Benny Goodman and the Swing Era.

From: The Economist (US) | Date: August 4, 1990 | Copyright information

BENNY GOODMAN AND THE SWING ERA. By James Lincoln Collier. Oxford University Press; 404 pages; (British lbs.)15 and $22.95 IN AUGUST 1935, at the end of a long

and discouraging road trip in which his fledgling band had even been reduced to playing waltzes, Benny Goodman scored a sensational success at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles. Capacity crowds and boomrecord sales confirmed it was no flash in the pan, and the band's opening at New York's Paramount Theatre in Mar...

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