Poem: Benny Goodman
The King Of Swing. The acceptable face, the calculated position. Goodman was anything but what his name suggests, despite recording Louis Prima’s Sing, Sing, Sing, which allowed the people to dance, dance, dance.
A belligerent misogynist, a devil with the drink.
To this day people think of Benny Goodman as the Creator of Swing.
It stands to reason, at the …
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