Track listing

1. "Stay There" (Donald Kahn, Stanley Styne) – 2:35
2. "The Sun Forgot to Shine This Morning" (Bill Carey, Gene Howard
   Gene Howard
   Gene Howard is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the seventh round of the 1968 NFL Draft. He played college football at Langston University.Howard also played for the Los Angeles Rams....
   
   ) – 3:17
3. "Too Young for the Blues" (Biff Jones
   Biff Jones
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   , Charles Meyer
   Charles Meyer
   Charles Meyer , also known as Carl Mayer, was a Russian pianist and composer active in the early 19th century. He was a piano teacher of Mikhail Glinka, a well-known Russian composer....
   
   ) – 3:16
4. "It's Only a Man" (Hal Borne
   Hal Borne
   Hal Borne was an American popular song composer, orchestra leader, music arranger and musical director, who studied music at the University of Illinois...
   
   , Paul Francis Webster
   Paul Francis Webster
   Paul Francis Webster was an American lyricist who won three Academy Awards for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.-Biography:...
   
   ) – 3:27
5. "Beale Street Blues" (WC Handy) – 2:27
6. "(The End Of) A Beautiful Friendship" (Kahn, Styne) – 2:37
7. "The Silent Treatment" (Kahn, Styne) – 2:51
8. "Hear My Heart" (Buddy Lester
   Buddy Lester
   Buddy Lester was a veteran actor of dozens of character roles of film and television, who regularly appeared in Jerry Lewis features, including The Patsy, The Ladies Man, The Nutty Professor, Three on a Couch, Smorgasbord, Hardly Working" and The Big Mouth.Lester also portrayed Vince Massler, one...
   
   ) – 2:19
9. "Hotta Chocolatta" (Milton Drake, Victor Mizzy) – 3:08
10. "A-Tisket, A-Tasket
    A-Tisket, A-Tasket
    A Tisket A Tasket is a nursery rhyme first recorded in America in the late nineteenth century. It was used as the basis for a very successful and highly regarded 1938 recording by Ella Fitzgerald...
    
    " (Van Alexander
    Van Alexander
    Van Alexander is an American bandleader, arranger, and composer.Alexander led bands and arranged from high school, and studied composition in college. He landed a job selling arrangements to Chick Webb in the middle of the 1930s...
    
    , Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist...
    
    ) – 2:20
11. "Teach Me How to Cry" (Phil Tuminello) – 2:58
12. "Swingin' Shepherd Blues" (Kenny Jacobson, Moe Koffman
    Moe Koffman
    Moe Koffman, OC was a Canadian jazz musician and composer. He played the flute, soprano, alto and tenor saxophone and clarinet...
    
    , Rhoda Roberts) – 2:41
13. "Your Red Wagon" (Gene DePaul, Richard M. Jones
    Richard M. Jones
    Richard M. Jones, born Richard Marigny Jones, was a jazz pianist, composer, band leader, and record producer. Numerous songs bear his name as author, including "Trouble in Mind"....
    
    , Don Raye
    Don Raye
    Don Raye , born Donald MacRae Wilhoite, Jr., in Washington, D.C., was an American vaudevillian and songwriter, best known for his songs for the Andrews Sisters such as "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", "The House of Blue Lights", "Just For A Thrill" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."While known for...
    
    ) – 2:56
14. "Trav'lin' Light" (Johnny Mercer
    Johnny Mercer
    John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
    
    , Jimmy Mundy
    Jimmy Mundy
    Jimmy Mundy was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, arranger, and composer, best known for his arrangements for Benny Goodman, Count Basie and Earl Hines....
    
    , Trummy Young
    Trummy Young
    James "Trummy" Young was a trombonist in the swing era. Although he was never really a star or a bandleader himself, he did have one hit with his version of "Margie," which he played and sang with Jimmie Lunceford's Time-Life Orchestra.-Biography:Growing up in Savannah, GA and Richmond, VA, Young...
    
    ) – 3:12
15. "Oh, What a Night for Love" (Steve Allen
    Steve Allen (comedian)
    Stephen Valentine Patrick William "Steve" Allen was an American television personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer. Though he got his start in radio, Allen is best known for his television career. He first gained national attention as a guest host on Arthur Godfrey's Talent...
    
    , Neal Hefti
    Neal Hefti
    Neal Hefti was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, tune writer, and arranger. He was perhaps best known for composing the theme music for the Batman television series of the 1960s, and for scoring the 1968 film The Odd Couple and the subsequent TV series of the same name.He began arranging...
    
