🎷Perfidia - Benny Goodman Orchestra -The 'King of Swing' & Helen Forrest, Vocals ⚘ [View all]

- Perfidy: faithless, disloyal - treachery

- Helen Forrest, talented singer, career success. (born Helen Fogel, April 12, 1917 – July 11, 1999) was an American singer of traditional pop and swing music. She served as the "girl singer" for 3 of the most popular big bands of the Swing Era (Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, & Harry James), thereby earning a reputation as "the voice of the name bands."...Read More,
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- Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist & bandleader, known as the "King of Swing". From 1935 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing big bands in the U.S. His concert at Carnegie Hall in NYC on Jan. 16, 1938, is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music."

Goodman's bands started the careers of many jazz musicians. In an era of racial segregation, he led one of the 1st integrated jazz groups, his trio & quartet. He continued performing until the end of his life while pursuing an interest in classical music. Early years...
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