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Name: Swing: Pure Pleasure - 1935-1937
Released: 2001-01-17
Duration: 89 min

Season 1 • Episode 5: Swing: Pure Pleasure - 1935-1937 • Watch with subtitles

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Episode 5: Swing: Pure Pleasure - 1935-1937

January 17, 2001 • 89 min

1935 was the year that swing became the most popular music in the country and that the king of swing, Benny Goodman, became a matinee idol. Americans, stifled by the Depression, seemed determined to dance their troubles away. "Swing: Pure Pleasure" follows the continuing careers of Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Armstrong, and the discovery of Billie Holiday.

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