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Billy Butterfield

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Aliases
Billy Butterfield and His Orchestra
Billy Butterfield and His World Class Jazz Band
The Billy Butterfield Jazz Band
Gus Hoo and His Dixie Stompers
Born
January 14, 1917
Died
March 18, 1988
Country
United States
Comments
Butterfield played trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn and led big band and swing groups. He also occasionally sang.
Member of
The Ten Greats of Jazz
The Big 18 Trumpet
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Title Performer Release date Originally by
i   1958 Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and His Orchestra REL, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Refrain by Carmen Lombardo & Trio REC, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers BRD
i   1968 Fred Astaire BRD, Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Bob Lytell REC
i 1983 Campbell and Burr
i 1978 Katherine Perry
1957 Katherine Perry
March 1947 Margaret Simms & Paul Bass
i 1975 Margaret Simms & Paul Bass
i   August 1963 Emma Carus PRF, Collins and Harlan REC
1981 The Benny Goodman Band
i   1957 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Stanley Worth REC, Hiram Sherman, Frances Mercer, Hollace Shaw, Ralph Stuart PRF
i   August 31, 1959 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Stanley Worth REC, Hiram Sherman, Frances Mercer, Hollace Shaw, Ralph Stuart PRF
i 1958 Frank Sinatra
i 1961 Ziggy Elman & His Orchestra
1950 Ruby Hill with "St. Louis Woman" Choral Group and Orchestra under the direction of Leon Leonardi
i 1958 Clifton Webb
March 1951 Billy Eckstine with The Quartones - Orchestra conducted by Russ Case
i 1968 Carmen Miranda com orquestra Odeon
i 1964 Prince's Band
  1957 Aida Ward PRF, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra REC,REL
i August 31, 1959 Jeanette MacDonald with Male Quartet and Orchestra
i 1964 Bob Haggart - Ray Bauduc
i 1976 Benny Carter and His Orchestra
i 1981 Shirley Ross
i 1973 George Beaver (Irving Kaufman)
i 1978 Barney Trimble and His Oklahomans (Lou Gold)
i 1973 Barney Trimble and His Oklahomans (Lou Gold)
i   1968 Francisco Alves com Radamés Gnattali e sua Orquestra REC,REL, Araci Cortes PRF
i 1978 Count Basie and His Orchestra
i November 1947 Friars Society Orchestra
i   August 1963 Eddie Quillan and Arline Judge REC,BRD, Ginger Rogers and Willie Howard PRF
i 1958 Ethel Waters and Dooley Wilson
i   August 31, 1959 Red Nichols and His Five Pennies REC,REL, Libby Holman PRF
i 1956 Barney Bigard and His Jazzopaters
i 1980 Willie & Eugene Howard
i 1958 (unknown)
i 1968 Spud Murphy and His Orchestra
i 1975 McKinney's Cotton Pickers
i 1961 André Claveau avec Jo Boyer et son orchestre
i 1980 Arnold Johnson and His Orchestra
i 1978 Barney Bigard and Orchestra
1958 Freddie Martin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Elmer Feldkamp
i 1956 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
i   1968 Jack Barker [US1] PRF, Jacques Renard and His Orchestra REC
i Dawn Comes Again Bobby Hackett / Billy Butterfield Featuring The Guitar And Voice Of Luiz Henrique (Luiz Henrique, Billy Butterfield, Bobby Hackett) 1968 Unverified
i 1975 (unknown)
i 1983 (unknown)
i 1973 (unknown)
September 1949 Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music
  June 1945 Irene Bordoni PRF, Ray Miller and His Orchestra REC
i   1981 Walter Woolf King PRF, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Chorus by Carmen Lombardo REC,REL
i   1978 Walter Woolf King PRF, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Chorus by Carmen Lombardo REC,REL
i   1955 Tom Coakley and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Carl Ravazza REC, The Princeton University Triangle Club PRF
i   1983 Tom Coakley and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Carl Ravazza REC, The Princeton University Triangle Club PRF
i   1981 Ginger Rogers and Allen Kearns PRF, Majestic Dance Orchestra [Lou God] - Vocal Chorus Irving Kaufman REC
i 1957 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Joey Nash
i   1983 Carl Fenton's Orchestra (Walter Haenschen) REC, Fred Astaire, Adele Astaire & Cliff Edwards PRF
i 1956 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Herb Jeffries
i 1983 Slim and Slam
i 1958 (unknown performer)
1958 Western Wanderers (Bob Haring)
