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justbusterkeaton · 3 months

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I can remember if I’ve posted this edit on here before, but here it is again anyway. For the purposes of propaganda for Buster’s entry in @hotvintagepoll

Buster Smiles and Laughs in the Roscoe Arbuckle films

Music: When You’re Smiling by The Benny Goodman Trio

#buster keaton #roscoe arbuckle #hot vintage poll #fuck that old man #comedy #silent movies #1920s #benny goodman #smiling

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blackswaneuroparedux · 1 year

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A lot of singers think all they have to do is exercise their tonsils to get ahead. They refuse to look for new ideas and new outlets, so they fall by the wayside... I'm going to try to find out the new ideas before the others do.

- Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman. New York, 1948.

#fitzgerald #ella fitzgerald #quoteoftheday #singer #jazz singer #jazz #voice #music #duke ellington #benny goodman #american #femme #mama jazz #culture #arts #icon

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ktredshoes · 25 days

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I've got absolutely no evidence to suggest that he did but what if Rosie Rosenthal attended the Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Concert on January 16, 1938? As a jazz fan, he certainly would have fit right in, and the timing would have worked. Rosie would have been a 20-year-old senior at Brooklyn College, so it would have been possible. That's not even mentioning that Gene Krupa, who Rosie mentions to the doctor at the flak house, was Goodman's drummer at that time.

#masters of the air #mota #robert rosenthal #benny goodman #carnegie hall #gene krupa #Rosie's a jazz fan after all #Spotify

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sarcasmic-skies · 9 months

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hearing the opening notes of ‘sing, sing, sing’ and the collective groan from everyone at the swing dance. bc it is SUCH a good song and it is THE swing dancing song BUT it’s the full 8 minutes & 40 seconds you’re committing to dance to at an unending fast tempo and by the end EVERYONE is experiencing the gasping for air with burning lungs and quivering muscles and slippery palms and cramps under the ribs and beads of sweat running down your body like raindrops on a windshield and your feet weigh a thousand pounds but you can’t NOT dance. you can’t slow down. you can’t quit halfway. you HAVE to make it to the end. so ‘sing, sing, sing’ comes on and there’s the collective groan and then the frantic scrambling for a partner and then the aggressive jockeying for a space on the dance floor and THEN everyone comes alive to the sweet sounds of benny goodman & his orchestra and the feeling is unlike anything else in the world

#it’s a religious experience #i’m a 4th gen swing dancer & there’s smth so special abt dancing to the same songs prev gen swing dancers in my family did #god i fucking love swing dancing #i have been elbowed and kicked and hit too many times to count during this song #defensive dancing is a MUST for this song #ty posts #ty posts!!!!!!#benny goodman #sing sing sing #swing dancing #swing dance #lindy hop #big band era #swing era #ty swing dance posting

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affiches-concerts · 5 months

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