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Benny Goodman house goes on the market - Danbury News Times

Benny Goodman house goes on the market
Danbury News Times
The home who once belonged to musican Benny Goodman. Photo: Mike Ross / Stamford Advocate contributed 1287 Rock Rimmon Road in Stamford, Conn. April 26th, 2012. The home who once belonged to musican Benny Goodman. Photo: Mike Ross / Stamford Advocate ...

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Hines is fierce, 'The Savoy King,' Phoebe Jacobs tribute - Amsterdam News

Hines is fierce, 'The Savoy King,' Phoebe Jacobs tribute
Amsterdam News
Ironically, the film was shown 75 years to the date from when the Benny Goodman Band challenged Webb to the famous “Battle of the Bands” at the Savoy. Webb's in-house band for the Savoy was declared the winner, so why is Goodman still remembered as the ...

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A first glimpse at the seventh season schedule for BCPA - Bloomington Pantagraph

A first glimpse at the seventh season schedule for BCPA
Bloomington Pantagraph
12: Swinging' the Benny Goodman Songbook, an heir to the popular Glenn Miller Orchestra shows at the BCPA (each of the GMO's three concerts has been among the venue's best-attended). “A really fun show that really, really swings,” notes Aalberts.

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A house with all that jazz in North Stamford - Ct Post

A house with all that jazz in North Stamford
Ct Post
The home who once belonged to musican Benny Goodman. Photo: Mike Ross / Stamford Advocate contributed 1287 Rock Rimmon Road in Stamford, Conn. April 26th, 2012. The home who once belonged to musican Benny Goodman. Photo: Mike Ross / Stamford Advocate ...

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Eriksmoen: Peggy Lee's soft singing became her signature style - In-Forum

Eriksmoen: Peggy Lee's soft singing became her signature style
In-Forum
Duckworth was engaged to Benny Goodman, who was about to lose his lead female vocalist, Helen Forrest. The next night, Goodman attended Lee's performances at the Buttery Room and realized he found Forrest's replacement. Peggy Lee recounted that ...

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Preakness, a new pool party at the Capitol Skyline Hotel and Lee “Scratch ... - Washington Post (blog)

Preakness, a new pool party at the Capitol Skyline Hotel and Lee “Scratch ...
Washington Post (blog)
By Fritz Hahn Katy Goodman has traded the Vivian Girls for mellow pop music with her new band La Sera. Take a listen at the Red Palace on Friday. (Courtesy of Hardly Art)Every Tuesday, the Going Out Gurus highlight the week's best DJs, bands, ...

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Local man remembers his brother's days with Shaw, Miller and Goodman - Gaston Gazette

Local man remembers his brother's days with Shaw, Miller and Goodman
Gaston Gazette
First there was Benny Goodman, who was knocked from the top spot by Artie Shaw, and then Glenn Miller came along and shattered all the previous records. Johnny Best, a trumpet player who started in the Shelby High School Band in the late 20s, ...

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Phoebe Jacobs, Publicist for Jazz Greats, Dies at 93 - New York Times

Phoebe Jacobs, Publicist for Jazz Greats, Dies at 93
New York Times
It included Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Stan Kenton as well as Mickey Mantle and Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Ms. Jacobs told the story on March 25 at a music conference at New York University. Soon afterward she was admitted to Beth Israel ...

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Ovid in Ossining at 100: Celebrating the John Cheever centenary - New York Daily News (blog)

Ovid in Ossining at 100: Celebrating the John Cheever centenary
New York Daily News (blog)
The master of the American short story, the centennial of whose birth is later this month, was the original purveyor of midcentury mystique, especially its darker facets. The endless drinking, the ever-present cigarettes, the marital infidelities, ...

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Diversify among winners - MarketWatch

Diversify among winners
MarketWatch
That's the story of, that's the glory of love.” — The Glory of Love (1936 Billy Hill song for Benny Goodman that went to No. 1 on the pop charts, biggest 1950s hit for The Five Keys and included on the latest Paul McCartney album).

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