Benny Goodman
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Oct 28, 2026
Bonnie LakeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I walked beneath that ladder, snapped my fingers on the way.
Brett BarryNARRATOR
Lake's songs would later be recorded by Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, and her famous sister Harriet.
Brett BarryNARRATOR
Don't recognize Harriet Lake? She was better known as Oscar-nominated actress Anne
Bonnie LakeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Southern.
JeffHOST
I mean, their music was the big band era.
JeffHOST
If my dad was alive today, he'd say to you, Bill, can you play some Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw? I mean, Dorsey.
JeffHOST
Yeah.
JeffHOST
It's a matter of what you grew up.
Chad PilbeamHOST
Hey, just check this out.
Chad PilbeamHOST
Dogfish Heads doing a beer with a Benny Goodman quartet.
Chad PilbeamHOST
All right, enough of that.
Chad PilbeamHOST
But, yeah, wow.
Ben WanHOST
I'm always emotional.
Ben WanHOST
And then the book cuts to one year later where we meet Benny the janitor, who seems to be named after the musician Benny Goodman.
Ben WanHOST
That feels like a Peter David-like addition.
Ben WanHOST
This whole thing about... him not being able to stand being compared to Benny Goodman and being tired of Benny Goodman jokes, that kind of feels like a Peter David thing.
Ben WanHOST
But yeah, he gets a knock at the
AlexHOST
door.
41 MINS LATER
Ben WanHOST
Maybe it's a Peter David edition, but that's kind of cool where like the men are kind of rough and carrying him out.
Ben WanHOST
And she sort of like channels her dad at yelling at them.
speaker_5HOST
He is actually best known for his million-selling version of Alan Toussaint's Java.
speaker_5HOST
And he kind of played with a bunch of the big swing bands of the 40s, including Benny Goodman.
speaker_5HOST
And he also played the trumpet for the Green Hornet theme, which was the one that got bumped on the Kill Bill soundtrack.
speaker_5HOST
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Colin JohnGUEST
My parents didn't play anything, but there was always music.
Colin JohnGUEST
Everything from Benny Goodman to Herb Albert.
Colin JohnGUEST
I remember growing up with that, listening to that all the time.
Colin JohnGUEST
A certain
Mike RogersHOST
It was a big band song from 1938.
Mike RogersHOST
Sing, sing, sing with a swing by the Benny Goodman Orchestra.
Mike RogersHOST
That's
Austin YorkHOST
my grandpa loved Benny Goodman.
Mike RogersHOST
Gene Krupa on drums and on the cowbell.
Austin YorkHOST
All right.
Mike RogersHOST
It was a big band song from 1938.
Mike RogersHOST
Sing, sing, sing with a swing by the Benny Goodman Orchestra.
Mike RogersHOST
That's
Austin YorkHOST
my grandpa loved Benny Goodman.
Mike RogersHOST
Gene Krupa on drums and on the cowbell.
Austin YorkHOST
All right, yeah, I'm familiar with this one.
Donald L. MillerGUEST
And, of course, this black migration will continue to shape Chicago as a force well up through and into World War II.
Donald L. MillerGUEST
And as part of it, I mean, the culture of Chicago has changed because Chicago becomes the center of jazz and the center of blues and people like Louis Armstrong moved to the city and joined native Chicagoans like Benny Goodman to create a whole new form of American music.
Donald L. MillerGUEST
So it You
Greg BergHOST
know, the story of the 20th century is in a lot of ways a
Jack BradshawHOST
fan? No, my dad, my stepdad is where the Sinatra stuff came from.
Jack BradshawHOST
He had a lot of like the Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Sinatra, all the classic stuff.
Jack BradshawHOST
So that's how I kind of became enthralled with that.
Jack BradshawHOST
But really, it was radio, three radio stations.
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