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William James Finegan (3 April 1917 – 4 June 2008) was an American jazz bandleader, pianist, arranger, and composer. He was an arranger in the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Finegan grew up in a household full of piano players. While growing up in Rumson, New Jersey, he taught orchestration to schoolmate Nelson Riddle, and he studied piano with Elizabeth Connelly, piano and musicianship with flautist/alto saxophonist Rudolph John Winthrop (1883–1959), himself a student of Engelbert Humperdinck. He spent time studying at the Paris Conservatory and had his first professional experience leading his own piano trio. Finegan was offered a job as a staff arranger for Glenn Miller after Tommy Dorsey bought a copy of his "Lonesome Road" and recommended him; he remained with Miller until 1942, and arranged such hits as "Little Brown Jug", "Sunrise Serenade", "Song of the Volga Boatmen", and "Jingle Bells", arranged in collaboration with Glenn Miller. Finegan also arranged music for films in which the band appeared, such as Sun Valley Serenade (1941) and Orchestra Wives (1942). He then worked off and on for Tommy Dorsey from 1942 to 1952, including on the 1947 film The Fabulous Dorseys.
Edward Ernest Sauter (December 2, 1914 in Brooklyn – April 21, 1981 in New York City) was a composer and jazz arranger who achieved renown among musicians during the swing era.
Sauter studied music at Columbia University and the Juilliard School. He began as a drummer and then played trumpet professionally, most notably with Red Norvo's orchestra. Eventually he became a full-time arranger for Norvo. He went on to arrange and compose for Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman, and especially Benny Goodman, earning a reputation for intricate, complex, and carefully crafted works such as "Benny Rides Again," "Moonlight on the Ganges," and "Clarinet a la King".
From 1952 to 1958 Sauter was co-leader of the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra. Between 1957 and 1959 he was Kurt Edelhagen's successor as leader of the SWF orchestra in Baden-Baden, Germany. In 1961, he worked with tenor saxophonist Stan Getz on Focus, a unique collaboration for which Sauter---at Getz's commission---wrote a suite of string compositions (Roy Haynes, the jazz drummer, appeared on "I'm Late, I'm Late," the only selection to feature a non-string instrument other than Getz) without primary melodies, the idea being for Getz to improvise them in his customary lyric style.
The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra was an American swing jazz band popular in the 1950s.
The orchestra was led by Eddie Sauter and Bill Finegan, who were both experienced big band arrangers. Sauter played mellophone, trumpet, and drums, and had attended Columbia University and Juilliard; Finegan had studied at the Paris Conservatory. They began recording together in 1952, using inventive arrangements that made use of a variety of unusual instruments, including many orchestral instruments as well as oddities like the kazoo and the beaten human chest.
A June 7, 1952, article in the trade publication Billboard described the new group as "a creative band, which will combine dance music as well as mood interpretations."
The group initially had a three-year contract with RCA Victor, with plans "for about 16 sides a year."Their first chart appearance was with "Doodletown Fifers", their version of a Civil War tune called "Kingdom Coming and the Year of Jubilo". "Nina Never Knew" (featuring vocalist Joe Mooney) and "The Moon is Blue" (with Sally Sweetland) soon followed on the charts. With the success of the singles, they put together a 21-member touring ensemble and began playing venues in 1953. Sweetland was the group's female vocalist, and Andy Roberts was the male vocalist. Because the group played in dance halls rather than concert venues, they encountered little success on the road, and quit touring in 1955 after having accrued much debt.
Little, Brown and Company is an American publisher founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown, and for close to two centuries has published fiction and nonfiction by many of America's finest writers. Early lists featured Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson's poetry, and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, all of which are still available today. In 1993 Little, Brown created a new trade paperback imprint, Back Bay Books, to focus on long-term publication of the company's best fiction and nonfiction and to publish original trade paperbacks. Little, Brown is also the home of Bulfinch Press, a leading publisher of art and photography books.
Bestselling novelists on Little, Brown's hardcover and Back Bay's paperback lists include J. D. Salinger, James Patterson, Herman Wouk, Alice Sebold, Anita Shreve, Walter Mosley, Janet Fitch, John le Carre, Jimmy Buffett, Pete Hamill, David Foster Wallace, and Michael Connelly. In nonfiction, Little, Brown's bestselling and prizewinning works include such distinguished writers as Nelson Mandela, James Bradley, William Manchester, George Stephanopoulos, Gloria Steinem, the Dalai Lama, David Sedaris, John Feinstein, Malcolm Gladwell, and the cartoonist R. Crumb. Bulfinch publishes the distinguished photography of Ansel Adams, Sally Mann, Irving Penn, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Joyce Tenneson, Howard Schatz and Abelardo Morell.
