Benny Goodman

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Sing, Sing, Sing 06:26 Tools
Stompin' At the Savoy 00:00 Tools
King Porter Stomp 03:11 Tools
Let's Dance 02:14 Tools
Don't Be That Way 03:20 Tools
Bugle Call Rag 02:57 Tools
One O'Clock Jump 00:00 Tools
Sing Sing Sing 08:42 Tools
Moonglow 03:27 Tools
Jersey Bounce 03:08 Tools
Body and Soul 03:19 Tools
Goodbye 03:33 Tools
Chicago 02:59 Tools
Goody Goody 02:33 Tools
After You've Gone 03:38 Tools
Stealin' Apples 05:32 Tools
Blue Skies 03:28 Tools
All the Cats Join In 00:00 Tools
You Turned the Tables on Me 02:50 Tools
And the Angels Sing 00:00 Tools
Memories of You 00:00 Tools
Ain't Misbehavin' 05:18 Tools
Roll 'Em 03:15 Tools
Get Happy 00:00 Tools
Avalon 02:48 Tools
China Boy 02:31 Tools
Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) 08:50 Tools
Swingtime in the Rockies 03:11 Tools
Down South Camp Meeting 00:00 Tools
If I Had You 00:00 Tools
Air Mail Special 00:00 Tools
Stardust 00:00 Tools
Big John's Special 00:00 Tools
Sing Sing Sing (With a Swing) 12:13 Tools
St. Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
Sometimes I'm Happy 00:00 Tools
Life Goes to a Party 00:00 Tools
Honeysuckle Rose 03:01 Tools
Sing, Sing, Sing (Parts 1 & 2) - Live 00:00 Tools
Rose Room 02:51 Tools
Flying Home 00:00 Tools
Jumpin' at the Woodside 03:30 Tools
Christopher Columbus 00:00 Tools
Santa Claus Came In the Spring 00:00 Tools
Seven Come Eleven 00:00 Tools
Shine 00:00 Tools
Jingle Bells 00:00 Tools
Sweet Georgia Brown 00:00 Tools
The Man I Love 00:00 Tools
Tea for Two 03:07 Tools
Where or When 00:00 Tools
King Porter Stomp - 1992 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Winter Weather 00:00 Tools
IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD 03:34 Tools
Whispering 00:00 Tools
Solo flight 00:00 Tools
Mission to Moscow 00:00 Tools
Always 00:00 Tools
When Buddha Smiles 00:00 Tools
Exactly Like You 00:00 Tools
I Want to Be Happy 00:00 Tools
Why Don't You Do Right? 00:00 Tools
I Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Loch Lomond 00:00 Tools
Goodnight My Love 00:00 Tools
That's a Plenty 00:00 Tools
Bach Goes to Town 00:00 Tools
How High The Moon 00:00 Tools
Flat Foot Floogee 00:00 Tools
Why Don't You Do Right 00:00 Tools
Who? 00:00 Tools
Benny rides again 00:00 Tools
Dinah 00:00 Tools
Somebody Stole My Gal 00:00 Tools
There's a Small Hotel 00:00 Tools
My Melancholy Baby 00:00 Tools
Sweet Lorraine 00:00 Tools
Runnin' Wild 00:00 Tools
Taking a Chance On Love 00:00 Tools
Goodnight, My Love 00:00 Tools
I Know That You Know 00:00 Tools
Love Me or Leave Me 00:00 Tools
Tiger Rag 00:00 Tools
I'm Coming Virginia 00:00 Tools
Clarinetitis 00:00 Tools
More Than You Know 00:00 Tools
Oh Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
Undercurrent Blues 00:00 Tools
Sugar Foot Stomp 00:00 Tools
I've Found a New Baby 00:00 Tools
Alexander's Ragtime Band 00:00 Tools
Superman 00:00 Tools
When My Baby Smiles at Me 00:00 Tools
Clarinet a la King 00:00 Tools
Always and Always 00:00 Tools
If Dreams Come True 00:00 Tools
Somebody loves me 00:00 Tools
Rachel's dream 00:00 Tools
Dizzy Spells 00:00 Tools
Liza 00:00 Tools
Tea For Two (Benny Goodman) 03:08 Tools
Nobody's Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
I Found a New Baby 03:03 Tools
Fletcher Henderson Demonstrates Arranging (September 13, 1938 Chicago) 00:00 Tools
Fletcher Henderson Demonstrates Arranging 00:00 Tools
A String of Pearls 02:52 Tools
Lazy River 00:00 Tools
Sensation Rag 00:00 Tools
Wholly cats 00:00 Tools
You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me 00:00 Tools
The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise 00:00 Tools
Blue Lou 00:00 Tools
Blue Reverie 00:00 Tools
The Glory of Love 00:00 Tools
Royal Garden blues 00:00 Tools
He Ain't Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Limehouse Blues 00:00 Tools
Blue Room 00:00 Tools
Thanks for the Memory 00:00 Tools
I Thought About You 00:00 Tools
Clarinet a la King - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Fascinating rhythm 00:00 Tools
Six Flats Unfurnished 00:00 Tools
Vibraphone blues 00:00 Tools
It Never Entered My Mind 00:00 Tools
Here's Love in Your Eyes 00:00 Tools
Goodnight, My Love - 1991 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Get Happy - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Avalon (Live) 00:00 Tools
Bei mir bist du schön 00:00 Tools
Dear Old Southland 00:00 Tools
Puttin' on the Ritz 03:01 Tools
Sing, Sing, Sing (Parts 1 & 2) (Live) 04:04 Tools
Mambo Swing 00:00 Tools
