C. Benny Goodman was at the height of his legendary career back in 1938 when his publicist suggested that he play a concert at Carnegie Hall Benny laughed he certainly was a star on a radio with the camel caravan program and staging on film he of course had already had the label king of swing a tap permanently attached to his name but it was so outlandish the a suggestion that a jazz band might play inside the citadel of American high culture. Goodman is said to have laughed at the suggestion. Eventually he began to warm to the idea but he was still scared to death and so was everybody else in the band. He went as far as to ask Beatrice allele a singer in comedienne to appear on the program with him just in case things didn t go so well she might pep up the festivities wisely she turned that invitation down and saw here Rock who was the one of the primary booking agents into the Carnegie Hall stage welcomed the idea and it all took place on January 16th 1938 and it would be the stuff
On n.p.r. News this is All Things Considered I m Ari Shapiro in Washington and I m Kelly McEvers in Culver City California the secretary of Homeland Security says she did not hear President Trump use of vulgarity in an immigration meeting with lawmakers last week Kiersten Nielsen testified today at a Senate hearing and 2 senators who were in the hearing were also at the immigration meeting in question today s hearing got pretty contentious N.P.R. s Brian Naylor reports Nielson appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee and spent a lot of her time answering questions about the president s language at the White House immigration meeting last week they met Craddick Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont pressed Nielson about the vole Garrity the president was widely reported to have used to describe African nations Your Honor. And President Trump use this word or is substantially similar word to describe certain countries I did not hear that word use no sir I m not there s one question he
Fitzgerald 10 on the u.s.s. John McCain the Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to review a ruling that blocked the trumpet ministration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program or DACA designed to protect children who are brought to the u.s. Illegally from deportation N.P.R. s Carrie Johnson reports the government is signaling it wants a decision soon Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the Justice Department will take the rare step of asking the u.s. Supreme Court to intervene in the immigration case because he says the issue needs to be resolved quickly and fairly session says it defies common sense for the doctor program to be mandated nationwide by a single judge in San Francisco he says the decision to wind down the program is clearly within the authority of the executive branch but California Attorney General Javier Basara who s suing the administration says the lower court ruling was a step in the right direction and he says thousands of so-cal
Greatest radio station in the world. Was. Welcome to rapidly rotating records an hour of toe tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 rpm records in the 1920 s. And thirty s with yours truly glad to Robinson we ve got dance bands hot bands sweet bands show tunes novelty tunes blues jazz and more on ever than from Aeolian design a phone and by everyone from Aronson deserted now around this time of the year a number of composers songwriters and been leaders sometimes don t get featured so that we can present vintage Christmas music on our special Christmas show because of that and at the suggestion of listeners rich the c evening will make up for some of that by celebrating the birthdays of Oscar Levant Kid Ory Ted theory though natural crit and Cab Calloway I don t think we ve ever featured Oscar Levant on the show before but he was born into a musical family in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania on December 27th 1906 in 1922 after the death of his father he and his mother moved to New York City wh
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