i   1958 Tamara PRF, Les Brown and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Miriam Shaw REC
i 1956 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
i 1957 (unknown)
i 1962 The Dixie Stompers [US1] (Fletcher Henderson)
i 1957 Ray Noble and His Orchestra featuring Jack Dumont, Alto Sax
i August 1963 Jacques Renard & His Orchestra
i 1975 Dolores Gray
i 1956 Ed. Morton
listen on Internet Archive i How Am I to Know? Billy Butterfield and His Orchestra 1946 Unverified
i 1976 Marion Harris
i 1978 Dolores Valesco
listen on Internet Archive i I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me Bill Stegmeyer Octet featuring Billy Butterfield (Bill Stegmeyer, Billy Butterfield) 1947 Unverified
i   March 1948 Bob Hope PRF, Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Skinny Ennis REC
i   September 1955 Bob Hope PRF, Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Skinny Ennis REC
i 1955 Abe Lyman and His California Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Gracie Barrie
i 1980 The Boardwalk Orchestra (Ben Selvin)
i 1957 Bing Crosby
  1957 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Chorus by Carmen Lombardo REL, Kate Smith – Orchestra under direction of Jack Miller REC
i August 31, 1959 Waring's Pennsylvanians - Vocal Refrain by Clare Hanlon and The Three Waring Girls and Chorus
i   1973 Lillian Shade PRF, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra REC
i   1956 Lillian Shade PRF, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra REC
i 1957 Bix Beiderbecke and His Orchestra
i 1962 Bix Beiderbecke and His Orchestra
i   1973 Joe Venuti's Blue Four REL, Ed Lang REC
i 1956 Bing Crosby, Leonid Kinskey, Martha Raye, Bob Burns and Louis Prima with The Sons of the Pioneers
i 1962 Sioux City Six, featuring Bix - Under direction of Frank Trumbauer
1981 Dick Powell
listen on Internet Archive January 1951 Dick Powell
i   August 1963 Mildred Bailey and Her Orchestra REC, Evelyn Laye PRF
  June 1945 John W. Bubbles PRF, Lawrence Tibbett REC,REL
i October 1960 Gus Arnheim and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bing Crosby
i   1957 Peter Cookson - Orchestra conducted by Milton Rosenstock REC,REL, Peter Cookson PRF
i 1975 Jan Savitt and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Bon Bon
i 1954 Bing Crosby
i   1954 Mary Hay and Clifton Webb PRF, Lee Wiley with Max Kaminsky's Orchestra REC,REL
i   1975 Ivie Anderson PRF, Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Ivie Anderson REL
i   1975 Aida Ward PRF, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra REC
i   1956 Aida Ward PRF, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra REC
i   1980 Phyllis Cleveland and Skeets Gallagher PRF, Carl Fenton's Orchestra (Walter Haenschen) REC
i   1981 Joseph E. Howard PRF, Henry Burr REC,REL
i 1956 Claude Hopkins and His Orchestra
i 1978 Arthur Fields
i October 1960 (unknown)
i 1983 Count Basie and His Orchestra
i October 1960 Red McKenzie & His Orchestra
i August 1963 Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
i 1975 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
i 1958 Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and His Orchestra REC, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers BRD, Fred Astaire BRD, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Edythe Wright REC, Ginger Rogers BRD
i 1983 Count Basie and His Orchestra
i 1958 Bailey's Lucky Seven
i 1954 Irving Kaufman
September 1955 (unknown)
i   August 1963 Maurice Chevalier BRD, Ben Pollack and His Park Central Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Charles Roberts REC
i 1962 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
i   1968 Kenny Baker [US1] BRD, Abe Lyman and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Frank Parrish REC
i 1961 (unknown)
  1957 Howard Marsh and Norma Terris PRF, Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Scrappy Lambert REC
  June 1945 Jesse Crawford with Nat Shilhkret and The Victor Orchestra REC, Oscar Shaw & Gertrude Lawrence PRF
1957 Eddy Howard
i 1958 Ambrose and His Orchestra, Bing Crosby, Mary Ellis & Tullio Carminati, The Pickens Sisters REC, Art Jarrett & Ginger Rogers BRD
i 1958 Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra, Isham Jones and His Orchestra, Isham Jones, Guest Conductor with Ray Miller's Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Frank Bessinger, Kay Kyser and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Ginny Simms REC, Mildred Bailey and Her Orchestra REL