I Never Knew 00:00 Tools
Basin Street Blues 00:00 Tools
Topsy 00:00 Tools
Oh! Baby 00:00 Tools
In the Mood 04:01 Tools
Sentimental Journey 00:00 Tools
Let's Do It 00:00 Tools
If I Could Be With You 00:00 Tools
Frankie and johnny 00:00 Tools
Goody Goody - 1987 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Waitin' for Katie 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things 00:00 Tools
Someday Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
Them There Eyes 00:00 Tools
Wang Wang Blues 00:00 Tools
On the Sunny Side of the Street 00:00 Tools
Riffin' At the Ritz 00:00 Tools
Your Mother's Son-In-Law 00:00 Tools
Rosetta 00:00 Tools
Jumping at the Woodside 03:30 Tools
These Foolish Things Remind Me of You 00:00 Tools
Oh, Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
This Can't Be Love 00:00 Tools
It's Tight Like That 00:00 Tools
Slipped Disc 00:00 Tools
You Turned the Tables on Me - 1991 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Star Dust 00:00 Tools
The Kingdom of Swing 00:00 Tools
Who 00:00 Tools
Dizzy Fingers 00:00 Tools
Japanese Sandman 00:00 Tools
It's Only a Paper Moon 00:00 Tools
It's Been so Long 00:00 Tools
Poor Butterfly 00:00 Tools
Farewell Blues 00:00 Tools
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 00:00 Tools
Please Be Kind 00:00 Tools
Flyin' Home 00:00 Tools
Why Don't You Do Right? (feat. Peggy Lee) 00:00 Tools
Gotta Be This Or That 00:00 Tools
Changes 00:00 Tools
Blue 00:00 Tools
Taking A Chance On Love - Rechanneled Stereo Version 00:00 Tools
Scarecrow 00:00 Tools
Moonglow (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea 00:00 Tools
Pick Yourself Up 00:00 Tools
Cotton Club Parade: As Long as I Live 00:00 Tools
Don't Be That Way (Live) 03:21 Tools
Stomping At The Savoy 00:00 Tools
Bei mir bist du schoen 07:02 Tools
Ballad in Blue 00:00 Tools
You're a Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
Sing, Sing, Sing (Remastered) 05:02 Tools
Wrappin' It Up 00:00 Tools
Blue Moon 00:00 Tools
Ridin' High 00:00 Tools
No, Baby, No 00:00 Tools
After You've Gone (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Undecided 00:00 Tools
Moonglow - Previously Unissued 00:00 Tools
Jeepers Creepers 00:00 Tools
There'll Be Some Changes Made 00:00 Tools
How Long Has This Been Going On? 00:00 Tools
Sing Me A Swing Song 00:00 Tools
Texas Tea Party 00:00 Tools
Riffin' the Scotch 00:00 Tools
Sing, Sing, Sing (Parts 1 & 2) [Live] 00:00 Tools
I Never Knew (I Could Love Anybody Like I'm Loving You) 00:00 Tools
Henderson Stomp 00:00 Tools
Love Me or Leave Me - 1991 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Winter Weather - 78rpm Version 00:00 Tools
Big John Special 00:00 Tools
If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) 00:00 Tools
Sunny Disposish 00:00 Tools
Puttin On The Ritz 03:01 Tools
Sweet Sue - Just You 00:00 Tools
Peckin' 00:00 Tools
When I Grow Too Old to Dream 00:00 Tools
Chloe 00:00 Tools
Down South Camp Meetin' 00:00 Tools
Can't Teach My Old Heart New Tricks 00:00 Tools
At Sundown 00:00 Tools
Don't Be That Way - live 00:00 Tools
Sweet Leilani 00:00 Tools
(I Would Do) Anything for You 00:00 Tools
Good-Bye 00:00 Tools
Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing) (Parts 1 & 2) 00:00 Tools
Bye Bye Pretty Baby 00:00 Tools
I Would Do Anything for You 00:00 Tools
Afraid to Dream 00:00 Tools
Sing Me a Swing Song (And Let Me Dance) 00:00 Tools
You Can't Pull the Wool Over My Eyes 00:00 Tools
Bugle Call Rag (Live) 00:00 Tools
Camel Hop 00:00 Tools
Moon Glow 00:00 Tools
'One O Clock Jump' 00:00 Tools
Symphony 00:00 Tools
Jam Session 00:00 Tools
The Blues in My Flat 00:00 Tools
The Wang Wang Blues 00:00 Tools
Down South Camp Meetin' (Live) 00:00 Tools
Make Believe 00:00 Tools
When You're Smiling 00:00 Tools
Sugarfoot Stomp 00:00 Tools
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 00:00 Tools
Sing, Sing, Sing - 1987 Remastered 05:02 Tools
House Hop 00:00 Tools
I Cried For You 00:00 Tools
(Intro) Let's Dance 00:00 Tools
Body & Soul 00:00 Tools
All My Life 00:00 Tools
Madhouse 00:00 Tools
And the Angels Sing - Remastered 00:00 Tools
The Dixieland Band 00:00 Tools
Clarinade 00:00 Tools
Sing, Swing, Sing 00:00 Tools
Bei Mir Bist Du Schon 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue, Just You 00:00 Tools
Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
We'll Meet Again 00:00 Tools
On the Alamo 00:00 Tools
What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry 00:00 Tools
Lullaby in Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Concerto For Clarinet & String Orchestra 00:00 Tools
