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BLUE BARRON

AND HIS ORCHESTRA

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Blue Barron led one of the most popular sweet bands of the swing era, forging a two decade career built upon his orchestra's credo, "music of yesterday and today, styled the Blue Barron way." Born Harry Friedland in Cleveland on March 22, 1911, he played violin in a campus band while attending Ohio State University but first pursued a career in music management, not performing. After a brief stint managing the young Sammy Kaye, Friedland changed course in 1936, adopting the moniker Blue Barron and founding his own big band. Favoring a slick, brassy sound that prompted some critics to lump them in with the so called "Mickey Mouse bands," Barron's orchestra was nevertheless enormously popular with audiences. Following the success of its 1938 RCA hit "At a Perfume Counter," the Barron band became a New York ballroom mainstay and spent much of the 1940s headlining the Edison Hotel, headquarters of its coast to coast radio broadcasts. In the wake of cutting the orchestra's hit theme song, "Sometimes I'm Happy," Carlyle exited in 1941
Songs: Personnel Details:
 Sometimes I'm Happy
 Love Is Where You Find It (a)
 Heart And Soul (b)
 That's Right, I'm Wrong (a)
 At Long Last (b)
 You're The Only Star In My Blue Heaven (c)
 Don't Cross Your Fingers (Cross Your Heart) (a)
 Garden In The Rain (b)
 Bluebirds In The Moonlight (a)
 Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider (d)
 I Guess I'll Have To Dream The Rest (e)
 Do You Care (e)
 Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me (d)
 The Things I Love (c)
 Fancy Meeting You (a)
 Maria Elena (c)
 You Are My Sunshine (d)
 Yesterday And Today		 Vocalists: a- Charlie Fisher; b- Russ Carlyle; c- Russ Carlyle & Glee Club; d- Three Blue Notes; e- Jimmy Brown
Label: HINDSIGHT
Number: 110
Item Code: 2602
Format: CD
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Dates: (1938-1941)
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