Miniseries · Episode 5

Swing: Pure Pleasure - 1935-1937

• Release date
• January 17, 2001
• Runtime
• 89 min
• TMDB score
• 5.6

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.