In a Sentimental Mood - 1991 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Amapola 02:59 Tools
Lonely Moments 00:00 Tools
Roll'em 00:00 Tools
Too Good to Be True 00:00 Tools
Shirt Tail Stomp 00:00 Tools
The Blue Room 00:00 Tools
Sing Sing Sing (With A Swing) (live) 00:00 Tools
I Can't Give You Anything But Love 00:00 Tools
King Porter Stamp 00:00 Tools
Shivers 00:00 Tools
Sugar 00:00 Tools
Alicia's Blues 00:00 Tools
Rattle and Roll 00:00 Tools
Stealin Apples 00:00 Tools
All I Do Is Dream of You 00:00 Tools
Benny Goodman 1950 Introduction 00:52 Tools
Jumpin' At The Woodside (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
You Can Tell She Comes from Dixie 00:00 Tools
Darn That Dream 00:00 Tools
Music Hall Rag 00:00 Tools
Pennies From Heaven 00:00 Tools
Mean to Me 00:00 Tools
Rock Rimmon 00:00 Tools
Ti-Pi-Tin 00:00 Tools
One O' Clock Jump 00:00 Tools
One O'Clock Jump (Live) 00:00 Tools
As Long as I Live 00:00 Tools
Get Rhythm in Your Feet (And Music in Your Soul) 00:00 Tools
Perfidia 00:00 Tools
Setting up for Jam Session 00:00 Tools
Yes! We Have No Bananas 00:00 Tools
Bumble Bee Stomp 00:00 Tools
Blues in the Night 00:00 Tools
Avalon - Live 00:00 Tools
And The Angels Sing (Live) 00:00 Tools
Sandman 00:00 Tools
Yankee Doodle Never Went to Town 02:30 Tools
I Ain't Got Nobody 00:00 Tools
Oh, Lady Be Good! 00:00 Tools
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 00:00 Tools
It's Been So Long (Live) 00:00 Tools
Wolverine Blues 00:00 Tools
Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today 00:00 Tools
Margie 00:00 Tools
This Year's Kisses 00:00 Tools
How Deep Is the Ocean? 00:00 Tools
Cuckoo In The Clock 00:00 Tools
Ciribiribin 00:00 Tools
Amapola - Rechanneled Stereo Version 00:00 Tools
Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing 00:00 Tools
That's A-Plenty 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Be the Same 00:00 Tools
'Ding Dong Daddy' 00:00 Tools
Shine (Live) 00:00 Tools
Your Mother's Son in Law 00:00 Tools
You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me (Instrumental) [Instrumental Version] 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started 00:00 Tools
My Old Flame 00:00 Tools
Santa Claus Came in the Spring (From "Beat the Band") 00:00 Tools
After Hours 00:00 Tools
After You're Gone 00:00 Tools
Smoke Dreams 00:00 Tools
How Little We Know (feat. Dottie Reid) 00:00 Tools
Love Me Or Leave Me Broadway Play : Whoopee! 00:00 Tools
A Jazz Holiday 00:00 Tools
Airmail Special 00:00 Tools
Diga Diga Doo 02:30 Tools
You Must Meet My Wife 00:00 Tools
Remember 00:00 Tools
It Had to Be You 00:00 Tools
Breakfast Feud 00:00 Tools
No Other One 00:00 Tools
The Earl 00:00 Tools
Somebody Else Is Taking My Place 00:00 Tools
On A Slow Boat To China 00:00 Tools
King Porter Stomp (Live) 00:00 Tools
Let's Dance (Live) (Instrumental) [Live] [Instrumental Version] 00:00 Tools
Smoke House Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Buggle Call Rag 00:00 Tools
My Gal Sal - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Begin the Beguine 00:00 Tools
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby 00:00 Tools
Moonlight Serenade 00:00 Tools
Jingle Bell Jive 00:00 Tools
Never Should Have Told You 00:00 Tools
China Boy (Live) 00:00 Tools
Spring Song 00:00 Tools
Get Rhythm in Your Feet 00:00 Tools
Swanee River 00:00 Tools
Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day 00:00 Tools
Nagasaki 00:00 Tools
Hunkadola 00:00 Tools
Sing, Sing, Sing (from New York Stories) 00:00 Tools
I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good 00:00 Tools
A Smooth One 00:00 Tools
I'll Always Be In Love With You 00:00 Tools
Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider 00:00 Tools
St Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams 00:00 Tools
I'm a Ding Dong Daddy 00:00 Tools
Sing Sing (With A Swing) 00:00 Tools
Goody-Goody 00:00 Tools
'S Wonderful 00:00 Tools
Organ Grinder's Swing 00:00 Tools
Whistle Blues 00:00 Tools
Stealin' Apples - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Louise 00:00 Tools
I Let a Song Go out of My Heart 00:00 Tools
Bob White 00:00 Tools
Ain't Misbehavin (feat. Kay Penton) 00:00 Tools
Solo Flight - 78 rpm Version 00:00 Tools
Applause Until Encores 00:00 Tools
One O Clock Jump 00:00 Tools
Jungle Blues 00:00 Tools
Gee! But You're Swell 00:00 Tools
My Guy's Come Back 00:00 Tools
You're A Heavenly Thing 00:00 Tools
Handful of Keys 00:00 Tools
One OClock Jump 00:00 Tools
