Benny Goodman

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Music and Lyrics (2007)

Raging Bull (1980)

The English Patient (1996)

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2008-2012 Banda sonora (TV series)

– Episode #8.8 (2012) (writer: "Flying Home")

– Episode #3.13 (2008) (performer: "Roll'em")

2010 Michael Feinstein's American Songbook (TV series documentary)

– Best Band in the Land (2010) (performer: "Unidentified Tune" - uncredited)

2009 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (video documentary) (performer: "Why Don't You Do Right?" - uncredited)

2008 August (performer: "After You've Gone")

2007 The Water Horse (performer: "It's Only a Paper Moon")

2007 Melba Moore: Live in Concert (video) (writer: "Air Mail Special")

2000-2007 The Sopranos (TV series)

– Remember When (2007) (performer: "Sing, Sing, Sing With a Swing")

– Do Not Resuscitate (2000) (performer: "Goodnight, My Love" - uncredited)

2007 Music and Lyrics (writer: "Flying Home" / performer: "Flying Home", "Rose Room", "It's Tight Like That")

2006 Hollywoodland (writer: "Flying Home")

2006 So You Think You Can Dance (TV series)

– Top 10 Perform (2006) (performer: "Sing, Sing, Sing")

2005 End of the Spear (writer: "Don't Be That Way" / performer: "Don't Be That Way")

2005 Cinderella Man (writer: "Don't Be That Way" 1934)

2004 Exorcist: The Beginning (performer: "We'll Meet Again")

2004 The Notebook (performer: "Always and Always" - uncredited, "One O'Clock Jump" - uncredited)

2003 Mona Lisa Smile (writer: "Flying Home")

2003 Miss Match (TV series)

– Pilot (2003) ("Sing Sing Sing")

2003 Crooked Lines (performer: "Sing, Sing, Sing With a Swing")

2002 Below (performer: "Sing, Sing, Sing With A Swing")

2002 Hollywood Ending (performer: "Hooray for Hollywood" 1937)

2002 Hart's War (performer: "Idaho")

2002 Livshunger (TV series)

– Episode #1.6 (2002) (music: "IF DREAMS COME TRUE")

2001 Great Performances: Dance in America (TV series)

– From Broadway: Fosse (2001) ("Sing, Sing, Sing")

2000 Pollock (performer: "Sing, Sing, Sing")

2000 Small Time Crooks (writer: "Stompin' at the Savoy")

2000 U-571 (performer: "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz")

1999 American Masters (TV series documentary)

– Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley (1999) (performer: "I Must Have That Man" - uncredited)

1999 Girl on the Bridge (performer: "Sing, Sing, Sing", "Bugle Call Rag", "Goodbye")

1998 The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (documentary) (writer: "Air Mail Special")

1997 The Game (writer: "Life Goes To A Party")

1997 The Myth of Fingerprints (writer: "Don't Be That Way")

1997 Deconstructing Harry (performer: "Sing Sing Sing With a Swing" 1936, "Christopher Columbus" 1936)

1997 Private Parts (performer: "Moonglow")

1996 My Fellow Americans (writer: "Don't Be That Way")

1996 The English Patient (performer: "Wang Wang Blues" 1921, "One O'Clock Jump" 1933)

1995 How to Make an American Quilt (performer: "Riffin' at the Ritz")

1995 The Grass Harp (writer: "STOMPIN' AT THE SAVOY", "DON'T BE THAT WAY" / performer: "STOMPIN' AT THE SAVOY", "CLOSE YOUR EYES", "YOU BROUGHT A NEW KIND OF LOVE TO ME", "DON'T BE THAT WAY", "SOMEBODY STOLE MY GAL")

1995 Le confessionnal (writer: "Dark rapture")

1994 The Hudsucker Proxy ("Flying Home")

1994 Cari fottutissimi amici (performer: "SING SING SING")

1993 Swing Kids (writer: "LIFE GOES TO A PARTY", "SWINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES" / performer: "BUGLE CALL RAG", "SWINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES", "FLAT FOOT FLOOGEE", "GOODNIGHT, MY LOVE")

1992 Malcolm X (writer: "Flying Home")

1992 Mr. Saturday Night (performer: "After You've Gone", "Something New", "How High the Moon")

1992 A League of Their Own (writer: "Flying Home")

1991 Lucky Luke (performer: "Stompin' At The Savoy")

1991 The Marrying Man (writer: "STOMPIN' AT THE SAVOY")

1991 The American Experience (TV series documentary)

– Coney Island (1991) (performer: "Sing, Sing, Sing With a Swing")

1990 Memphis Belle (writer: "Flying Home")

1989 When Harry Met Sally... (writer: "Stompin' At The Savoy", "Don't Be That Way")

1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (performer: "You're a Sweet Little Headache" 1939)

