Born on this day – Benny Goodman:

Benny Goodman

Clarinetist

Composer

Bandleader

Actor

May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986

Credits:

Albums:

At Click 1948 (1992); B.G. in Hi-Fi (1954); Bangkok 1956 (1997); Bartók Contrasts Mikrokosmos (1991); Bartók: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet & Piano (1940); Basel 1959 (1997); Benny Goodman - Let’s Dance (2012); Benny Goodman at the Tivoli (1990); Benny Goodman Combos (1955); Benny Goodman On Planet Swing (2012); Benny Goodman Sextet Session (1946); Benny in Brussels (1958); BG and Big Tea in NYC (1929); Blue Moon (1936) (2000); Body & Soul (2011); Complete Jazz Series 1946 – 1947 (2009); Live At Carnegie Hall (2008); Live at Carnegie Hall: 40th Anniversary Concert (1978); Meeting at the Summit (2015); Mozart At Tanglewood (1997); New Sextet Sessions (2003); Nielsen & Aho Clarinet Concertos (2007); One O'Clock Jump (2010); Peggy Lee Sings with Benny Goodman (1957); Roll 'Em, Vol. 2 (1937); Sing, Sing, Sing (2010); Swing Greats: Benny Goodman (2008); Swinging 34 Vols. 1 & 2 (1934); The Benny Goodman Band (2006); The Benny Goodman Story, Vol. 1 (1955); The Benny Goodman Treasure Chest (1959); The Birth of Swing (1991); The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (1950); The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, Vol.2 (2012); The Yale University Archives, Volume 4: Big Band Recordings (2009); Timeless Jazz: Benny Goodman, Vol. 1 (2011); Volume 15: 1943 (2012).

Songs:

All the Cats Join In; Always and Always; Begin The Beguine; Bugle Call Rag; Chicago; Don't Be That Way; Exactly Like You; If I Had You; Jersey Bounce; Jingle Bells; King Porter Stomp; Memories Of You; Moonglow; On the Sunny Side of the Street; One O'Clock Jump; Sing Sing Sing; Sing, Sing, Sing; Someday Sweetheart; Stompin' At The Savoy; Sugar Foot Stomp; Swingtime in the Rockies; That’s a Plenty; Theme - Let's Dance; We’ll Meet Again; Where Or When; Whispering; Why Don’t You Do Right?; Winter Weather; You're a Sweet Little Headache.

Movies and television:

A League of Their Own (1992 / 2022); A Song Is Born (1948); ABC's Nightlife (1965); African Patrol (1958); After You've Gone (1946); Ahto. Chasing a Dream (2018); Air Mail Special (1941); Åke Hasselgård story (1983); Akkaa päälle (1996); All the Cats Join In (1946); All You Need Is Love (1977); Allen in Movieland (1955); Alleyn Mysteries (1993); Allied (2016); Amanda (2018); American Experience (1991); American Horror Story (2015); American Masters (1993–1999); American Modern Art: The Secret Weapon of the Cold War (2019); Army of Shadows (1969); August (2008); Automatic at Sea (2016); Average Consumer (2013); Banda sonora (2008–2012); Baseball (1994); Below (2002); Ben Pollack and His Park Central Orchestra (1929); Benny Goodman Orchestra (1957); Benny Goodman: Legends in Concert - The Last Performance (2004); Benny Goodman: Let's Dance - A Musical Tribute (1986); Benny Goodman's Greatest Hits (1997); Bicentennial Minutes (1975); Big Band Treasures (2008); Big Business (1988); Big Love (2007); Bill W. (2012); Billie (2019); Biography (1998); Bio's Bahnhof (1981); Birth of the Blues (1941); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Ça va plaire (1980); Caesar's Hour (1954); Café Society (2016); California's Gold (1999); Cari fottutissimi amici (1994); Carnegie Hall Salutes Jack Benny (1961); Carnivàle (2005); Celebrity Time (1952); Cesar Chavez (2014); Cinderella Man (2005); Cold Case (2005–2009); Country Music (2019); Crooked Lines (2003); Crossing Delancey (1988); Dancing with the Stars (2014); Deconstructing Harry (1997); Diff'rent Strokes (1984); Drei mal neun (1971); End of the Spear (2005); Evening at Pops (1974); Exit (2023); Exorcist: The Beginning (2004); F.I.S.T. (1978); Fanfare for America: The Composer Aaron Copland (2001); Fantasma d'amore (1981); Finding Your Feet (2017); Florence Foster Jenkins (2016); For Auld Lang Syne (1938); Frank DeVol and His Orchestra (1953); Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim (1967); Frank Sinatra: The Voice of Our Time (1990); Frankie Manning: Ambassador of the Lindy Hop (2010); Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974); Gala Performance (1964); George Hall and His Orchestra (1937); Girl on the Bridge (1999); Glorious 39 (2009); Going West (2017); Good Morning America (1979); Great Performances (1976–2005); Great Performances: Dance in America (2001); Happy Days (1970); Hart's War (2002); Here (2024); Hi, Gang! (1941); Hollywood at War: A Compilation of War Time Shorts (1980); Hollywood Ending (2002); Hollywood Hotel (1937); Hollywoodland (2006); Hope and Glory (1987); How to Make an American Quilt (1995); I Capture the Castle (2003); I Love Lucy (1953); I'll Get By (1950); Illinois Special: I Remember Illinois (1968); Impossible Peace (2017); In the Mood (1987); Independent Lens (2004); Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989); Io sono Tony Scott, ovvero come l'Italia fece fuori il più grande clarinettista del jazz (2010); It's in the Stars (1938); Jazz (2001); Jazz Party (1958); Jazz Scene at the Ronnie Scott Club (1969–1970); Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew (2002); Joe Albany... a Jazz Life (1980); John Gunther's High Road (1959); Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009); Kiss Them for Me (1957); Kreisler Bandstand (1951); Laguna Heat (1987); Late Night Line-Up (1968); Le grand échiquier (1972); Little Boy (2015); Live Hampton (1983); Livshunger (2002); Los nuevos y clásicos bloopers (2010); Love on Tap (1939); Lucky Luke (1991); Mad Men (2009); Mafia II (2010); Make Mine Music (1946); Malcolm X (1992); Manhattan (2014); Man-Proof (1938); Me (1987); Me and Orson Welles (2008); Me and the Boys (1929); Melba Moore: Live in Concert (2007); Melody Time (1946); Memphis Belle (1990); Michael Feinstein's American Songbook (2010); Mildred Pierce (2011); Miss Mary (1986); Miss Match (2003); Mitzi Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle! The Special Years (2008); Mitzi... What's Hot, What's Not (1978); Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front (2006); Mona Lisa Smile (2003); Monsanto Night Presents Benny Goodman (1974); Mr. Saturday Night (1992); Music and Lyrics (2007); Music Land (1955); My Fellow Americans (1996); My Music: Starlight Ballroom (2015); My Music: The Big Band Years (2009); NCIS (2019); NDR Jazz Workshops (1959–1960); New York Stories (1989); No Way Out (2023); Northern Exposure (1992); Omnibus / Segment: Jazz Stylings (1953); Our World (1987); Parkinson (1971); Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1957–1959); Person to Person (1954); Peter Pan (1953); Poirot (2005); Pollock (2000); Power (1986); Private Parts (1997); Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas (2013); Queer (2024); Quidam dégomme (2007); Radio Days (1987); Raggedy Man (1981); Raging Bull (1980); Reinvention (1998); Rogue Heroes (2022); Saturday Night Live (1979–1988); Save the Tiger (1973); Screen Two (1987); Show Time at the Apollo (1955); Showtime, U.S.A. (1950); Signature (1981); Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015); Sinner Take All (1936); Six by Sondheim (2013); Slightly Dangerous (1943); Slither (1973); Small Time Crooks (2000); So You Think You Can Dance (2005–2006); Soft Lights and Sweet Music (1960); Soundstage (1975–1978); Springtime in the Rockies (1942); Stage Door Canteen (1943); Star 80 (1983); Star of the Family (1951); Star Time (1950); Stardust Memories (1980); Studio One (1958); Sunday Night (1966); Sweet and Low-Down (1944); Swing Into Spring! (1959); Swing Kids (1993); Syncopation (1942); tap tap tap (2015); Television (1988); Television: The Enchanted Mirror (1981); The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History (1999); The 28th Annual Grammy Awards (1986); The 32nd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1958); The 32nd Annual Tony Awards (1978); The 7th Annual American Music Awards (1980); The All-Star Christmas Show (1958); The Annual Friars Club Tribute Present a Salute to Cary Grant (1982); The Atomic Cafe (1982); The Bell Telephone Hour (1960–1967); The Benny Goodman Story (1956); The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936); The Big Party (1959); The Big Record (1957); The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People (1976); The Century: America's Time (1999); The Confessional (1995); The Danny Kaye Show (1965–1966); The David Frost Show (1971); The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1960); The Drummer Man (1947); The DuPont Show of the Month (1957); The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1960); The English Patient (1996); The Faye Emerson Show (1950); The Future (2011); The Game (1997); The Gang's All Here (1943); The Garry Moore Show (1959); The Grass Harp (1995); The Hudsucker Proxy (1994); The Intern (2015); The Jackie Gleason Show (1953); The Kate Smith Evening Hour (1952); The Kate Smith Hour (1957); The Ken Murray Show (1951); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1982); The Ladies Sing the Blues (1989); The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998); The Lively Ones (1963); The Lonely Night (1954); The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018); The March of Time, Vol. 10, No. 5: Upbeat in Music (1943); The Marrying Man (1991); The Martha Raye Show (1955); The Marty Stuart Show (2014); The Merv Griffin Show (1968); The Messiah (2023); The Mike Douglas Show (1971–1978); The Myth of Fingerprints (1997); The Notebook (2004); The Pacific (2010); The Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue (1952); The Plot Against America (2020); The Powers Girl (1943); The Pride of St. Louis (1952); The Restorers (They Were All Volunteers); (2011); The Road to Victory (1944); The Shining Future (1944); The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV (2000); The Six Triple Eight (2024); The Sopranos (2000–2007); The South Bank Show (1988–1993); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957); The Stork Club (1950); The Stratton Story (1949); The Subject Is Jazz (1958); The Tonight Show (1955); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1958); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1980); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 25th Anniversary Special (1987); The War (2007); The Water Horse (2007); The World of Benny Goodman (1963); The X-Files (1998); They All Laughed (1981); This Is Your Life (1973); Timex All-Star Swing Festival (1972); Tove (2020); True Confessions (1981); Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon (2008); Two Shadows (1938); U-571 (2000); Washington Square (1957); Waterloo Road (2013); We, the People (1949); Westinghouse Preview Theatre (1961); What's My Line? (1950–1962); When Harry Met Sally... (1989); While New York Sleeps (1938); Wish for Christmas (2019); Wonderful Town, U.S.A. (1951); World's Most Expensive Hobby (2017); Yarasa Adam Betmen (1973); Zoot Suit (1981).