Santa Claus Came in Spring 00:00 Tools
The Way You Look Tonight 00:00 Tools
When A Lady Meets A Gentleman Down South 00:00 Tools
Blues In The Night (vocal: Peggy Lee) 03:19 Tools
Lullaby of the Leaves 00:00 Tools
T' Ain't No Use 00:00 Tools
When It's Sleepy Time Down South 00:00 Tools
Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy) 02:59 Tools
She's Funny That Way (feat. Jane Harvey) 00:00 Tools
King Porter Stomp (1992 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
I Was Lucky 00:00 Tools
My Honey's Lovin' Arms 00:00 Tools
Big Band Swing 00:00 Tools
Stealin' Apples (Instrumental) [Instrumental Version] 00:00 Tools
Shoe Shine Boy 00:00 Tools
Russian Lullaby 00:00 Tools
Moonlight On the Ganges 00:00 Tools
The sheik of araby 00:00 Tools
I've Got A Date With A Dream 00:00 Tools
Elmer's Tune 00:00 Tools
Blue (And Broken Hearted) 00:00 Tools
You're Blase 00:00 Tools
Smiles 00:00 Tools
What Good Am I Without You 00:00 Tools
Junk Man 00:00 Tools
Jumpin' at the Woodside (Instrumental) [Instrumental Version] 00:00 Tools
Nitwit Serenade 00:00 Tools
Emaline 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It 00:00 Tools
Just one of those things 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know What Time It Was - 78 rpm Version 00:00 Tools
But Not for Me 00:00 Tools
Eeny Meeny Miney Mo 00:00 Tools
Sometimes I'm Happy (Live) 00:00 Tools
I Would do Most Anything for You 00:00 Tools
Honeysuckle Rose (Live) 00:00 Tools
Clouds 00:00 Tools
Down South Camp Meetin 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul (Live) 00:00 Tools
Can't We Be Friends 00:00 Tools
Down Home Rag 00:00 Tools
Let's Dance (Live) (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Ol' Pappy 00:00 Tools
Sing, Sing, Sing (Introducing "Christopher Columbus") 00:00 Tools
Frankie & Johnny 00:00 Tools
Stars Fell On Alabama 00:00 Tools
Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home 00:00 Tools
Mama, That Moon Is Here Again 00:00 Tools
Applause, Transition To Twenty Years Of Jazz 00:00 Tools
Bolero 00:00 Tools
Someday, Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
Trees 00:00 Tools
The Blues in Your Flat 00:00 Tools
Not Mine 00:00 Tools
Bedlam 00:00 Tools
My Head Says Yes But My Heart Says No (feat. Dottie Reid) 00:00 Tools
Cocoanut Grove 00:00 Tools
The Huckle-Buck 00:00 Tools
Seve come eleven 00:00 Tools
Could You Pass in Love? 00:00 Tools
Swing Angel 00:00 Tools
Shishkabop 00:00 Tools
After a While 00:00 Tools
Egg Head 00:00 Tools
Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622: Adagio 00:00 Tools
All of Me 00:00 Tools
Bop Hop 00:00 Tools
Cherokee 00:00 Tools
Not a Care in the World 00:00 Tools
You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
I'm Like a Fish out of Water 00:00 Tools
Chloe' 00:00 Tools
Goody, Goody 00:00 Tools
Dixieland One Step 00:00 Tools
Fiesta Time 00:00 Tools
Lets Dance 00:00 Tools
Tangerine 00:00 Tools
Zaggin' with Zig 00:00 Tools
Rendezvous Time In Paree (feat. Louise Tobin) 00:00 Tools
That's The Way It Goes 00:00 Tools
Let's Dance (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues 00:00 Tools
Georgia Jubilee 00:00 Tools
Idaho 00:00 Tools
Restless 00:00 Tools
Hooray For Love 00:00 Tools
Opus 1/2 00:00 Tools
How Am I To Know? 00:00 Tools
Whispering (from Mighty Aphrodite) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Stranger 00:00 Tools
Throwin' Stones At The Sun 00:00 Tools
You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart 00:00 Tools
Let's Dance - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Christopher Columbus (03-20-36) 00:00 Tools
Sing Sing Sing (With A Swing) - live 00:00 Tools
Frankie And Johnny Were Lovers 00:00 Tools
Rose Of Washington Square 00:00 Tools
Shut-Eye 00:00 Tools
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 00:00 Tools
All the Things You Are 00:00 Tools
It's Wonderful 00:00 Tools
What A Little Moonlight Can Do 00:00 Tools
Ramona 00:00 Tools
Clarinet à la King 00:00 Tools
Caravan 00:00 Tools
I Had To Do It 00:00 Tools
Dearest 00:00 Tools
Gay Divorce: Night and Day 00:00 Tools
Loch Lomond (Live) 00:00 Tools
Breakin' In a Pair of Shoes 00:00 Tools
After You've Gone (Benny Goodman) 02:48 Tools
Swingtime In The Rockies (live) 00:00 Tools
Say It Isn't So 00:00 Tools
Bluebirds In The Moonlight 00:00 Tools
Sent for You Yesterday 00:00 Tools
True Confession 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue 00:00 Tools
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) 00:00 Tools
Time On My Hands 00:00 Tools
Dreazag 00:00 Tools
Blue Orchids (feat. Louise Tobin) 00:00 Tools
