If you lived through it, you’ve never forgotten it, it lasted about a decade. From the mid thirties through the mid forties. And we’ve come to call it THE BIG BAND ERA. It was a time of popular music never equaled in America. Never had so many listened and danced to so much music of true merit, played by musical organizations. .unmatched to this day. BENNY GOODMAN, HARRY JAMES, GLENN MILLER, LES BROWN, TOMMY DORSEY, JIMMY DORSEY, COUNT BASIE, ARTIE SHAW, BOB CROSBY, STAN KENTON, GLENN GRAY, WOODY HERMAN, DUKE ELLINGTON, CHARLIE BARNET, GENE KRUPA, BUDDY RICH, GUY LOMBARDO, CAB CALLOWAY, SAMMY KAYE, LOUIE PRIMA, JIMMY LUNCEFORD, BUNNY BERRIGAN, JAN SAVITT, RAYMOND SCOTT, CLAUDE THORNHILL, LIONEL HAMPTON, EARL HINES, RAY NOBLE, ERSHINE HAWKINS, FRANKIE CARLE... .These were but a few of the household names of the period....names that packed ballrooms the length and breath of the nation during those magic years. Names that represented to America’s youth, the vigor and the excitement of a new music they called SWING!