During the late 20’s and early 30’s Goodman played in bands led by Red Nichols, Ben Selvin, Ted Lewis, Sam Lanin and others, sometimes for club, dance hall and theatre engagements and also in pit bands for Broadway musicals and did freelance work for radio shows. Benny made an impressive amount of records at this time of his career. Benny even managed to do some recording for cartoons and the “talkies.” Goodman also made recordings playing instruments other than the clarinet. Often, throughout his career he played alto sax. At least once, he made recording playing bass clarinet, baritone sax, soprano sax, tenor sax, and even cornet. He even made some recordings singing, e.g. “Gotta be this or that” with Jane Harvey, one of Benny Goodman’s many talented vocalists. Benny spent several years of his later life studying classical music, and frequently played with small chamber groups and became a virtuous clarinet soloist with symphony orchestras under such conductors as Bernstein, Toscanini and Ormandy. He preformed new orchestral works of Bartok, Stravinsky and Copland. The summer of 1932 saw Benny organize his first band, which starred singer Russ Columbo. In 1933, Goodman accepted an offer by the legendary producer John Hammond to record for Columbia’s English market, which was more receptive to jazz than were Americans. In that same year, Benny appeared at Bessie Smith’s last and Billie Holiday’s first recording sessions. Hammond urged Goodman to hire Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton for his small combo, who also included drummer Gene Krupa; the group became the first interracial jazz ensemble to perform in public. The second band that he formed (in 1934) was successful in being hired for a residency at Billy Rose’s Music Hall. After a few months, this date collapsed when rose was replaced by someone who did not like the band, but Goodman persisted and later that same year was successful in gaining one of three places for dance bands on a regular radio show broadcast that lasted about three hours and was produced by NBC. The show entitled “Let’s Dance”, which ran for about six months. But Goodman was also on the “Camel Caravan” and the “Victor Borge Show”, and a biography was written about him in 1939 entitled “The Kingdom of Swing”. On Hammond’s advice in 1934, Goodman purchased form the struggling bandleader Fletcher Henderson several of the hot big-band arrangements that helped to make his band’s reputation. After this, the Benny Goodman Orchestra toured (with not so fantastic results); Henderson’s material was tepidly received at first, because fans were accustomed to hearing a white band playing “sweet” music. Until August 21, 1935, when the Benny Goodman Orchestra opened in the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles. Afte

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