Goodnight, My Love - 1987 Remastered 00:00 Tools
For You, For Me, For Evermore (feat. Eve Young) 00:00 Tools
Great Day 00:00 Tools
Did You Mean It? 00:00 Tools
Good-Bye (Live) 00:00 Tools
Moten Swing 00:00 Tools
Something New 00:00 Tools
Take My Word 00:00 Tools
Lucky 00:00 Tools
Clarinet Marmalade 00:00 Tools
Life Goes To A Party/Jumpin' At The Woodside 00:00 Tools
You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
King Porter Stomp - 1987 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Night Wind 00:00 Tools
Applause; Transition Back to Goodman Orchestra for finale 00:00 Tools
Estrellita 00:00 Tools
Night and Day 00:00 Tools
Four Once More 00:00 Tools
A Little Kiss At Twilight 00:00 Tools
Breakfast Ball 00:00 Tools
Jumpin' At The Woodside - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
This Is New 00:00 Tools
I'm a Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas) 00:00 Tools
It don't mean a thing 00:00 Tools
Caprice Xxiv Paganini 00:00 Tools
I've Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Sensation Rag (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Blues 00:00 Tools
South of the Border 00:00 Tools
Moonglow (Live) (Instrumental) [Instrumental Version] 00:00 Tools
Room 1411 (Goin' To Town) 00:00 Tools
Cokey 00:00 Tools
Good Enough To Keep (Air Mail Special) 00:00 Tools
After you've gone: After You've Gone 00:00 Tools
AC-DC Current 00:00 Tools
Frenesi 00:00 Tools
Blue Reverie (Live) 00:00 Tools
Honeysuckle Rose - Live 00:00 Tools
There's a Small Hotel (Instrumental) [Instrumental Version] 00:00 Tools
I'm Coming Virginia (Live) 00:00 Tools
Shake Down The Stars 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Say 00:00 Tools
A Home in the Clouds 00:00 Tools
I'm Living In a Great Big Way 00:00 Tools
Put That Kiss Back Where You Found It 00:00 Tools
When My Baby Smiles At Me (Live) 00:00 Tools
Mahzel (Good Luck) 00:00 Tools
Singing A Happy Song 00:00 Tools
Get Happy - 1991 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Sing, Sing, SIng (Parts 1 & 2) 00:00 Tools
Boogie Woogie 00:00 Tools
Yours 00:00 Tools
Somebody Nobody Loves 00:00 Tools
The Hour Of Parting 00:00 Tools
String of Pearls 00:00 Tools
Who Cares? 00:00 Tools
Stompin' At The Savoy (Live) 00:00 Tools
Popcorn Man 00:00 Tools
Peter Piper 00:00 Tools
(I've Been) Saving Myself For You 00:00 Tools
I Got Rhythm (live) 00:00 Tools
Oh! Look At Me Now 00:00 Tools
Macedonia Lullaby 00:00 Tools
Anything For You 00:00 Tools
Send in the Clowns 00:00 Tools
The Count 00:00 Tools
Life Goes to a Party (Live) 00:00 Tools
Good Morning Starshine 03:12 Tools
Board Meeting 00:00 Tools
Crazy Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Stompin’ at the Savoy 00:00 Tools
Applause; Setting-up for BG small groups 00:00 Tools
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye 00:00 Tools
Good Enough to Keep 00:00 Tools
Dizzy Spells (live) 00:00 Tools
Alicia's Blues (Instrumental) (Live) [Instrumental Version] 00:00 Tools
Kinda Lonesome 00:00 Tools
Get Happy (Instrumental) [Instrumental Version] 00:00 Tools
You're Giving Me A Song And A Dance 00:00 Tools
Dream a Little Dream of Me 00:00 Tools
I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You) 00:00 Tools
Take Another Guess 00:00 Tools
Let That Be a Lesson to You 00:00 Tools
Swing Swing Swing 00:00 Tools
Opus 3/4 00:00 Tools
I See A Million People 00:00 Tools
Stealin' Apples (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Oh baby 00:00 Tools
Why Couldn't it Be Poor Little Me 00:00 Tools
Solitude 00:00 Tools
Waiting For The Robert E. Lee 00:00 Tools
A Smo-o-o-oth One 00:00 Tools
Memories Of You (Live) 00:00 Tools
Walk, Jennie, Walk 00:00 Tools
That Feeling Is Gone 00:00 Tools
Benny's Boogie 00:00 Tools
When It's Sleepy Time Down South - Take 2 00:00 Tools
I'm Nobody's Baby 00:00 Tools
Feelin' High and Happy 00:00 Tools
Ooooo-Oh Boom! 00:00 Tools
I Have Eyes 00:00 Tools
Rhapsody in Blue 00:00 Tools
It's The Dreamer In Me 00:00 Tools
Untitled Blues (feat. Louise Tobin) 00:00 Tools
Benny Sent Me 00:00 Tools
Come Rain or Come Shine 00:00 Tools
South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way) 00:00 Tools
My Gal Sal 00:00 Tools
Down South Camp Meetin' - Live 00:00 Tools
The Man I Love (Live) 00:00 Tools
Batunga Train 00:00 Tools
I've Hitched My Wagon to a Star 00:00 Tools
Peter and the Wolf 00:00 Tools
(You Got Me In Between) The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea 00:00 Tools
Oh, Baby! 00:00 Tools
Keep Me In Mind 00:00 Tools
Sing,Sing,Sing 00:00 Tools
