[78-L] What Happens to Old-Timers? A 1935 article

[David Lennick]

On 11/18/2011 10:50 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
>> Confrey may not have stayed with Vallee for very long, which is why his
>> occupancy of the piano chair is generally unknown to most of us. I've
>> explored this issue on other lists; musicians say that they played with a
>> particular band, and no one can verify it. One musician claiming he played
>> for Stan Kenton was a seventeen year old at the time; one of the trumpet
>> players became ill during the last set of the evening, and this guy sat in
>> for the last three arrangements of the set. The next day, the original
>> trumpet player was back in the section. There are hundreds of instances
>> like this.
>>
>> Jeff Sultanof
>
>
> Good point,  Jeff.  My own dad once played second tenor with the Henry King
> band for a month when they went on a series of one-nighters in the Pacific
> Northwest...I doubt there is much or any record of that fact whiich has
> survived.
>
> Taylor
>
On the other hand, Sid Caesar DID play saxophone with Shep Fields, and did one 
recording session with him. Peggy Lee (maybe still as Norma Egstrom) sang with 
Will Osborne and doesn't seem to have recorded with him at all.

dl