Little Brown Jug can refer to:
The Little Brown Jug is also the name of several trophies presented to the winners of certain American football games:
The orchestra of Eddie Sauter and Bill Finegan performing "Midnight Sleighride".
LaSalle Causeway Swing band . "Little Brown Jug" performed Live at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Kingston, Ontario. November 23, 2013. Pre-Christmas benefit concert in support of Parters in Mission Food Bank and Philippine disaster relief.
The Eddie Sauter & Bill Finegan Orchestra - What Is This Thing Called Love
The Beantown Swing Orchestra performs Bill Finegan''s arrangement of "Little Brown Jug" at the JFK Library (Smith Hall) in Boston, Massachusetts on April 9, 2016. Transcribed by Danny Fratina from the 1939 Glenn Miller recording. BEANTOWN SWING ORCHESTRA Mark Zaleski - alto sax Nathan See - alto sax Melanie Brooks - alto sax Aaron Gratzmiller - tenor sax (solo) Tucker Antell - tenor sax Danny Fratina - trumpet, arranger Kai Sandoval - trumpet Noah Conrad - trumpet (solo) Daniel Henderson - trumpet Randy Pingrey - trombone Tim Shneier - trombone (solo) Molly Furlong - trombone Joe Ricard - bass trombone Yvonne Aubert - piano Skuli Thorsteinsson - guitar Genevieve Rose - bass Phil McGowan - drums Frank Hsieh - videocamera, video editor
First part of an extended series of interviews with the legendary composer BILL FINEGAN. This covers his early years.
RELEASED: 1959 ALBUM: The Return Of The Doodletown Fifers COMPOSER: Bill Finegan PERFORMER: Sauter-Finegan Orchestra ~~The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra was an American swing jazz band popular in the 1950s. The orchestra was led by Eddie Sauter and Bill Finegan, who were both experienced big band arrangers. Sauter played mellophone, trumpet, and drums, and had attended Columbia University and Juilliard; Finegan had studied at the Paris Conservatory. They began recording together in 1952, using inventive arrangements that made use of a variety of unusual instruments, including many orchestral instruments as well as oddities like the kazoo and the beaten human chest. Their first chart appearance was with "Doodletown Fifers", their version of a Civil War tune called "Kingdom Coming a...
Bobby Nichols plays trumpet. Eddie Sauter: Born 2 December 1914, Brooklyn, New York. Died 21 April 1981, New York City, New York . Bill Finegan: Born 3 April 1917, Newark, New Jersey. Died 4 June 2008, Bridgeport, Connecticut . Considered two of the best arrangers of the big band era, Sauter and Finegan joined forces in 1952 to form a group whose unusual instrumentation, arrangements, and material set it apart from just about everything else at the time--yet also ultimately led to its commercial downfall. Yet in the recordings of the Sauter-Finegan orchestra, you can hear the roots of a style that would burst forth a few years later in the stereo spectaculars of Esquivel, Enoch Light, and others. Sauter and Finegan followed parallel but separate paths for the first two decades of their pr...
The Eddie Sauter & Bill Finegan Orchestra & Chorus - Honey Babe from film ''Battle Cry'''
Doodletown Fifers (Work-Finegan-Sauter) by the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra (CD audio source) This percussive arrangement by the progressive new band assembled by big-band-era arrangers Eddie Sauter and Bill Finegan borrowed its melody from Henry Clay Work's 1862 tune "Kingdom Coming (And The Year Of Jubilo)." TIP: Click this link to browse through all 127 videos of the 1952 HITS ARCHIVE collection, alphabetically arranged in the convenient YouTube Playlist format: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTFzQlK7fWk9kF-6CSn9yUPBwTGkjYz52 The 1952 HITS ARCHIVE - here in one place, a high-quality library of best-sellers and songs that made an impact, presented in clean, original-release versions (no remakes, alternate takes, or "re-processed stereo") MusicProf78 on Facebook: https://www.face...
