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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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Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
Barbara Jordan
Benny Goodman
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Born:
May 30, 1909
Died:
June 13, 1986
(aged 77)
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