Buddy Hughes

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Charles Evans "Buddy" Hughes (born June 18, 1919 in Waterloo , Iowa , † August 23, 2010 in Glen Ellyn , Illinois ) was an American singer of the swing era.

Buddy Hughes became known as a band singer in the swing orchestras of Jimmy Dorsey , Gene Krupa and Claude Thornhill . He grew up in Waterloo, Iowa , where he attended high school and began his singing career on small radio stations in Iowa , then sang at Les Hartman with vocalist Fran Allison. In 1938 he toured in the Minnesota- based Bennett Greten Orchestra. During the Second World War he served in Algeria with the 102nd Cavalry of the US Army.

The post-war period was his successful time as a singer; at the end of 1947 he was named number one band singer by the Metronome ; In 1946 Downbeat Magazine called his singing "the freshest voice to be heard with a band." Columbia Records marketed him as the new Johnny Mercer . His successful songs that he recorded for Columbia were (with the Gene Krupa band in 1947) "I'll Never Make The Same Mistake Again", "Fun and Fancy Free", "Please Don't Play Number Six Tonight" and "It's Whatcha Do With Whatcha Got". Recordings were also made for columbia with the Claude Thornhill Band, such as “Did I Have To Fall In Love With You?” And “Far Away Island”. Buddy also tried to learn the double bass in order to continue to be successful in jazz, but with the end of the big band era he could no longer build on his earlier successes as a singer. He had a short-lived duo in Chicago with pianist Louis Weertz and then performed occasionally with jazz musicians from the Chicago area, such as Bert Rose, Joe Vito and Johnny Frigo . Hughes remained active as a musician into old age.

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SURNAME Hughes, buddy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hughes, Charles Evans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Waterloo, Iowa
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 2010
Place of death Glen Ellyn