    ) – 2:24
16. "Dreams Are Made for Children" (Mack David
    Mack David
    Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television, with a career spanning from the early 1940s through the early 1970s. Mack was credited with writing lyrics and/or music for over one thousand songs...
    
    , Jerry Livingston
    Jerry Livingston
    Jerry Livingston was an American songwriter, and dance orchestra pianist.-Biography:...
    
    , Max Meth
    Max Meth
    Max Meth was a Broadway musical director and conductor for over 40 years . He came to the United States from Austria...
    
    ) – 2:38
17. "But Not for Me
    But Not for Me (song)
    "But Not for Me" is a popular song, composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.It was written for their musical Girl Crazy and introduced in the original production by Ginger Rogers. It is also in the 1992 musical based on Girl Crazy, Crazy for You...
    
    " (George Gershwin
    George Gershwin
    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
    
    , Ira Gershwin
    Ira Gershwin
    Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
    
    ) – 2:05
18. "The Christmas Song
    The Christmas Song
    "The Christmas Song" is a classic Christmas song written in 1944 by musician, composer, and vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer...
    
    " (Mel Tormé
    Mel Tormé
    Melvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books...
    
    , Robert Wells
    Robert Wells (songwriter)
    Robert Wells was an American songwriter, composer, script writer and television producer. During his early career, he collaborated with singer and songwriter Mel Tormé, writing several hit songs, most notably "The Christmas Song" in 1945...
    
    ) – 3:18

1. "The Secret of Christmas" (Sammy Cahn
   Sammy Cahn
   Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area...
   
   , Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:47
2. Medley: "We Three Kings Of Orient Are", "O Little Town of Bethlehem
   O Little Town of Bethlehem
   "O Little Town of Bethlehem" is a popular Christmas carol. The text was written by Phillips Brooks , an Episcopal priest, Rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia. He was inspired by visiting the Palestinian city of Bethlehem in 1865. Three years later, he wrote the poem for his...
   
   " (Bishop Phillips Brooks, John Henry Hopkins, Jr.
   John Henry Hopkins, Jr.
   John Henry Hopkins, Jr. was an American clergyman and hymnist, most famous for composing the song "We Three Kings of Orient Are" in 1857.-Life:...
   
   , Lewis H. Redner) – 3:36
3. "You're Driving Me Crazy" ("Ich Fuhle Mich Crazy") (Walter Donaldson
   Walter Donaldson
   Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, composing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.-History:...
   
   , Gilbert Obermair) – 3:07
4. "(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)
   (If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)
   " You'll Have to Swing It " is a song written by Sam Coslow that is strongly associated with Ella Fitzgerald....
   
   " (Sam Coslow
   Sam Coslow
   Sam Coslow was an American songwriter, singer, film producer, publisher, and market analyst. Coslow was born in New York City. He began writing songs as a teenager...
   
   ) – 3:46
5. "Call Me Darling" (Dorothy Dick, Mort Fryberg, Rolf Marbet, Bert Reisfeld
   Bert Reisfeld
   Bert Reisfeld was a lyricist, noted for adapting lyrics to well-known songs either to or from English. The songs he wrote English lyrics for include:...
   
   ) – 2:35
6. "Bill Bailey, Won't You Come Home?
   Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey
   " Bill Bailey", originally titled "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?" is a popular song published in 1902. It is commonly referred to as simply "Bill Bailey"....
   
   " (Hughie Cannon
   Hughie Cannon
   Hughie Cannon was a composer and lyricist who was born in Detroit 1877 and died in 1912 in Toledo.-His Works and Bio:His best known composition was the popular song Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey. He wrote the song at the age of sixteen and this ragtime song was published in 1902...
   
   ) – 3:24
7. "Ol' Man Mose" (Louis Armstrong
   Louis Armstrong
   Louis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....
   
   , Zilner Randolph
   Zilner Randolph
   Zilner Trenton Randolph was an American jazz trumpeter and music educator.Randolph attended Biddle University , the Kreuger Conservatory, and the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and played in territory bands including Bernie Young's...
   
   ) – 3:53
8. "Desafinado (Off Key)" (Jesse Cavanaugh, Jon Hendricks
   Jon Hendricks
   Jon Hendricks is an American jazz lyricist and singer. He is considered one of the originators of vocalese, which adds lyrics to existing instrumental songs and replaces many instruments with vocalists...
   
