Charlie Spivak

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Elegie (Cafe Rouge 1942) 00:00 Tools
Besame Mucho (Hollywood Palladium June/July 1943) 04:17 Tools
I Know that You Know (Command Performance #88 October 9, 1943) 01:51 Tools
Stardreams 02:42 Tools
It's Been A Long, Long Time (with Orchestra) 02:42 Tools
Oh! What It Seemed to Be 00:00 Tools
How Deep Is The Ocean (Fitch Bandwagon late 1942) 02:24 Tools
Linda 00:00 Tools
Port Au Prince 02:31 Tools
Daisy Chain (Studio Tests For Movie "Follow The Boys") 02:31 Tools
White Christmas 02:36 Tools
Stay As Sweet As You Are (Cafe Rouge 1942) 00:00 Tools
My Devotion 03:06 Tools
Star Eyes (Command Performance #88 October 9, 1943) 04:41 Tools
Swingin' The Blues (Fitch Bandwagon late 1942) 04:41 Tools
IT'S ALWAYS YOU 02:36 Tools
Let's Go Home 02:47 Tools
Stompin' Room Only 02:44 Tools
Devil's Holiday (Studio Tests For Movie "Follow The Boys") 03:31 Tools
For Me And My Gal (Fitch Bandwagon late 1942) 03:31 Tools
Moonlight Becomes You 03:06 Tools
i Only Have Eyes For You (Studio Tests For Movie "Follow The Boys") 03:47 Tools
Alexander's Ragtime Band (Hollywood Palladium June/July 1943) 03:47 Tools
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles (Fitch Bandwagon late 1942) 03:47 Tools
Comedy With Willie Smith (Fitch Bandwagon late 1942) 03:47 Tools
Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Command Performance #88 October 9, 1943) 03:47 Tools
Let's Go Home (Cafe Rouge 1942) 03:06 Tools
Loveless Love (Cafe Rouge 1942) 03:06 Tools
It's been a long long time 02:45 Tools
Serenade In Blue 02:09 Tools
Mean To Me 02:47 Tools
Laura 02:27 Tools
How Deep Is The Ocean 02:25 Tools
Alexander's Ragtime Band 00:00 Tools
I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen 03:11 Tools
i Only Have Eyes For You 02:58 Tools
Swingin' The Blues 02:58 Tools
Tenderly 03:32 Tools
For Me And My Gal 04:42 Tools
Blue Champagne 02:41 Tools
We Three 03:32 Tools
this is no laughing matter 03:16 Tools
The Gentleman Is a Dope 00:00 Tools
Poinciana 02:51 Tools
Stardust 00:00 Tools
What's Cookin' 03:04 Tools
Leave Some 02:38 Tools
Blue Velvet 01:55 Tools
You Belong to My Heart 03:04 Tools
Swing Low Sweet Chariot 03:00 Tools
Flat Feet 02:43 Tools
Star Dreams 02:56 Tools
There Must Be A Way 03:18 Tools
Manhattan 03:18 Tools
I'll Walk Alone 02:43 Tools
The General Jumped At Dawn 04:06 Tools
When I See An Elephant Fly 02:25 Tools
Born to Be Blue 02:43 Tools
Everything happens to me 00:00 Tools
Just Friends 03:04 Tools
I Got Plenty O' Nothin' 02:38 Tools
I understand 00:00 Tools
That Old Devil Moon 02:38 Tools
Hey, Sit Down Bud 02:25 Tools
Charlie Horse 02:29 Tools
Flirtango 02:44 Tools
Stomping Room Only 02:29 Tools
Penthouse Serenade 02:29 Tools
Autumn Nocturne 03:18 Tools
It's Been A Long, Long Time 02:46 Tools
Nature Boy 02:29 Tools
Hop, Skip And Jump 03:20 Tools
37-Hop Skip & Jump 03:19 Tools
Ac-Cent-U-Ate The Positive 02:29 Tools
Hold Me, Hold Me, Hold Me 02:29 Tools
Besame Mucho 04:42 Tools
Star Dust 05:02 Tools
It's The Same Old Dream 02:09 Tools
Blue Lou 02:58 Tools
Solitude 02:58 Tools
Summertime 03:05 Tools
Old Devil Moon 03:00 Tools
The Breeze And I 02:58 Tools
The Breeze & I 00:00 Tools
Intermezzo 00:00 Tools
Elegy 02:35 Tools
Combination Solid 00:00 Tools
Cuddle Up A Little Closer 00:00 Tools
Stardreams (Theme) 00:00 Tools
For Sentimental Reasons 02:35 Tools
Mona Lisa 03:08 Tools
Theme And Introduction 00:34 Tools
Stranger in Town 03:08 Tools
Fla-Ga-La-Pa 03:00 Tools
Bess, You Is My Woman 03:04 Tools
Can't You Read Between The Lines 03:02 Tools
I Used To Love You (But It's All Over Now) 04:15 Tools
It's So Peaceful In The Country 02:35 Tools
It Ain't Necessarily So 02:35 Tools
Stay As Sweet As You Are 02:35 Tools
Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral 02:35 Tools
I Remember You 03:08 Tools
I'll Never Let a Day Pass By 03:02 Tools
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Charlie Spivak (17 February 1905 or 1907–1 March 1982) was an American trumpeter and bandleader, best known for his big band in the 1940s. The details of Spivak's birth are unclear. Some sources place it in the Ukraine in 1907, and say that his family emigrated to settle in New Haven, Connecticut while he was a child. Others place his birth in New Haven two years earlier, in 1905. What is certain is that he learnt to play trumpet when he was ten years old, and played in his high school band, going on to work with local groups before joining Don Cavallaro's orchestra. He played with Phil Sprecht's band for most of 1924 to 1930, then spent time with Ben Pollack (1931–1934), the Dorsey brothers (1934–1935), and Ray Noble (1935– 1936). He spent 1936 and 1937 mostly working as a studio musician with Gus Arnheim, Glenn Miller, Raymond Scott's radio orchestra, and others, followed by periods with Bob Crosby (1938), Tommy Dorsey (1938–1939), and Jack Teagarden (1939). Finally, with the encouragement and financial backing of Glenn Miller, he formed his own band in November 1939. Though it failed within a year, he tried again shortly afterwards, this time taking over an existing band (Bill Downer's) and making a success of it. Spivak's band was one of the most successful in the 1940s, and survived until 1959. Spivak's experience playing with jazz musicians had little effect on his own band's style, which was straight dance music, made up mainly of ballads and popular tunes. Spivak himself (known as "Cheery, Chubby Charlie") had always been noted and used for his tone rather than for any improvisational ability. A number of the band's musicians were to make names for themselves, including drummer Davey Tough, bassist Jimmy Middleton, trumpeter Les Elgart, trombonist Nelson Riddle, and singers Garry Stevens, June Hutton, Tommy Mercer, Jimmy Saunders, and Irene Daye (who had sung with Gene Krupa, and whom Spivak married in 1950). Riddle was also responsible for many of the band's arrangements, together with Sonny Burke. When the Spivak orchestra broke up, he went to live in Florida, where he continued to lead a band until illness led to his temporary retirement in 1963. On his recovery, he continued to lead large and small bands, first in Las Vegas, then in South Carolina; in Greenville, South Carolina in 1967 he led a small group featuring his wife as vocalist. She died in 1971 after years of fighting cancer. Spivak continued to play and record until his death. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.