Ray just turned 100 years old today. What a talented man. Long live Ray Anthony!!

Happy 102nd Birthday Ray Anthony! Hopefully your birthday is going well also. It is truly extraordinary to know that there is actually a remnant (of the old Glenn Miller band that was headed by Glenn Miller himself) that is alive in 2024 - it would have been almost 84 years ago when you joined the band in later 1940. Not to mention the great work that you & your orchestra have put out over the decades. There are people both old & young who indeed appreciate your work & will continue to from generation to generation, so I think its safe to say that your music will live on forever, as you once pointed out with Glenn Miller's music one time. Thank you for all of your contributions to big band/swing/jazz etc... and once again, have a Happy Birthday!

What a fabulous trumpet player, and great showman! I NEVER tire of hearing Ray Anthony. I can't believe this wonderful man will be age 101 this in two months, on January, 20, 2023! Best of luck to him in greeting that age and thanks for all the glorious music he gave us and still is with his recordings. Thanks for posting this.

Love it! Thank you the Honorable Ray Anthony at 102 for the great music and the Honorable Vicki Carr for your beautiful voice 💗🎙🎼🎺

January 20th 2024! Happy Birthday to you! 102 Years old!!!! Wish you happiness and health. As a kid in the 70s, I danced the Bunny Hop. In the 80s I did the Hokey Pokey on my roller skates. In the 90s, I discovered "Glen Miller". In the 00s, I was dancing Lindy Hop all over and once in a while your music was there. Plus the Peter Gunn song, and Dragnet music accompanied me. HOWEVER, it was only THIS PAST WEEK that I finally learned the name Ray Anthony. Thank you for all the music, I appreciate all the joy you have given me!!

Love this!! Talent, great music, swing, big band!!!!!!!

RAY IS AT 98 YRS OLD THE LAST SURVIVING MEMBER OF THE GLENN MILLER BAND

91 yo with fond memories of dancing to big band music.

When I listen this music I travel to The past......I can't explain but I feel and smell all ....that I lived on those times

Now that is what I call music. Big bands forever!

I became a huge fan to Ray Anthony and his band when I heard his "Laura" coming from a radio on a day in 1983. I still have the cassette tape with the music recorded onto. Live long, Ray!

Love this. Wasn't it good to be around to enjoy such wonderful music. Of course today;s music is understood and appreciated by the current generation, something which we may not necessarily understand. How much of today's music will be remembered in forty or fifty years or so. This music will continue to be discovered by many generations to follow. Will probably never be appreciated as young people do not have the patience to listen. Regards to all big-band lovers.

Excellent! Ray at 18 when he joined Glenn Miller's orch in 1941, and made the big bands live on in a big way!

Love the pre-rock drum kits. Ray always did it the best. An excellent look at pre-hippie Sunset Strip culture.

I was about 17 when I turned my head towards jazz and swing, some 40 years ago.. started dressing 40s style, and ended up working for an art gallery that specialised in WWII aviation art, meeting many famous fighter pilots of Spitfires, Lancasters and their crew.. and Moonlight Serenade was the opening dance at my wedding in 1989 when I was 21. I honestly thought I was a lost soul from the 40s that had somehow come back to the 1980s 🙂 Big Band music evokes so many special emotions that is very hard to explain..

Lew McCreary,Lloyd Ulyate, Frank Rosolino, George Roberts, trombones, all top Hollywood studio musicians of the late 50's and early 60's

May2020. Now this takes me back seventy years when I'd just finished National Service.Wsh we could turn back the time and go back to weekend dancing..Memories.T.Heslop.UK.

Happy 102nd birthday Ray Anthony!

"The Story of the Big Band Era":- Ray Anthony and his Orchestra:- Ray Anthony, trumpet, master of ceremonies; John Audino, Conrad Gozzo, Joe Triscari, Jack Laubach, trumpet; Lloyd Ulyate, Lew McCreery, Frank Rosolino, trombone; George Roberts, bass trombone; Abe Most, Joe Maini, clarinet, alto sax; Dave Pell, Bob Hardaway, clarinet, tenor sax; Leo Anthony, clarinet, baritone sax; Kellie Greene, piano, vibraphone; Al Hendrickson, electric guitar; Don Simpson, acoustic double bass, arranger; Nick Ceroli, drums; Vikki Carr, Herb Jeffries, Ann Richards, vocal. a. as 1 + Charlie Barnet, soprano sax. b. as 1 + Jerry Gray, music director. c. as 1 + Les Brown, clarinet.

