All music tells a story about the times and the people who live them. Swing came from a more joyous time when the US was coming out of the depression. As a style, it lasted just about 10 years, before a darker bebop jazz came into being. Hip hop and rap tells the story of black young people and thier struggles. It has endured almost 40 years now, probably longer than any other American music form and it has spread all over the world.
Listening to this, it’s a mixed blessing. Gratitude that it’s been recorded and we can enjoy it to this day (and forever), and sadness because of what current music has become. Hip hop and gangsta rap? Really?
Back in the late '70s, I was probably the only kid in my high school that preferred the sounds of Goodman, Ellington, Shaw and all the rest of the best of that era. I collected every LP reissue of their recordings and believe me, you'd not find a single AC/DC, Aerosmith or KISS record in there. To me, that stuff was--well, I can't use the word here! I consider myself very lucky in that I fell in love with this fantastic music and the people playing it.
And just like that, I hear my folks laughing, the ice tinkling and the sweet aroma of bourbon floating from the kitchen. Soon, they were gathered on the porch, trading the stories of the day. What a sweet introduction to good music! ♡
No elaborate stage or lighting system. Simply, great music presented in a dignified manner. A far cry from what we see these days at Super Bowl halftime shows and Olympics opening events.
I;ll Always Love Big Band & Benny Goodman, I Was Born In 1943 Way Before My Time But I Sure Love This Music, I Will Until My Dying Day. Love It, Love It, Love It.
Benny Goodman died one year later, so this is one of the last times people experienced his legendary swing sound. You can feel the energy in that room. He was a task-master, even in these later years, as you can hear how tight this band sounds. Just balls-on terrific with a true swing, and he still had his chops on the clarinet!!
I see my trumpet teacher, the late, and truly great, Laurie Frink, playing lead! Not to mention the fact that, thanks to my dad, Benny’s music was mother’s milk to my siblings and me, growing up in Costa Rica.
In the music world especially among musicians who worked for "The Benny" in the 1930s and 1940s there are many, many awful stories told of his inconsiderate, unkind, and dictatorial behavior to even the most esteemed musicians in his bands. One story a local sax player here in Florida now passed away tells is of practicing with the band for a recording at Goodman's Connecticut mansion. Goodman was married to John Hammond Sr's sister, a member of the Vanderbilt family and had a quite nice mansion based on his wife's wealth. The band was out in the garden practicing and rehearsing. Band members started complaining that it was too cold and they should go in the house that had rooms big enough to hold the band, Brass players in particular who felt pain in their lips blowing on cold mouth pieces got adamant. After a while, the Benny stopped the practice and said he agreed it was too cold out there. The Benny went into the house and came out wearing a sweater, and then demanded the practice go on int he cold garden oblivious to further complaints of the cold band members cracking their lips on cold trumpets and trombones. This kind of inconsiderateness was a general feature of stories band members have had about Goodman.
In part he was very single focused in a determination that got him fromn extreme poverty already supporting his parents when he was a child to success. His dictatorial ways as well as high musicianship made him popular with composers and arrangers. Fletcher Henderson, the great black jazzman who wrote Goodman's arrangement iof the piece we hear today, liked working for Goodman because when he had his own band Henderson's soloists who include Armstrong and Coleman Hawkins and briefly lester Young among so many other greats, would add their own innovations and improvisations to the scores, whereas Goodman would force his players to follow the score as it was written.
@@writerrad He was also famous for not giving you another solo if you got more applause than he did. He didn't earn the nickname "Benny Badman" for no reason.
It actually moves me very much how this experienced grandmaster stands there relaxed just enjoying one of his actual last concerts with an audience that has grew older with him...
Hey Rey Ateo ....your comment made me think of Adolphe Sax , the man who invented the Saxaphone and who died in the 1890s , never realizing the overwhelming influence his work would have on 20th century music ....