   , Antonio Carlos Jobim
   Antônio Carlos Jobim
   Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim , also known as Tom Jobim , was a Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist. He was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists within...
   
   , Newton Mendonça
   Newton Mendonça
   Newton Ferreira de Mendonça was a musician, composer, and lyricist. He began as a pianist in 1950. In 1953 he started working with Antonio Carlos Jobim, something for which he is best known. Mendonça went on to co-compose music and lyrics for Desafinado, Meditação, and Samba de uma nota só...
   
   ) – 2:11
9. "Stardust
   Stardust (song)
   "Stardust" is an American popular song composed in 1927 by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics added in 1929 by Mitchell Parish. Originally titled "Star Dust", Carmichael first recorded the song at the Gennett Records studio in Richmond, Indiana...
   
   " (Hoagy Carmichael
   Hoagy Carmichael
   Howard Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust", "Georgia On My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul", four of the most-recorded American songs of all time.Alec Wilder, in his study of the...
   
   , Mitchell Parish
   Mitchell Parish
   Mitchell Parish was an American lyricist.-Early life:Parish was born Michael Hyman Pashelinsky to a Jewish family in Lithuania. His family emigrated to the United States, arriving on February 3, 1901 on the SS Dresden when he was less than a year old...
   
   ) – 2:32
10. "All the Live Long Day" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:41
11. "I'm a Poached Egg (Without Toast)" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:35
12. "Ringo
    Ringo Starr
    Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...
    
     Beat" (Fitzgerald) – 1:48
13. "I'm Fallin' in Love" (Barney Kessel
    Barney Kessel
    Barney Kessel was an American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA. Generally considered to be one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 20th century, he was noted in particular for his vast knowledge of chords and inversions and chord-based melodies...
    
    ) – 2:36
14. "She's Just a Quiet Girl" (Riziero Ortolani, Paul Vance
    Paul Vance
    Paul Vance is an American songwriter and record producer.With over 300 recorded songs, Vance co-wrote such hits as "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," recorded in 1960 by Brian Hyland, which rose to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and "Catch a Falling Star," recorded in 1957 by...
    
    ) – 2:53
15. "We Three" (My Echo, My Shadow and Me) (Nelson Cogane, Sammy Mysels, Dick Robertson
    Dick Robertson
    Preston James Robertson was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched in two games for the Cincinnati Reds in 1913, thirteen games for the 1918 Brooklyn Robins and seven games for the 1919 Washington Senators.-External links:...
    
    ) – 2:38
16. "The Shadow of Your Smile
    The Shadow of Your Smile
    "The Shadow of Your Smile", also known as "Love Theme from The Sandpiper", is a popular song. The music was written by Johnny Mandel with the lyrics written by Paul Francis Webster...
    
    " (Johnny Mandel
    Johnny Mandel
    Johnny Mandel is an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. Among the musicians he has worked with are Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Barbra Streisand, and Shirley Horn.-Life:...
    
    , Webster) – 3:06
17. "A Place for Lovers" (Manuel DeSica, Norman Gimbel
    Norman Gimbel
    Norman Gimbel is an American lyricist of popular songs, television and movie themes whose writing career includes such titles as "Sway", "Canadian Sunset", "Summer Samba", "The Girl from Ipanema", "Killing Me Softly With His Song", "Meditation" and "I Will Wait for You", along with an Oscar for...
    
    ) – 2:41
18. "Lonely Is" (Clinton Ballard Jr., Hal Hackaday) – 3:33

Personnel

• Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist...
  
   – Primary artist
  Artist
  An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
  
  
• Bob Cooper
  Bob Cooper (musician)
  Bob Cooper was a West Coast jazz musician known primarily for playing tenor saxophone, but also for being one of the first to play solos on oboe. He worked in Stan Kenton's band starting in 1945 and married the band's singer June Christy...
  
   – Clarinet
  Clarinet
  The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
  
  , Tenor saxophone
  Tenor saxophone
  The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...
  
  
• Harry Edison – Trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  
• Maynard Ferguson
  Maynard Ferguson
  Maynard Ferguson was a Canadian jazz musician and bandleader. He came to prominence playing in Stan Kenton's orchestra, before forming his own band in 1957...
  