I love you, Ray! Playing your channel.🎼🎶🎶💘

this program was above and beyond.

Everything that makes you love Big Band swing ❤️🎉🎊🎶🎺🎶🎉🎊❤️

Happy 99th Ray!!!!!

Сегодня 100 летний Юбилей отмечает ЛЕГЕНДА JAZZ .20.01.1922-родился Ray Anthony -трубач, дирижёр, инструменталист, актёр.(«Sentimental Me»-1950; «At Last»-‘52; «Peter Gunn»-‘59); Невероятно удивительный человек и его биография...Участник оркестра Glenn Miller. С Днем Рождения!!! Здоровья!!!

Great stuff. Great musicians. Lovely to see these guys swing again. Wish they had more chances to do so these days. I must be getting old. But I'm 75 years old man and me and my old pops and mam used to do this stuff brilliantly until quite recently. And by golly, could they dance.

June 2020.Viewing this video for quite a few times,it really does encompass the swing era superbly.Ray Anthony smoothly captures the entire time era witth all the main orchestras included in a brilliant fashion..Oh,to be back then in that unforgettable time..T.Heslop.UK

I got to talk to Ray about 10 years ago. Found out he played tennis, too.

I love Big Bands!

Just discovered Ray Anthony. I sang the Big Band style on Cunard's QE2. Absolutely loved the experience & will continue to sing the Great American Songbook with a few tunes from Andrew Lloyd Webber & Lerner & Lowe which of course is Musical Theatre. 😃

Thanks for uploading this, from an era when popular music was so much richer with, as this programme demonstrates, so much more variety in instrumentation and the arrangements. Now we are beset with 'pop' which amounts to a couple of guitars, a set of drums and, in virtually every case, someone wailing incomprehensible lyrics.

I remember these kind/type of music in the year way back in the'60/'70 when we played these at the Deway Blvd MANILA Philippines where a lot of Night Clubs along the Blvd, remember the Tootz Guerzo Orchestra I hope I can go back to the Philippines to join my long long my brothers in music ?????

Ray could pick them! Interesting layout. Frontline of saxes and trombones. Everybody in their prime. Keep them coming! Thanks

you only can say.. Beautiful. thanks by share this shinning memorable video.😁

A who's who of the top studio /jazz players on the scene. Swingers all!!

Ray is the greatest

Great music. I would love to see a personnel list on this show even though I can figure out several on my own.

Nice to hear Ray do some high playing including high F...

Thank you so much for this!

Americans were really spoilt for choice in their entertainment . I still love to listen to them today . You could say I'm one happy chapie . Fabulous post thank you .

Really like the rendition of The Lady is a Tramp from Anne Richards great phrasing and it swings.

the finest music ever !!!

I miss this Era. Thanks for the upload.

MY MOM LOVED HIS BAND AND MY DAD GLEN ANTHONY

Gracias Ray por tu hermosa música pasaran siglos y serás perene, los corazones el amor te acompañaran eternamente, un amigo mexicano. Thanks Ray for your beautiful music, centuries will pass and you will be perennial, love hearts will accompany you eternally, a Mexican friend.

Ray Anthony and his Orchestra:- Ray Anthony, trumpet, master of ceremonies; John Audino, Conrad Gozzo, Joe Triscari, Jack Laubach, trumpet; Lloyd Ulyate, Lew McCreery, Frank Rosolino, trombone; George Roberts, bass trombone; Abe Most, Joe Maini, clarinet, alto sax; Dave Pell, Bob Hardaway, clarinet, tenor sax; Leo Anthony, clarinet, baritone sax; Kellie Greene, piano, vibraphone; Al Hendrickson, electric guitar; Don Simpson, acoustic double bass, arranger; Nick Ceroli, drums; Vikki Carr, Herb Jeffries, Ann Richards, vocal. a. as 1 + Charlie Barnet, soprano sax. b. as 1 + Jerry Gray, music director. c. as 1 + Les Brown, clarinet. 2. "Club Anthony":-

Ray Anthony kills it.

Great LA band! I played with Ray’s big band in the late 70’s and early 80’s. He had a beautiful studio and rehearsal space at his Hollywood home.

UNA DE LAS MUCHAS ORQUESTAS DE TIEMPOS YA LEJANOS!

Great!

Yes a very serious looking Frank Rosolino . Dave Pell on tenor, whose the lead trumpet.

What a versitile band. I loved Vicki Carr before I saw this and I still feel the same. Great show.

