Casa Loma Orchestra | |
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | Orange Blossoms |
| Origin | Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Genres | Swing |
| Years active | 1929–1963 |
| Labels | Okeh, Brunswick, Victor, Decca, Capitol |
| Past members | Glen Gray Hank Biagini Pee Wee Hunt Frank L. Ryerson Sonny Dunham Clarence Hutchenrider Tony Briglia Kenny Sargent Gene Gifford Spud Murphy Larry Wagner Salvador "Tutti" Camarata Horace Henderson |
The Casa Loma Orchestra was an American dance band active from 1929 to 1963.[1] Until the rapid multiplication in the number of swing bands from 1935 on, the Casa Loma Orchestra was one of the top North American dance bands. With the decline of the big band business following the end of World War II, it disbanded in 1947. However, from 1957 to 1963, it re-emerged as a recording session band in Hollywood, made up of top-flight studio musicians under the direction of its most notable leader of the past, Glen Gray.[1] The reconstituted band made a limited number of appearances live and on television and recorded fifteen LP albums for Capitol Records before Gray died in 1963.[1]
The band recorded and released the original version of the jazz and big band standard "Sunrise Serenade" in 1938 with Frankie Carle on piano.
- ^ a b c Larkin, 1997, p. 236.