Benny Goodman
Biography
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".
Movies 29
Make Mine Music
as Self (voice)
1946
A Song Is Born
as Professor Magenbruch
1948
The Gang's All Here
as Benny Goodman
1943
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
Stage Door Canteen
as Benny Goodman
1943
Birth of the Blues
as Self (archive footage)
1941
Music Land
as Orchestra Leader (archive footage)
1955
The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Hollywood Hotel
as Benny Goodman, Leader of His Orchestra
1938
The Big Broadcast of 1937
as Benny Goodman
1936
The World of Polygoon
as Self (archive footage)
1994
Allen in Movieland
as Self
1955
Charlie Parker: Bird Songs
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Swing With Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and Tony Bennett
2001
The Powers Girl
as Self - Orchestra Conductor (uncredited)
1943
The All-Star Christmas Show
as Self
1958
John Gunther's High Road
as Self
1959
Syncopation
as Benny Goodman
1942
Sweet and Low-Down
as Benny Goodman
1944
Mitzi... What's Hot, What's Not
as Self
1978
All the Cats Join In
1946
Louis Armstrong & Benny Goodman - Sounds in Motion
2000
The Shining Future
as Self
1944
Me and the Boys
as Self - Clarinet
1929
Two for the Record
as Self
1954
Legends in Concert: Benny Goodman
2004
Benny Goodman - Adventures In The Kingdom Of Swing
as Self (archive footage)
1993
Åke Hasselgård story
1983
Copland Conducts Copland
as Self - Clarinet
1976TV Shows 15
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
The South Bank Show
1978
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
The Danny Kaye Show
as Self
1963
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
1978
The Bell Telephone Hour
as Self
1959
DuPont Show of the Month
as Self
1957
Bio’s Bahnhof
as Self
1978
Jazz
as Self (archive footage)
2001
The Big Party
as Self
1959