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65222458 | Play | Elegie (Cafe Rouge 1942) | 00:00 Tools | |
27210622 | Play | Besame Mucho (Hollywood Palladium June/July 1943) | 04:17 Tools | |
27210679 | Play | I Know that You Know (Command Performance #88 October 9, 1943) | 01:51 Tools | |
27210618 | Play | Stardreams | 02:42 Tools | |
65222459 | Play | It's Been A Long, Long Time (with Orchestra) | 02:42 Tools | |
27210619 | Play | Oh! What It Seemed to Be | 00:00 Tools | |
27210665 | Play | How Deep Is The Ocean (Fitch Bandwagon late 1942) | 02:24 Tools | |
27210625 | Play | Linda | 00:00 Tools | |
27210638 | Play | Port Au Prince | 02:31 Tools | |
65222460 | Play | Daisy Chain (Studio Tests For Movie "Follow The Boys") | 02:31 Tools | |
27210709 | Play | White Christmas | 02:36 Tools | |
65222461 | Play | Stay As Sweet As You Are (Cafe Rouge 1942) | 00:00 Tools | |
27210617 | Play | My Devotion | 03:06 Tools | |
27210632 | Play | Star Eyes (Command Performance #88 October 9, 1943) | 04:41 Tools | |
65222462 | Play | Swingin' The Blues (Fitch Bandwagon late 1942) | 04:41 Tools | |
27210636 | Play | IT'S ALWAYS YOU | 02:36 Tools | |
27210631 | Play | Let's Go Home | 02:47 Tools | |
27210634 | Play | Stompin' Room Only | 02:44 Tools | |
27210656 | Play | Devil's Holiday (Studio Tests For Movie "Follow The Boys") | 03:31 Tools | |
65222463 | Play | For Me And My Gal (Fitch Bandwagon late 1942) | 03:31 Tools | |
27210643 | Play | Moonlight Becomes You | 03:06 Tools | |
27210688 | Play | i Only Have Eyes For You (Studio Tests For Movie "Follow The Boys") | 03:47 Tools | |
65222464 | Play | Alexander's Ragtime Band (Hollywood Palladium June/July 1943) | 03:47 Tools | |
65222465 | Play | I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles (Fitch Bandwagon late 1942) | 03:47 Tools | |
65222466 | Play | Comedy With Willie Smith (Fitch Bandwagon late 1942) | 03:47 Tools | |
65222467 | Play | Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Command Performance #88 October 9, 1943) | 03:47 Tools | |
65222468 | Play | Let's Go Home (Cafe Rouge 1942) | 03:06 Tools | |
65222469 | Play | Loveless Love (Cafe Rouge 1942) | 03:06 Tools | |
27210641 | Play | It's been a long long time | 02:45 Tools | |
27210623 | Play | Serenade In Blue | 02:09 Tools | |
27210694 | Play | Mean To Me | 02:47 Tools | |
27210621 | Play | Laura | 02:27 Tools | |
27210703 | Play | How Deep Is The Ocean | 02:25 Tools | |
65222474 | Play | Alexander's Ragtime Band | 00:00 Tools | |
27210620 | Play | I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen | 03:11 Tools | |
65222485 | Play | i Only Have Eyes For You | 02:58 Tools | |
27210682 | Play | Swingin' The Blues | 02:58 Tools | |
27210690 | Play | Tenderly | 03:32 Tools | |
65222490 | Play | For Me And My Gal | 04:42 Tools | |
27210644 | Play | Blue Champagne | 02:41 Tools | |
65222470 | Play | We Three | 03:32 Tools | |
27210627 | Play | this is no laughing matter | 03:16 Tools | |
65222472 | Play | The Gentleman Is a Dope | 00:00 Tools | |
27210668 | Play | Poinciana | 02:51 Tools | |
27210624 | Play | Stardust | 00:00 Tools | |
27210686 | Play | What's Cookin' | 03:04 Tools | |
