Glen Gray
Glen Gray (June 7, 1906 – August 23, 1963) was an American jazz saxophonist and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra.
Biography
Gray was born to Lurdie P. and Agnes (Gray) Knoblauch in Roanoke, Illinois. His father was a lifelong railroad worker who died when Glen was two years of age. His widowed mother married George H. DeWilde.
Gray graduated from Roanoke High School. He is said to have joined the Army at seventeen, and two years later he was living at home with his family. He was employed as a bill clerk for the railroad. He attended Illinois Wesleyan University, where he joined Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, but left to work for the Santa Fe Railroad.
In 1927, his Orange Blossoms Band was renamed the Casa Loma Orchestra, after Casa Loma in Toronto, where the band played for eight months. Gray collaborated with the jazz musician Jean Goldkette, and with trumpeter/arranger Salvador Camarata. He gave Betty George her first job as a soloist. Ill health forced Gray to retire from touring in 1950. In 1956, he went back into the studio to record the first of what became a series of LPs for Capitol Records, which recreated the sounds of the big band era in stereo. Gray died of cancer in 1963.
Glen Gray (American football)
Glen Carlton Gray was the 13th head football coach for Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas and he held that position for three seasons, from 1913 until 1915. His overall coaching record at Washburn was 11 wins, 10 losses, and 3 ties. This ranks him 12th at Washburn in terms of total wins and 20th at Washburn in terms of winning percentage.
Prior to Washburn, Gray coached the Oberlin Yeomen of Oberlin College in 1911 and 1912. He went 13–2–1 in those two seasons.
He was accidentally shot to death in 1921 when he was mistaken for a bear during an assessment work party.
References
Podcasts:
Glen Gray
ALBUMS
- Big Bands: Glen Gray released: 1993
- Best of Big Bands: Glen Gray released: 1989
- Swing Goes On!, volume 1 released: 1978
Big Bands: Glen Gray
Released 1993- Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet
- When I Take My Sugar to Tea
- Chinatown, My Chinatown
- Stompin' Around
- Under a Blanket of Blue
- Casa Loma Stomp
- The Object of My Affections
- A Study In Brown
- For You
- Let Yourself Go
- Ay-Ay-Ay
- Lazybones
- Royal Garden Blues
- The Devil is Afraid of Music
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- Bye Bye Blues
- No Name Jive
- Sleepytime Gal
- Rose of the Rio Grande
- 'Til We Meet Again
- Smoke Rings
Born: 1906-06-07
Died: 1963-08-23
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by: Glen GrayGood mornin'
Good mornin'
You sleepyhead
It's dawnin'
Stop yawnin'
Get out of that bed
Say the air is soft as silk
It's time to get the mornin' milk
Come on!
Wake up!
Get up!
Look at the grass
Silver in the sun
Heavy with the dew
Look at the buds
You can almost see
How they're breakin' through
Look at the birds
Feedin' all their young
In the sycamores
But you better get on
With your mornin' chores
Just take a breath
Of that new-mown hay
And the sugarcane
Looks like tonight
There should be a moon
Down in lovers' lane
There you go daydreaming
When it's time that you obeyed
That sunrise serenade
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