Larry Clinton
Larry Clinton ( born August 17, 1909 in Brooklyn, New York City; † 2 May 1985 in Tucson, Arizona) was an American trumpeter, trombonist, arranger and band leader in the field of swing and popular music.
Life
Larry Clinton was self-taught; he starred alongside his main instrument trumpet and trombone and clarinet. In his twenties he worked as a trumpeter with Isham Jones, as an arranger for the swing orchestras of Claude Hopkins in 1933, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey in 1935/36, Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra 1936/37, and 1937 for Louis Armstrong, and Bunny Berigan; Clinton's Dipsy Doodle Composition in 1938 for Tommy Dorsey's band a Hiterfolg.
From 1937 to 1941 Larry Clinton led a popular first own band; there was a string of hits for Victor Records. The band 's repertoire ranged from current pop tunes ( as I Double Dare You, Summer souvenirs or Over the Rainbow ), instrumental numbers, like that of Clinton written A Study in Brown, and swing adaptations of classical compositions, with lyrics to pieces by Claude Debussy and Pyotr Tchaikovsky ( Our Love ).
His version of Debussy's Reverie, the band vocalist Bea Wain, was particularly popular. Entitled My Reverie his version reached # 1 on the 1938 Billboard charts. The last of his number - one hits Deep Purple was written by Peter DeRose in February 1939.
Clinton's band was primarily a studio group that recorded for Victor, Bluebird Records, and Jubilee, but also occurred occasionally in colleges and hotel lobbies. In Larry Clinton's band played, inter alia, Charlie Mariano, Nat Pierce, Babe Russin and Joe Mooney. In 1941, Clinton joined with his band in six short musical films, the popular movie jukebox films; the films were actually released as Soundies in 1943. This was one of his last employment as a bandleader; in World War II, he worked as a flight instructor. He took after the war his musical work again, had from 1948 to 1950, a smaller ensemble.
In 1956, Clinton took a Studio Big Band for RCA again on his greatest hits, with Helen Ward took over the vocal numbers by Bea Wain. (Larry Clinton in Hi-Fi, RCA LPM -1342 ), where he first got the opportunity einzuspielen his composition " Study In Brown" itself. Clinton remained until 1961 worked in the music industry and worked as A & R for Kapp Records and a music publisher. He died in 1985 in Tucson at the age of 75 years.
A collection of Clinton's arrangements and other material was included in the collection of the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming in Laramie.