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 then fired David, so I quit, too.

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.

* " I Hate Myself " w. Benny Davis & Joe Young m. Milton Ager

Nevertheless, they found instant appeal with teenagers and young adults who were engrossed in the swing and jazz idioms, especially when they performed with nearly all of the major big bands, including those led by Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Buddy Rich, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Joe Venuti, Freddie Slack, Eddie Heywood, Bob Crosby ( Bing's brother ), Desi Arnaz, Guy Lombardo, Les Brown, Bunny Berigan, Xavier Cugat, Paul Whiteman, Ted Lewis, Nelson Riddle and mood-master Gordon Jenkins, whose orchestra and chorus accompanied them on such successful soft and melancholy renditions as " I Can Dream, Can't I?

Hitch came out, Benny said: ' I thought you ’ d like a copy of this.

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

Benny: I want my pants!

Typically, Allen handed Benny the show's best crack: " Listen, I was never this cheap on my own program!

Benny Golson, who called Bostic " the best technician I ever heard in my life ," mentioned that " He could start from the bottom of the horn and skip over notes, voicing it up the horn like a guitar would.

Benny Andersson commented on the negative Broadway reviews: " I really don't know why they don't like it ...

One category on the Revlon Category Board was " Jazz ", and within months of the premiere Columbia Records issued a 1955 album of various jazz artists under the tie-in title $ 64, 000 Jazz ( CL 777, also EP B-777 ), with the following tracks: " The Shrike " ( Pete Rugolo ), " Perdido " ( J. J. Johnson, Kai Winding ), " Laura " ( Erroll Garner ), " Honeysuckle Rose " ( Benny Goodman ), " Tawny " ( Woody Herman ), " One O ' Clock Jump " ( Harry James ), " How Hi the Fi " ( Buck Clayton ), " I'm Comin ', Virginia " ( Eddie Condon ), " A Fine Romance " ( Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond ), " I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart " ( Duke Ellington ) and " Ain't Misbehavin '" ( Louis Armstrong ).

The technique was frequently imitated in comedy records, notably " Transistor Radio " by Benny Hill, " Bridget the Midget " by Ray Stevens, " The Laughing Gnome " by David Bowie, and on several tracks on Joe Meek and the Blue Men's album I Hear a New World.

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.

" I Know Him So Well " is a song from the concept album and subsequent musical Chess by Tim Rice, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus.

I played with Benny Goodman for two years, and I've been composing for 40.

* One of Us / Should I Laugh or Cry ABBA ( 1981 )-A side with Agnetha and Frida ( One of Us )/ B Side with Benny and Bjorn

In response to his imitation of Jack Benny, the comedian sent Little an 18-carat gold money clip containing this message: " With Bob Hope doing my walk and you doing my voice, I can be a star and do nothing.

I became a regular on the American Bandstand and Solid Gold TV shows performing with Benny King, Mike + The Mechanics, Melissa Manchester, Bob Geldof, and a few I can't even remember.

For the 2004 semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, staged in Istanbul thirty years after ABBA had won the contest in Brighton, Benny appeared briefly in a special comedy video made for the interval act, entitled " Our Last Video ".

Fictionalized biographical films of Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, and others were made in the 1950s, as nostalgic tributes to the glory years.

Johnson played in Benny Carter's orchestra between 1942 and 1945, and made his first recordings in 1942 under Carter's leadership, recording his first solo ( on Love for Sale ) in October, 1943.

Beginning in 1945, Colman made many guest appearances on The Jack Benny Program on radio, alongside his second wife, stage and screen actress Benita Hume.

