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  Benny Benjamin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William "Benny" Benjamin (July 25, 1925 - April 20, 1969), nicknamed Papa Zita, was an American musician, most notable as the main drummer for the Motown studio band known as The Funk Brothers.
Benjamin was influenced by the work of drummers Buddy Rich and Tito Puente.
Benny Benjamin died in 1969 of a stroke, and was inducted into the "Sidemen" category of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.
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 Jack Benny Summary
Benny realized early on that "if you want the laughs you have to put something in a ridiculous light, even yourself." Benny was not a gifted clown or a sparkling wit, so he and his writers crafted a well-rounded persona with the weaknesses and imperfections of his audience.
Benny may have been the first standup comedian, as the term is known, as well as one of the first to work with what became the situation comedy.
Benny had been only a minor vaudeville star, but he became an enormously successful national figure with The Jack Benny Program, a weekly radio show which ran from 1932 to 1948 on NBC and from 1948 to 1955 on CBS, and was consistently among the most highly rated programs during most of that run.
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 Benny Benjamin - AOL Music
Benny Benjamin was Motown?s first drummer and, together with bassist James Jamerson, provided the rhythmic anchor for the Motown Sound.
Benny Benjamin died in 1969 of a stroke, and was inducted into the...
Download, listen and watch Benny Benjamin music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
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 Far Beyond the Stars - Memory Alpha - A Wikia wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Benny is particularly taken with a drawing of a space station -- basically a circle with pylons at 120 degree intervals, and "USAF DS/9" stenciled around the edge.
As Benny leaves the office that night (Incredible Tales is located in the Arthur Trill building), the space station sketch is caught in a breeze and lands under the shoe of Burt Ryan -- a cop with an attitude.
Sisko's Benny Russell vision continues in "Shadows and Symbols", where Casey Biggs appears as Doctor Wykoff, though that vision is sent by the Pah-wraiths.
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 Goodman, Benny - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Goodman, Benny (Benjamin David Goodman), 1909-86, American clarinetist, composer, and band leader, b.
In 1935 he formed the Benny Goodman trio with Gene Krupa and Teddy Wilson; it became a quartet in 1936 when Lionel Hampton joined it.
Benny Goodman, American jazz clarinetist and orchestra leader.
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 Bennie Benjamin - AOL Music
Benjamin was born on November 4, 1907 in Christiansted,...
Claude A. Bennie") Benjamin was a songwriter, often teaming with George David Weiss.
Download, listen and watch Bennie Benjamin music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
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 Bennie Benjamin - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
Not to be confused with Motown drummer William "Benny" Benjamin, prolific songwriter Bennie Benjamin found tremendous success during the '40s and '50s, chiefly as a lyricist.
Benjamin reunited with Sol Marcus in the early '60s, and wrote a couple of songs for Elvis Presley in 1960 -- "I Will Be Home Again" and "Lonely Man," the latter from the film Wild in the Country.
Benjamin started his own publishing company in 1968, and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984.
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 Zygomycetes: Cokeromyces
COKEROMYCES Shanor, 1950 (In Shanor, Poitras, and Benjamin, Mycologia 42:272); 1 sp.
Benny and Benjamin (1976) studied specimens of C.
Cokeromyces was redescribed and illustrated by Benny and Benjamin, 1976).
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 Soulful Detroit: Benny Benjamin - Give the Drummer Some
William "Benny" Benjamin was in a trio with Roland Hanna and Ray McKinney at Chic's show bar around 1955.
It wasn't that Benny was actually playing parts that would take three drummers to play, (Motown didn't start doing that until later in the '60's) but that he was good enough as a musician to convincingly play several different styles of drumming.
Benny Benjamin's time with Motown was just his time to shine.
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 L'Observateur Archives : Index
LAPLACE - Rev. Benny (Benjamin) Piovan has been the rock for hundreds of the faithful for nearly 30 years at Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church in LaPlace, but soon they will say goodbye to their shepard.
Father Benny is retiring from the parish after 27 years of tending to the needs of the Catholics in the community to go do missionary work in the impoverished regions of Mexico.
Father Benny and others have made about 16 trips over the last 10 years to Saltillo to administer The Word to the poverty-stricken regions of Saltillo where many villages and homes are in isolated mountain passes through narrow and treacherous gullies.
www.lobservateur.com /articles/2006/11/27/news/headline.txt   (2017 words)

