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unusual facts about studio orchestra


Studio orchestra

Some famous easy listening studio orchestras are the 101 Strings, the Living Strings, and the Hollyridge Strings.


Living Strings

The Living Strings was an easy listening studio orchestra, founded in 1959.


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Dick Jacobs

When he was hired to be the musical director for the television series, Your Hit Parade, for its 1957-58 season, he replaced most of the existing studio orchestra members with his own choices including Dick Hyman, Don Lamond, Al Caiola and Jerome Richardson.

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook is a 1961 (see 1961 in music) album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Billy May.

Enric Madriguera

In the late 1920s Madriguera played in Ben Selvin's studio orchestra at Columbia Records in New York, and served briefly as that company's director of Latin music recording.

I Hope I Never

Australian singer and songwriter Tina Arena recorded the song in 2008 with the London Studio Orchestra for her album Songs of Love & Loss 2 and similarly changed the lyrics to reflect her gender.

Radio orchestra

The last permanent studio orchestra in America was The Tonight Show Band, also known as the NBC Orchestra, a big band led by trumpeter Doc Severinsen.

Uan Rasey

In 1949, he became first trumpet with the MGM film studio orchestra, playing on all the major MGM soundtracks from the Golden Age of Hollywood including An American in Paris, Singin' in the Rain, Gigi, West Side Story (at United Artists), My Fair Lady (at Warner Bros.), Two for the Seesaw and Bye Bye Birdie (at Columbia Pictures), along with many others.