1958 Fats Waller and Orchestra BRD, Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Louis Armstrong REC, Ben Bernie and His Orchestra, Will Osborne and His Slide Music - Vocal by Barbara Bush
1958 Freddie Martin and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain Elmer Feldkamp, Earl Burtnett and His Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra REC, Charles King BRD, Freddy Martin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Terry Shand
i 1958 Don Bestor and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Neil Buckley, Shirley Temple BRD, Mal Hallett and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Jerry Perkins REC, New Mayfair Dance Orchestra [Ray Noble]
i 1961 Jackie Gleason and His Concert Orchestra
i   1961 Ethel Waters REC, Minto Cato PRF
i 1964 Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys
i 1954 Billy Butterfield and His Orchestra - Vocal by Margaret Whiting
i 1955 Teddy Brown and His Café de Paris Band
i 1981 Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
i   1957 Maurice Chevalier REC,BRD
  July 1943 Maurice Chevalier REC,BRD
  1957 Walter Scanlan (Walter Van Brunt) REC,REL, William Frawley PRF
i 1983 Gloria Grafton & Donald Novis
listen on Internet Archive   June 1945 Fred Astaire BRD, Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Johnny Morris REC
i   1981 Leo Reisman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Fred Astaire REC, Fred Astaire PRF
i   June 1945 Carl Fenton's Orchestra (Walter Haenschen) REC, Walter Catlett PRF
i 1961 Erna Lenser
i   August 31, 1959 Alfred Drake with Oklahoma Orchestra under direction of Jay Blackton REL, Alfred Drake PRF
i 1964 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
i   1975 Harry Richman PRF, Ted Lewis and His Band REC
i   August 1963 Jose Collins PRF, Charles Harrison [US] REC,REL
i 1961 Ralph Marterie and His Orchestra
i August 1963 Collins and Harlan
i 1968 João Gilberto
i August 31, 1959 (unknown)
i 1976 Earl Hines and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Walter Fuller
listen on Internet Archive August 1946 The Two Tones - Bennie and George with Quartet
i   1956 Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Harriet Hillard REC,REL, Harriet Hilliard BRD
i 1962 Original Dixieland Jazz Band
  September 1949 Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Bobby Goday REC, The Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra BRD
1976 Gene Austin
i 1978 Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang
listen on Internet Archive i March 1951 Nora Bayes
i October 1960 Russ Morgan and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive   June 1945 Winnie Lightner PRF, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REL
i 1978 Alberta Hunter and Ray's Dreamland Orchestra
i 1980 Alberta Hunter and Ray's Dreamland Orchestra
i 1976 Louis Armstrong and His All Stars
1957 Louis Armstrong and His All Stars
  June 1945 Gertrude Lawrence REC,REL,PRF
i August 31, 1959 Libby Holman
i   1956 Jerry Gray and His Orchestra - Vocal by Tommy Traynor REC, Nat "King" Cole REL
listen on Internet Archive   October 1946 Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye - Vocal Refrain by Betty Barclay REC,REL, Hattie McDaniel BRD
i 1981 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
i   1962 Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang REC, Fletcher Henderson's Collegians - Vocal Chorus Andy Razaf REL
i August 31, 1959 Billy Cotton and His Band
i 1955 Andy Iona's Novelty Four
i 1978 Isham Jones Orchestra
i 1961 Hoagy Carmichael & His Pals
listen on Internet Archive i October 1946 Hoagy Carmichael & His Pals
i   1947 Victor Young and His Concert Orchestra - Ray Turner at the Piano REC,REL, Victor Young and His Orchestra BRD
i 1956 Prince's Band
i   1957 Ethel Waters with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra PRF, Leo Reisman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Harold Arlen REC
i 1955 Russ Columbo and His Orchestra
i   1956 Max Hoffman PRF, Victor Arden-Phil Ohman and Their Orchestra with Vocal Refrain REC,REL
i 1956 Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
listen on Internet Archive June 1955 Leona Williams and Her Dixie Band
