[78-L] Obit Orin Tucker

[David Lennick]

Larry Elgart's Music for Barefoot Ballerinas was issued at all 3 speeds as an 
album set in 1955, but there seems to be only one 78 single from him, Decca 
29666: What the Thunder Said/Spanish Lace. That's on Decca. Was he on any other 
label as a bandleader?

dl

On 4/20/2011 12:51 PM, Eric Goldberg wrote:
> Hopefully, there will always be big bands. That said...Larry Elgart's band, as well as Les', were later bands and were not part of the glory days of the big dance band. Did either Elgart ever have a record that came out originally only on 78s? In fact were Elgart records ever on 78s or did they just miss that transition period of simultaneous 78 and 45 releases?
>
> I remember when Artie Shaw died I thought that that was the last of the big band era leaders. Yet his music still lives.
>
> Then Blue Barron died, and now Orin Tucker....They may have died more recently than Shaw but their music died long ago. (just a joke..I know that their recordings will go on forever).
>
> Eric
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 4/19/11, DAVID BURNHAM<burnhamd at rogers.com>  wrote:
>
>> From: DAVID BURNHAM<burnhamd at rogers.com>
>> Subject: [78-L] Obit Orin Tucker
>> To: 78-L at 78online.com
>> Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 5:15 PM
>> The last of the big band leaders?
>>
>> I realize that greatness is very subjective but isn't Larry
>> Elgart still alive?
>>   I've always enjoyed the Elgart recordings.
>>