LOL musicians and singer who worked for the Benny are more likely to talk about "the ray," the nasty look that would come over Benny's face that meant that in his eyes you were finished with him and he had written you not only out of the band, not only out of music, but out of the human race. He was not a gentle humble or kindly soul. People dancing means people paying and he was a popular entertainer trying to bring people to have a good time, not an art for art's sake person, although his clarinet playing was of such a high level that in the 1950s when the money drive wasn't so great he played Clarinet solos with major symphonies
The king of the jazz arrangements. Undoubtedly a musical genious. Suitable for dancing, listening at pool's sides or driving american, german or japanese above 2000 cubic centimeters' beasts. All of us jazz fanatics, are heavely indebted to the great Benny... even at 85 winters... surviving well thanks to him and derived "gymnastics.
I remember watching this on PBS. Being raised by my grandparents who lived through his greatest days and had all of his records, this special was definitely not to be missed. It was my introduction to Benny Goodman, and I haven't stopped loving his music ever since.
It's bittersweet to watch...because of how amazing Benny Goodmans' band sounded...and how good Benny looked, enjoying his band smiling and laughing...and a year later he passes away!
The smiles on the faces of the audience , probably taken in 1985 , say it all. They lived this music , often times during wartime. "The Greatest Generation". Today's arrogant , entitled , coddled generation have no clue.
In dead, Jazz started like that. People dancing. After, in the half part they started to listen the music. In that moment was the first chamber music (invented by Benny Goodman). Then revolution has started !!
There's a brilliant Harry James version of this song on here, and for years I've listened to it. James' version is a lot pacier and more showy - but this Goodman version is the correct tempo. The tension in the beat is there, which makes it hard to keep still - which is what swing is all about. I'm now a convert to this!
it's great to see benny smile looking out at all the dancers-i'm sure some of them were there back in the old paramount theater dates dancing in the aisles times...everybody is having FUN. i worked in a place that featured dancing with music by guy lombardo & his royal canadians & louis armstrong & his all stars ====everybody HAD FUN!!!
Hotel Marriot Marquis, Time Square, New York, en este lugar en el año 1985 se le hizo un homenaje a un "Maestro de maestros" el Sr. Benny Goodman(1909-1986), demostrándonos en este video, que la calidad no se pierde nunca. Como el 1 de Diciembre de 1934 , cuando Goodman irrumpió en un programa radial con "Let´s dance" (Bailemos) que luego fue su apertura de siempre en sus conciertos y luego interpretó "Don´t be that way"(No seas así) de su autoría. Es inevitable al ver a este gran ser humano y genio musical, pensar en las obras de Bela Bartok, Stravinsky, Mozart y tantas otras interpretaciones que nos dejó en discos. Le legó muchos derechos de reproducción de su música grabada a los alumnos de la Universidad de Yale, que seguramente no lo olvidarán por sus enseñanzas musicales.
Thanks for uploading this my Uncle was Hymie Schertzer who was Benny's lead alto sax player starting in 1934 thru 1938, and then years on and off between working for Benny & Tommy Dorsey. Take care always,
I SOOO LOVE BIG BAND! ALL THE GREATS, ALONGSIDE BENNY! I was a professional entertainer, multi-instrumentalist, for over 40 years, then, a radio presenter with millions of listeners. Recording over 8 albums, and, 3 double albums.
A Great Artist recognizes it immediately: from the earliest notes, from the modes of interpretation and execution of a piece, from its rare, unique style, unmistakable to originality, fantasy and creativity. Elements, all of which contribute together to place them among the most "Great" Artists that linger over the entire musical artistic firmament. c.castellano, Italy
Real music by real musicians. Not a bunch of self proclaimed gangsters cursing into a microphone.
Esattamente
It's worse now in '24😂
Perfeito!!!!!
All music tells a story about the times and the people who live them. Swing came from a more joyous time when the US was coming out of the depression. As a style, it lasted just about 10 years, before a darker bebop jazz came into being. Hip hop and rap tells the story of black young people and thier struggles. It has endured almost 40 years now, probably longer than any other American music form and it has spread all over the world.