In those 11 years, Martin and his panel of pals successfully ridiculed and made fun of these legendary stars in this order: Ronald Reagan, Hugh Hefner, Ed McMahon, William Conrad, Kirk Douglas, Bette Davis, Barry Goldwater, Johnny Carson, Wilt Chamberlain, Hubert Humphrey, Carroll O ' Connor, Monty Hall, Jack Klugman & Tony Randall, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Leo Durocher, Truman Capote, Don Rickles, Ralph Nader, Jack Benny, Redd Foxx, Bobby Riggs, George Washington, Dan Rowan & Dick Martin, Hank Aaron, Joe Namath, Bob Hope, Telly Savalas, Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason, Sammy Davis Jr, Michael Landon, Evel Knievel, Valerie Harper, Muhammad Ali, Dean Martin, Dennis Weaver, Joe Garagiola, Danny Thomas, Angie Dickinson, Gabe Kaplan, Ted Knight, Peter Marshall, Dan Haggerty, Frank Sinatra, Jack Klugman, Jimmy Stewart, George Burns, Betty White, Suzanne Somers, Joan Collins, and Mr T. For nearly a decade, Martin had recorded as many as four albums a year for Reprise Records.

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.

Krupa also appeared on six recordings made by the Thelma Terry band in 1928 In 1934 he joined Benny Goodman's band, where his featured drum work made him a national celebrity.

Connee's reworkings of the melodies and rhythms of popular songs, together with Glenn Miller's arrangements, and New York jazz musicians ( including The Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman, Bunny Berigan, Fulton McGrath, Joe Venuti, Arthur Schutt, Eddie Lang, Joe Tarto, Manny Klein, Dick McDonough, and Carl Kress ), made these recordings unlike any others.

Gigante made Venero " Benny Eggs " Mangano his underboss and sent his orders only through his closest associates, thereby insulating himself from the other family's bosses and lower ranking wiseguys.

A film about the life of Benny Lynch, directed by John Mackenzie and starring Robert Carlyle, was made in 2003.

After recording sparingly during the 1970s for Al Bell's, Stax / Enterprise imprint, Eckstine ( although still performing to adoring audiences throughout the world ), made his last recording, the Grammy-nominated Billy Eckstine Sings with Benny Carter in 1986.

In 1945, trumpeter Miles Davis made his first recordings with Carter as sideman on album Benny Carter and His Orchestra, and considered him a close friend and mentor.

Among those performers who made early film appearances in Vitaphone shorts filmed at the Flatbush studios include Al Jolson, Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Stewart, Spencer Tracy, Jack Benny, Sammy Davis Jr., Sylvia Sidney, Pat O ' Brien, Ruth Etting, Mischa Elman, Betty Hutton, Burns and Allen, Giovanni Martinelli, Xavier Cugat, Bill Robinson, Lillian Roth, Joan Blondell, Ethel Merman, Abbe Lane, Eleanor Powell, Helen Morgan, The Nicholas Brothers, Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Jane Froman, Jack Haley, Phil Silvers, Judy Canova, Nina Mae McKinney, Marjorie Main, Rose Marie, Joe Penner, Ethel Waters, June Allyson, Shemp Howard, Lanny Ross, Lionel Stander, and Cyd Charisse among others.

Appearances in John Hammond's extravaganza " From Spirituals To Swing " later that year, at the Cotton Club and Café Society and with Cab Calloway and Benny Goodman made her even more popular.

He also appeared, as himself, in the motion picture The Benny Goodman Story and made a cameo appearance in The Glenn Miller Story.

" In addition to Jack Benny appearing, Jackie Gleason made a surprise cameo reprising his role of bus driver Ralph Kramden.

He made appearances on The Jack Benny Show as a salesman and a barber, and on NBC's Happy as a hotel manager.

Leeves made her screen debut with a small role in the 1983 popular British comedy television show The Benny Hill Show.

Ted seizes a stalagmite made of ice, and proceeds to murder Benny and Gorrister.

He made his first network TV appearance playing the bearded poet Bongo Benny in an episode of 77 Sunset Strip.

At the time, swing music, big-band music and Benny Goodman in particular were so boundlessly popular that people who made room for it in their lives have never forgotten it.

* In 1994, a comprehensive point shaving scheme organized by campus bookmaker Benny Silman and involving players from the Arizona State University men's basketball team was uncovered with the assistance of Las Vegas bookmakers, who grew suspicious over repeated large wagers being made against Arizona State.

Huggins made wholesale changes to the Yankees ' lineup, as he replaced Ward at second base with Howard Shanks, catchers Steve O ' Neill and Wally Schang with Benny Bengough, and, most notably, Pipp with Lou Gehrig at first base, beginning Gehrig's record consecutive games played streak.