Blue Room (live) 00:00 Tools
Blue Interlude 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know What Time It Was 00:00 Tools
Get Happy - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Sing, Sing, Sing (Live) 00:00 Tools
Stereo Stomp 00:00 Tools
One O'Clock Jump (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Pound Ridge 00:00 Tools
Frankie & Johnnie 00:00 Tools
Sometimes I'm Happy - Live 00:00 Tools
Learning 00:00 Tools
Vieni, Vieni 00:00 Tools
Deed I Do 00:00 Tools
Love Letters in the Sand 00:00 Tools
I Must See Annie Tonight 00:00 Tools
Bewitched 00:00 Tools
I Must Have That Man 00:00 Tools
Aquarius 00:00 Tools
Applause; Setting up & tuning up for BG small groups 00:00 Tools
Shirley Steps Out 00:00 Tools
Love Walked In 00:00 Tools
Swing Low Sweet Chariot 00:00 Tools
Close As Pages In A Book 00:00 Tools
It Happens to the Best of Friends 00:00 Tools
Sing, Sing, Sing (1987 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight 00:00 Tools
We'll Never Know 00:00 Tools
Alone Together 00:00 Tools
'Tain't No Use 00:00 Tools
Shady Lady Bird 00:00 Tools
You Do Something to Me 00:00 Tools
Don't Wake Up My Heart 00:00 Tools
The Varsity Drag 00:00 Tools
Like a Bolt from the Blue 00:00 Tools
The Sheik of Arabia 00:00 Tools
How Deep Is The Ocean 00:00 Tools
I surrender dear 00:00 Tools
Temptation Rag 00:00 Tools
Whoopee!: Makin' Whoopee 00:00 Tools
Good for Nothin' But Love 00:00 Tools
There's A Small Hotel - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Silhouetted in the Moonlight 00:00 Tools
Six appeal 00:00 Tools
What's New? 00:00 Tools
Darktown Strutter's Ball 00:00 Tools
Big John's Special (Live) 00:00 Tools
Windy 00:00 Tools
Beyond The Moon 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Could Tell You (feat. Liza Morrow) 00:00 Tools
Sing, Sing, Sing (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
Seven Come Eleven - 2001 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Sing Sing Sing (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away) 00:00 Tools
I'm A Hundred Percent For You 00:00 Tools
Applause; Benny Goodman's 'No Encore' Announcement 00:00 Tools
Sunny Side of the Street 00:00 Tools
Here's That Rainy Day 00:00 Tools
Bye Bye Blues 00:00 Tools
Sing For Your Supper 00:00 Tools
When The Sun Comes Out (Rechanneled Stereo Version) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue Just You 00:00 Tools
Riding High 00:00 Tools
Don't Be That Way (1938) 00:00 Tools
Yours Is My Heart Alone 00:00 Tools
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen (Live) 00:00 Tools
Room 1411 00:00 Tools
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Everything I Love 00:00 Tools
Fiesta in Blue 00:00 Tools
What's New 00:00 Tools
Sing, Sing, Sing (OST Артист) 00:00 Tools
A Smo-o-oth One 00:00 Tools
Sweet and Lovely 00:00 Tools
I Want to Be Loved 00:00 Tools
Chloe (Song Of The Swamp) 00:00 Tools
Can't Teach My Old Heart New Tricks (From "Hollywood Hotel") 00:00 Tools
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Ding Dong Daddy 00:00 Tools
Darktown Strutters' Ball 00:00 Tools
Peace, Brother! 00:00 Tools
What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry? 00:00 Tools
Who Cares 00:00 Tools
Down By The Old Mill Stream 00:00 Tools
Introduction/Let's Dance 00:00 Tools
Lucky (You're Right, I'm Wrong) 00:00 Tools
Bugie Call Rag 00:00 Tools
Indiana 00:00 Tools
Oh! Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
Show Your Linen, Miss Richardson 00:00 Tools
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I'll Never Say "Never Again" Again 00:00 Tools
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Makin' Whoopee 00:00 Tools
The Bannister Slide 00:00 Tools
Pick-A-Rib, Part 2 00:00 Tools
I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling 00:00 Tools
Sing Sing Sing 00:00 Tools
Poor Butterfly: The Big Show: Poor Butterfly 00:00 Tools
Sunrise Serenade 00:00 Tools
Muskrat Scramble 00:00 Tools
After You've Gone - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree 00:00 Tools
Why You? 00:00 Tools
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Blue Orchids 00:00 Tools
Feathers 00:00 Tools
Sing, sing, sing PART I 00:00 Tools
I've Found A New Baby - 2001 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Can't We Be Friends? 00:00 Tools
Fine and Dandy 00:00 Tools
What Goes On Here in My Heart 00:00 Tools
Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed 00:00 Tools
Benjie's Bubble 00:00 Tools
Quintet in A for Clarinet and Strings, K. 581: Larghetto 00:00 Tools