Thanks for the reply re Conrad Gozzo, the trumpet I was trying to remember is the 1st on left. Familiar face but can't recall the name.

Here's a fun little story to give you some background. The bass player in this video is Don Simpson. Don played bass for Ray for a number of years. Prior to that, he was Gene Krupa's bass player, and he also regularly accompanied Nelson Riddle to Las Vegas to be the bass player when Sinatra came to town. If you look at the credits at the end of the video shown here, Don is given credit as "Music Coordinator." Dr. Don Simpson PhD was the head of the Music Department at LA City College for a number of years. Right up until his death in 2012, Don was Ray's primary arranger, and arranged all of the songs for the dozen or so "Dream Dancing" CDs released by Ray. They sold pretty well in the US but were wildly popular in Europe. Ray hired the top studio musicians in LA to record them. Don retired from teaching and playing in the early 1990's and moved to the Reno/Lake Tahoe area of Northern Nevada. He settled in Carson City to be close to his children and grandchildren, and immediately started playing in Reno and Tahoe. That is where I had the good fortune to meet and play with Don, and also to play his fabulous arrangements as well as marvel at his musical talent. I am a trumpet player who played every casino showroom at Lake Tahoe and Reno in the 33 years that I lived there. With Don, our real careers pretty much "over" by then, I had the pleasure of playing in a smaller sized "big band" from 1998 until 2007. We played Tuesday nights in Sammy's Showroom at Harrah's Reno, as that was the showroom's "dark" night, meaning no shows performed on Tuesdays. So, what we had was a 14-piece dance band, three trumpets, three trombones, five saxes, piano, bass, drums, and we featured vocalists, at times a female, and other times a male. The showroom had a dance floor that they were able to put over the first few rows of the audience seats, and we got a pretty good crowd that consisted of locals as well as patrons of the hotel who were tourists. We played lots of Don's arrangements, including many of the Dream Dancing arrangements that he rearranged for the small-sized band that we had. He also took some of the arrangements that Ray had made popular back in the 1950's and rearranged them for our smaller sized band. Don didn't organize the band, meaning he didn't hire or pay the musicians or deal with Harrah's management or any of that, but he played bass in the band. More importantly, he was the music director of the band. He rehearsed us and kicked off the start of each song. As time went on, the band played a lot of casual gigs, including a six-year run of New Year's Eve gigs at the same place that ended when a flood kept us from getting to the venue. We played New Year's Eve 2000 at the Aero Club in Reno, where you have to walk past the WW II fighter plane parked on the lawn to get in. It is a private club for retired military pilots. I also hired Don for a small group that I had that consisted of a trumpet, a tenor sax, guitar, bass and drums. We played for parties and in coffee shops and similar places. During all of the years we played together, I am not sure I ever heard Don play a wrong note! And he was the nicest guy you would ever hope to meet, not a hint of an ego, just an all-around good guy. Finally, Don told me a story about this video. He said that during the afternoon rehearsal, Jerry Gray showed up to direct Ray's band playing "String of Pearls." Jerry thought Ray would have the chart in his book, and Ray figured that Jerry would bring the music with him. Neither was right, and here they were, ready to play the song on live TV that night with no arrangement. Ray's show was a summer replacement show for the Lawrence Welk show, and so it was, well, summer. Don called everyone he knew to get a copy of the arrangement for the band to play, and either they didn't have it, or they were out of town. Finally, Don just sat down and wrote the entire arrangement out, mostly from memory, but with the help of the recording of the original song next to him, so he could check parts as necessary. He then wrote out each individual part for the members of the band, and arrived at the studio just before they were to go on the air. The live broadcast was recorded and what you see and hear on this video was the first time the band had read through the arrangement. If you are a musician, you have an idea of what a feat that was. Even if you are not a musician, I'm sure you can imagine just how difficult it would be to listen to a record and write out the arrangement for a full-sized big band to play, and to do it mistake free. Well, the man was a genius. Rest in Peace, Don. I am honored and humbled to call you my friend.

La música con la que crecí!!!!!

love "Flyin' Home" and "Air Mail Special",. I know they didn't do "Air Mail Special", at least halfway though that is.

Crema de la Crema!!! Lo que hay ahí de talentos en esa Big Band es la ostia!!! Ver en directo a Conrad Gozzo!!

how sad the kids of today dont dig this great music

I loved les brown and his band of renound.the music he made on the old dean martin show was so timeless.if I'm not wrong I think les jr. Still fronts the band .so many memories.

Genialidades!