i   1958 Helen Jepson REL, Abbie Mitchell PRF, Abbie Mitchell under the direction of George Gershwin REC
i   1975 Helen Jepson REL, Abbie Mitchell PRF, Abbie Mitchell under the direction of George Gershwin REC
listen on Internet Archive June 26, 1944 Abe Lyman's California Orchestra
i 1968 Mieko Hirota - Billy Taylor Trio
i October 1960 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra
i 1983 Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra
i 1973 Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra
i 1980 Charley Straight and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Frank Sylvano
i 1973 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
i September 1955 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
i 1983 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
i 1961 Dick Farney - Orchestrated and conducted by Paul Baron
i 1958 Waring's Pennsylvanians - Vocal Refrain by Wilbert Morgan and The Three Girl Friends, Ed Lowry, Janet Gaynor BRD, Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders - Vocal Refrain by Frank Luther REC,REL
i 1962 Anna Meyers and Original Memphis Five
i 1954 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
i 1968 Nat "King" Cole
September 1955 Prince's Band, Hoagy Carmichael with Matty Matlock's Allstars
1957 Chick Bullock & His Levee Loungers
i October 1960 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra, Allan Jones & Jeanette MacDonald
i 1957 Irene Dunne
1990 Bing Crosby with The Rhythmaires and Vic Schoen and His Orchestra
i   1955 Kate Smith REC, Ann Sothern BRD
i   1983 Marion Harris REC, Adele Astaire PRF
1957 Victor Military Band, (unknown)
November 1944 Kay Kyser's Orchestra with Harry Babbitt
i 1983 John Payne & Joan Merrill
i 1955 Tullio Carminati
i 1954 Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Skinny Ennis
i 1954 Fred Astaire
i   June 1945 Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and His Orchestra BRD, Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Ozzie Nelson REC,REL
i August 1963 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Frank Sinatra and The Pied Pipers
i   1962 Ferd (Jelly Roll) Morton REC, Gene Rodemich's Orchestra REL
i 1973 Original Dixieland Jass Band
i 1964 (unknown), Les Brown and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Doris Day
i 1957 Paul Gregory & Marilyn Miller PRF, New Mayfair Dance Orchestra [Ray Noble] REC,REL, Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Stanley Worth REC, Hiram Sherman, Frances Mercer, Hollace Shaw, Ralph Stuart PRF
i   August 31, 1959 Paul Gregory & Marilyn Miller PRF, New Mayfair Dance Orchestra [Ray Noble] REC,REL
i 1956 (unknown)
i October 1960 Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra
i 1983 John Kirby and His Onyx Club Boys
i 1964 Cannon's Jug Stompers
i 1964 Paul Whiteman and His Ambassador Orchestra
i 1978 Marc Michel [dubbed by Georges Blaness]
i 1962 Margaret Young
March 1947 Wayne King & His Orchestra
i 1973 King Oliver and His Dixie Syncopators
i August 31, 1959 Pedro Via y su orquesta
i October 1960 Bob Crosby and His Orchestra featuring Trumpet by Billy Butterfield
i   August 1963 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by The King's Men REC, Ramon Novarro & Evelyn Laye BRD
i 1961 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
1955 (unknown)
i 1973 (unknown)
i 1983 Henry Thies and His Hotel Sinton Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Don Dewey
i 1958 The Whiffenpoofs
i   1957 Margaret Adams PRF, Johnny Green and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Marjory Logan REC
i 1955 Ted Fiorito & His Orchestra
i 1975 Ted Fiorito & His Orchestra
i 1975 Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
i   1958 Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Harry Cool REC, Dinah Shore with Orchestra conducted by Paul Wetstein REL
i August 1963 Alice Faye
i 1961 William J. Halley
i   August 31, 1959 Bing Crosby with Bob Crosby and His Orchestra REL, Dick Powell BRD
i August 1963 Little Jack Little & His Orchestra
  1958 Tony Martin [US1] BRD, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Ray Eberle and The Modernaires REC,REL
1949 Busby Berkeley and Joyce Barber
i   1978 Alice Faye BRD, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Helen Ward REL, Johnny Johnson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Barbara Blake REC