Swing King given private burial
NZPA-AP Stamford, Connecticut Close friends and relatives gathered at a private ceremony on Sunday to bury Benny Goodman in a simple wooden casket beside his wife. The “King of Swing,” who died, aged 77, on Friday, of a. heart attack in his New York apartment, was interred at Long Ridge Union Cemetery in a nonsectarian service. At the family’s request,
funeral plans were kept strictly private — even old friends were not told when the ceremony would be’ held. “I had to tell Lionel Hampton he couldn’t come,” said a funeral home employee, Harold Shippee. ? Hampton was a member of Goodman’s band, which was the premier big band in the 19305. Goodman was the first main white band leader to have blacks in his groups.
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