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Warren Slavin
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Posted 3 Mar 2006 12:53 pm |
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For those who remember, who are the Big Bands during the Big Band era? - I remember only the following bands with steel guitars: Sammy Kaye, Del Courtney, Horace Height (Alvino Rey), Alvino Rey then had his own Big Band, Harry Owens (with Alvin Isaacs, Sr, Freddie Taveras, Eddie Bush, Lani McIntire with Tommy Castro, Hal Aloma, Sam Makia(?), Johnny Pineapple with Hal Aloma, then Hal Aloma had his own band. In Honolulu there was Gigi Royce but who was his steel player?
Can you Formites add or correct this list.
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 3 Mar 2006 1:34 pm
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| That's Horace Heidt. I seem to remember a few others--Ceele Burke was a Canadian player who played guitar and steel guitar with Louis Armstrong's New Sebastian Club Orchestra. There were also a few that I haven't heard, such as "Moxie" Whitney & his Pacific Swingers Orch. and Sherman Hayes & His Orch. |
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Blake Hawkins
From:
Florida
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Posted 3 Mar 2006 1:43 pm
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| Orrin Tucker used steel guitar for accent on some of his records. |
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George Keoki Lake
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Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 3 Mar 2006 3:37 pm
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| MOXIE WHITNEY was a Canadian Big Band leader at the time. I think he is no longer with us. |
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 3 Mar 2006 4:44 pm
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John Bechtel
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Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Mar 2006 10:34 pm
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I can't remember the name for sure, but; wasn't it Buddy Merrill(?) w/Lawrence Welk? (big~band?)
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Al Marcus
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Posted 4 Mar 2006 5:10 pm
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Yes,John. It was Buddy Merrill .I remember Blue Barron in Cleveland.I was only 15 years old living in Cleveland. Sammy Kay played around Cleveland a lot too....al
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 4 Mar 2006 9:52 pm
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Willis Vanderberg
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Petoskey Mi
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Posted 5 Mar 2006 4:40 am
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How big a band are you talking about ?
By pal Al Marcus still does the big band stuff as good as anybody and better than most.He is a true pioneer of the pedal steel and needs to be recognized as such..
Then we have Chuck Parrish down here in Bradenton Fl. who also plays a lot of big band music. He is 84 years young and still going strong. I believe he was from the Baltimore area years ago
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Jody Carver
From:
KNIGHT OF FENDER TWEED
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Posted 12 Mar 2006 8:56 am
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Willis
How true, Al Marcus is the Pioneer of Big Band Steel Players and none as fine a human being as the Chairman Of The Board our very
own AL MARCUS. God Bless Him. |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 12 Mar 2006 7:47 pm
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Someone gave me a tape of Buddy Merril (I'm embarrassed by not recalling who)and it sounds like a very treble Stringmaster, but excellent playing.
Didn't Sam Koki play in early Bing Crosby stuff?[This message was edited by Bill Creller on 12 March 2006 at 07:49 PM.] |
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George Keoki Lake
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Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 12 Mar 2006 9:26 pm
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| No one has mentioned PAUL MARTIN and his orchestra back in the forty-fifties era. He was a close friend to Alvino Rey. Alvino mentioned to me the only time I ever met him, (at the PCC in Lai'e), that he did many of Paul Martin's arrangements. Paul was a very smooth steel guitarist who fronted a BIG band in the Los Angeles area. (He passed away many years ago). |
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Dave Clark
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 13 Mar 2006 6:54 am
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John - and others. Buddy Merrill did play steel, and acoustic, guitar on the Lawrence Welk show for many years. Now and then Welk would have a Hawaiian Night featuring Buddy on the steel. Accent Records has twenty or more albums featuring Buddy Merrill. He was one of the musicians experimenting with multi-track recording in the fifties. Some of the Welk shows, with Buddy Merrill, are still shown on Public Television during their fund raising drives.
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Jerry Hendrix
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Manistee, Michigan, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 13 Mar 2006 8:42 am
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One more BUMP for our pal Al Marcus.He has
been there & done all that, & he shares his
knowledge with amy one smart enough to listen. Sure is a real trooper,& super fine
man. Proud to be his friend. ..Old Jer.
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Al Marcus
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Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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Posted 13 Mar 2006 10:55 am
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I havn't checked 'No Peddlers" in a few days what a pleasant surprise.
Bud, Jody, and Jerry, I want to thank you guys for all the kind words, I appreciate it coming from good Musicians as yourselves and my good friends.
Keoki-Back around 1941-42 besides listening to Alvino Rey on the radio every night , I used to listen to PAUL Martin from the west coast whenever I could catch him. I liked his style as well as Alvino's. Both were way ahead of their time.I guess he had a Gibson Electra-harp too.
Some of those steel players with the big bands in those days were playing hawaiian steel, like I was at the time. I had a D8 non pedal. But they usually doubled on Sax (4th) or guitar. I double on guitar too. So that made it easier to break in.
I couldn't afford an Electra-harp. But the D8 tuned properly like Alvino's advanced tuning did the job pretty well.
Anyway, thanks again Guys....al
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