The Beantown Swing Orchestra performs Bill Finegan's arrangement of "Song Of The Volga Boatmen" at the JFK Library (Smith Hall) in Boston, Massachusetts on April 9, 2016. Transcribed by Danny Fratina from the 1942 Glenn Miller recording. BEANTOWN SWING ORCHESTRA Mark Zaleski - alto sax Nathan See - alto sax Aaron Gratzmiller - tenor sax (solo) Tucker Antell - tenor sax Melanie Brooks - bari sax Danny Fratina - trumpet, arranger Kai Sandoval - trumpet Noah Conrad - trumpet (solo) Daniel Henderson - trumpet Randy Pingrey - trombone Tim Shneier - trombone Molly Furlong - trombone Joe Ricard - bass trombone Yvonne Aubert - piano Skuli Thorsteinsson - guitar Genevieve Rose - bass Phil McGowan - drums Frank Hsieh - videocamera, video editor
First part of an extended series of interviews with the legendary composer BILL FINEGAN. This covers his early years.
The Eddie Sauter & Bill Finegan Orchestra - What Is This Thing Called Love
The Eddie Sauter & Bill Finegan Orchestra - What Is This Thing Called Love
The Eddie Sauter & Bill Finegan Orchestra & Chorus - Honey Babe from film ''Battle Cry'''
The Eddie Sauter & Bill Finegan Orchestra & Chorus - Honey Babe from film ''Battle Cry'''
Glenn took the arrangements of Billy May and Bill Finegan to make the opening of this great song
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra. "Vilia," arranged by Bill Finegan. NYC Chesterfield "Moonlight Serenade," Thursday, 16 October 1941.
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra. "Intermezzo," arranged by Bill Finegan. St. Louis, MO Chesterfield 'Moonlight Serenade," Wednesday, 9 July 1941.
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra. "April In Paris,' arranged by Bill Finegan. NYC Chesterfield "Moonlight Serenade," Tuesday, 22 September 1942.
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra. "Sleepy Lagoon," arranged by Bill Finegan. Fort Sheridan, IL Chesterfield "Moonlight Serenade," 28 May 1942.
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0:00 Little Brown Jug by Bill Finegan arranged by Jeff Hest as performed by The Glenn Miller Orchestra featuring Michael Incavo (tenor sax), Stephen Spink (trumpet), and Austin Westjohn (trombone) 4:25 Don't Be That Way by Benny Goodman and Edgar Sampson arranged by Jeff Hest as performed by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra featuring Ricky Roshell (clarinet), Stephen Spink (trumpet), and Scott Quintana (trombone) 8:15 Round Midnight by Thelonious Monk and Cootie Williams arranged by Mike Tomaro featuring Dr. Michael Jacobson (alto sax) 17:25 All the Cats Join In arranged by Johnny Thompson transcribed by Myles Collins as performed by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra featuring Dr. Jun Qian (clarinet) 22:30 Georgia on My Mind by Stuart Gorrell and Hoagy Carmichael arranged by John Cla...
Een muzikaal portret t.g.v. de 100e geboortedag – op 10 november 2016 - van deze Amerikaanse bandleider/arrangeur, die in werkelijkheid 87 jaar werd (overleden op 22 januari 2004). Samenstelling en presentatie: Co Snel. Uitgezonden via radio RTi Hilversum op zondag 20 november 2016 (12-13u), herhaald op woensdag 23 november 2016 (22-23u). Playlist: 1. Come and dance with me, muziek: Jimmy van Heusen/tekst: Sammy Cahn. Frank Sinatra met orkest o.l.v. Billy May (1959). 2. Cherokee, Ray Noble/arrangement: Billy May. Charlie Barnett en zijn Band (14-10-1939). (fragment). 3. Little brown jug (1869), Joseph Winner/arrangement voor Glenn Miller: Bill Finegan. Billy May en zijn orkest (1958). 4. Woody woodpecker song, George Tibbles/Ramey Idriss. Mel Blanc, The Sportsmen en orkest o.l.v. Billy May...
Various Artists - Frohe Weihnachten Britta - Ein Weihnachtsgeschenk für Dich -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track list: (click on the time to skip to your favorite song) 1 | 00:00 | Gordon MacRae - (Here's To) a Wonderful Christmas (Dunham) 2 | 02:04 | Nat King Cole - Adestes Fideles (O Come, All Ye Faithful) (E. Bergdahl) 3 | 04:33 | Dean Martin - A Winter Romance (Ken Lane) 4 | 07:32 | Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas (Bill Hayes, Jay Johnson) 5 | 09:41 | The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra - Midnight Sleighride (Woody Herman) 6 | 12:41 | Stan Kenton & His Orchestra - Angels We Have Heard On High (Traditional) 7 | 14:53 | Percy Faith - Away In A Manger (James R. Murray, Traditional) 8 | 17:15 | Elmo 'n Patsy - Grand...
