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Harry James

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Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983) was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet playing band leader who led a big band from 1939 to 1946. [1]

137 relations: Ain't She Sweet, Al Lerner (composer), Albany, Georgia, All or Nothing at All, AllMusic, Ancestry.com, Arban method, Atlantic City Race Course, Bathing Beauty, Beaumont, Texas, Bebop, Ben Pollack, Benny Goodman, Best Foot Forward (film), Betty Grable, Big band, Billboard (magazine), Blues in the Night, Boo-Woo, Boogie Woogie (album), Buddy Rich, By the Sleepy Lagoon, California Breeders' Champion Stakes, Call for Music, Capitol Records, Carnegie Hall (film), CBS, Cheek to Cheek, Chesterfield (cigarette), Circus, Ciribiribin, Columbia Records, Corky Corcoran, Cornet, Count Basie, Cry Me a River (Arthur Hamilton song), Dan Morgenstern, Danny Kaye, Dick Haymes, Do You Love Me (film), Don'cha Go 'Way Mad, Doris Day, DownBeat, Ernie Wilkins, Flight of the Bumblebee, Flugelhorn, Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Grammy Hall of Fame, Hannah and Her Sisters, ..., Harmony Records, Harry's Choice!, Helen Forrest, Hernando's Hideaway, Hit record, Hollywood Hotel (film), Hollywood Walk of Fame, Honeysuckle Rose (song), Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, I Cried for You, I Don't Want to Walk Without You, I'll Be Around (1942 song), I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You), I'm Beginning to See the Light, I've Heard That Song Before, If I'm Lucky (film), It All Depends on You, It's Been a Long, Long Time, Jack Gardner (musician), Jazz, Jimmy Mundy, Johnny Richards, Kirk Douglas, Las Vegas Valley, Lionel Hampton, List of I Love Lucy episodes, Louie Bellson, Louis Armstrong, Louise Tobin, Lymphoma, Manhattan, Marc Myers, Maynard Ferguson, Metronome All-Stars, Metronome magazine, MGM Records, Mighty Haag Circus, My Buddy (song), My Dog Skip (film), NBC, Neal Hefti, Nevada, O mein Papa, One O'Clock Jump, Philadelphia, Phonograph record, Private Buckaroo, San Vicente Stakes, Showgirl, Sight-reading, Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing), Somebody Loves Me, Sound recording and reproduction, Springtime in the Rockies, Stan Kenton, Steve Voce, Swing Fever, Swing music, Syncopation (1942 film), That Old Feeling (song), The Benny Goodman Story, The Big Beat (film), The Colgate Sports Newsreel, The Ladies Man, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Merv Griffin Show, The Nearness of You, The New James, The Opposite Sex, The Sting II, Thoroughbred, Tommy Dorsey, Tone (musical instrument), Too Marvelous for Words, Top 40, Truly, Two Girls and a Sailor, When Your Lover Has Gone, Where or When, Wild About Harry!, Woo-Woo (song), Woody Allen, You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It), You've Changed, Young Man with a Horn (film), Young Man with a Horn (soundtrack), (Up A) Lazy River. Expand index (87 more) »

Ain't She Sweet

"Ain't She Sweet" is a song composed by Milton Ager, with lyrics by Jack Yellen.

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Al Lerner (composer)

Al Lerner (1919 – January 19, 2014) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor from the big band era.

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Albany, Georgia

Albany is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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All or Nothing at All

"All or Nothing at All" is a song composed in 1939 by Arthur Altman, with lyrics by Jack Lawrence.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is a privately held online company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Arban method

The Arban Method (La grande méthode complète de cornet à piston et de saxhorn par Arban) is a complete pedagogical method for students of trumpet, cornet, and other brass instruments.

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Atlantic City Race Course

The Atlantic City Race Course (ACRC), formerly the Atlantic City Race Track, was a thoroughbred horse race track located in the Mays Landing section of Hamilton Township, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States.

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Bathing Beauty

Bathing Beauty is a 1944 musical film starring Red Skelton, Basil Rathbone and Esther Williams and directed by George Sidney.

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Beaumont, Texas

Beaumont is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Texas in the United States, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.

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Ben Pollack

Ben Pollack (June 22, 1903 – June 7, 1971) was an American drummer and bandleader from the mid-1920s through the swing era.

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Benny Goodman

Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".

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Best Foot Forward (film)

Best Foot Forward is a 1943 American musical film adapted from the 1941 Broadway musical comedy of the same title.

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Betty Grable

Elizabeth Ruth "Betty" Grable (December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973) was an American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, and singer.