65222479 | Play | Leave Some | 02:38 Tools | |
27210637 | Play | Blue Velvet | 01:55 Tools | |
65222471 | Play | You Belong to My Heart | 03:04 Tools | |
65222491 | Play | Swing Low Sweet Chariot | 03:00 Tools | |
65222475 | Play | Flat Feet | 02:43 Tools | |
27210653 | Play | Star Dreams | 02:56 Tools | |
27210678 | Play | There Must Be A Way | 03:18 Tools | |
65222473 | Play | Manhattan | 03:18 Tools | |
27210674 | Play | I'll Walk Alone | 02:43 Tools | |
27210667 | Play | The General Jumped At Dawn | 04:06 Tools | |
65222478 | Play | When I See An Elephant Fly | 02:25 Tools | |
65222476 | Play | Born to Be Blue | 02:43 Tools | |
27210650 | Play | Everything happens to me | 00:00 Tools | |
87946743 | Play | Just Friends | 03:04 Tools | |
65222480 | Play | I Got Plenty O' Nothin' | 02:38 Tools | |
27210635 | Play | I understand | 00:00 Tools | |
27210671 | Play | That Old Devil Moon | 02:38 Tools | |
65222477 | Play | Hey, Sit Down Bud | 02:25 Tools | |
65222484 | Play | Charlie Horse | 02:29 Tools | |
27210633 | Play | Flirtango | 02:44 Tools | |
65222483 | Play | Stomping Room Only | 02:29 Tools | |
65222482 | Play | Penthouse Serenade | 02:29 Tools | |
27210657 | Play | Autumn Nocturne | 03:18 Tools | |
27210701 | Play | It's Been A Long, Long Time | 02:46 Tools | |
27210699 | Play | Nature Boy | 02:29 Tools | |
27210648 | Play | Hop, Skip And Jump | 03:20 Tools | |
27210710 | Play | 37-Hop Skip & Jump | 03:19 Tools | |
65222481 | Play | Ac-Cent-U-Ate The Positive | 02:29 Tools | |
89747697 | Play | Hold Me, Hold Me, Hold Me | 02:29 Tools | |
27210687 | Play | Besame Mucho | 04:42 Tools | |
27210675 | Play | Star Dust | 05:02 Tools | |
27210652 | Play | It's The Same Old Dream | 02:09 Tools | |
65222486 | Play | Blue Lou | 02:58 Tools | |
65222487 | Play | Solitude | 02:58 Tools | |
27210645 | Play | Summertime | 03:05 Tools | |
65222492 | Play | Old Devil Moon | 03:00 Tools | |
27210629 | Play | The Breeze And I | 02:58 Tools | |
65222488 | Play | The Breeze & I | 00:00 Tools | |
89747698 | Play | Intermezzo | 00:00 Tools | |
65222493 | Play | Elegy | 02:35 Tools | |
27210685 | Play | Combination Solid | 00:00 Tools | |
89747699 | Play | Cuddle Up A Little Closer | 00:00 Tools | |
65222489 | Play | Stardreams (Theme) | 00:00 Tools | |
87946745 | Play | For Sentimental Reasons | 02:35 Tools | |
27210639 | Play | Mona Lisa | 03:08 Tools | |
27210705 | Play | Theme And Introduction | 00:34 Tools | |
87946746 | Play | Stranger in Town | 03:08 Tools | |
27210646 | Play | Fla-Ga-La-Pa | 03:00 Tools | |
27210626 | Play | Bess, You Is My Woman | 03:04 Tools | |
27210707 | Play | Can't You Read Between The Lines | 03:02 Tools | |
27210654 | Play | I Used To Love You (But It's All Over Now) | 04:15 Tools | |
27210630 | Play | It's So Peaceful In The Country | 02:35 Tools | |
87946744 | Play | It Ain't Necessarily So | 02:35 Tools | |
89747700 | Play | Stay As Sweet As You Are | 02:35 Tools | |
89747701 | Play | Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral | 02:35 Tools | |
87946747 | Play | I Remember You | 03:08 Tools | |
87946748 | Play | I'll Never Let a Day Pass By | 03:02 Tools |
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.