Various Artists - Joyeux Noël Enzo - Mon cadeau de Noël pour toi (Full Album) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tip: click on the time and listen your favorite song Track list: 1 | 00:00 | Dean Martin - Brahms Lullaby (J. Brahms) 2 | 03:01 | The Chipmunks - Frosty the Snowman (Steve Nelson) 3 | 05:02 | Percy Faith - Away In A Manger (James R. Murray, Traditional) 4 | 07:24 | Nat King Cole - Buon Natale (means) Merry Christmas To You (Nat King Cole) 5 | 08:58 | Percy Faith - Christians Awake! (Traditional) 6 | 10:24 | Nat King Cole - Adestes Fideles (O Come, All Ye Faithful) (E. Bergdahl) 7 | 12:53 | Chet Atkins - Deck The Halls (Traditional) 8 | 14:05 | Ella Fitzgerald - Jingle Bells (James Lord Pierpont) 9 | 1...
Various Artists - Merry Christmas Lucy - A Special #ChristmasGift For you -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track list: (click on the time to skip to your favorite song) 1 | 00:00 | Dean Martin - Brahms Lullaby (J. Brahms) 2 | 03:01 | The Chipmunks - Frosty the Snowman (Steve Nelson) 3 | 05:02 | Percy Faith - Away In A Manger (James R. Murray, Traditional) 4 | 07:24 | Nat King Cole - Buon Natale (means) Merry Christmas To You (Nat King Cole) 5 | 08:58 | Percy Faith - Christians Awake! (Traditional) 6 | 10:24 | Nat King Cole - Adestes Fideles (O Come, All Ye Faithful) (E. Bergdahl) 7 | 12:53 | Chet Atkins - Deck The Halls (Traditional) 8 | 14:05 | Ella Fitzgerald - Jingle Bells (James Lord Pierpont) 9 | 16:28 | ...
Various Artists - Joyeux Noël Arthur - Mon cadeau de Noël pour toi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track list: (click on the time to skip to your favorite song) 1 | 00:00 | Frank Sinatra - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley) 2 | 02:28 | Patti Page - Christmas Bells (Schroeder) 3 | 04:58 | Percy Faith - Away In A Manger (James R. Murray, Traditional) 4 | 07:19 | Elmo 'n Patsy - Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer (Brooks) 5 | 10:48 | Nat King Cole - Adestes Fideles (O Come, All Ye Faithful) (E. Bergdahl) 6 | 13:18 | Stan Kenton & His Orchestra - Angels We Have Heard On High (Traditional) 7 | 15:30 | The Chipmunks - Frosty the Snowman (Steve Nelson) 8 | 17:31 | Dean Martin - A Winter ...
Various Artists - Joyeux Noël Tom - Mon cadeau de Noël pour toi (Full Album) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tip: click on the time and listen your favorite song Track list: 1 | 00:00 | Frank Sinatra - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley) 2 | 02:28 | Patti Page - Christmas Bells (Schroeder) 3 | 04:58 | Percy Faith - Away In A Manger (James R. Murray, Traditional) 4 | 07:19 | Elmo 'n Patsy - Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer (Brooks) 5 | 10:48 | Nat King Cole - Adestes Fideles (O Come, All Ye Faithful) (E. Bergdahl) 6 | 13:18 | Stan Kenton & His Orchestra - Angels We Have Heard On High (Traditional) 7 | 15:30 | The Chipmunks - Frosty the Snowman (Steve Nelson) 8 | 17:31 | Dean Marti...
Various Artists - Feliz Navidad Carmen - Mi regalo de navidad para ti (Full Album) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tip: click on the time and listen your favorite song Track list: 1 | 00:00 | Patti Page - Christmas Bells (Schroeder) 2 | 02:30 | Nat King Cole - Adestes Fideles (O Come, All Ye Faithful) (E. Bergdahl) 3 | 04:59 | The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra - Midnight Sleighride (Woody Herman) 4 | 07:59 | Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas (Bill Hayes, Jay Johnson) 5 | 10:09 | Celia Cruz & La Sonora Matancera - El Cha Cha Cha De La Navidad (Collazo) 6 | 12:39 | Frank Sinatra - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley) 7 | 15:06 | Bing Crosby - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Traditional) 8 | 17:...