Big Band Chronology - November 9-10 Nov 9 Trumpeter and cornetist Francis Joseph Julian Muggsy Spanier was born in Chicago, 1906. Proponent of Dixieland. Count Basie records Hey Lawdy Mam and The Fives, 1938. National Best Selling Retail Chart For the Week Ending Nov 9, 1944 (Reported in Billboard Nov 18, 1944) 1. Ill Walk Alone - Dinah Shore 2. You Always Hurt the One You Love - Mills Brothers 3. Together - Dick Haymes / Helen Forrest 4. The Trolley Song - The Pied Pipers 5. Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral - Bing Crosby 6. And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine - Stan Kenton 7. Ill Walk Alone - Martha Tilton 8. Dance with a Dolly - Russ Morgan 9. Is You Is or Is You Aint - Bing Crosby / Andrew Sister 10. Ill Walk Alone - Mary Martin Harlem Hit Parade 1. Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall - Ink Spots / Ella Fitzgerald 2. Gee, Baby, Aint I Good to You - King Cole Trio 3. Hamps Boogie-Woogie - Lionel Hampton 4. I Wonder - Cecil Gant 5. Cherry RFed Blues - Cootie Williams 6. Im Lost - Benny Carter 7. You Always Hurt the One You Love - Mills Brothers 8. Im Lost - King Cole Trio 9. Is You Is Or Is You Aint - Cootie Williams 10. Ill Walk Alone - Dinah Shore National best selling retail records for the week ending on Nov 9, 1940 1. Only Forever - Bing Crosby? Tommy Dorsey? (Last week at 1) 2. Ferry Boat Serenade - Andrew Sisters? Kay Kyser (Last week at 4) 3. Maybe - Ink Spots (Last week at 3) 4. Practice Makes Perfect - Bob Chester (Last week at 2) 5. Trade Winds - Bing Crosby (Last week at 5) 6. Blueberry Hill - Glenn Miller (Last week at 6) 7. There I Go - Vaughn Monroe (Last week at 9) 8. Our Love Affair - Tommy Dorsey? Glenn Miller? (Last week at 7) 9. Looking for Yesterday - Woody Herman? (-) 10. Dream Valley - Sammy Kaye (-) Nov 10 Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and arranger, Billy May was born in Pittsburgh 1913. May arranged Ray Nobles Cherokee for Charlie Barnet which became Barnets biggest hit, and a key inspiration for bebop (Charlie Parkers Ko-ko is based on the changes in Cherokee). May rewrote the entire Barnet book from scratch after the original music burned in the Palomar Theatre fire in October 1939. May composed with Barnet the satirical chart Te wrong Idea which lampooned sweet bands especially targeting Sammy Kay.The next year, Glenn Miller hired him as an arranger and trumpet player. In the 50s May formed his own orchestra. May developed slurping saxophones sound--a glissando at the beginning of each phrase. He eventually sold the rights to the band and its book to Ray Anthony. Lionel Hampton Records Midnight Sun, 1946 Anne Shelton, British band singer, radio and television host was born in Dulwich, South London on November 10, 1928. She began singing with Bert Ambrose at the age of 13 and by 1943 had her own solo recording contract. During the war she hosted on BBC the program “Calling Malta”. She sang and recorded with Glenn Miller’s Army Air Corp when Miller arrived in England.
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