Those folks saved the world.
Listening to this, it’s a mixed blessing. Gratitude that it’s been recorded and we can enjoy it to this day (and forever), and sadness because of what current music has become. Hip hop and gangsta rap? Really?
WHAT TALENT WHAT MEMORIES. WE WILL NEVER SEE THEIR LIKES AGAIN. THERE MEM0RY IS A BLESSING
* "their".
Yes, unfortunately.
When music was music🥰
Thanks to Benny and his peers millions in my dad's generation grew up hip.
Back in the late '70s, I was probably the only kid in my high school that preferred the sounds of Goodman, Ellington, Shaw and all the rest of the best of that era. I collected every LP reissue of their recordings and believe me, you'd not find a single AC/DC, Aerosmith or KISS record in there. To me, that stuff was--well, I can't use the word here! I consider myself very lucky in that I fell in love with this fantastic music and the people playing it.
You were a kid with good taste!
Big Band was so awesome
Same here! My dad actually took me to see BG when I was 10.
You have great taste. I feel sorry for all the other ones.
Yes, I too was one of those musical outcasts at high school in the 1970s. And proud of it!
The King of Swing Forever!
And just like that, I hear my folks laughing, the ice tinkling and the sweet aroma of bourbon floating from the kitchen. Soon, they were gathered on the porch, trading the stories of the day. What a sweet introduction to good music! ♡
Don’t be that way was my dads favorite!
Benny brought alot of smiles during the tough years and post war into the 80's..His music will live longer than any of us..
👍 👍 👍 I am not sure if you are aware of or how i9
@@alfonsofrancescomartelli2355 ???
Beautiful all the way...
Benny Goodman was a crazy cat..
Fantástica orquesta del recuerdo.
Que bellos temas.
Gracias por subirlos.
Would have loved to lived in that era. Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, etc. Just a few of the great ones.
No elaborate stage or lighting system. Simply, great music presented in a dignified manner. A far cry from what we see these days at Super Bowl halftime shows and Olympics opening events.
Still swinging here at 76. And a virtuoso still. He died a few months later in 1986. What a life; what a musical legacy.
What a great musician who, by his leadership and fine work contributed to the health and vitality of American culture and society,
I;ll Always Love Big Band & Benny Goodman, I Was Born In 1943 Way Before My Time But I Sure Love This Music, I Will Until My Dying Day. Love It, Love It, Love It.
Yo nací en 1961 en Montevideo, Uruguay y creeme que te entiendo lo que puedes sentir por esa música.
❤ the best band 🎼🎼🎼🎼🌟
I Will Tell You What I Am 47 Years Old, And Benny Goodman Will Sit In Time, As An Absolutely, Great Artist Exactly 100%
I SAW BENNY AT DISNEYLAND IN CA. IN 1961. HE WAS STILL AS GREAT AS USUAL.
Espectacular gracias gracias hermosa musica😂
Now thats swing amazing
Man, Don't be that way" sounds like the band in their prime. Fab.
Orchestra maravilhosa !!!
Benny Goodman died one year later, so this is one of the last times people experienced his legendary swing sound. You can feel the energy in that room. He was a task-master, even in these later years, as you can hear how tight this band sounds. Just balls-on terrific with a true swing, and he still had his chops on the clarinet!!
Tuve el provilegio de estar en la
Nun
Benny Goodman is my favorite of the swing-big band era. He was so far ahead of his time.
Artie Shaw was better.
@@Georgie12248
You are another idiot comparing great players. Stupid comment.
He still looked good and sounded spot on !
The golden age of real music!
Época inesquecível. Musicas com melodia.
check out joan chamorro
It's the golden age of music, alive in my house every damned day of the year.
Louie Bellson! Just being Louie, and filling in those Gene Krupa spaces in DBTW...beautifully, actually...
