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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You're A Heavenly Thing Lyrics
Benny Goodman
YOU'RE A HEAVENLY THING
Benny Goodman
They took the moonlight out of the skies
and put the moonlight right in your eyes
like a june night
You're a heavenly thing
They took the fragrance out of the dew
and sprinkled roses all over you
like a garden
You're a heavenly thing
They made a clinging vine
your embrace
stars that shine light your face
to combine everything
on your lips they put the breath of spring
and then they finished called it a day
they took the model threw it away
like an angel
You're a heavenly thing
From: Francine Douwes