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“I don’t want to imitate anyone; I just want to do me. That’s why my key aim in my career is to be as successful as I can be.” – Benny Banks Growing up in Islington (North London) Benny Banks, was your typical teenager; in that he didn’t enjoy school and would much rather do other things with his time. One of these things was listening to music. It wasn’t until age twenty however, that his love of music really began to develop. It was after a night out with his friends that Benny Banks began to rap and his...

白人のビッグ・バンド活動に先鞭をつけたスウィングの王様　（1909～1986） 　1909年イリノイ州生まれ。20年代、フレッチャー・ヘンダーソン楽団によってビッグ・バンドの歴史の幕が切って落とされる。そのヘンダーソンのアレンジをより軽妙にスウィングさせ、白人ならではのジャズに再編し人気を得たのがグッドマンだった。34年に苦渋の選択をし、ポール・ホワイトマン楽団からの入団要請を断り、自身のオーケストラを結成。ジーン・クルーバ（ds）やテディ・ウィルソン（p）ら花形ソリストが揃い、エディ・ソーターの編曲も功を奏し洗練された演奏を聴かせ、“キング・オブ・スウィング”の称号を与えられる。38年にカーネギー・ホールでコンサートを開いたことが注目され、“ジャズに市民権をもたらした歴史的ライブ”と評された。86年没。 Dr.NAKAJIMA著 .

Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognised as such by other jazz musicians who called him King. As a youth, Carter lived in Harlem around the corner from Bubber Miley who was Duke Ellington's star trumpeter. Carter was inspired by Miley and bought a trumpet, but when he found he couldn't play like Miley he traded the trumpet in for a saxophone. Carter began playing professionally at 15. He first...

Alfred Hawthorn Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992), better known as Benny Hill, was a prolific English comic, actor & singer, best known for his television programme, The Benny Hill Show. Since its debut in 1969 his television show has been sold to over 140 countries worldwide, with viewership in the millions. The song "Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In the West)" is a bit autobiographical. Benny Hill had been a milkman in Eastleigh, Hampshire, working for Hanns Dairy whose premises was yards way from Market Street. There was a bakery near the dairy that did indeed have a...

Benny Mardones (born November 9, 1946) is an American pop singer and songwriter who is best known for his hit single "Into the Night," which hit the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart twice, in 1980 and again in 1989. The story behind "Into the Night" charting twice is this: In 1989, KZZP, a radio station in Arizona, ran a segment titled "Where Are They Now?" The most popular question was, 'Whatever happened to the guy who sang "Into The Night?"' Scott Shannon, then program director for Pirate Radio in Los Angeles, added "Into The Night" to its...