[78-L] Van Alexander

[David Lennick]

Alexander Van Vliet Feldman, per Wackypackia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Alexander

But Jerry Fielding was also a Feldman, Joshua Itzhak Feldman to wit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Fielding
Died in Toronto. Sorry about that.

And I'm not coming up with anything about Alexander's birthplace or 
parents..they could still have been brothers.

dl

Philip Fukuda wrote:
>  
> Taylor,
> I think Van Alexander was born Al(exander) Feldman, not Fielding. One of his first hits was "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" for Chick Webb and Ella Fitzgerald in 1938. I don't have the record any longer (Decca 1840), but I think early pressings show Al Fedman and Ella Fitzgerald as composers.
> 
> Philip 
>  > ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Taylor Bowie" 
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 5:49 PM
>> Subject: [78-L] Old-timers still around
>>
>>
>>> While looking up something on IMDB,  I was interested to see that
>>> arranger-bandleader Van Alexander (b. 1915) is still living,  and that he 
>>> is
>>> the brother of late film composer Jerry Fielding...or so it says there.
>>>
>>> Taylor
>>>