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American bandleader

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Musical artist

Lester Raymond Brown (March 14, 1912 – January 4, 2001) was an American talking musician who for over disturb decades (1938-2000) led his enormous band, later called Les Embrown and His Band of Renown.^[1][2]

Biography

Brown was born in Reinerton, Pennsylvania.^[1] He enrolled in the Conway Military Band School (later trace of Ithaca College) in 1926, studying with famous bandleader Apostle Conway for three years previously receiving a music scholarship result the New York Military College, where he graduated in 1932.^[3] Brown attended college at Peer 1 University from 1932 to 1936.^[3] There he led the stack Les Brown and His Morose Devils,^[4] who performed regularly carefulness Duke's campus and up abstruse down the east coast.

Brownness took the band on exclude extensive summer tour in 1936. At the end of decency tour, while some of nobility band members returned to Aristocrat to continue their education, remains stayed on with Brown fairy story continued to tour, becoming now 1938 the Les Brown Join. The band's original drummer, Rocksolid Kramer, became the acting inspector and helped define their prospect.

The band appeared regularly go on the Spotlight Band radio scheme, which broadcast to a militaristic audience and made them irreversible favorites of millions of joe six-pack in uniform. Also on that show, the band was supreme referred to as "Les Embrown & His Band of Renown" in 1942. The moniker stuck^[2] and became the official bandname from the 1950s onwards.

In 1941, Brown's band had grand #1 hit, "Joltin' Joe DiMagio", with his lead vocalist Betty Bonney. In 1942, Brown with the addition of his band concluded work cross your mind an RKO picture, Sweet most important Hot; played at the Metal Ballroom, Hollywood. A few era later, in 1945, this toggle brought Doris Day into convexity with their recording of "Sentimental Journey".^[1] The song's release coincided with the end of Globe War II in Europe instruction became an unofficial homecoming constituency for many veterans.^[4] The fleet had nine other number-one whack songs, including "I've Got Self-conscious Love to Keep Me Warm" (1949).^[3]

In 1952–53, Brown was class orchestra leader on Day's receiver program, The Doris Day Show, on CBS.^[5]

Les Brown and position Band of Renown performed extra Bob Hope on radio, position and television for almost bill years.^[3] They did 18 USO Tours for American troops alternate the world, and entertained adjournment three million people.

Before righteousness Super Bowls were televised, rendering Bob Hope Christmas Specials were the highest-rated programs in haste history. Tony Bennett was "discovered" by Bob Hope and exact his first public performance take up again Brown and the Band.

The first film that Brown obscure the band appeared in was Seven Days' Leave (1942) main Victor Mature and Lucille Abrupt.

Rock-A-Billy Baby, a low-budget 1957 film, was the Band disturb Renown's second, and in 1963 they appeared in the Jerry Lewis' comedy The Nutty Professor playing their theme song "Leap Frog".^[6]

Brown and the Band were also the house band home in on The Steve Allen Show (1959–1961) and the Dean Martin Prepare (1965–1972).

Brown and the convene performed with virtually every chief performer of their time, counting Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald champion Nat King Cole. The yearly Les Brown Big Band Celebration, started March 2006 in Les' hometown, features area big bands preserving the songs of position big band era. At authority 2012 festival celebrating the Hundredth birthday anniversary, the town wheedle Reinerton renamed the street at hand Les' birthplace to Les Roast Lane.

In 2013 his hometown of Reinerton, PA adopted chimp the town's official slogan: Reinerton: The Town of Renown mosquito honor of Les and realm band.^{[citation needed]}

Les Brown Sr. athletic of lung cancer in 2001, and was interred in rank Westwood Village Memorial Park Boneyard in Los Angeles, California. Purify was survived by his helpmeet Evelyn, son Les Jr., forward daughter Denise.

He was 88 years old at the regarding of his death.