La mejor música del mundo, no habrá otra mejor. Dios los bendiga por haber formado parte de nuestras vidas y haberlas hecho tan agradables.
I see my trumpet teacher, the late, and truly great, Laurie Frink, playing lead! Not to mention the fact that, thanks to my dad, Benny’s music was mother’s milk to my siblings and me, growing up in Costa Rica.
REAL TALENT...THIS MUSIC WILL LAST FOREVER
!!! Fantástico e Inolvidable * Big Benny "" y el Tiempo de las Grandes Bandas Las emocionea al máximo Gracias por el recuerdo!!!***
The King of Swing. This was the stuff back in the day.
The 40's music, clothes, dancing is my ultimate fantasy !!!!⏳
Excelente interpretación musical, y melodías ❤
Can you imagine the thrill and honor it must be for those younger musicians to be playing with Benny Goodman? This is just great music for sure!
In the music world especially among musicians who worked for "The Benny" in the 1930s and 1940s there are many, many awful stories told of his inconsiderate, unkind, and dictatorial behavior to even the most esteemed musicians in his bands. One story a local sax player here in Florida now passed away tells is of practicing with the band for a recording at Goodman's Connecticut mansion. Goodman was married to John Hammond Sr's sister, a member of the Vanderbilt family and had a quite nice mansion based on his wife's wealth. The band was out in the garden practicing and rehearsing. Band members started complaining that it was too cold and they should go in the house that had rooms big enough to hold the band, Brass players in particular who felt pain in their lips blowing on cold mouth pieces got adamant. After a while, the Benny stopped the practice and said he agreed it was too cold out there. The Benny went into the house and came out wearing a sweater, and then demanded the practice go on int he cold garden oblivious to further complaints of the cold band members cracking their lips on cold trumpets and trombones. This kind of inconsiderateness was a general feature of stories band members have had about Goodman.
In part he was very single focused in a determination that got him fromn extreme poverty already supporting his parents when he was a child to success. His dictatorial ways as well as high musicianship made him popular with composers and arrangers. Fletcher Henderson, the great black jazzman who wrote Goodman's arrangement iof the piece we hear today, liked working for Goodman because when he had his own band Henderson's soloists who include Armstrong and Coleman Hawkins and briefly lester Young among so many other greats, would add their own innovations and improvisations to the scores, whereas Goodman would force his players to follow the score as it was written.
@@writerrad He was also famous for not giving you another solo if you got more applause than he did. He didn't earn the nickname "Benny Badman" for no reason.
とても素敵なジャズです🎵
And we probably wouldn't have people like Bob Mintzer nowadays either, if not for Benny! Bob Mintzer really should be much more famous...
It actually moves me very much how this experienced grandmaster stands there relaxed just enjoying one of his actual last concerts with an audience that has grew older with him...
..has "grown" older...
haaa!
The king of the clarinet and swing 🤴🤴🤴
My late parents would take a break from war work and dance to these lovely tunes at the Town Hall!! Enjoy the dance mum & dad!!!😀😀
Amazingingly wonderful what n era 2 live n hear this music
What class
Yo viví esa época de las grandes bandas tuve esa fortuna y ahora que la escucho de nuevo vuelvo a rememorar esa época
I got obsessed with the saxophones in "Don't be that way".
Hey Rey Ateo ....your comment made me think of Adolphe Sax , the man who invented the Saxaphone and who died in the 1890s , never realizing the overwhelming influence his work would have on 20th century music ....
Love that smile when he first turns around and sees the people dancing...
You said it, "dancing"
LOL musicians and singer who worked for the Benny are more likely to talk about "the ray," the nasty look that would come over Benny's face that meant that in his eyes you were finished with him and he had written you not only out of the band, not only out of music, but out of the human race. He was not a gentle humble or kindly soul. People dancing means people paying and he was a popular entertainer trying to bring people to have a good time, not an art for art's sake person, although his clarinet playing was of such a high level that in the 1950s when the money drive wasn't so great he played Clarinet solos with major symphonies
@@writerrad billy reid
@@rabcooper2922 ç
Susan Allen mmy
The king of the jazz arrangements.
