After leaving Whiteman, Mercer joined the Benny Goodman band as a vocalist.

Duke Ellington's and Billy Strayhorn's arrangements for the Duke Ellington big band were usually new compositions, and some of Eddie Sauter's arrangements for the Benny Goodman band and Artie Shaw's arrangements for his own band were new compositions as well.

For a very brief period in 1944 the Wills band included 23 members., and around mid year he toured Northern California and the Pacific Northwest with 21 pieces in the orchestra. Billboard reported that Wills outgrossed Harry James, Benny Goodman, " both Dorsies, et al.

In 1945 Wills ' dances were outdrawing those of Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman, and he had moved to Fresno, California.

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 [...].

This version of the film follows the same plot but pays more attention to popular jazz music and includes such jazz legends as Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and Benny Carter playing themselves.

His playing was heard by millions in the recordings he cut with Benny Goodman.

The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.

* 1909 – Benny Goodman, American clarinetist, songwriter, and bandleader ( d. 1986 )

There, she was noticed by bandleader Benny Goodman.

Image: BennyGoodmanStageDoorCanteen. jpg | Benny Goodman performing in 1943 Stage Door Canteen

* Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman

** Benny Goodman, American jazz musician ( b. 1909 )

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.

Ray Nance joined, replacing Cootie Williams ( who had " defected ", contemporary wags claimed, to Benny Goodman ).

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

A crowd of young people at the concert of the Benny Goodman Band which took place in a local dance hall.

" 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.

Clarinetist Larry Shields received particularly positive attention on this tour, and Benny Goodman commented that Shields was an important early influence.

" Tiger Rag " was recorded by everyone from Louis Armstrong to Duke Ellington to Glenn Miller to Benny Goodman.

* Benny Goodman and his Orchestra

After this, Hampton decided to concentrate on the vibraphone, eventually joining the Benny Goodman Trio to form the Benny Goodman Quartet, and later leading his own big bands and achieving great popularity.

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.

As Benny said in his co-memoir, Sunday Nights at Seven: The Jack Benny Story ( 1990 ; his daughter, Joan, added her own recollections and published the book after her father's death ), he sky was the limit.

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.