Hot damn! Another trumpet player. One I saw with my parents at the State Theater in Cleveland in the mid 1990s. One you saw almost every night on your living room TV…or bedroom TV where many people watched Johnnie Carson. So get ready for some soft dixieland from a guy who used to wear some loud shirts on late night with Volume 40: Doc Severinson and Friends

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Doc Severinson – Doc Severinson And Friends
Label: Everest Records Archive Of Folk & Jazz Music – FS 334
Format: Vinyl, LP
Released: 1978
Genre: Jazz

Georgia On My Mind
music by Hoagy Carmichael
My Old Kentucky Home
music by Stephen Foster
Tennessee Waltz
music by Pee Wee King
Swanee River
music by Stephen Foster
Carolina In The Morning
music by Walter Donaldson
Moon Over Miami
music by Joe Burke
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I
written by Curley Williams, Billy Simmons

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Creator: NBC | Credit: NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
Copyright: 2013 NBCUniversal Media, LLC
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Lincoln Journal Star
Boston Globe
New York Times
Daily Herald

On this episode, we get to hear another record from a great collection of one of the best known big bands ever. Plus I always think of my parents as they floated across the dance floor to music like this. So, let’s get ready to once again hear from the king of the dance hall in Volume 39: Glenn Miller Collection Part 2.

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Glenn Miller And His Orchestra – Second Pressing
Label: RCA Victor – LPT 6700
Series: Collectors Issue
Format: 5 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: Canada
Released: 1956
Genre: Jazz

Say Si Si
Written-By – Al Stillman, Ernesto Lecuona, Francia Luban
Caribbean Clipper (even with the beginning skip)
Written-By – Jerry Gray, Sammy Gallop
Something old, new, borrowed, blue Medley
Japanese Sandman
Written-By – Raymond Egan, Richard Whiting
What’s The Matter With Me
Vocals – Marion Hutton
Written-By – Sam Lewis, Terry Shand
Let’s Dance
Written-By – Frank Skinner
Blue Room
Written-By – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
Rhapsody In Blue
Written-By – George Gershwin
Down For The Count
Written-By – Bill Finegan
Sliphorn Jive
Written-By – Eddie Durham

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It’s been over a month since I’ve featured a trumpet player, so I’m having withdrawals. I was very glad to see this album in my dad’s collection. I have long been a fan of this jazz icon. So let’s get ready for some hot jazz with some hot tempos in Volume 38: Dizzy Will Excite.

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St. Louis Blues
Composed by W. C. Handy
My Heart Belongs To Daddy
Composed by Cole Porter
Moonglow
Composed by Eddie DeLange, Irving Mills, and Will Hudson
Woody’n You
Composed by Dizzy Gillespie
I Found A Million Dollar Baby In The Five And Ten Cent Store
Composed by Harry Warren

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Britannica
New York Daily News

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Both my parents seemed to enjoy music from movies, whether it be original soundtracks or variations arranged and recorded by other artists. My dad also owned eight records by the orchestra leader Ray Conniff who was popular for arranging and performing other composers’ works. So get ready to combine my parents love of big screen music with the Conniff sound in Volume 37: Hollywood in Rhythm.

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Ray Conniff And His Orchestra – Hollywood In Rhythm
Label: Columbia – CL 1310
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Country: US
Released: 1959
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: Easy Listening

Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing
Written-By – Paul Francis Webster And Sammy Fain
Thanks For The Memory
Written-By – Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger
Cheek To Cheek
Written-By – Irving Berlin
Laura
Written-By – David Raksin, Johnny Mercer
Stella By Starlight
Written-By – Ned Washington, Victor Young
It Might As Well Be Spring
Written-By – Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein

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While I am very familiar with some of this artist’s music, I was completely unfamiliar with the music on this record. The tunes are played with a really interesting juxtaposition between written music and improvisation using the musical theme of the first song on the album. So get ready to hear the same tune over and over again without realizing it on Volume 36: Brubeck’s Riddle

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The Dave Brubeck Quartet – The Riddle
Label: Columbia – CL 1454
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1959

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Hey, Ho, Anybody Home?
The Twig
Offshoot
Swingin’ ‘Round (everybody takes a turn)
The Riddle
Yet We Shall Be Merry
All tunes composed by William Smith

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I grew up just east of Cleveland. My dad took me to my first Browns game when I was ten in 1972 and I still watch games at the new stadium. I’ve been going to Indians and Cavaliers games for almost as long. There’s another Cleveland institution that brings back great family memories and that is the Cleveland Orchestra. So get ready for a march through Severance Hall with Volume 35: Cleveland Orchestra Marches.

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The Cleveland Orchestra – Majestic Marches
Label: Telarc Records – none
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1981
Genre: Classical
Style: March

Farandole from L’Arlesienne Suite Number 2
Composed by Georges Bizet
Viennese Musical Clock and Entrance of the Emperor and his court from Harry Janos Suite
Composed by Zoltán Kodály
Kije’s Wedding and Troika from Lt. Kije Suite
Composed by Sergei Prokofiev
Marche Slave
Composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Hungarian March from the Damnation of the Faust
Composed by Hector Berlioz
American Salute – Variations on When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Composed my Morton Gould

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Cleveland Orchestra
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra
Severance Hall