Big Band Serenade

Big Band Serenade presents it Spring Time Theme Show...

Air National Guard Show with Russ Morgan & Rosemary Clooney...

Bargy's work for the Benson Orchestra established him as a triple-threat talent, and his services were soon sought out by other bands. In late 1921, after a falling out with Benson, Bargy left and formed his own orchestra, taking many members of the group with him. He disbanded a few years later and...

During the 1930s Freddy Nagel operated a society orchestra in the Northwestern part of the United States. In the early 1940s Nagel reorganized his band and began to feature swing music. He also expanded his territory into the Midwest. In 1947 Nagel had a short-lived sustaining radio show on ABC, liv...

In this Universal-International musical featurette (U-I production number 8306)"Harry James and His Music Makers" (which is also the correct title and not "Harry James and the Music Makers", since the Music Makers was the name of his band and was also prefaced with "His"), the featured vocalist with...

The tall, handsome Monroe, whose signature tune was "Racing With the Moon", was very popular in the 1940s and early 1950s. His band was heard every Sunday on the radio in America (under contract to Camel cigarettes) and played to full ballrooms everywhere they went. Some of the musicians who regular...

Frederick Alfred (Freddy) Martin (December 9, 1906 " September 30, 1983) was an American bandleader and tenor saxophonist.Orchestra leader Freddie Martin was not a jazz musician and never tried to be. Martin was, however, probably the most respected tenor saxophonist of the dance band era. The warmt...

Dale Jones on CBS Remote Broadcast...

Earl Kenneth Hines, universally known as Earl "Fatha" Hines, (28 December 1903 Duquesne, Pennsylvania " 22 April 1983 in Oakland, California) was "one of a small number of pianists whose playing shaped the history of jazz"...

Dick Henry Jurgens (January 9, 1910 " October 5, 1995) was an American swing music bandleader, who enjoyed great popularity in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Dick Jurgens was born in Sacramento, California to Dietrich Heinrich Jurgens and Clara Matilda (Erath) Jurge...