#benny goodman orchestra

[kstearb]

Continuously obsessed with media made 80 years ago

[20th-century-scrapbook]

American jazz guitarist Allan Reuss performs with the Benny Goodman Orchestra

[timwrightt]

[rastronomicals]

4:07 PM EST January 18, 2024:

Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - "Air Mail Special" From the album The Genius of the Electric Guitar (1987)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[bluejeansoul]

On The Sunny Side Of The Street - Benny Goodman and His Orchestra with Peggy Lee

[goffjames]

Music Box – Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) – Benny Goodman and his Orchestra

Music Attribution © Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, Sing, Sing, Sing, (With a Swing), (Music written by Louis Prima  Video Attribution Ifasul Source Attribution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwPvLMlGWPI More music from the Music Box Thank you for your visit Have a wonderful swinging to music day My Friend goffjamesart.wordpress.com Art Music Photography Poetry Quotations

[cartermagazine]

Today In History

Ella Fitzgerald, dubbed “The First Lady of Song,” was born in Newport News, VA, on this date April 25, 1918.

Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums.

Ella Fitzgerald voice was flexible, wide-ranging, accurate and ageless. She could sing sultry ballads, sweet jazz and imitate every instrument in an orchestra. She worked with all the jazz greats, from Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Nat King Cole, to Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Goodman. (Or rather, some might say all the jazz greats had the pleasure of working with Ella.)

CARTER™️ Magazine

[sarcasmic-skies]

hearing the opening notes of ‘sing, sing, sing’ and the collective groan from everyone at the swing dance. bc it is SUCH a good song and it is THE swing dancing song BUT it’s the full 8 minutes & 40 seconds you’re committing to dance to at an unending fast tempo and by the end EVERYONE is experiencing the gasping for air with burning lungs and quivering muscles and slippery palms and cramps under the ribs and beads of sweat running down your body like raindrops on a windshield and your feet weigh a thousand pounds but you can’t NOT dance. you can’t slow down. you can’t quit halfway. you HAVE to make it to the end. so ‘sing, sing, sing’ comes on and there’s the collective groan and then the frantic scrambling for a partner and then the aggressive jockeying for a space on the dance floor and THEN everyone comes alive to the sweet sounds of benny goodman & his orchestra and the feeling is unlike anything else in the world

[thechanelmuse]

Savoy Ballroom in Harlem

“The World’s Finest Ballroom.” “Home of Happy Feet.” Langston Hughes called it the "Heartbeat of Harlem." 

The Savoy was a legendary dance hall owned by Jewish mobster, Moe Gale, which operated from 1926 to 1958. Unlike many ballrooms such as the Cotton Club, the Savoy always had a no-discrimination policy. Generally, the clientele was 85% Black and 15% white.

The normal entrance fee was 30 to 85 cents per person, depending on what time a person came. 30 cents was the base price, but after 6 p.m. the fee was 60 cents, and then 85 cents after 8 p.m. Each year, the ballroom was visited by near 700,000 people. 

Many dances such as Lindy Hop were developed and became famous there. 

The ballroom had a double bandstand that held one large and one medium-sized band running against its east wall. Music was continuous as the alternative band was always in position and ready to pick up the beat when the previous one had completed its set. The bouncers, who had previously worked as boxers, basketball players, and the like, wore tuxedos and made $100/night. The floor was watched inconspicuously by a security force of four men at a time who were headed by Jack La Rue, and no man was allowed in who wasn’t dressed in a jacket with a tie.

Chick Webb was the leader of the best known Savoy house band during the mid-1930s. A teenage Ella Fitzgerald, fresh from a talent show win at the Apollo Theater in 1934, became its vocalist. The Savoy was the site of many famous “Battles of the Bands” or “Cutting Contests,” which started when the Benny Goodman Orchestra challenged Chick Webb in 1937. Webb and his band were declared the winners of that contest. 

[cinnamonrollsledge]

Here's a little fanmix for marinating in your feelings about these two...

Contains:

Some newer songs, some older songs- including ones from their era

Themes of pining, unrequited feelings, semi-requited feelings, jealousy

Track List Below:

Soar (Main Title Theme from 'Masters of the Air') - Blake Neely

I've Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra

I'm With You - Vance Joy

Can't Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli

Disco - Surf Curse

I Only Want to Be With You - Dusty Springfield

Reach Out I'll Be There - Four Tops

Blue Skies - Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra

Guilty - Al Bowlly, Ray Noble & His Orchestra

Real Love Baby - Father John Misty

My Buddy - Harry James, Frank Sinatra

My Dearest Darling - Etta James

Any Old Time - Artie Shaw, Billie Holiday

These Arms of Mine - Otis Redding

Fallingforyou - The 1975

Crazy He Calls Me - Billie Holiday

Affection - Cigarettes After Sex

Once More to See You - Mitski

Everything in You - Adventure Time, Half Shy

If I Had You - Margaret Whiting

Over My Head - Fleetwood Mac

Pale Blue Eyes - The Velvet Underground

Somethin' Stupid - Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra

Feather - X Ambassadors

Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

I Wanna Be Yours - Arctic Monkeys

If You Were Mine - Etta Jones

Dionne - The Japanese House, Justin Vernon

There I Go - Vaughn Monroe

Baby I Need Your Loving - Four Tops

So Help Me - Mildred Bailey

I Look at You - Johnny Mathis

Jolene - Dolly Parton

Darn That Dream - Benny Goodman, Mildred Bailey

What Am I Here For - Jade Bird

My Heart Keeps Cryin' - Dorothy Lamour

Standing In The Shadows of Love - Four Tops

All I Could Do Was Cry - Etta James

Long Long Time - Linda Ronstadt

Going Home (End Titles from 'Masters of the Air') - Blake Neely

[kstearb]

BENNY ✨

[beatleswings]

"Yeah, rock it to me, baby. That's what I like. You may think this is a full orchestra, but if you look closely, you can see there's only two people playing and one person singing. I know it sounds like Benny Goodman, but don't worry. It's the big sound of 1969."

[citizenscreen]

Jo Stafford and Ella Fitzgerald accompanied by the Benny Goodman Orchestra on “The Jo Stafford Show”

[jazzdailyblog]

James Reese Europe: Pioneering Bandleader and Musical Trailblazer

Introduction: James Reese Europe was a pivotal figure in the history of American music, a bandleader, composer, and arranger who helped shape the sound of the early 20th century. Born one hundred and forty-three years ago on February 22, 1881, in Mobile, Alabama, Europe rose to prominence during the ragtime era and became one of the most influential African American musicians of his time. His…

[rastronomicals]

5:59 AM EDT October 1, 2023:

Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - "Air Mail Special" From the album The Genius of the Electric Guitar (1987)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[bluejeansoul]

I Didn’t Know What Time It Was - Benny Goodman and His Orchestra with Louise Tobin