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I was recently introduced to Auti Goodman by a mutual friend. Auti is a former member of the Four Freshmen and the Modernaires (Vocal section of the Glenn Miller Band.) I conducted a short biographical interview with Auti for the web and I intend to place it on Wikipedia linked to the Four Freshmen page and the Modernaires page. I will be using this user page to develop that article. This is still a work in progress. I expect to have it completed and ready for approval shortly.

Here are the results of the interview I did with Auti Goodman on December 1, 2008:

Auti Goodman has had a long and varied career in jazz music that continues to this day.

He started his musical career playing in the Air Service Band during WWII.

He later had his own Quartet performing around the Portland Oregon area, before marrying "Perry" his lovely wife of nearly 60 years on Nov. 11, 1951.

Throughout the late 50’s Auti performed in numerous hotels, clubs, and lounges from Phoenix to Las Vegas, eventually joining up with Jimmy cook’s 16 piece orchestra in 1960 for a Big Band talent contest to be judged by none other than the late Jackie Gleason.

"We won! Naturally...With all the great Las Vegas musicians. I was the singer and played in the sax section of that wonderful band..."

Having won the national talent contest the band landed a recording contract and went to New York to record an album together.

Auti went on to play with a number of bands after that including Billy Erskine’s octet at the Flamingo Hotel, and then the Modernaires in 1964 traveling with Tex Beneke, and Ray Eberle for the next 10 years throughout the United States and Europe.

Following his stint with the Modernaires and while playing and singing at the Hacienda Hotel Show Room, Auti had the opportunity to join up with the Four Freshmen in 1977.

"I spent 15 years with the Four Freshmen, and loved every minute of it..! ”

In 1992 following a tour of England with the Freshmen, and after having performed in all 50 states and 25 countries in a career spanning over half a century, Auti retired as a professional musician. Auti now lives with his wife in Pahrump, Nevada.

Besides being a prolific singer and musician his whole life, Auti still maintains a regular schedule of fitness well into his eighties through running and entertaining locally in Nevada.