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Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Blues in the Night

"Blues in the Night" is a popular blues song which has become a pop standard and is generally considered to be part of the Great American Songbook.

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Boo-Woo

"Boo-Woo" is the A-side of the 78-rpm jazz instrumental single recorded on February 1, 1939 by Harry James and The Boogie Woogie Trio.

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Boogie Woogie (album)

Boogie Woogie is a compilation album containing four 10-inch, 78 rpm records of Boogie-woogie music.

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Buddy Rich

Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

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By the Sleepy Lagoon

"By the Sleepy Lagoon" is a light orchestral valse serenade by British composer Eric Coates composed in 1930.

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California Breeders' Champion Stakes

California Breeders' Champion Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually since 1935 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.

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Call for Music

Call for Music is an old-time radio program in the United States.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Carnegie Hall (film)

Carnegie Hall is a 1947 film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Cheek to Cheek

"Cheek to Cheek" is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1935, for the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie Top Hat (1935).

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Chesterfield (cigarette)

Chesterfield is a brand of cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by Altria.

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Circus

A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, unicyclists, as well as other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists.

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Ciribiribin

"Ciribiribin" is a merry Piedmontese ballad, originally in three-quarter time, composed by Alberto Pestalozza in 1898 with lyrics by Carlo Tiochet.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Corky Corcoran

Gene Patrick "Corky" Corcoran (July 28, 1924 - October 3, 1979) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Cornet

The cornet is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality.

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Count Basie

William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer.

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Cry Me a River (Arthur Hamilton song)

"Cry Me a River" is a popular American torch song, written by Arthur Hamilton, first published in 1953 and made famous in 1955 with the version by Julie London.

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Dan Morgenstern

Dan Morgenstern (born October 24, 1929) is a jazz writer, editor, archivist, and producer.

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Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian and musician.

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Dick Haymes

Richard Benjamin "Dick" Haymes (September 13, 1918 – March 28, 1980) was an Argentine actor and singer.

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Do You Love Me (film)

Do You Love Me is a 1946 Technicolor musical film directed by Gregory Ratoff, starring Maureen O'Hara and Dick Haymes.

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Don'cha Go 'Way Mad

"Don'cha Go 'Way Mad" is a popular song composed by Illinois Jacquet and Jimmy Mundy, with lyrics written by Al Stillman.

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Doris Day

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922) is an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist.

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DownBeat

DownBeat (stylized DOWNBEAT) is an American magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years.

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Ernie Wilkins

Ernest Brooks Wilkins Jr. (July 20, 1922 – June 5, 1999) was an American jazz saxophonist, conductor and arranger who spent several years with Count Basie.

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Flight of the Bumblebee

"Flight of the Bumblebee" is an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900.

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Flugelhorn

The flugelhorn (—also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or Flügelhorn—from German, wing horn, or flank horn) is a brass instrument pitched in B which resembles a trumpet, but has a wider, conical bore.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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Glenn Miller

Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944) The website for Arlington National Cemetery refers to Glenn Miller as "missing in action since Dec.

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Grammy Hall of Fame

The Grammy Hall of Fame is a hall of fame to honor musical recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance.

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Hannah and Her Sisters

Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 American comedy-drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years that begins and ends with a family Thanksgiving dinner.

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Harmony Records

Harmony Records was a record label owned by Columbia Records that debuted in 1925.

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Harry's Choice!

Harry's Choice! is a studio album by American trumpeter Harry James with The Harry James Orchestra.

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Helen Forrest

Helen Forrest (April 12, 1917 – July 11, 1999) was an American singer of traditional pop and swing music.

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Hernando's Hideaway

"Hernando's Hideaway" is a tango show tune, largely in long metre, from the musical The Pajama Game, written by Jerry Ross and Richard Adler and published in 1954.

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Hit record

A hit record is an audio recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" (appeared on) one of the popular chart listings.

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Hollywood Hotel (film)

Hollywood Hotel is a 1937 American romantic musical comedy film, directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Hugh Herbert, Ted Healy, Glenda Farrell and Johnnie Davis, featuring Alan Mowbray and Alan Todd, and with Allyn Joslyn, Grant Mitchell and Edgar Kennedy.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame comprises more than 2,600 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

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Honeysuckle Rose (song)

"Honeysuckle Rose" is a 1929 song composed by Fats Waller with lyrics by Andy Razaf.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap Songs is a record chart that ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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I Cried for You

"I Cried for You" is a pop and jazz standard with music written by Gus Arnheim and Abe Lyman, with lyrics by Arthur Freed.

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I Don't Want to Walk Without You

"I Don't Want to Walk Without You" is a popular song.

