January 19th:
On his Birthday, remembering Mac Miller [Malcolm James McCormick; 1992-2018]; rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer....
January 19th:
On his Birthday, remembering Mac Miller [Malcolm James McCormick; 1992-2018]; rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer....
January 19th:
On her Birthday, remembering Jean Stapleton [Jeanne Murray; 1923-2013]; stage, television and film actress....
January 19th:
Happy Birthday to Shelley Fabares [Michelle Ann Marie Fabares]; actress and singer...
January 19th:
Happy Birthday to Tippi Hedren [Nathalie Kay Hedren]; actress, animal activist and former fashion model....
January 19th:
Happy Birthday to Richard Lester [Dick Lester, formerly Richard Lester Liebman]; film director.....
January 19th:
On her Birthday, remembering Patricia Highsmith [Mary Patricia Plangman; 1921-1995]; novelist and short story writer....
January 19th:
On his Birthday, remembering Edgar Allan Poe [Edgar Poe; 1809-1849]; writer, poet, editor and literary critic.....
January 20th:
Quote for the Day:
"Well, what happened is when I went into the service, the most popular band, of course, was Glenn Miller.
So the logical thing for me to do was to use some of that styling of music, along with some of his arrangements and songs. That, overseas especially, reminded the kids out there more of home than anything else.
I remember one time we were playing on Okinawa, we'd play one song, they'd be cheering.
We'd go into a pretty ballad, and you'd see tears in their eyes.
It was the sound of the Glenn Miller band.
So when we came out of the service, we incorporated the sound of the Miller band and my trumpet and the trombones a la Dorsey.
And with the combination of all three, we had sort of formed a sound of our own.
- Big Band Library interview, 2004 -
On his 100th Birthday, celebrating Ray Anthony [Raymond Antonini], the last surviving member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor......
WOW Westgrand! The last member!! Correct me if I'm wrong, but was the part of the solo in "Moonlight Serenade" originally written for another instrument [[maybe trumpet) & due to a cut lip it changed to a clarinet? Or did the movie "The Glenn Miller Story" take a liberty to make it more interesting?
Anyway ......what a milestone!! Happy Birthday to him!!
Moe, I think the British bandleader Ray Noble came to America, and hired Glenn Miller to arrange music for his band. Glenn Miller preferred musicians who were versatile with the instruments they played.
Yes, the story goes that a trumpeter cut his lip and could not perform a solo, so another musician had to take his place. However, the musician was not a trumpeter, but principally a clarinettist.
Also, around that time, Glenn Miller had routinely featured a sax section, led by a tenor sax. That was standard procedure for the bands of the day.
The clarinettist was then tried as an addition, playing the same note as the tenor sax, but one whole octave above, with the other saxes harmonising.
[I think this is called 'doubling'....it is used in singing, and Motown often used it with their background voices...soprano voices singing in unison one octave above alto voices, for example with The Andantes...or female voices singing in unison one octave above the male voices of The Originals or The Spinners]
The addition of the clarinet added a bright, unique sound to the brass....and the Glenn Miller Sound was born.
January 20th:
On her Birthday, remembering Connie Haines [Yvonne Marie Antoinette Ja Mais; 1921-2008]; singer and actress......
January 20th:
On his Birthday, remembering William 'Will' Powell, Jr; [1942-1977]; R&B singer; The O'Jays....
January 20th:
On his Birthday, remembering Lead Belly [Huddie William Ledbetter; 1889-1949]; folk and blues singer, musician and songwriter....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Heather Small [Heather Margarita Small]; soul singer-songwriter, musician and actress; M People.....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Paul Stanley [Stanley Bert Eisen]; hard rock and heavy metal co-founder, frontman, rhythm guitarist and co-lead vocalist with Kiss.....
January 20th:
On her Birthday, remembering Dorothy Provine [Dorothy Michelle Provine; 1935-2010]; singer, dancer and actress....
January 20th:
On his Birthday, remembering DeForest Kelley [Jackson DeForest Kelley; 1920-1999]; actor, screenwriter, poet and singer.....
January 20th:
On his Birthday, remembering George Burns [Nathan Birnbaum; 1896-1996]; comedian, actor, singer and writer.....
January 20th:
On his Birthday, remembering Slim Whitman [Ottis Dewey Whitman; 1923-2013]; country and western singer, songwriter and guitarist....
January 20th:
On his Birthday, remembering Jimmy Cobb [Wilbur James Cobb; 1929-2020]; jazz drummer....
January 20th:
On her Birthday, remembering Arleen Lanzotti [later Arleen Gonnella; 1944-2017]; pop singer; The Delicates....
January 20th:
On her Birthday, remembering Eva Jessye [Eva A. Jessye; 1895-1992]; choral conductor during the Harlem Renaissance....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Gary Barlow; singer, songwriter and record producer; Take That....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Will Young; singer, songwriter and actor....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Eric Stewart; singer and musician; The Mindbenders; 10cc.....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Nicky Wire; songwriter, bassist and singer; Manic Street Preachers.....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Ian Hill; bassist; Judas Priest.....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Jose James; jazz and hip hop singer....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Brantley Gilbert; singer, songwriter and record producer.....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Rob Bourdon; drummer; Linkin Park....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Edward McCain; singer-songwriter.....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to ?uestlove; drummer; The Roots.....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Margaret Avery; actress and singer....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Tom Baker; actor and writer.....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Daniel Benzali; actor....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Stacey Dash; actress....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to James Denton; actor....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Kerri Kenney-Silver; actress....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Lorenzo Lamas; actor....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Evan Peters; actor....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Skeet Ulrich; actor....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Rainn Wilson; actor....
January 20th:
Happy Birthday to Buzz Aldrin; former astronaut and fighter pilot.....
January 20th:
On her Birthday, remembering Patricia Neal [Patsy Louise Neal; 1926-2010]; film, television and stage actress.....
January 20th:
On his Birthday, remembering Arte Johnson [1929-2019]; comic actor....
January 20th:
On his Birthday, remembering Rentaro Mikuni [1923-2013]; actor....
January 20th:
On his Birthday, remembering Graham Stark [1922-2013]; comedy actor....
January 20th:
On his Birthday, remembering Frederico Fellini [1920-1993]; film director.....
January 20th:
On his Birthday, remembering Alex Nicol [1916-2001]; actor....
January 20th:
On his Birthday, remembering Colin Clive [1900-1937]; actor....
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