Tuesday At Ten 00:00 Tools
Soft Winds 00:00 Tools
Sophisticated Lady - Mood Indigo 00:00 Tools
Behave Yourself 00:00 Tools
Back In Your Own Backyard 00:00 Tools
The Lady's in Love With You 00:00 Tools
The Girl From Ipanema 00:00 Tools
Pick-A-Rib, Part 1 00:00 Tools
Don't Be That Way [Live] 00:00 Tools
Somebody Loves Me - 2001 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Whispers In The Dark 00:00 Tools
When You and I Where Young, Maggie 00:00 Tools
Blues Reverie 00:00 Tools
Boy Meets Horn 00:00 Tools
Swift as the Wind 00:00 Tools
Livery Stable Blues 00:00 Tools
Benny Goodman 1950 Introduction (Live) 00:52 Tools
Winter Weather (feat. Peggy Lee) - 78rpm Version 00:00 Tools
Sing, Sing, Sing Part Ii 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean a Thing if You Ain't Got That Swing 00:00 Tools
Blue Skies (Live) 00:00 Tools
Shine - Live 00:00 Tools
You're A Sweet Little Headache 00:00 Tools
Stompin' At the Savoy (From "Small Time Crooks") 00:00 Tools
Sometimes I'm Happy - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Buble Call Rag 00:00 Tools
Linda 00:00 Tools
Ooooo-Oh Boom 00:00 Tools
Let's Do It (feat. Peggy Lee) 00:00 Tools
How Long Has This Been Going On 00:00 Tools
Muscrat Scramble 00:00 Tools
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows 00:00 Tools
Gone With What Draft 00:00 Tools
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Peace, Brother 00:00 Tools
Careless Love 00:00 Tools
I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody (Like I'm Loving You) 00:00 Tools
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Opus Local 802 00:00 Tools
Downhill Special 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Fly By Night 00:00 Tools
Sing! Sing! Sing! (With a Swing) 00:00 Tools
You're Blasé 00:00 Tools
Smoke Get In Your Eyes 00:00 Tools
Runnin' Wild - 2001 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Oh! Baby (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Swingtime In The Rockies - Live 00:00 Tools
When The Sun Comes Out 00:00 Tools
Serenade in Blue 00:00 Tools
Is That The Way To Treat A Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
Mr Benny Goodman: Memories Of You 00:00 Tools
Swingtime in the Rockies - Remastered 00:00 Tools
The Flat Foot Floogee 00:00 Tools
My Little Cousin 00:00 Tools
Sing, Sing, Sing (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
Say It Isn't So - 2001 Remastered 00:00 Tools
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Easy Living 00:00 Tools
Let's Dance (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
One o'Clock Jump: One O'Clock Jump 00:00 Tools
Let’s Dance 00:00 Tools
Happy Session Blues 00:00 Tools
How High The Moon? 00:00 Tools
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Gonna Get a Girl 00:00 Tools
He's Not Worth Your Tears 00:00 Tools
Spinning Wheel 00:00 Tools
You're Dangerous 00:00 Tools
Just You, Just Me 00:00 Tools
Pardon My Love 00:00 Tools
Josephine 00:00 Tools
Mafia 2: Sing, Sing, Sing 00:00 Tools
I Don'T Know Why (I Just Do) 00:00 Tools
How Am i to Know 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Fall in Love Again 00:00 Tools
Who ? 00:00 Tools
Broadway 00:00 Tools
Soft Lights and Sweet Music 00:00 Tools
It's Been So Long - Live 00:00 Tools
Alicia's Blues - Live 00:00 Tools
Good-Bye - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Get Happy (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Love Never Went To College 00:00 Tools
Ain't Cha Glad? 00:00 Tools
My Wild Irish Rose 00:00 Tools
Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jibe 00:00 Tools
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Walk, Jenni, Walk 00:00 Tools
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The Man I Love - Live 00:00 Tools
If Dreams Come True (Live) 00:00 Tools
Did You Mean It 00:00 Tools
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Watch What Happens 00:00 Tools
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Boy Meets Girl 00:00 Tools
Sweet Little You 00:00 Tools
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People 02:53 Tools
Moonlight on the Highway 00:00 Tools
Who Cares? - 2001 Remastered 00:00 Tools
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My Gal Sal (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
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When You and I Were Young, Maggie 00:00 Tools
Goodbye (From Radio Days) 00:00 Tools
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Sing Sing Sing (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