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I'll Be Around (1942 song)

"I'll Be Around" is a popular song written by Alec Wilder and published in 1942.

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I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)

"I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)" is a popular song with music by Fred E. Ahlert and lyrics by Roy Turk.

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I'm Beginning to See the Light

"I'm Beginning to See the Light" is a popular song and jazz standard, written by Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, and Harry James, and published in 1944.

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I've Heard That Song Before

"I've Heard That Song Before" is a 1942 popular song with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Sammy Cahn.

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If I'm Lucky (film)

If I'm Lucky is a 1946 American musical comedy film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring Vivian Blaine, Perry Como, Phil Silvers and Carmen Miranda in the leading roles.

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It All Depends on You

"It All Depends on You" is a 1926 popular song with music by Ray Henderson, lyrics by Buddy G. DeSylva and Lew Brown.

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It's Been a Long, Long Time

"It's Been A Long, Long Time" is a 1945 popular song, written by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, that became a major hit at the end of World War II.

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Jack Gardner (musician)

Francis Henry "Jumbo Jack" Gardner August 14, 1903, Joliet, Illinois – November 26, 1957, Dallas, Texas) was an American jazz pianist. Gardner played locally in Denver in the early 1920s, including with Doc Becker's Blue Devils and Boyd Senter's band. He moved to Chicago in 1923, where he led his own band in addition to playing with musicians like Wingy Manone, Jean Goldkette, and Gene Austin. He remained in Chicago through 1937, playing with Jimmy McPartland in 1936. Moving to New York City, he began associations with Sandy Williams's orchestra and Harry James, but returned to Chicago early in the 1940s, where he led his own group. In 1944 he recorded with Baby Dodds. He spent much of his later life playing in Dallas, Texas. Gardner's compositions include the song "Bye, Bye, Pretty Baby".

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jimmy Mundy

James Mundy (June 28, 1907 – April 24, 1983) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, arranger, and composer, best known for his arrangements for Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and Earl Hines.

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Johnny Richards

Johnny Richards (November 2, 1911 – October 7, 1968) was a jazz arranger and composer.

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Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch, December 9, 1916) is an American actor, producer, director, and author.

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Las Vegas Valley

The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada.

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Lionel Hampton

Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor.

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List of I Love Lucy episodes

I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley.

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Louie Bellson

Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni (July 6, 1924 – February 14, 2009), known by the stage name Louie Bellson (his own preferred spelling, although he is often seen in sources as Louis Bellson), was an American jazz drummer.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.

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Louise Tobin

Mary Louise Tobin (born November 11, 1918 in Aubrey, Texas) is an American singer.

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Lymphoma

Lymphoma is a group of blood cancers that develop from lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell).

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Marc Myers

Marc Myers (born September 4, 1956) is an American journalist, author, and historian and a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, where he writes on music and the arts.

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Maynard Ferguson

Walter Maynard Ferguson C.M. (May 4, 1928 – August 23, 2006) was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader.

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Metronome All-Stars

The Metronome All-Stars were a collection of jazz musicians assembled for studio recordings by Metronome Magazine, based on its readers' polls.

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Metronome magazine

Metronome Magazine (or Metronome) was a music magazine published from 1881 until 1961.

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MGM Records

MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946 for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films.

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Mighty Haag Circus

Mighty Haag Circus was started by Ernest Haag (17 June 1866 - 1 Feb. 1935) in Shreveport, Louisiana.

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My Buddy (song)

"My Buddy" is a popular song.

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My Dog Skip (film)

My Dog Skip is a 2000 American family drama film, directed by Jay Russell and starring Frankie Muniz, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, and Kevin Bacon with narration by Harry Connick Jr. Based on the autobiographical novel of the same name, the film tells the story of a 9-year-old Willie Morris as he is given a Jack Russell Terrier for his birthday, and how the dog fundamentally changes several aspects of his life.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Neal Hefti

Neal Paul Hefti (October 29, 1922 – October 11, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger.

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Nevada

Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.

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O mein Papa

"O mein Papa" is a German song, as related by a young woman remembering her beloved, once-famous clown father.

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One O'Clock Jump

"One O'Clock Jump" is a jazz standard, a 12-bar blues instrumental, written by Count Basie in 1937.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Private Buckaroo

Private Buckaroo is a 1942 American musical film directed by Edward F. Cline starring The Andrews Sisters, Dick Foran, Harry James, Shemp Howard, Joe E. Lewis, and Jennifer Holt.

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San Vicente Stakes

The San Vicente Stakes is an American thoroughbred horse race run annually at Santa Anita Park.

