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.
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.
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?
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! ♡
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.
when ever I ear this kind of music it brings me back to my teen age years when dad use to listen to his records on the HIFI stereo ....I miss those days and him now RIP Dad
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.
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 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 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...
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.
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 ....
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.
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
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,
ÅKE KÄLLQVIST no thanks ❤️ I like his music. I’m just saying that people have different taste in music and you really don’t have to be so rude just because I you don’t like nowadays music.
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 !!
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!!!
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.
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!
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.
They did for their generation, but evil never sleeps and now Marxism has invaded the whole world.
WHAT TALENT WHAT MEMORIES. WE WILL NEVER SEE THEIR LIKES AGAIN. THERE MEM0RY IS A BLESSING
* "their".
Yes, unfortunately.
When music was music🥰
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!
Thanks to Benny and his peers millions in my dad's generation grew up hip.
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?
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 ???
The King of Swing Forever!
Don’t be that way was my dads favorite!
Would have loved to lived in that era. Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, etc. Just a few of the great ones.
Beautiful all the way...
Benny Goodman was a crazy cat..
Fantástica orquesta del recuerdo.
Que bellos temas.
Gracias por subirlos.
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,
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! ♡
❤ the best band 🎼🎼🎼🎼🌟
Now thats swing amazing
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.
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.
Excelente interpretación musical, y melodías ❤
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.
Man, Don't be that way" sounds like the band in their prime. Fab.
Orchestra maravilhosa !!!
Louie Bellson! Just being Louie, and filling in those Gene Krupa spaces in DBTW...beautifully, actually...
when ever I ear this kind of music it brings me back to my teen age years when dad use to listen to his records on the HIFI stereo ....I miss those days and him now RIP Dad
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
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.
The King of Swing. This was the stuff back in the day.
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!!!😀😀
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?
Amazingingly wonderful what n era 2 live n hear this music
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.
REAL TALENT...THIS MUSIC WILL LAST FOREVER
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 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.
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
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!
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...
He still looked good and sounded spot on !
The 40's music, clothes, dancing is my ultimate fantasy !!!!⏳
What class
What a fabulous sound created by this contemporary Benny Goodman orchestra with the Maestro at the helm. You can see Benny enjoying the moment. 🥳😜
The greatest generation. Miss this.
Yea real great Jim Crow , segregation. Just what Jesus and god wanted !
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 ....
I figure I am moved by witnessing Benny Goodman at his best
Wonderful band and good musics to dance swings.
Hello Judy
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
Best era of music EVER! IMO.
Not for minorities!
La mejor música del mundo, no habrá otra mejor. Dios los bendiga por haber formado parte de nuestras vidas y haberlas hecho tan agradables.
Nobody did it better
!!! Fantástico e Inolvidable * Big Benny "" y el Tiempo de las Grandes Bandas Las emocionea al máximo Gracias por el recuerdo!!!***
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.
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
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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
Maravilha para meus ouvidos
What great music ! God bless these guys for doing what they obviously love & make us all happy in the process.
That's classic Jazz
Thank God I was born and lived these wonderful years .
Hope that you are still around John , enjoying the greatest music ever made. ...
Просто дух захватывает!! Великолепно!
Oh my goodness...as Shirley Temple would say...... I only hope I can be reborn in this era in my next life!
The king of the clarinet and swing 🤴🤴🤴
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.😥
january 1 2023 ......... outstanding .......... forever ...
Can listen to this MUSIC 24 hours a day.
My Father´s music ..!
THAT my friends, was real music....unlike the crap today.
Go back about another 1-2 hundred years
Yes, you are right, only crap nowadays.
ÅKE KÄLLQVIST haha shut up y’all are annoying 🙄
@@ratflea8203 Why are you here listening to Benny Goodman? You annoy me, get out of here..
ÅKE KÄLLQVIST no thanks ❤️ I like his music. I’m just saying that people have different taste in music and you really don’t have to be so rude just because I you don’t like nowadays music.
Echoes of an era that won't be back 😥. Whem the giants settled the earth.
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.
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!!!
Couldn't be better!!
Mă simt îndrăgostit de muzica.Un "vinovat" e You Tube.Trebuie perpetuat așa ceva.
That is music!
The touch of the master’s hand.
Espectacular gracias gracias hermosa musica😂
Thé best of all music indeed.
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?
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.
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 😀😊
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!
Great band in 50+
Hello Judy, How are you doing?
Yo viví esa época de las grandes bandas tuve esa fortuna y ahora que la escucho de nuevo vuelvo a rememorar esa época
I miss this world, please come back
I just hope that this music would Côme back
*1-8-20*
*As long as* at least 1 person listen to it, it will be . I'm listening. *Who's with me* ??
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!
最高です⤴️🎵💕
The king of swing is an understatement!
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
Excelente felicitaciones ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Still a great sound - thanks
Hello Theresa, How are you doing?
Absolutely immortal
Another great Benny clarinet with the big band.
Awesome! The big bands were second to NONE.
Fantastic listening! Louie Bellson driving the band along nicely
El Rey del Swing!!!! Nunca mejor puesto ese apodo!!!! Adoro las Big Band!!!!
Love to hear those famous musics😊❤
The best
Sencillamente una genialidad de haber tenido la fortuna de escucharlos.
Que buena epoca de las bandas del swing!😢me hubiera gustado haberla vivido❤😢😅
Hi and Glen were an icon of the american spirit and mark an época of glory for the american music living forever budys 👍👍👍
When benny starts playing ewow would love2 b there then at that time n concert 2 hear benny play