very early 1930s, Henderson actually wrote few, if any, arrangements ; most of his recordings were arranged by Redman ( c. 1923 – 1927 ) or Benny Carter ( after 1927 – c. 1931 ).

Benny Golson, who had done a stint in Lionel Hampton's band with Brown, wrote " I Remember Clifford " to honour his memory.

His best-remembered gag was his long-running mock feud with friend and fellow comedian Jack Benny, but it was only part of his appeal ; radio historian John Dunning ( in On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio ) wrote that Allen was radio's most admired comedian and most frequently censored.

Morroe Berger also wrote the book " Benny Carter-A Life in American Music ," ( 1982 ) a two-volume work, covers Carter's career in depth, an essential work of jazz scholarship.

After much work Steinbeck and Jack wrote the script for Benny and it earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story.

Benny Morris wrote a fiercely critical review of Ilan Pappé's book A History of Modern Palestine for The New Republic.

Although he disliked the film, critic Kenneth Turan enjoyed Depp's performance, but Mark Kermode wrote it was some of Depp's " worst work to date ... under Gore Verbinski's slack direction Depp defaults to an untrammelled showiness not seen since the sub-Buster Keaton antics of Benny & Joon.

When Pierce took her to Newport for a respite, eleven-year-old Benny wrote to her: " I hope he won't be elected for I should not like to be at Washington and I know you would not either.

Benny Morris wrote that the Arab leaders " hammered out a defiant, rejectionist platform that was to bedevil all peace moves in the region for a decade.

Born Ruth Shirley Wohl in Brooklyn, New York, Wallis began her career singing jazz and cabaret standards-with such bands as Isham Jones and Benny Goodman on road tours for a couple of months ; but gained fame in the 1940s and 1950s for her risqué, satirical songs, rife with double entendre that she wrote herself.

" But it was the ' Phil Harris ' character ," wrote radio historian John Dunning ( in On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio ), " that carried show: his timing was exceeded by none, including Benny himself.

Between 1943 and 1952, Bellson performed with Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, and Duke Ellington ( for whom he wrote " Skin Deep " and " The Hawk Talks ").

More recently she wrote the lyrics for the hit " Who's Your Daddy ", performed by Benny Benassi.

Baptist evangelist Justin Peters, an outspoken critic of the Word of Faith movement who wrote his Master of Divinity thesis on Benny Hinn and has appeared frequently as an expert on Word of Faith pastors in documentaries and TV news stories, traces the movement's origins to the late 19th and early 20th centuries ( Phineus Quimby's New Thought Movement, Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science ) in his seminar " A Call for Discernment ".

Benny Benson inspired the effort, Marie Drake wrote the lyrics, and Elinor Dusenbury composed the song.

Alaska Department of Education employee Marie Drake echoed Benny Benson's explanation of his design in a poem she wrote in 1935.

She also wrote: When I was 14 years I sang with Benny Nelson at the Queen's Rink, then joined Oscar Rabin when I was 16 years.

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 ....