Снохшибательный ритм и джайв. Спасибо блогеру за память об истории успеха...❤👌✌

Un MAESTRO

Wonderful

Bravissimo Ray!!! ❤😊

Pretty good job on take the A train.. it was such a great time for music

Stardust ray anthony

Great bass player!

Mi piacerebbe molto conoscere la sua storia, a cominciate dalle sue origini italiane, visto il mio supremo piacere di ascoltare la sua stupenda orchestra.

Timestamps: 0:36 - No Name Jive (Glenn Grey) 3:50 - And the Angels Sing (Benny Goodman) 7:05 - Big Band sound examples: * 7:17 - Guy Lombardo, 3 saxophones * 7:34 - Billy May, 5 "slurping" saxophones * 7:53 - Glenn Miller, 4 saxophones and a clarinet * 8:18 - Claude Thornhill, 5 clarinets and piano * 8:44 - Horace Heidt, triple tonguing trumpets * 9:16 - Shep Fields and Lawrence Welk, bubbling water * 9:33 - Famous band leaders: Tommy Dorsey (trombone), Harry James (trumpet), Artie Shaw (clarinet) 9:50 - Begin the Beguine (Artie Shaw) 11:57 - broadcast music during the war (Charlie Barnet) 15:48 - Harlem Nocturne (Ray Anthony's arrangement) 18:18 - stars born in Benny Goodman's band: Gene Krupa (drums), Harry James (trumpet), Ziggy Elman (trumpet), Martha Tilton (vocals), Helen Forrest (vocals), Peggy Lee (vocals) 18:40 - Herb Jeffries (vocals), from the Duke Ellington Band 21:17 - Take the A Train (Duke Ellington) 23:13 - Flying Home (Lionel Hampton) 25:03 - Woodchopper's Ball (Woody Herman) 28:42 - A String of Pearls (Jerry Gray) 31:39 - Artistry in Rythm (Stan Kenton) 33:15 - Ann Richards (vocals) from the Stan Kenton Band 36:45 - TV shows themes 40:24 - Les Brown conducting his(?) music 41:59 - Sentimental Journey (Les Brown) 44:31 - I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (Irving Berlin) 47:07 - One O'Clock Jump (Count Basie)

This page if that is how you call it ,is closer to the heart than Africa is,

Wow -frank rossolino

世界最高峰のBANDです。

Rosolino solo at 25:50. YIKES!

Looks like goz on trumpet

Очень красивый свинг Рэя Энтони. Его crystal chorus (саксофоны) по своей тональности и мастерству ближе всего к музыкантам Г.Миллера, так досадно трагически погибшего в декабре 1944г., перелетая ЛаМанш, увы...

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Conrad Gozzo!!!!!!!!!!

O so many good comments and yet I have not word the les and Larry elgart

Wow, that's Frank Rosolino on trombone! Check out the solo at about 26 mins.

prosto super klas ispolnenie

Can you direct me to the rights-holder of the Ray Anthony Show? The Ray Anthony Band recorded a few songs by composer Philip Springer (my dad). I am producing a documentary and would like to find the contact information for the RA Show and/or other Ray Anthony material. Thanks in advance.

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This is great, I'm a little young for this era (64 years old). When did this air?

Was this a television broadcast? What year? Love it!

WHAT S THE MUSIC OF THE INTRO PLEASE,,,??

What year was this made?

凄い！エニー・スタイルOKですね。tpセクションのリードの人、ハリー・ジェームスそっくり。

Anyone know what year this was done?

I think that's Conrad Gozzo playing lead!

Rosolino also at 48:15 !

Is that Frank Rosolino on trombone?

Flat top Tenor man. Walks away like a boss at 39:47.

Les Brown, what a pro.

Today, someone like the oily, slippery "Flamingo" bariton with moustache woulde be unthinkable, but all the other musicians are pretty good.

Participou de filme com Fred Astaire e Leslie Caron !

Frank rosolino back there on trombone!

Joe Maini on alto sax ?? Third from left.

Les Brown has a great toupee!

Ray could be Cary Grant's twin.

Mack the knife

though I don't dislike this music, to me it isn't really jazz. these are dance-band with a jazz flavour. The real big jazz bands were the blacks ! no doubt about that. The only white band records i ever bought were those of Benny Goodmann. The others I listened to but did not buy . This music was made for white American audiences. Don't mistake me . I am white myself. I am a Swiss from the french-speaking part of the country and I am a big fan of cool and West Coast jazz.But, as far as Swing big bands are concerned I prefer Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Lunceford, Benny Carter etc. to any of the white ones.