Always and Always (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Who's Sorry Now 00:00 Tools
Stompin' At The Savoy (1997 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
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King Porter Stomp (1935) 00:00 Tools
Hi 'Ya Sophia 00:00 Tools
That Did It, Marie 00:00 Tools
Dearest - 2001 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Four Once More - 2001 Remastered 00:00 Tools
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Ev'rything I've Got 00:00 Tools
Benny Goodman Introduction 00:00 Tools
Laughing at Life 00:00 Tools
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Hello, Dolly! 00:00 Tools
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Soft as Spring 00:00 Tools
What Have You Got That Gets Me? 00:00 Tools
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Oh Baby! 00:00 Tools
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Bugle Call Rag - 1987 Remastered 00:00 Tools
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Benny Goodman, born Benjamin David Goodman, (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz musician, known as King of Swing, Patriarch of the Clarinet, The Professor, and Swing's Senior Statesman. Goodman was regarded by some as a demanding taskmaster, by others an arrogant and eccentric martinet. Many musicians spoke of The Ray, Goodman's trademark glare that he bestowed on a musician who failed to perform to his demanding standards. Anita O'Day and Helen Forrest spoke bitterly of their experiences singing with Goodman. "The twenty or so months I spent with Benny felt like twenty years," said Forrest. "When I look back, they seem like a life sentence." He could also be incredibly self-absorbed; it is reported that when eating an egg onto which a ketchup bottle cap had fallen, Goodman simply ate around it. At the same time, there are reports that he privately funded several college educations and was sometimes very generous, though always secretly. When a friend asked him why one time, he reportedly said, "Well, if they knew about it, everyone would come to me with their hand out." Some suggest that Elvis Presley had the same success with rock and roll that Goodman achieved with jazz and swing. Without Goodman there would not have been a swing era. It is true that many of Goodman's arrangements had been played for years before by Fletcher Henderson's orchestra. While Goodman publicly acknowledged his debt to Henderson, many young white swing fans had never heard Henderson's band. While most consider Goodman a jazz innovator, others maintain his main strength was his perfectionism and drive. Goodman was a non - pariel virtuoso clarinetist and -along with only Artie Shaw, amongst the most technically proficient jazz clarinetists of all time. Goodman is also responsible for a significant step in racial integration in America. In the early 1930s, black and white jazz musicians could not play together in most clubs or concerts. In the Southern states, racial segregation was enforced by the Jim Crow laws. Benny Goodman broke with tradition by hiring Teddy Wilson to play with him ] in the Autumn of 1936. He then added Lionel Hampton on vibes in December, 1936, and in the early Summer of 1939 he augmented the famous "quartette" with pioneering jazz guitarist Charlie Christian to his band and small ensembles, who played with him until his untimely death from tuberculosis less than three years later. To give an understanding of American history at this time, Goodman's integration of popular music happened ten years before Jackie Robinson entered Major League Baseball. "[Goodman's] popularity was such that he could remain financially viable without touring the South, where he would have been subject to arrest for violating Jim Crow laws." By the mid- Summer of 1941, Benny had hired the incomparably rhythmic and show-man drummer, legendary "Big Sid" Catlett, the (later) famous John Simmons on bass, and still possessed the incomparable Charlie Christian on electric guitar -plus Cootie Williams was in the middle of his one-year contract... This amounted to virtually one-quarter of the orchestra of black heritage, but of course -following Jimmy Munday and Fletcher Henderson (who also joined the band as pianist for 6 months in July, 1939) it was really an orchestrated white extension of black big band jazz -only, curiously -better. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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