October 1 Birthday of pianist Roger Williams

Roger Williams (born Louis Weertz, October 1, 1924), is an American popular music pianist and he has released over 100 albums.

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LeRoy Holmes birthday September 22, 1913

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Alvin Holmes from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania died on July 27, 1986, in Los Angeles, California. was an American songwriter, composer, arranger and conductor.
Holmes studied music at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and the Juilliard School in New York, before working with a number of bandleaders during the 1930s and early 40s. These included Ernst Toch, Vincent Lopez, and Harry James
After serving as a lieutenant in the US Navy during the Second World War, he moved to Hollywood, where he was hired by MGM Music Studios as a house arranger and conductor, before later moving to United Artists. During his time with MGM, he backed numerous vocalists, including Judy Garland, and in 1954 made what is possibly his best known recording, a version of the theme to the film The High and the Mighty. The song is known for its distinctive accompanying whistling, which was provided by Fred Lowery. Holmes provided the orchestration for Tommy Edwards epic 1958 hit "It's All In The Game", and tried rock and R&B with his backing to the Impalas "Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home)". Holmes also wrote the theme song to the television series International Detective.
He moved to United Artists Records in the early 1960s, where he contributed to many compilations of movie themes, released albums under his own name and backed a succession of singers, notably Connie Francis, Gloria Lynne, Shirley Bassey and Puerto Rican singers like Tito Rodríguez and Chucho Avellanet. In addition, he produced albums for a number of United Artists acts, including the Briarwood Singers. He also worked on the music for the 1977 film The Chicken Chronicles (see 1977 in film). (Wikipedia)

September 20 Birthday of Frank De Vol

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Frank Denny De Vol, also known simply as De Vol (September 20, 1911 – October 27, 1999) was an American arranger, composer and actor.

De Vol was born in Moundsville, West Virginia and grew up in Canton, Ohio. His father, Herman Frank De Vol, was band-leader of a local movie orchestra and his mother, Minnie Emma Humphreys De Vol, had worked in a sewing shop. He attended Miami University.
When De Vol was 14, he became a member of the Musicians' Union. After playing violin in his father's orchestra and appearances in a Chinese restaurant, he joined the Horace Heidt Orchestra in the 1930s, being responsible for the arrangements. Later, he toured with the Alvino Rey Orchestra, before embarking on his recording career.

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Joe Reisman birthday September 16

Born 1924, in Dallas, Texas. Died 15 September 1987, in Los Angeles, California. Reisman studied at
Baylor University and the University of Texas at El Paso, Reisman got jobs playing sax with a variety of big bands, including Bob Crosby, Louis Prima, Jack Teagarden, and Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra. With RCA, he recorded several albums of light easy listening music, and had a small hit with a cover of Ross Bagdasarian's tune, "Armen's Theme."

Was one of Roulette leading producers, and continue to record occasionally himself.

He was a producer of many of Henry Mancini's best albums.

French composer - conductor Maurice Jarre was born on September 12, 1924

Maurice-Alexis Jarre (13 September 1924 – 28 March 2009)

Although he composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores, and is particularly known for his collaborations with film director David Lean. Jarre composed the scores to all of Lean's films since Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Other notable scores of his include The Message (1976), Witness (1985) and Ghost (1990). Three of his compositions spent a total of forty-two weeks on the U.K. singles chart chart; the biggest hit was 'Somewhere My Love' (to his tune Lara's Theme, with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster) by the Michael Sammes Singers, which reached number fourteen in 1966 and spent thirty-eight weeks on the chart. Jarre was a three time Academy Award winner, for Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984), all of which were directed by David Lean. He was Oscar nominated a total of eight times.

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Claude Vasori birthday 12 September 1930

Caravelli, real name Claude Vasori (12 September 1930, Paris, France) is a French orchestra leader, composer and arranger of easy listening music.

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Stu Phillips birthday September 9, 1929

Stu Phillips is an American composer of film scores and television-series theme music, conductor and record producer. In the mid-1960s, he worked for Capitol Records and created, produced and arranged for the Hollyridge Strings.

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Al Caiola birthday September 7, 1920

Al Caiola (born Alexander Emil Caiola, September 7, 1920, Jersey City, New Jersey) is a guitarist who plays jazz, country, rock, western, and pop music. He has been both a studio musician and stage performer. He has recorded over fifty albums and has worked with some of the biggest stars of the 20th Century, including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Percy Faith, Buddy Holly, Mitch Miller, and Tony Bennett. During World War II Caiola played with the United States Marine Corps 5th Marine Division (United States) Band that also included Bob Crosby. Caiola served in the Battle of Iwo Jima as a stretcher bearer.

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