Charlie spivak biography

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    Charlie Spivak

    American trumpeter and bandleader

    Musical artist

    Charlie Spivak (February 17, 1907 – March 1, 1982) was an American trumpeter and bandleader, best known for his big band in the 1940s.

    Early life

    The details of Spivak's birth are unclear. Some sources place it in Ukraine in 1907, and that his family emigrated to settle in New Haven, Connecticut while he was a child. According to his personal papers, the former scenario is correct.^[1][2] He learned to play trumpet and played in his high school band, going on to work with local groups before joining Johnny Cavallaro's orchestra.^[2]

    Big band era and style

    He played with Paul Specht's band for most of 1924 to 1930, then spent time with Ben Pollack (1931–1934), the brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey (1934–1935), and Ray Noble (1935–1936).^[2] He played on "Solo Hop" in 1935 by Glenn Miller and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. He spent 1936 and 1937 mostly working as a studio musician with Gus Arnheim, Glenn Miller, Raymond Scott's radio orchestra

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    CHARLIE SPIVAK
    

    "Stardreams"
    

    by Christopher Popa   January 2005
    

        Known to some as "cheery, chubby Charlie Spivak," he played a brilliant open horn, which press agents called
    

    "the sweetest trumpet" in the world.
    

        "They wrote arrangements around that, so he got a pretty sound," Garry Stevens, vocalist with Spivak's band during the early 1940s, recently explained to me.  "Since then, I've listened to guys try to play Spivak's arrangements, 'cause I have some that I still do like My Devotion.  A lot of trumpet players played it, it's hard...  He played good, high notes and they were having trouble doing it."   
    

    sources:
    

    Foretich, Herman.  Liner notes, "The Charlie Spivak Orchestra 1986,
    

        Conducted By Dubby Spivak 'Stardreams,'" Circle CCD-17.
    

    "Four-week stint lasts 10 years," Canton Repository, Dec. 26, 1976, p.32.
    

    Garrod, Charles.  Charlie Spivak and his Orchestra (Zephyrhills, FL:
    

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