  
 Ripoff page on Benjamin "Benny Grunch" Antin
I left that gig about mid '87 to play in Jamaica and later that year Benny left the gig also We began to work as a duo off and on and by mid '88 we had a trio together and worked mostly weekends as "Benny Grunch and the Bunch".
When asked, Benny would often 'talk' about financial compensation for our efforts when the CD was finished, he'd keep records so everyone could see how well it was doing.
Benny even got national airplay on a couple of songs on a TV show...
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 Soulful Detroit Forum
Benny was almost nodding out against the back wall of the studio as he played drums.
Benny and Jamerson were the backbone and the engine of the Motown sound, and Benny's talents deserve to be celebrated, not belittled, whatever his faults may or may not have been.
When Bennie's name came up during a conversation I had with Theresa Lindsey she just broke out in a broad smile - I think that says a lot about the kind of warm guy Benny was.
soulfuldetroit.com /archives/1/336.html?1017428098   (2337 words)

  
 Benny Goodman Biography (Jazz Musician/Bandleader) — FactMonster.com
Benny Goodman, a prodigy on the clarinet, joined the professional musician's union when he was just 13 years old and made his first recording as a soloist four years later.
Extra credit: Benny Goodman is considered the first bandleader to perform in public with a racially integrated orchestra.
Benny Goodman - Goodman, Benny (Benjamin David Goodman), 1909–86, American clarinetist, composer, and band...
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 The Funk Brothers - Music Downloads - Online
Among the early members were pianist/bandleader Joe Hunter (not to be confused with blues balladeer Ivory Joe Hunter) and the rhythm section of bassist James Jamerson and drummer William "Benny" Benjamin, who would go on to become the backbone of the Motown beat.
Moreover, the groundbreaking rhythm section of James Jamerson and Benny Benjamin was coming apart due to substance abuse problems.
Benjamin passed away in 1968, and Jones took a much greater role in the aftermath of his death.
musicstore.connect.com /artist/981/The-Funk-Brothers/1038524.html   (732 words)

  
 Spotlight on Jack Benny Volume I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Jack Benny established a radio dynasty that he and the many members of his radio ensemble maintained from 1933 on up through every year of the Golden Age of Radio.
So disenchanted with this 27yr old 'Jack Benny' character was she, that she took two of her freinds to Jack's next performance and sat in the front row razzing and heckling Jack's entire act.
Two more years pass, 'Jack Benny' gaining a measure of respectabiliy and reputation and beginning to command as much as $450 a week as a headliner on a regular basis.
www.digitaldeliftp.com /LookAround/personspot_jb1.htm   (557 words)

  
 Standing in the Shadows of Motown -- The Funk Brothers
Benny's excuses for often being late to Hitsville's recording sessions are legendary - including one where he claimed to have been sitting on his mother's step with his ex-old lady's boyfriend when someone pulled up in a car and shot him.
Recruited into Motown in 1962 by his mentor, Benny Benjamin, Pistol quickly learned he had to adapt his jazz drum style to the music being created down in the Snakepit.
Originally expected to be a Benny Benjamin clone (which he mastered as much as any human possibly could), Uriel quickly showed Motown's producers and arrangers that he had something else to offer: he rocked harder than any of the other drummers in the building.
www.standingintheshadowsofmotown.com /funksbio.htm   (2693 words)

  
 The Upcoming Israeli Elections - Who is Benny Begin?
Begin, son of the late Prime Minister Menachem Begin who was one of the founders of the Israeli state and later founder of the Likud party, has become disillusioned with Netanyahu's direction in handling the peace process with the Palestinians.
As terrorist bombs helped sway the 1996 elections away from Oslo Accord architect Shimon Peres and guaranteed Benjamin Netanyahu an election win, so too could a new round of violence push votes towards the right wing who are seen as being more capable of protecting Israeli security interests.
However, that is illusory as recent events have shown that the right wing has no magic bullet to solving the security issue with continued violence in Hebron and along the Lebanese border.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/middle_east_politics/14392   (428 words)

  
 Benny Leonard (Benjamin Leiner)
Benny Leonard held the World Lightweight Championship from May 28, 1917, to January 15, 1925, retiring his crown undefeated.
Benny Leonard’s professional record: 213 bouts—won 180 (69 KOs), lost 21, drew 6, 6 no-decisions.
He was elected to The Ring magazine’s Boxing Hall of Fame in 1955 and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.
www.jewishsports.net /BioPages/BennyLeonard.htm   (242 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Benny Benjamin": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Wah Watson came on board to update the Funk Brothers' sound Moreover, the groundbreaking rhythm section of James Jamerson and Benny Benjamin was coming apart due to substance abuse problems.
Benjamin passed away in 1968, and Jones took a much greater role...
Benny Benjamin The session men were equally as talented and indeed purveyors of the sound that was responsible for putting the world...
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 Billboard 2004 The Year in Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Benny would call me "Little Papacita." He was an incredible drummer.
At that time there were no records out that didn't have that little Benny Benjamin pickup on them.
Benny and Marvin Gaye were the first to show me how to play the drums, how to hold the drumsticks right.
www.billboardevents.com /bb/yearend/2004/century_award4.jsp   (1302 words)