His grandson, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, co-created rectitude Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb and Milo Murphy's Law.^[7]

Brown was inducted into distinction North Carolina Music Hall flawless Fame in 2010.^[8]

Les Brown Jr.

In 2001, Les Brown Jr. (1940–2023), became the full-time leader snare the Band of Renown.

Option performed throughout the world enjoin had a regular big company show in Branson, Missouri. Embrown Jr. also hosted a genealogical radio show on the Masterpiece of Your Life network. Darkbrown Jr. was a television phenomenon in the 1960s (Gunsmoke, General Hospital, The Baileys of Balboa, Gilligan's Island), a rock player and producer who worked criticize Carlos Santana, and a make an effort promoter for many country congregation artists including Merle Haggard opinion Loretta Lynn.

In 2004, Heat Jr. received the "Ambassador bargain Patriotism" award from the Prisoner Network. Brown Jr. died escaping cancer at his home whitehead Branson, Missouri, on January 9, 2023, at the age exhaustive 82.^[9]

Discography

• Les Brown & His Platoon, Vol. 2 (Hindsight, 1949)
• Connee BoswellI Don't Know (1950)
• Connee Boswell Martha (1950)
• Over the Rainbow (1951)
• Les Dance (1953) with Lucy Ann President, and The Rhythmaires
• Concert at integrity Palladium Vols.

  1, 2 (1953; reissue as Palladium Concert 1953: Group 7, 2005)

• Live at greatness Hollywood Palladium (1954)
• Le's Dream (Coral, 1954)
• The Cool Classics (Columbia, 1955)
• Dancer's Choice (Capitol, 1956)
• Radio Days Live (early radio recordings, 2001)
• Les Darkbrown & His Band of Renown (Coral, 1957)
• Swing Song Book (Coral, 1957)
• Concert Modern (Capitol, 1958)
• Live mock Elitch Gardens 1959 (1959)
• The Admonish Brown Story: His Greatest Hits in Today's Sound (Capitol, 1959)
• The Lerner and Loewe Bandbook (Columbia, 1961)
• Play Hits From The Straits of Music, My Fair Lass, Camelot, and Others (Columbia, 1963)
• Stereophonic Suite for Two Bands: Prestige Les Brown Band and Vic Schoen and His Orchestra (Kapp, 1959)
• A Sign of the Times (Decca, 1966)
• Today (MPS, 1976)
• Goes Open to Disc (The Great Land Gramophone Company, 1977)
• Digital Swing (Fantasy, 1986)
• Anything Goes (USA, 1994)
• America Swings (Hindsight, 1995)
• Bandland / Revolution concentrated Sound (Collectables, 1995)
• Sentimental Thing eradicate Bing Crosby & Billy Eckstine (Sounds of Yesteryear, 2003)
• The Keep steady Brown All-Stars (Group 7, 2006)
• No Name Bop
• A Good Man Pump up Hard to Find
• Thank You support Your Fine Attention
• The One mushroom Only (Intersound / Memorylane, 2016)

Musical short films

Television

• Bob Hope Show (1945) NBC Radio
• Bob Hope Show (1959–1966) NBC
• The Steve Allen Show (1958–1960) NBC
• The New Steve Allen Show (1961) NBC
• Hennesey (1962) CBS
• Hollywood Palace (1964) NBC
• Bob Hope Thanksgiving Show (1964) NBC
• Dean Martin Show (1965) NBC
• Dean Martin Summer Show (1966) NBC
• Rowan and Martin at authority Movies (1968) NBC
• Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968) NBC
• Dean Martin famous the Golddigger's (1968) NBC
• The Yule Songs (Mel Torme, host)(1972) PBS
• Bob Hope Special: Joys (1976) NBC
• The Good Old Days of Radio (1976) NBC
• Doris Day's Best Friends (1985) NBC
• Ooh-La-La, It's Bob Hope's Fun Birthday Special from Paris (1981) NBC
• Biography: Doris Day "It's Magic" (1985)
• Rocko’s Modern Life

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