1989 New York Stories (performer: "Sing, Sing, Sing")

1988 Crossing Delancey (performer: "IT HAD TO BE YOU")

1988 Big Business (performer: "SING SING SING")

1987 Laguna Heat (TV movie) (performer: "You Go To My Head")

1987 Hope and Glory (performer: "Flat Foot Floogie")

1987 In the Mood (writer: "STOMPIN' AT THE SAVOY", "DON'T BE THAT WAY")

1987 Radio Days (performer: "Body and Soul" 1930, "Goodbye" 1934)

1987 Screen Two (TV series)

– Will You Love Me Tomorrow (1987) (music: "Flying Home" - uncredited)

1986 Miss Mary (performer: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby", "It's Been So Long")

1986 Power ("SING, SING, SING")

1983 Star 80 (performer: "Sing Sing Sing")

1982 The Atomic Cafe (documentary) (writer: "Flying Home")

1981 True Confessions (performer: "Memories of You")

1981 Raggedy Man (performer: "The Lady's In Love With You")

1981 They All Laughed (performer: "SING, SING, SING")

1980 Raging Bull (performer: "Jersey Bounce" 1936)

1980 Stardust Memories (writer: "If Dreams Come True" 1936 / as B. Goodman)

1978 F.I.S.T (writer: "Stompin' at the Savoy" - uncredited)

1973 Slither ("Stompin' At The Savoy")

1973 Save the Tiger (writer: "Air Mail Special", "Stompin' At The Savoy")

1970 Happy Days (TV series)

– Episode #1.2 (1970) (writer: "Don't Be That Way" - uncredited)

1965 The Danny Kaye Show (TV series)

– Episode #3.5 (1965) (performer: "Poor Butterfly", "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise", "Hi Ya, Sophia")

1958 Jazz Party (TV series)

– Episode dated 16 October 1958 (1958) (writer: "Air Mail Special")

– Episode dated 25 September 1958 (1958) (writer: "Stompin' at the Savoy")

1957 Kiss Them for Me (music: "Stompin' at the Savoy" - uncredited)

1957 Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (TV series)

– Episode dated 19 October 1957 (1957) (performer: "Sing, Sing, Sing" - uncredited)

1956 The Benny Goodman Story (writer: "Don't Be That Way", "Stompin' At the Savoy" / performer: "Goodbye" / "Original Dixieland One Step")

1955 Omnibus (TV series)

– The Bad Men (1955) ("Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs")

1953 I Love Lucy (TV series)

– Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined (1953) (writer: "Stompin' at the Savoy")

1953 Frank DeVol and His Orchestra (short) (writer: "Stompin' at the Savoy")

1952 The Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue (TV series)

– Episode #3.25 (1952) (music: "Stompin' at the Savoy")

1950 I'll Get By (music: "Stompin' at the Savoy")

1949 The Stratton Story (music: "Stompin' at the Savoy" - uncredited)

1948 A Song Is Born (writer: "Flying Home" 1939 - uncredited / performer: "Anitra's Boogie" - uncredited, "Stealin' Apples" 1936 - uncredited, "Flying Home" 1939 - uncredited)

1947 The Drummer Man (short) ("Stompin' at the Savoy")

1947 Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Band (short) (writer: "Don't Be That Way" - uncredited)

1946 Make Mine Music (performer: "After You've Gone" 1918 / as Goodman)

1946 After You've Gone (short) (performer: "After You've Gone")

1944 Sweet and Low-Down (music: "Rachel's Dream" 1939 - uncredited, "Stompin' at the Savoy" 1934 - uncredited / performer: "I'm Making Believe" 1944, "Hey Bub! Let's Have a Ball" 1944, "Rachel's Dream" 1939 - uncredited, "Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K.581" 1789 - uncredited / arranger: "Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K.581" 1789 - uncredited)

1944 The Shining Future (short) (performer: "Sing, Sing. Sing")

1943 The Gang's All Here (writer: "Soft Winds" - uncredited / performer: "Minnie's in the Money" - uncredited, " I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" - uncredited, "Paducah" - uncredited)

1942 Springtime in the Rockies (writer: "Two O'Clock Jump")

1939 Love on Tap (short) (music: "Stompin' at the Savoy" 1934)

1938 Man-Proof (music: "Stompin' at the Savoy" 1935 - uncredited)

1937 Hollywood Hotel (arranger: "Satan's Holiday" 1934 - uncredited / "I've Got a Heartful of Music" 1937)

1936 Sinner Take All (writer: "Stompin' at the Savoy" - uncredited)

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Personal Details

Other Works:

(????) CD: "Benny Goodman: Greatest Hits Series" See more »

Publicity Listings:

1 Biographical Movie | 5 Print Biographies | 1 Article | See more »

Alternate Names:

Goodman

Height:

6' 5" (1.96 m)

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Personal Quote:

There's no one else like her, and I presume there never will be. (on friend Peggy Lee) See more »

Trivia:

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 337-340. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. See more »

Trademark:

Theme songs: "Let's Dance" (opening theme), "Goodbye" (closing theme) See more »

Nickname:

The King of Swing See more »

Star Sign:

Gemini

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