I was gonna post the Roy Clark vid, but whoever put it together applied really annoying special effects.
Stranger on the shore ~ Acker Bilk (1961) - Bing video Fell in love with this as a kid..a favorite of mine.
Here you go: I have never heard of Acker Bilk, but really like the song. Pete Fountain would be the only solo clarinetist of that era I could name.
Another personal favorite. That XM 40s station has some nice big band stuff, but these other eras get overlooked.
It was some great instrumentalist and instrumentals in the 50s 60s and 70s. One I've been trying to find on YouTube is definitely one of my favorite Arrangements "up up and away way" by Stan Kenton I have the album somewhere. There was another one I can't remember the orchestra leader at all and the name of the song Escapes Me, it will come 2 me eventually.
My older brother was in The Army Band. He was there when The Army Blues (their big band/jazz band) was formed. They had their own recording studio and cut a couple of LPs that I've got. "Up Up and Away" starts at 8:40. Might not be the Kenton arrangement you're familiar with.
Very good it was pretty close to Kenton. In Kenton version the beginning was different he has a slow build-up. I'm just wondering if I had the right song??? I didn't know the army had such great bands very impressed.
Was that not Kenton? huh. Maybe he did different arrangements. You're not thinking of Ferguson's MacArthur Park, are you? Heck, the Air Force had The Airmen of Note jazz band long before the Army got their jazz band. I think the Army's jazz band was created "in response to." My older brother went to high school with a trumpet player who went on to join the Air Force Band, and I went to high school with his younger brother who also went on to join the Air Force Band as a trombone player.
Whenever I heard of military bands the first thing that pops in my head is a marching band. Boy was I wrong.