[78-L] Margaret Whiting RIP

[Jeff Sultanof]

Stegmeyer was the chief arranger of the late 40s Capitol Records band that
also made transcriptions as you wrote. Evans was still writing for Claude
Thornhill at that time.

Although you are correct that Bothwell recorded with the Raeburn band as
accompaniment, 22 Steps was not one of these sides. Bothwell recorded with a
studio-assembled group for this side and "Strange Feeling" both with the
Dave Lambert Singers. The arranger was Paul Villepigue, a highly underrated
composer-arranger who wrote for the bands of Barnet, Kenton and Ike
Carpenter; he also arranged for Mel Torme. Tragically, he committed suicide
in 1953 (his daughter is on the Kenton e-mail list and has a website on
him).

Butterfield's tenure as arranger for Billy was about 1950-53. In addition to
the Westminster recordings that I cited in a previous message, he also wrote
arrangements that Butterfield recorded for London Records. One of them,
"Singing the Blues" was included in a Franklin Mint Set. It is an absolute
gem that I played during a presentation I made at an Institute of Jazz
Studies Roundtable, and it fooled everyone except Dan Morgenstern.

Jeff Sultanof

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Dan Van Landingham <
danvanlandingham at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I wasn't aware Gil Evans worte charts for Butterfield.I know Bill Stegmeyer
> had
> a piece of the
>
> band and did the charts.I have a CD somewhere of the Butterfield band from
> around 1947.The
> bamd broadcasted over ABC.I have a few Butterfield black label Capitols of
> him
> like "The Sharp
> Scarf" and "Jalousie".The vocalist was one Pat O'Connor whom Al Hendrickson
> knew
> as did a guy I knew named John Hutchinson who called himself "John
> Holiday".He
> is now deceased but
> lived here in the Coos Bay-North Bend,Oregon area 20 years ago.I once owned
> a
> Signature 78
> of "I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me" done under Stegmeyer's
> name
> featuring Butter-
> field.The reverse was a number done by Johnny Bothwell and his Orchestra.I
> think
> it was "22 St-
> eps from the Corner".The vocalist was Claire "Shanty Hogan.It was allegedly
> the
> Boyd Raeburn
> Orchestra with Bothwell leading.The Stegmeyer side was an octet as I
> recall.I
> wore the record
>
> out listening to Bothwell's alto work.I was playing alot of alto sax at
> that
> time.
>
>
>
>
>