Sammy Kaye

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

Kaye played the saxophone and clarinet and studied engineering science at Ohio University. After playing with campus bands, he founded in the early 1930s in Cleveland his first band. The early 1940s was his band in the U.S. very popular; Kaye was later known for the inclusion of the audience in the tape mode, in which viewers were allowed to " conduct " the band: (? Engl. So you want to lead a band) with "? So You Want To Lead A Band " were volunteers on stage asked and were able to win a conducting baton. This program was then taken over part of a radio show and short by television. Another gimmick Kayes was the marketing of a book of poems ( Sunday Serenade Book of Poems ) in the show. His band played one of Guy Lombardo Sweet influenced style; only for an album of Dixieland jazz mid-60s, he departed from his commercial style. To the musicians with whom he worked, were Ralph Flanagan, Dale Cornell and Marty Oscard, were among the singers, among others, Don Cornell and Nancy Norman.

Kaye recorded a number of records for the label Vocalion, Victor and Columbia. Between 1941 and 1950, Kaye had 23 Top Ten hits in the U.S. singles charts, including the 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 once again reached the top spot of the charts, but it should be his last great success.

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