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Alice Cooper's Playlist: Rock Star Shares Top 5 Musical Influences1965) The son of a Michigan preacher, Cooper said his father loved "big band music," such as Frank Sinatra and Benny Goodman , but also appreciated his son's love for the Rolling Stones. "Most dads were shunning that and saying, 'Don't
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25 Historic Recordings Named by Library of Congressat the time, has been found and will be on the national registry Ever wonder what Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman and Peggy Lee were like in person? Interviews presented by Willis Conover in 1956 will help. Virtually unknown in the United States
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60-Year Run at the N.Y. Philharmonic Comes to An Endparents gave me a clarinet because it was the era of Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw," Drucker said of the most famous musicians century," Drucker explained. It was commissioned by Benny Goodman in 1948. And only Goodman and Drucker have ever played
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The Oscar 11: Team Aims to Revive Awards' Telecastthe songs in a big-band style. "My original pitch was, 'Let's take 'Lawrence of Arabia' and do it like ' Benny Goodman ' would do it, like 'Sing, Sing, Sing,' and just have fun with it.' ... If you're working with really
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Thailand Awaits News of Their Beloved King
performed on Broadway. “During his visit to New York in 1960,” the Ministry said, “he had two jam sessions with Benny Goodman at the home of then-New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and Mr. Goodman’s house.” The Thai king and queen have
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Huckabee Rocks Iowa
played host to all the biggest names in the music business as the rolled across the country. Autographed headshots of Benny Goodman , Ricky Nelson, and Alice Cooper line the walls from generations past. Just before the show began Gov. Huckabee
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Aging Rock Acts Still Hot on Concert Circuit
mortgage company. Younger fans -- for whom seeing the Stones is almost like their parents going to see jazz legend Benny Goodman -- reject the notion that coolness can be measured chronologically. "So many of the bands now, they'll be gone
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Big Band Swings Against History's Tide
They brought excitement and also romance, because they played for dancing." This was key for the big bands like Benny Goodman 's or Artie Shaw's. People bought records and tickets for the bands they danced to. "The big bands created dreams
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Jazz Artifacts -- Feb. 20, 2005
Charlie Parker's sax, Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet or Benny Goodman 's clarinet. Musician Branford Marsalis is our voice important to American culture. I think the fact that Benny Goodman played that clarinet is worth its weight in gold
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Author Dean Koontz Answers Questions
type of music and what artists? Robert, Green Bay, Wis. Answer: I love big band music; I listened to a lot of Benny Goodman , Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, and their contemporaries when I wrote The Bad Place. As might be obvious
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Lessons From the Trivia King
Cristie. And The Queen of Country Music is Kitty Wells. The Quasar of Rock is Little Richard. The King of the Swing is Benny Goodman . The King of the One-Liners is Henny Youngman. The inventor of the first video game, Nolan Bushnell, is known
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ISP Ratings, Smithsonian Online and College PCs
topic and we'll show you the objects we have that are related." And the collections is pretty vast. You can hear Benny Goodman play "Tiger Rag" on his clarinet. Or, if your interests fall more to technology, you can check out the ENIAC
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Streisand Farewell Concert
songs last night, Streisand shared memories of her early days playing small clubs in Greenwich Village, singing with Benny Goodman s orchestra and doing duets with Judy Garland and the Bee-Gee s Barry Gibb. Streisand, whose live performances