Undoubtedly a musical genious.
Suitable for dancing, listening at pool's sides or driving american,
german or japanese above 2000
cubic centimeters' beasts.
All of us jazz fanatics, are heavely indebted to the great Benny... even at 85 winters... surviving well thanks to him and derived "gymnastics.
Wonderful band and good musics to dance swings.
Hello Judy
Best era of music EVER! IMO.
Not for minorities!
This is Marlene's husband STU FERRIS THis music makes me think of my late Dad. He's been gone since since 1981. Love Ya!!!!!
Hello Marlene
And if this date of taping is accurate - he was gone just 8 months and a week later. Amazing.
Judging by the clothes, it looks mid-80s. ✔️
WTF?
I figure I am moved by witnessing Benny Goodman at his best
What a fabulous sound created by this contemporary Benny Goodman orchestra with the Maestro at the helm. You can see Benny enjoying the moment. 🥳😜
I remember watching this on PBS. Being raised by my grandparents who lived through his greatest days and had all of his records, this special was definitely not to be missed. It was my introduction to Benny Goodman, and I haven't stopped loving his music ever since.
Thé best of all music indeed.
It's bittersweet to watch...because of how amazing Benny Goodmans' band sounded...and how good Benny looked, enjoying
his band smiling and laughing...and a year later he passes away!
The smiles on the faces of the audience , probably taken in 1985 , say it all. They lived this music , often times during wartime. "The Greatest Generation". Today's arrogant , entitled , coddled generation have no clue.
@@paulwilliams8555 Thank you Paul for your assessment.
my dad a WW II vet loved this guy. still great stuff!!!
Kp loop loop loop u? K on marnul
It seems like four helix engine planes were flying again in a old terrible world but happy at last.😥
In dead, Jazz started like that. People dancing. After, in the half part they started to listen the music. In that moment was the first chamber music (invented by Benny Goodman). Then revolution has started !!
Indeed.
El Rey del Swing!!!! Nunca mejor puesto ese apodo!!!! Adoro las Big Band!!!!
Thank God I was born and lived these wonderful years .
Hope that you are still around John , enjoying the greatest music ever made. ...
not one dislike. thats when you know a video is good
Sadly over the course of 10 years, 547 people found something to dislike about this masterpiece of a performance
What great music ! God bless these guys for doing what they obviously love & make us all happy in the process.
Echoes of an era that won't be back 😥. Whem the giants settled the earth.
The touch of the master’s hand.
最高です⤴️🎵💕
Mă simt îndrăgostit de muzica.Un "vinovat" e You Tube.Trebuie perpetuat așa ceva.
Lindsay I can really relate to this beautiful song ❤️in so many ways. I am dancing this very minute with a big smile on my face xxx 😀😊
Maravilha para meus ouvidos
Couldn't be better!!
Oh my goodness...as Shirley Temple would say...... I only hope I can be reborn in this era in my next life!
Still a great sound - thanks
Hello Theresa, How are you doing?
Sencillamente una genialidad de haber tenido la fortuna de escucharlos.
The great Louie Bellson on drums driving the band along nicely
La musica de mi padre.
Oh , where has all the joy gone out of music making these days?
Fantastic listening! Louie Bellson driving the band along nicely
There's a brilliant Harry James version of this song on here, and for years I've listened to it. James' version is a lot pacier and more showy - but this Goodman version is the correct tempo. The tension in the beat is there, which makes it hard to keep still - which is what swing is all about. I'm now a convert to this!
it's great to see benny smile looking out at all the dancers-i'm sure some of them were there back in the old paramount theater dates dancing in the aisles times...everybody is having FUN. i worked in a place that featured dancing with music by guy lombardo & his royal canadians & louis armstrong & his all stars ====everybody HAD FUN!!!
