Benny Goodman, born Benjamin David Goodman, (1909-05-30 – 1986-06-13) was a famous jazzmusician, known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", and "Swing's Senior Statesman". Many suggest that Goodman achieved the same success with jazz and swing that Elvis Presley did with rock and roll. Both helped bring black music to a young, white audience. It is true that many of Goodman's arrangements had been played for years before by Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra. While Goodman publicly acknowledged his debt to Henderson, many young white swing fans had never heard Henderson's band.
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I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart Lyrics
Benny Goodman
I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
Tony Bennett
Written by Irving Mills, Henry Nemo, John Redmond, and Duke Ellington
This version did not chart but
In 1938, FIVE versions charted: Duke Ellington (# 1), Benny Goodman (also # 1), Connee
Boswell (# 5), Mildred Bailey (# 8), and Hot Lips Page (# 9)
I let a song go out of my heart
It was the sweetest melody
I know I lost heaven 'cause you were the song
Since you and I have drifted apart
Life doesn't mean a thing to me
Please come back, sweet music, I know I was wrong
Am I too late to make amends?
You know that we were meant to be more than just friends, just friends
I let a song go out of my heart
Believe me, darlin', when I say
I won't know sweet music until you return some day
I let a song go out of my heart
Believe me, darlin', when I say
I won't know sweet music until you return some day