Benny Goodman
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About this star
- Category: Recording
- Star rank: 1570
- Address:
6101 Hollywood Blvd - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing west
- GPS location:
34.101773, -118.322500
Biography
from the film Stage Door Canteen (1943)
Source: Wikipedia
Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as “King of Swing”, “Patriarch of the Clarinet”, “The Professor”, and “Swing’s Senior Statesman”.
Fact file
- Birth name: Benjamin David Goodman
- Also known as: “King of Swing”, “The Professor”, “Patriarch of the Clarinet”, “Swing’s Senior Statesman”
- Born: May 30, 1909
- Origin: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
- Died: June 13, 1986 (aged 77)
- Genres: Swing, Big band
- Occupations: Musician, Bandleader, Songwriter
- Instruments: Clarinet
- Years active: 1926–1986
- Labels: Victor, Bluebird, Brunswick, Columbia, Vocalion, OKeh, Capitol, Decca, Melotone, Musicmasters
- Website: BennyGoodman.com
Read more about Benny Goodman at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database
Hollywood Blvd, north side, between Gower and Vista Del Mar
From here you can:
- Go west and cross Vista Del Mar
- Cross to the south side of Hollywood near Vista Del Mar
- Cross to the south side of Hollywood near Gower
Nearby you will also find Ray Briem, Richard Thorpe, and many others.