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Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Doc Severinsen, and Joe Williams

Alice Faye and Benny Goodman in The Gang's All Here (1943)

Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa in Hollywood Hotel (1937)

Benny Goodman "Bell Telephone Hour" 1962 NBC

Harper Goff, Benny Goodman, Ward Kimball, Frank Thomas, and Firehouse Five Plus Two

Ethel Merman and Benny Goodman circa 1955

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Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, and Charlie Parker in Jazz (2001)

Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker, James Ellison, Alice Faye, and Benny Goodman in The Gang's All Here (1943)

Charlie Barnet, Connee Boswell, Jackie Cooper, Benny Goodman, Bonita Granville, Harry James, Jack Jenney, Gene Krupa, Adolphe Menjou, Alvino Rey, and Joe Venuti in Syncopation (1942)

Hugh Herbert, Johnnie Davis, Glenda Farrell, Benny Goodman, Ted Healy, Lola Lane, Rosemary Lane, Frances Langford, Alan Mowbray, Louella Parsons, and Dick Powell in Hollywood Hotel (1937)

Hugh Herbert, Glenda Farrell, Benny Goodman, Ted Healy, Lola Lane, Rosemary Lane, Louella Parsons, and Dick Powell in Hollywood Hotel (1937)

Danny Kaye, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Barnet, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, and Virginia Mayo in A Song Is Born (1948)

Charlie Barnet, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Gene Krupa, and Alvino Rey in Syncopation (1942)

Benny Goodman, Carole Landis, George Murphy, and Anne Shirley in The Powers Girl (1943)

Danny Kaye, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Barnet, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Lionel Hampton in A Song Is Born (1948)

The King of Swing! Famed clarinetist, composer ("Stompin' at the Savoy") and conductor, educated at the Lewis Institute in Chicago and a student of Schillinger and Schoepp. He was a clarinetist with the orchestras of Bix Beiderbecke, Jules Herbuveaux, Arnold Johnson and Ben Pollack, and also played in Broadway theater orchestras. He began to lead his own orchestras in 1934 at the Billy Rose Music Hall, then conducted the orchestra on the weekly radio program "Let's Dance" in 1934-1935, and played at numerous hotels, colleges and theaters. Expanding his musical efforts, he performed in chamber music concerts, later touring throughout the US, Europe, the Far East, South America and the USSR and made many recordings. Joining ASCAP in 1945, his chief musical collaborators included Count Basie, Harry James, Mitchell Parish, Andy Razaf, Edgar M. Sampson, Chick Webb, and Teddy Wilson. Some of his other popular songs and instrumental compositions include "Lullaby in Rhythm," "Don't Be That Way," "Seven Come Eleven," "Flying Home," "Two O'Clock Jump," "Air Mail Special," "Dizzy Spells," "If Dreams Come True," "Georgia Jubilee," "Four Once More," and "The Kingdom of Swing".

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