   – Trumpet
• Herb Geller
  Herb Geller
  Herb Geller , is an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger.His musical abilities could have been inherited from his mother, Francis. She worked at the Hollywood neighbourhood cinemas playing piano, accompanying silent movies...
  
   – Clarinet, Alto saxophone
  Alto saxophone
  The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in 1841. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano, and is the type most used in classical compositions...
  
  
• Bill Holman
  Bill Holman (musician)
  Willis Leonard Holman , known also as Bill Holman, is an American composer/arranger, conductor, saxophonist, and songwriter working primarily in the jazz idiom....
  
   – Tenor saxophone
• Dick Hyman
  Dick Hyman
  Richard “Dick” Hyman is an American jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer, best-known for his versatility with jazz piano styles. Over a 50 year career, he has functioned as pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and, increasingly, as composer...
  
   – Organ
  Organ (music)
  The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
  
  
• Gordon Jenkins
  Gordon Jenkins
  Gordon Hill Jenkins was an American arranger, composer and pianist who was an influential figure in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s, renowned for his lush string arrangements...
  
   – Conductor
  Conducting
  Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
  
  , Arranger
  Arrangement
  The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
  
  
• Barney Kessel
  Barney Kessel
  Barney Kessel was an American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA. Generally considered to be one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 20th century, he was noted in particular for his vast knowledge of chords and inversions and chord-based melodies...
  
   – Guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , Conductor, Arranger
• Mel Lewis
  Mel Lewis
  Mel Lewis was an American drummer, jazz musician and band leader. He was born Melvin Sokoloff in Buffalo, New York to Russian immigrant parents....
  
   – Drum
  Drum
  The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
  
  s
• Ted Nash – Clarinet, Flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  , Tenor saxophone
• Bud Shank
  Bud Shank
  Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank, Jr. was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He rose to prominence in the early 1950s playing lead alto and flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra and throughout the decade worked in various small jazz combos. He spent the 1960s as a first...
  
   – Flute, Alto saxophone
• Ben Webster
  Ben Webster
  Benjamin Francis Webster , a.k.a. "The Brute" or "Frog," was an influential American jazz tenor saxophonist. Webster, born in Kansas City, Missouri, was considered one of the three most important "swing tenors" along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young...
  
   – Tenor saxophone
• Pete Candoli
  Pete Candoli
  Pete Candoli was an American swing and West Coast jazz trumpeter. He played with the big bands of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, and many others, and worked extensively in the studios of the recording and television industries...
  
   – Trumpet
• Bob Enevoldsen – Tenor saxophone, Valve trombone
• Mort Herbert – Violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  
• Ronnie Lang – Alto saxophone
• Stan Levey
  Stan Levey
  Stan Levey was an American jazz drummer. Born in Philadelphia, Levey is considered one of the earliest bebop drummers, one of the very few white drummers involved in the formative years of bebop and accepted as one of bop's most important drummers, along with Kenny Clarke and Max Roach...
  
   – Drums
• Lou Levy
  Lou Levy (pianist)
  Louis A. Levy , generally known as Lou Levy, was a bebop-based pianist who worked with many top jazz artists, later coming to embrace the cool jazz medium and playing in that style as well .Levy was born to Jewish parents in Chicago and started playing piano when he was 12...
  
   – Piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  , Celesta
  Celesta
  The celesta or celeste is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. Its appearance is similar to that of an upright piano or of a large wooden music box . The keys are connected to hammers which strike a graduated set of metal plates suspended over wooden resonators...
  
  
• Ray Linn – Trumpet
• Matty Matlock
  Matty Matlock
  Julian Clifton "Matty" Matlock was an American Dixieland jazz clarinettist, saxophonist and arranger born in Paducah, Kentucky...
  
   – Flute
• Arnold Ross – Piano
• Jimmy Woode – Bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Buddy Bregman
  Buddy Bregman
  Buddy Bregman is an American musical arranger, record producer and composer.He has worked with many of the greatest musical artists of 20th Century popular music including; Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Matt Monro, and Frank Sinatra.Born in Chicago, he studied...
  
   – Conductor
• Corky Hale – Harp
  Harp
  The harp is a multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard. Organologically, it is in the general category of chordophones and has its own sub category . All harps have a neck, resonator and strings...
  
  
• Frank De Vol
  Frank De Vol
  Frank Denny De Vol, also known simply as De Vol was an American arranger, composer and actor.-Early life and career:...
  
