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These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.
John Cheever
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As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke. So I've always had rules that you don't drink on the bandstand, you don't smoke on the bandstand.
B. B. King
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The brilliant explosion known as Benny Goodman went off in 1935, and it hasn´t gone out yet.
Whitney Balliett
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
Mary McCarthy
Benny Goodman
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Born:
May 30, 1909
Died:
June 13, 1986
(aged 77)
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