Sammy Kaye

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Sammy Kaye (born March 13, 1910 in Lakewood , Ohio as Samuel Zarnocay Junior; † June 2, 1987 in Ridgewood , New Jersey ) was an American orchestra conductor and composer.

Kaye played the saxophone and clarinet and studied civil engineering at Ohio University . After playing with campus bands, he formed his first band in Cleveland in the early 1930s . In the early 1940s his band was very popular in the United States; Kaye was later "lead" known for the inclusion of the audience in the band mode, in which audience the band could: (. English with? "So You Want To Lead A Band" ? So you want to lead a band ) were volunteers on stage asked and were able to win a baton by conducting . This program then became part of a radio show and was briefly adopted by television. Another gimmick of Kayes was the marketing of a book of poems ( Sunday Serenade Book of Poems ) on the show. His band played a Sweet style influenced by Guy Lombardo ; He deviated from his commercial style only for an album with Dixieland Jazz in the mid-1960s. The musicians he worked with included Ralph Flanagan , Dale Cornell, and Marty Oscard, and the singers included Don Cornell and Nancy Norman.

Kaye recorded a number of records for the Vocalion , Victor and Columbia labels . Between 1941 and 1950, Kaye had 23 top ten hits in the US singles charts, including number one hits Daddy (1941), Chickery Chick (1945), I'm A Big Girl Now and The Old Lamplighter (1946) . After his move from RCA Records to Columbia Records in the summer of 1950, his first single for Columbia Harbor Lights reached the top of the charts again; this was his last great success.

After his death, he was inducted into the American Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1992 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James M. Abraham: Politics, Ego & Command Vulnerability . AuthorHouse, Bloomington, IN 2014, ISBN 1-4969-9847-2 , pp. 71 (American English).
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Records 1940-1955 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research, 1973, p. 30

literature

  • Leo Walker: The Big Band Almanac . Ward Ritchie Press, Pasadena. 1978
  • George T. Simon : The Big Bands . With a foreword by Frank Sinatra. 3rd revised edition. New York City, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co and London: Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1974, pp. 282-286

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personal data
SURNAME Kaye, Sammy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zarnocay, Samuel Junior (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American orchestra leader, composer and saxophonist
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Lakewood
DATE OF DEATH June 2nd 1987
Place of death Ridgewood