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 also wrote the film score for the 2012 documentary Palme about Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.

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

The ODJB classic " Margie ", composed by J. Russel Robinson with Con Conrad, with lyrics added by Benny Davis, has been covered over a hundred times.

" 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.

The title has a very vague meaning in Russian, is not grammatically correct and can be roughly translated as " The Muttering-Not-That-Bad Show ", but sounds similar to Russian translation of the famous " The Benny Hill Show " ( in Russian — " Шоу Бенни Хилла ", " Shou Benni Hilla ") with a negation added to every part of the name.

In contrast, comedian Benny Hill, whose television shows included straightforward sexual gags, has been jokingly called " the master of the single entendre ".

Cryer has written for many noted performers, including Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Bruce Forsyth, David Frost, Bob Hope, Frankie Howerd, Richard Pryor, Mike Yarwood, The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise.

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.

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.

Hinn's ministry has since responded to the inquiry, and Senator Grassley commented that, "... Benny Hinn engaged in open and honest dialogue with committee staff.

This process has produced such varied stars as Benny Goodman, Eminem and Elvis Presley, as well as popular styles like blue-eyed soul and rockabilly.

The classic " Margie ", written when Robinson was in the ODJB, has been recorded by Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Benny Goodman, Jim Reeves, Al Jolson, Cab Calloway, Gene Krupa, and Fats Domino, among others.

material, this chapter follows Benny and others, as Benny has a job hunting alligators in the sewers under Manhattan.

He has been on the Benny Hinn TV show several times.

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.

Saleh Abd al-Jawad reports 100-200 casualties, Benny Morris has estimated " hundreds " and also reports the IDF investigation which concluded 100 villagers had been killed.

Benny Morris has estimated " hundreds " of people were killed, he also reports on the IDF investigation, which concluded around 100 villagers had been killed, and cites an account by a Mapan member, based on an interview with an Israeli soldier, who reported 80 to 100 men, women and children killed Saleh Abdel Jawad evaluates the total to " between 100 and 200 ".

Libération was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre, Philippe Gavi, Bernard Lallement, Jean-Claude Vernier, Pierre Victor alias Benny Lévy and Serge July and has been published from 3 February 1973, in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968.

In Benny's honour a plaque has been put up close to the site of the now demolished Hanns Dairies building and a new road has been named Benny Hill Close, though many of the people who had bought the new homes were not happy with the decision.

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.

He had even written the character with Benny in mind.

In 2005, she collaborated with the Mexican rock band Moderatto on their single Muriendo Lento, which is a cover of one of Timbiriche's songs, a Mexican pop group from the 1980s, which in turn was a cover of the record " Slowly ", written by ABBA members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus for the album " Shine ", released by another former member of ABBA-Frida.

" Goody Goody " ( written by Matty Malneck and Johnny Mercer and originally performed by Benny Goodman ) was a # 20 pop hit, but did not appear on the R & B chart.

is a stage musical written by British playwright Catherine Johnson, based on the songs of ABBA, composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, former members of the band.

According to Benny Morris, the description of this raid written by one of the soldiers " combine elements of a battle and a massacre ".

Correcting a Mistake: Jews and Arabs in Palestine / Israel, 1936-1956 () is a book written by Israeli historian Benny Morris.

The 1983 production of Abbacadabra, written by former ABBA members, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, saw Paige star in the role of Carabosse.

Israel's Border Wars 1949-1956 is a 1993 book written by Benny Morris about the Arab infiltration from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria into Israel after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and before the Suez Crisis war in 1956.

Songs written by Benny Andersson:

It features several songs written by Benny and " Isn't It Easy To Say ", the first joint composition by Benny and his new friend Björn Ulvaeus, then a member of the acoustic group Hootenanny Singers, who mainly sang in the Swedish language.

" Dancing Queen " was written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Stig Anderson and features the shared lead vocal performance of Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.

Radio historian Arthur Frank Wertheim recorded ( in Radio Comedy ) that, as a young newspaper reporter and columnist, Ace had written a witty gossip column that moved Benny himself to ask the young writer for some jokes for his stage act.

", recorded by Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra, Gene Rodemich, Marion Harris, George Wettling, and Erroll Garner ; " The Lonesome Road ", written with Nat Shilkret, recorded by Bing Crosby, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Eddy Arnold, Don Gibson, Mildred Bailey, Les Paul, Judy Garland, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dick Dale, The Fendermen, Frank Sinatra, Chet Atkins, Bobby Darin, Duane Eddy, Paul Robeson, Jerry Vale, Muggsy Spanier, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, Frankie Laine and Ted Lewis ; " Riding Around in the Rain ", written with Carmen Lombardo and " The Voice of the Southland ".

The song was written by Benny Andersson and Lasse Berghagen and it came in second place.

The movie, filmed in 1988 and released in 1991, wrongfully asserted that it featured Urquidez's first film appearance — the fallacious text, as written in the opening credits, is: " Introducing Benny ' The Jet ' Urquidez.

*" Dark Angel ", a song written and performed by 1950s rockabilly artist Benny Joy