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Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular MusicA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZSEVERINSEN, Doc(b Carl H. Severinsen, 7 July 1927, Arlington OR) Trumpet. Began on cornet, won contests, turned pro as a teenager. He played with Charlie Barnet, Sam Donahue, Tommy Dorsey late '40s; an excellent technician and soloist, his studio work kept him busy: at NBC he was seen and heard with Steve Allen and other TV shows, worked for Skitch Henderson, then Milton Delugg on the Tonight show with Johnny Carson, finally took over that studio band late '67. He moved to the West Coast May '72 with the Carson show, led a band '70s that often included Snooky Young (b 3 February 1919, Dayton, Ohio; d 5 May 2011; played trumpet with Jimmie Lunceford, Count Basie '40s; Clarke/Boland Big Band, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis band '60s), Conte Candoli, Louie Bellson, etc. For many years the drummer was Ed Shaughnessy (b 29 January 1929, Jersey City NJ; d 24 May 2013, Calabasas CA; the gig made him famous). Severinsen guested with symphony orchestras, was a brass clinician and consultant, and played on big band LPs led by Stan Getz, Bobby Brookmeyer, Gerry Mulligan. He also raised quarter-horses. His own LPs were poppish, several charting on Enoch Lights's Command label (later on MCA), on RCA with Henry Mancini; also Night Journey '76 on Epic. A long-awaited first Tonight Show Band album '86 on Amherst won a Grammy, followed by Vol. 2 made with Candoli, Bill Perkins, Ernie Watts etc (they were listed in Schwann under Tonight Show Band). The favourite horn player of many horn players, Severinsen ran a trumpet factory on the West Coast, perhaps inspired by Chicago hornmaker Dave Monette (see entry for Bobby Shew). More albums: Facets '88 and Once More With Feeling on Amherst, the latter with Wynton Marsalis, Tony Bennett etc; reissues Best Of on MCA, Good Medicine on Bluebird, Two Sides Of Doc Severinsen on The Right Stuff. [Milton Delugg (sometimes DeLugg, b 2 December 1918, d 6 April 2015) was an accordianist, composer and bandleader who had a long and successful career in broadcasting, providing music for game shows, novelty and comedy records; his best-known song is 'Orange-Colored Sky', a hit for Nat King Cole with Stan Kenton in 1950.] |