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Showgirl

A showgirl is a female dancer or performer in a stage entertainment show intended to showcase the performer's physical attributes, typically by way of revealing clothing or even toplessness or nudity.

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Sight-reading

Sight-reading, also called a prima vista (Italian meaning "at first sight"), is the reading and performing of a piece of music or song in music notation that the performer has not seen before.

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Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)

"Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" is a 1936 song, with music and lyrics by Louis Prima, who first recorded it with the New Orleans Gang.

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Somebody Loves Me

"Somebody Loves Me" is a popular song, with music written by George Gershwin, and lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and Buddy DeSylva.

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Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.

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Springtime in the Rockies

Springtime in the Rockies is an American Technicolor musical comedy film released by Twentieth Century Fox in 1942.

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Stan Kenton

Stanley Newcomb Kenton (December 15, 1911 – August 25, 1979) was an American popular music and jazz artist.

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Steve Voce

Steve Voce (born 1933) is a British journalist and music critic.

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Swing Fever

Swing Fever is a 1943 American musical comedy film directed by Tim Whelan.

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Swing music

Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Syncopation (1942 film)

Syncopation is a 1942 film from RKO directed by William Dieterle and starring Adolphe Menjou, Jackie Cooper, and Bonita Granville.

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That Old Feeling (song)

"That Old Feeling" is a popular song written by Sammy Fain, with lyrics by Lew Brown.

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The Benny Goodman Story

The Benny Goodman Story is a biographical film starring Steve Allen and Donna Reed, directed by Valentine Davies and released by Universal-International in 1956.

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The Big Beat (film)

The Big Beat is a 1958 American musical comedy film distributed by Universal International, which was directed and produced by Will Cowan, written by David P. Harmon, and starred William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Gogi Grant, and Jeffrey Stone.

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The Colgate Sports Newsreel

The Colgate Sports Newsreel was a radio program focusing on sports.

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The Ladies Man

The Ladies Man is a 1961 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis.

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The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour is a collection of thirteen black-and-white one-hour specials airing occasionally from 1957 to 1960 (as opposed to a thirty-minute regular series).

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The Merv Griffin Show

The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show starring Merv Griffin.

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The Nearness of You

"The Nearness of You" is a popular song written in 1938 by Hoagy Carmichael, with lyrics by Ned Washington.

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The New James

The New James is a studio album by American trumpeter Harry James with The Harry James Orchestra.

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The Opposite Sex

The Opposite Sex is a 1956 American musical romantic comedy film shot in Metrocolor and CinemaScope.

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The Sting II

The Sting II is a 1983 American comedy film and a sequel to The Sting, again written by David S. Ward.

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Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing.

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Tommy Dorsey

Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the Big Band era.

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Tone (musical instrument)

Tone and sound are terms used by musicians and related professions to refer to the audible characteristics of a player's sound.

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Too Marvelous for Words

"Too Marvelous for Words" is a popular song written in 1937.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre.

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Truly

Truly is an American rock band formed in the wake of the grunge era.

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Two Girls and a Sailor

Two Girls and a Sailor is a 1944 musical film about two singing sisters who are helped to set up a canteen to entertain soldiers by a mysterious wealthy admirer.

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When Your Lover Has Gone

"When Your Lover Has Gone" is a 1931 composition by Einar Aaron Swan which, after being featured in the James Cagney film Blonde Crazy that same year, has become a jazz standard.

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Where or When

"Where or When" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms.

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Wild About Harry!

Wild About Harry! is a studio album by American trumpeter Harry James with The Harry James Orchestra.

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Woo-Woo (song)

"Woo-Woo" is the B-side of the 78-rpm jazz instrumental single recorded on February 1, 1939 by Harry James and The Boogie Woogie Trio.

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Woody Allen

Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American director, writer, actor, comedian, and musician whose career spans more than six decades.

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You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)

"You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)" is a popular song.

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You've Changed

"You've Changed" is a popular song written by Bill Carey with music by Carl Fischer in 1941.

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Young Man with a Horn (film)

Young Man with a Horn is a 1950 musical drama film based on a novel of the same name by Dorothy Baker inspired by the life of Bix Beiderbecke, the jazz cornetist.

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Young Man with a Horn (soundtrack)

Young Man with a Horn is a 10" LP album, released by Columbia Records as CL-6106 on March 13, 1950, featuring trumpeter Harry James and singer Doris Day performing songs initially recorded for the soundtrack of the movie of the same name.

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(Up A) Lazy River

"(Up A) Lazy River" is a popular tune and song by Hoagy Carmichael and Sidney Arodin, published in 1930.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James

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