Harry James

Home to Fleetwood, said David.

Probably Arsenal, said Harry James.

Man City, because we can never escape them.

Be interesting, actually, yeah.

We start right now with

a selection from Harry James and his orchestra.

¶¶ Thank you.

Thank you.

But the truth is, As I was writing it, I started realizing a lot of things about my mother.

My mother was a singer for Harry James Orchestra.

Do you remember Harry James? Sure, of course.

My mother was a singer, and she was very successful in the 40s.

And just as she was beginning to really come into her own and be a success, she met my father, fell in love, got married.

And then all the other ones of that era, Fats Waller, Ellington.

you know, lots of trumpet players, Roy Eldridge, Red Allen, you know, all these Bobby Hackett, Harry James, who remains one of my big heroes.

So it's very, was a very sort of brass leaning, you know, there was a very little guitar around, but my dad did have a record of T-Bone Walker and mostly because on it, was a trumpet player called Teddy Buckner, a guy from New Orleans that my dad really liked his playing.

I think he bought the record because he saw that name on there.

And so I started to write things on paper and I bought some score paper and I started, and I couldn't work out what to do at all.

I didn't have a clue.

All I had was in my head, the Harry James big band or Basie or, you know.

And I just loved the sound of saxophones.

THE END And

that is with Harry James and 1940 Dick Hames.

And it's a question song, How High the Moon.

If you look at enough How High the Moon's on your records, the CD labels, all that, and you go, oh, yeah, there is a question mark there.

Well, who beat me out?

Cary Grant, Wendell Wilkie, and Harry James.

Hey,

now, wait a minute.

On account of he wasn't

a poll, I suppose.

Well, and Harry James.

Now, look, I admit that he's got a great band, but as for looks, well, I don't want to appear conceited or anything.

Thanks, Mac, and...

I'd like to say that I'm going to miss all you guys after kicking around for three years And now, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like you to meet The boy who's going to take my place as the vocalist with Tommy and the band He's a fine guy, a wonderful singer And he was good enough for Harry James and Benny Goodman And that's really saying plenty Folks, I'd like you to meet Dick Hames Well, Frank

Well, Frank, I don't know if anyone can really take your place with this band But I'm going to be in there trying.

You can bet on that.

Say, maybe you've got something.

Hey, Harry, come in here, Harry.

Yeah,

what? Harry, what would you say if I said to you that Sally Elliot didn't write Come Tell Me and that this guy did?

I'd say we'd all better go out and get drunk after we sign him up.

Come on, hurry up.

Nothing's just a vital sign to me For all the world and all the world you know It's true mankind is sickle till I love you Come tell me what's your answer Yes or no Tell me

The curtain falls on Act One of tonight's radio theater.

And there was legends that he discovered a young guy named Frank Sinatra.

He told Harry James, Tommy Dorsey, to hire him away from Harry James.

And when he opened the Coliseum, he stopped the show to say, I'd like to thank Jack Cohen for starting my career.

But how he knew Lou Wasserman, I didn't know.