Benny Goodman was entitled to spend two weeks at a summer camp near Chicago. It was the only time he could get away from his bleak neighborhood. He also received two years of instruction from classically trained clarinetist Franz Schoepp. When he was 17, his father was killed by a passing car after stepping off a streetcar. His father's death was "the saddest thing that ever happened in our family", Goodman said. He attended Lewis Institute (Illinois Institute of Technology) in 1924 as a high-school sophomore and played clarinet in a dance hall band. His early influences were New Orleans jazz clarinetists
Swing Girls Goodman. "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" is a 1936 song written and composed by Louis Prima. But it was performed as an instrumental by Fletcher Henderson, and most famously, by Benny Goodman. The final song played by the band is Benny Goodman's version. "Swing Girls" was released in Japan on September 11, 2004 where it was distributed by Toho. Swing Girls 13 schoolgirls are bored in class. When the school brass band leaves to perform at a baseball game without their bento lunches, Tomoko and the other girls persuade their math teacher, Mr. Ozawa, to let them deliver the