Jerome D. Salinger - Goodbye by Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Goodbye (G.Jenkins), Victor 1935

NOTE: This clip is my farewell to one of most important and talented writers of the XXth century, who died two days ago in his solitary house in Cornish, New Hampshire. Here's my tribute to the author of one of most important - and most devastating - books I read in my teenage years: "The Catcher In The Rye". Something what adds to such warm attitude of mine to Jerome D. is fact, that in winter 1937/38 he had - as a son and inheritor of ham and cheese buy & sell business in New York - a slaughterhouse practice, dictated to him by his father, in Poland - precisely - in my home town of Bydgoszcz, where the huge red brick slaughterhouse with a gate he crossed every day on the wintery 5 o'clock a.m. - still stands in its place.
RIP to you, Jerome D.

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[JCJasion]

I didn't know he was a 'paisan'!!!

Thanks for that bit of information Grzegorz!!

James Carl (Karol) Jasion

[240252]

Hi Karol (or James?) Thanks for your very interesting little story about your looking for your self ID in your childhood. The Catcher in the Rye is just such tale: about hardship of looking for one's self truth. And how important is to find and to define it in the right time of one's life! Thanks again. By the way: could you tell me what means "paisan"? I can't see such word in my dictionary

[2ekan]

Thanks a lot. I have always loved this book and as a teacher I can testify that it still captivates young readers.

"Life is so beautiful and so sad."

[240252]

Yes, for me this book was a hurricane that wiped off all those stupid little petty odds and ends of the teenage mind. For the first time I had a feeling, life can be still nice and funny, while it is so serious beneath. It had a lot to do with something I read much later: with an ancient Greek concept of the "seriousness of life".

[abendstunde49]

What a beautiful and touching memorial you have created! Thank you.

[240252]

Thank you!. Jerome D. deserved much more than just my little clip for him.

[TheBernie2201]

Two beautiful souls, both will never be forgotten.

[miseroooooo]

好きだなぁ。

ネオンライトの家路みたい。

[snortfork]

we played a tape of this at my father's memorial service. he loved jazz & would've approved.

[sabeth17]

I never read Catcher in the Rye. I heard Goodbye by Benny Goodman on Sirius 40's on 4 today and HAD to find it on YT. This song is so incredible!!! The talent that Benny Goodman had is among the greatest in Heaven.

[melodharmony]

Great tribute to a great writer and employing the genius of Benny Goodman. great video.

[berriganfan]

Thank you

a fitting tribute with a great song

[ANDREWEHUNT]

What a beautiful video! Thank you so much for making it. It's a splendid tribute to J.D. And it sets the perfect tone for a farewell to such a great man. Bless you!

[68shamoa]

excellent!

[dzheger]

Worthy solemn tribute to a great writer.

[Coupal1]

Lovely tribute! It's too bad that he didn't write more novels.