Count Basie--1984 TV Obits, Joe Williams, Lionel Hampton

[@DrummingMan1]

Brilliant! Like the rest of you, I have lots of vinyl, high-resolution digital content featuring the Count! There is a nice CD or download out there called Count Basye Swings and Joe Williams Sings! Excellent representation of their rep! Can’t recall too many crooners that had as much emotion in their work as Joe Williams! See every day I have the blues as an example! All these greats must be gone now but, they do live on like Jo said! Thank you Alan for making my day! Cheers… Keith

[@TheTerryE]

Wonderful stuff. Basie was a legend.

[@AbbeBuck]

❤️❤️❤️

[@rolom3]

😮🙌🏼

[@rolom3]

6:14 They had a lot of nerve to say Benny Goodman invented swing?!... if anyone "invented" it, it was Count Basie's band in Kansas city in the late 20s early 30s. "Count Basie's music didn't swing so much as it kind of glided".....????? Basie's music swings more than any band I've ever heard.

[@aeichler]

Goodman never claimed to invent swing. But he made it popular with white audiences and brought it to Carnegie Hall. "King of Swing" was a clever promotional tool, just like Paul Whiteman wasn't really "King of Jazz".

[@rolom3]

@@aeichler Yes I am aware :) Mansplaining much?

[@rolom3]

@@aeichler i was talking about the commentator saying he invented swing at 6:14

[@aeichler]

Thelma Carpenter was my client and good friend for more than 30 years and she introduced me to both Basie and Ellington. I also booked Joe Williams several times. I also managed Anita O'Day for many years, and I'd put Krupa's band with Anita and Eldridge up there also.

[@AbbeBuck]

Benny Goodman used arrangements from Fletcher Henderson which helped shape his sound. A.E. is correct: a columnist after Benny played the Palomar Ballroom in CA named him “The King of Swing” and swing stayed in Vogue for over ten years (I think I have that right...)