Klarinet Archive - Posting 000135.txt from 1996/10

From: Sherri Hill <sheba@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: Benny Goodman is Stamped!
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 16:51:14 -0400

On 3 Oct 96 at 11:20, Marshall Mentz wrote :

> Just thought some of you might like to know that the U.S. Postal Service
> now has a series of Big Band commemorative stamps in the Legends of
> American Music Series called "Big Band Leaders" with Benny Goodman
> featured among three others. (Count Basie, Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey and Glen
> Miller) It's not everyday you're at the post office waiting in line and
> you see a stamp that makes you excited. Did anyone know this was coming?
>
> Marshall- Can't tell if it's a Buffet or Selmer in the picture :-) -Mentz
> mmentz@-----.edu

Just a guess but I think Benny preferred Selmers. I could be wrong.

He was scheduled to do a recital in NYC the summer he died. I was going to go
see him for the first time. *sigh*.

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