Despite competition from Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Count Basie, and Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman largely held on to his popularity during the period. The personnel was changing in his big band, but it was still a strong outfit with trumpeters Ziggy Elman and Jimmy Maxwell, trombonist Vernon Brown, Jerry Jerome on tenor, pianist Johnny Guarnieri, and singer Helen Forrest being.

Benny Goodman was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in Charter inductee of the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in He had two daughters: Rachel (born May 2, .

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Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, – June 13, ) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".. In the mids, Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in the United States. His concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history.

Benny Goodman was the first celebrated bandleader of the Swing Era, dubbed "The King of Swing," his popular emergence marking the beginning of the era. He was an accomplished clarinetist whose distinctive playing gave an identity both to his big band and to the smaller units he led simultaneously. The most popular figure of the first few years of the Swing Era, he continued to perform until.

Jan 08,  · Benny Goodman & His Orchestra play the classic swing tune, "Sing, Sing, Sing," that made Benny famous in this recording of it used for the picture "The Benny Goodman Story." Song Sing, Sing, Sing (Parts 1 & 2) (Live).