   – Conductor, Arranger
• Felix Slatkin
  Felix Slatkin
  Felix Slatkin was an American violinist and conductor.-Biography:Slatkin was born in St. Louis, Missouri to a Jewish family originally named Zlotkin from areas of the Russian Empire now in Ukraine. He began studying the violin at the age of nine with Isadore Grossman...
  
   – Violin
• Ralph Carmichael
  Ralph Carmichael
  Ralph Carmichael is a composer and arranger of both secular pop music and contemporary Christian music, being regarded as one of the pioneers of the latter genre...
  
   – Conductor
• Med Flory – Baritone saxophone
  Baritone saxophone
  The baritone saxophone, often called "bari sax" , is one of the largest and lowest pitched members of the saxophone family. It was invented by Adolphe Sax. The baritone is distinguished from smaller sizes of saxophone by the extra loop near its mouthpiece...
  
  
• Al Porcino
  Al Porcino
  Al Porcino is an American jazz trumpeter.Porcino began playing professionally in 1943, playing in many big bands of the 1940s and 1950s, including those of Georgie Auld, Louis Prima, Jerry Wald, Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, and Chubby Jackson. He played with Woody Herman in 1946, 1949-1950, and again...
  
   – Trumpet
• Victor Arno – Violin
• Israel Baker – Violin
• Robert Barene – Violin
• Max Bennett – Bass
• Milt Bernhart – Trombone
• Larry Bunker – Percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  
• Joe Comfort – Bass
• Conrad Gozzo
  Conrad Gozzo
  Conrad J. Gozzo was an American trumpet player born in New Britain Connecticut on February 6, 1922. Gozzo was a member of the NBC Hollywood staff orchestra at the time of his death on October 8, 1964...
  
   – Trumpet
• James A. Decker – French horn
  Horn (instrument)
  The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....
  
  
• Harold Dicterow – Violin
• Alvin Dinkin – Viola
  Viola
  The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
  
  
• Don Fagerquist
  Don Fagerquist
  Donald Fagerquist was a small group, big band, and studio jazz trumpet player from the West Coast of the United States...
  
   – Trumpet
• David Frisina – Violin
• Russ Garcia – Conductor
• Chuck Gentry – Bass clarinet
  Bass clarinet
  The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet...
  
  , Baritone saxophone
• Edward Gilbert – Tuba
  Tuba
  The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...
  
  
• Benny Gill – Violin
• Jewell L. Grant – Woodwinds
  Woodwind instrument
  A woodwind instrument is a musical instrument which produces sound when the player blows air against a sharp edge or through a reed, causing the air within its resonator to vibrate...
  
  
• William Green – Woodwinds
• Skeets Herfurt
  Skeets Herfurt
  Arthur "Skeets" Herfurt was an American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist....
  
   – Woodwinds
• Norm Herzberg – Bassoon
  Bassoon
  The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher. Appearing in its modern form in the 19th century, the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band and chamber music literature...
  
  
• Milt Holland
  Milt Holland
  Milt Holland was an American drummer, percussionist, ethnic musicologist, and writer in the Los Angeles music scene who pioneered the use of African, South American, and Indian percussion styles in jazz, pop and film music, traveling extensively on those continents to collect instruments and to...
  
   – Percussion
• Jules Jacob – Woodwinds
• Gus Johnson – Drums
• Knud Jorgensen – Piano
• Kathyrine Julye – Harp
• Anatol Kaminsky – Violin
• Armand Karpoff – Cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  
• John Kitzmiller – Tuba
• Joe Koch – Woodwinds
• Raphael Kramer – Cello
• Dan Lube – Violin
• Alfred Lustgarten – Violin
• Edgar Lustgarten – Cello
• Virginia Majewski – Viola
• Joe Mondragon
  Joe Mondragon
  Joe Mondragon is an American jazz bassist.Mondragon was an autodidact on bass, and began working professionally in Los Angeles. He served in the Army during World War II, and then joined Woody Herman's First Herd in 1946...
  
   – Bass
• Jack Marsh – Bassoon
• Marty Paich
  Marty Paich
  Martin Louis "Marty" Paich was an American pianist, composer, arranger, producer, music director and conductor....
  
   – Conductor, Arranger
• Wilfred Middlebrooks – Bass
• Dick Nash
  Dick Nash
  Richard Taylor "Dick" Nash is an American jazz trombonist most associated with the swing and big band genres.He began playing brass instruments at ten. He became more interested in this after his parents died and he was sent to a boarding school. His first instruments were the trumpet and bugle...
  
   – Trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  
• George Neikrug – Cello
• Nelson Riddle
  Nelson Riddle
  Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s...
  
   – Conductor, Arranger
• Erno Neufeld – Violin
• Robert Ostrowsky – Viola
• Lou Raderman – Violin
• Dorothy Remsen – Harp
• George Roberts (trombonist)
  George Roberts (trombonist)
  George Roberts is an American trombonist.Born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa, George began his career after service in the US Navy with the Ray Robbins Band, and then quit to join Gene Krupa in 1947, where he was in the same section with Urbie Green...
  
   – Trombone, Bass trombone
• Paul Robyn – Viola
• Nathan Ross – Violin
• William Schiopffe – Drums
• Wilbur Schwartz
  Wilbur Schwartz
  Wilbur Schwartz was a clarinetist and alto saxophonist best remembered today for his work with Glenn Miller....
  
   – Woodwinds
• Paul Shure – Violin
• Alvin Stoller
  Alvin Stoller
  Alvin Stoller was an American jazz drummer. Though he seems to have been largely forgotten, he was held in high regard in the 1940s and 1950s...
  
   – Drums
• Fred Stulce – Flute
• Milton Thomas – Viola
• Lloyd Ulyate – Trombone
• Champ Webb – Woodwinds
• Paul Weston
  Paul Weston
  Paul Weston was an American pianist, arranger, composer and conductor. Weston was born Paul Wetstein in Springfield, Massachusetts...
  
   – Conductor, Arranger
• Vincent DeRosa
  Vincent DeRosa
  Vincent DeRosa is a Los Angeles studio musician who played horn for Hollywood soundtracks and other recordings from 1935-2008.-Early Life and Training:...
  
   – French Horn
• Alex Beller – Violin
• Eleanor Slatkin – Cello
• Victor Bay – Violin
• David Filerman – Cello
• Bert Gassman – Woodwinds
• Stanley Harris – Viola
• Jan Hlinka – Viola
• Murray Kellner – Violin
• Sylvia Ruderman – Flute
• Clint Neagley – Alto Saxophone
• Albert Saparoff – Violin
• Justin DiTullio – Cello
• Arnold Koblentz – Woodwinds
• Abe Luboff – Bass
• Nino Rosso – Cello
• Karl de Karske – Bass trombone
• Sam Freed – Violin
• Leonard Hartman – Flute
• Martin Ruderman – Flute
• Ambrose Russo – Violin
• George Werth – Trumpet
• Tommy Pederson – Trombone
• Joe Howard – Trombone
• Maurice Stein – Alto sSaxophone
• Elizabeth Greenschpoon – Cello
• Sanford Schonbach – Viola
• Gordon Schoneberg – Oboe
  Oboe
  The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" , "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca...
  
  
• Misha Russel – Concertmaster
  Concertmaster
  The concertmaster/mistress is the spalla or leader, of the first violin section of an orchestra. In the UK, the term commonly used is leader...
  
  
• Bill Miller – Violin
• Kenneth Lowman – Bassoon
• Ernest Romersa – Woodwinds
• Philip Stephens – Bass
• Paul Smith – Piano
• Sam Albert – Violin
• Francis "Frenchie" Concepcion – Cello
• G.R. Henhenninck – Viola
• Henry Hill – Violin
• Buddy Bregman
  Buddy Bregman
  Buddy Bregman is an American musical arranger, record producer and composer.He has worked with many of the greatest musical artists of 20th Century popular music including; Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Matt Monro, and Frank Sinatra.Born in Chicago, he studied...
  
   – Arranger
• Ellen Fitton – Mastering
  Audio mastering
  Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
  
  
• Hollis King – Art Direction
  Art director
  The art director is a person who supervise the creative process of a design.The term 'art director' is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games....
  
  
• Bryan Koniarz – Producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
  
• Ken Druker – Executive producer
  Executive producer
  An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production...
  
  
• Stuart Nicholson – Liner notes
  Liner notes
  Liner notes are the writings found in booklets which come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for vinyl records and cassettes.-Origin:...
  
  
• Stephanie Stein Crease – Notes editing
• Miguel Villalobos – Illustration
  Illustration
  An illustration is a displayed visualization form presented as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that is created to elucidate or dictate sensual information by providing a visual representation graphically.- Early history :The earliest forms of illustration were prehistoric...
  
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