Arteel & Friends/ Various - A RetrospectiveArteel & Friends Various A Retrospective

Features cello from Lia Kohl (Whitney

Starting his career as a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the early 1940s

Mel Carter's 1963 debut album was released on Sam Cooke's SAR Records/Derby label

Ward adopted the lead-switching style

and his other hits from these years "Josephine"

although his records came out on United Artists

Once they were the stuff of children's tales

she began performing in her native Los Angeles in 1921

Here is "Oregon City Sessions" dug out of the archives

recording prolifically with a huge variety of small bands and early swing orchestras

Everett Barksdale and many others

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