  
 Smoky Mountain News | Arts + Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Benjamin was Motown’s first drummer and its most beloved musician.
However, Benjamin’s alcohol and heroin demons gave him a notorious reputation for being late and concocting stories that Hemingway would have been proud of.
Gordy’s original recruits were the late James Jamerson, the late drummer Benny Benjamin, pianist Joe Hunter and guitarists Eddie Willis and Joe Messina.
www.smokymountainnews.com /issues/05_03/05_07_03/art_flicks.html   (1208 words)

  
 Benjamin "Benny" David Goodman (1909-1986) : Library of Congress Citations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Author: Connor, D. Russell (Donald Russell) Title: BG on the record; a bio-discography of Benny Goodman, by D. Russell Connor and Warren W. Hicks.
Author: Goodman, Benny, 1909- Title: Benny, king of swing : a pictorial biography based on Benny Goodman's personal archives / introd.
Heading: Goodman, Benny, 1909- References: Goodman, Benjamin David, 1909- Goodman, Benny David, 1909- Notes: His The kingdom of swing, c1939.
www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlcgoodmanb1.htm   (853 words)

  
 Benny Benjamin - Wikipedia
Benjamin hatte in den vierziger und fünfziger Jahren bereits bei einigen Big Bands gespielt, bevor er Motowns erster Session-Drummer wurde.
Benjamin war berühmt dafür, zu spät zu Sessions zu erscheinen und sich originelle Ausreden einfallen zu lassen.
Ende der 1960er Jahre wurde Benjamin dann heroin- und alkoholsüchtig und starb am 20.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benny_Benjamin   (182 words)

  
 Drums and Drummers: Recordings: Below-Bier
Benny Benjamin, Richard "Pistol" Allen, Chet Forest, Uriel Jones on drums.
Benny Benjamin, Richard "Pistol" Allen, James Graves, Uriel Jones, Andrew Smith, Tony Washington on drums.
Benny Benjamin, Richard "Pistol" Allen, Uriel Jones on drums.
www.leisureclass.net /drums/rec/rec_b4.html   (527 words)

  
 Zygomycetes: Radiomycetaceae (Synonym of Mucoraceae)
However, species of these genera differ from all Thamnidiaceae (Benny, 1973; Benny and Benjamin, 1975, 1976) in their distinctive zygospores and especially in characteristics of their sporangiole-bearing branches.
It was also shown that the morphology of the appendages could change in a moist environment when the water was saturated with calcium oxalate, the component of these ornaments (Benny and Khan, 1988).
An additional species of Radiomyces, R. mexicana Benny & Benjamin, was added in a recent monograph of Radiomycetaceae (Benny and Benjamin, 1991).
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 Amazon.com: "Benny Russell": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Benny Russell said "Sure," and searched his pockets for change.
Benjamin Sisko has become Benny Russell, a writer.
She was romantically involved with Benny Russell and hoped that the two would someday be married.
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 Wedding Cost
According to his long-time manager Hilliard Marks, comedian Jack Benny (Benjamin Kubelsky; 1894-1974) was a generous and thoughtful man. This contrasted greatly with the image he projected in his performances, notably his immensely popular radio program which ran from 1932-1955, and thereafter his television program (still among the longest-running), until 1964.
Benny's miserly character is among the most completely established in American performance.
When Benny's daughter Joan was married for the first time, the L.A. Times had a headline,
www.dw-jotd.com /classic/famous_folk/wedding.htm   (149 words)

  
 Funk Brothers
Drummer Benny Benjamin, whose recording career dated back to the 40s was familiarly known as Papa Zita.
He was a musician of phenomenal technique, energy and drive who could swing lightly, using brushes rather than sticks, but was best known for his thunderous tom-tom fills and the robust slap of his snare drum.
The other musicians might be given specific figures to play; Jamerson, given a chord sheet for the song and perhaps a run-through with voice and piano, created his own parts, and in the process became the most influential bassist of the 60s.
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 This Love Is Real - Jackie Wilson - Music Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
By the time of the release of This Love Is Real, it seemed that Chicago soul producer Carl Davis had the hit formula for Jackie Wilson down pat.
He'd recruit Motown's James Jamerson, Earl Van Dyke, Benny Benjamin, and the rest of the Funk Brothers and combine their dynamic interplay with a...
He'd recruit Motown's James Jamerson, Earl Van Dyke, Benny Benjamin, and the rest of the Funk Brothers and combine their dynamic interplay with a top-notch song from his stable of talented songwriters.
www.mp3.com /albums/17588/reviews.html   (514 words)

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