The king of swing is an understatement!
Espectacular. . . .Vida y Música de B-Goodman la debo haber visto más de 100 veces y creo que me quedo corto. . .Qué música, que swing. . . .!!
Que buena epoca de las bandas del swing!😢me hubiera gustado haberla vivido❤😢😅
Grew up with my Dad blasting Benny Goodman on his record player all the time. These songs bring back lots of great memories.
Hotel Marriot Marquis, Time Square, New York, en este lugar en el año 1985 se le hizo un homenaje a un "Maestro de maestros" el Sr. Benny Goodman(1909-1986), demostrándonos en este video, que la calidad no se pierde nunca.
Como el 1 de Diciembre de 1934 , cuando Goodman irrumpió en un programa radial con "Let´s dance" (Bailemos) que luego fue su apertura de siempre en sus conciertos y luego interpretó "Don´t be that way"(No seas así) de su autoría.
Es inevitable al ver a este gran ser humano y genio musical, pensar en las obras de Bela Bartok, Stravinsky, Mozart y tantas otras interpretaciones que nos dejó en discos. Le legó muchos derechos de reproducción de su música grabada a los alumnos de la Universidad de Yale, que seguramente no lo olvidarán por sus enseñanzas musicales.
MAGNIFICO HOMENAJE CON ESTA BELLA E INOLVIDABLE MUSICA
GERMAN QUINTERO Gracias German por tus palabras, saludos.
Muy buenos
pilar Herrera Gracias Pili, besos.
Ismael Rinaudo Es un gusto leer tu comentario, es evidente que sobre Goodman pensamos igual, gracias y un abrazo.
I went to one of the last shows, Ann Arbor at the Power Center..still in the groove shortly before his passing..Truly the King!
¡Es bellísimo el clarinete del inolvidable Beny Goodman!
Excelente felicitaciones ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks for uploading this my Uncle was Hymie Schertzer who was Benny's lead alto sax player starting in 1934 thru 1938, and then years on and off between working for Benny & Tommy Dorsey. Take care always,
Quite a Feat,since they broke up in 1968
ELLIOTT SCHERTZER
😃 😃🤗❗️
Maxine sullivan
@@chrischristopherson5521 Alicante
Garmisch-partenkirchen hi ich Mo
That's classic Jazz
Maravillosa orquesta y maravillosa música. Mis respetos para Beny Goodman Saludos desde Guatemala
I miss this world, please come back
Tuve la suerte de ver y escuchar a Benny Goodman y orquestra en. BUENOS AIRES, en 1961...Inolvidable !!!!
Absolutely immortal
Love to hear those famous musics😊❤
Awesome! The big bands were second to NONE.
Another great Benny clarinet with the big band.
c'est très beau un retour dans le temps c'est triste C'était des vrais artistes et des vrais orchestres formidables
👍Großartig 👍 Der Künstler der Klarinette...
I SOOO LOVE BIG BAND! ALL THE GREATS, ALONGSIDE BENNY! I was a professional entertainer, multi-instrumentalist, for over 40 years, then, a radio presenter with millions of listeners. Recording over 8 albums, and, 3 double albums.
Thank you for your enthusiasm and good comments.
Inolvidable !!
My Father´s music ..!
Época dorada de la buena música !! ❤️
C est magnifique j adore merci pour le partage
Grandissimo !!!!!!
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A Great Artist recognizes it immediately: from the earliest notes, from the modes of interpretation and execution of a piece, from its rare, unique style, unmistakable to originality, fantasy and creativity. Elements, all of which contribute together to place them among the most "Great" Artists that linger over the entire musical artistic firmament.
c.castellano, Italy
Época de ouro grandes orquestras grandes baile. Pena que ficou no passado! Hoje não têm sons de qualidade como esse!!que SAUDADE!