C&L's Late Night Music Club with Benny Goodman
By bluegal Sunday Jul 12, 2009 7:00pmfrom the wartime movie "The Powers Girl" (1942), featuring some fabulous Lindy dancers.
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from the wartime movie "The Powers Girl" (1942), featuring some fabulous Lindy dancers.
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Dance, dance, dance!
And try your luck in our weekly Sunday Rock'N'Roll Music Video Contest Party: This week: "THE PRISONER," 2009.
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Glenn Miller Orchestra - Pennsylvania 6-5000
The movie was The Glenn Miller Story.
And for good measure I was at the beach yesterday and this gorgeous song came on the radio by Coldplay. Good memories, I just wanted to share it.
Clocks
Here's my favorite scene from The Glenn Miller Story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pm-p2nZ0zo
Starting around 1:20. The band is playing an outdoor concert and keeps playing through a buzzbomb attack. Great stuff.
swing , rag time I have 100+ cds of this stuff and its just gets better with age .
I've really learned to appreciate Goodman these days. Especially the years with Krupa and Hampton. They were by far the tightest white band around.
And the small group sessions: Avalon (quartet with Hampton) and Oh Lady be Good (trio). Oh man, perfect tightness and swing sense. And Teddy Wilson. I think he was underrated. Krupa and Chick Webb -- can't decide which was better. I love Krupa's dominance and power!
My parents saw his show in New York while they were on their honeymoon in 1946.
Thanks, bluegal!
That's some great music, but the sound quality is totally awful. Are there any performers out there who professionally cover Benny Goodman and other swing band performers with the intention of replicating it for accuracy?
NPR had some really great stuff back at the end of May on what would have been Goodman's 100th birthday. Great bio and great stories along with a couple of songs here at NPR. Before this NPR story, I just thought, "Oh well. Goodman, big band, clarinet. An era of music from the past." I never realized what an integral role he played in American history.
Stompin' At The Savoy
Jumpin' At The Woodside
Apologies for the sound quality- it was the only thing at YouTube that had the original, 1938 version, rather than one of the Count's later big band recordings.
Hotter Than Ell
Benny played with such smoothness. I love that stuff!
One of those timelessly entertaining, magical moments of film....
/Benny Goodman fan since larva-hood....
A pleasure to watch!
my exs dad started playing the drums when he was 4 years old ( 1925 ) and played big band , swing , rag , jazz , even new age . He was totally deaf in the last few years of his life , and suffered from Parkinson , yet everyday he played , i would help him get up from his chair and help him to his stool , on the weekends he would play in his band down at the old folks club , my ex and i would set up his drums and help him walk on stage and take him ( to our ) home afterwards , without a doubt one of the greatest honors of my life .
rip john
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he2XSjpAg8s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXEl1pEOoec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-AaB6oXFR8
In the 70s I worked stage crew a couple of summers at Interlochen and crewed a concert by Benny Goodman. He had a great band with him (Bucky Pizzareli, Slam Stewart, Warren Vache, Peter Appleyard) and it was one of the best non-classical concerts I have ever been to. He had a definite reputation for being a bit of a hard-ass (not in Buddy Rich's league, but certainly a perfectionist and hard to please), but he was a perfect gentleman on that occasion, to the stage crew, to his band, and to the audience members who came up after. Besides being a great, and hugely influential, musician, he came off as a real class act. (It should also be noted that he helped break down the race barrier in jazz and popular music by hiring black musicians, Lionel Hampton and Teddy Wilson among others, at a time when that simply wasn't done.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w30K1GUpYwI
I especially enjoyed the bluegal logo on the bass drum. How do you stay so young?
Great music and even more amazing dancing.
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