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Van Alexander

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Al Feldman
Orchestra conducted by Van Alexander
Van Alexander and His Orch.
Van Alexander and His Orchestra
Van Alexander and His Swingtime Band
Real name
Alexander Van Vliet Feldman
Born
May 2, 1915
Died
July 19, 2015
Country
United States
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00000509441 1 work
00009905284 1 work
Affiliation
ASCAP
Comments
Big band leader and arranger and composer of television music for which he won several Emmys.
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Jayne Dover Vocalist of Van Alexander and His Orchestra
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Covers by Van Alexander

Title Performer Release date Originally by
listen on Internet Archive i May 22, 1939 Agustín Magaldi
February 1960 Ben Bernie and His Orchestra
November 1959 Vera Lynn - Accompaniment directed by Johnny Douglas
March 1955 Katherine Perry
listen on Internet Archive March 1954 Edith Day
  October 31, 1960 Frank Crumit REC, All Star Trio and Their Orchestra REL
  1960 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Stanley Worth REC, Hiram Sherman, Frances Mercer, Hollace Shaw, Ralph Stuart PRF
November 1959 Irving Kaufman
  1960 (unknown), Jerry Vale with Percy Faith & His Orch. REC,REL, Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow, Richard Kiley & Henry Calvin PRF
November 1959 Cecil Fanning
October 19, 1959 Eddie Fisher with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra and Chorus
i 1960 Jack Denny and His Orchestra
i 1960 Emile Berliner
i   1960 Yves Montand BRD, Cora Vaucaire - Au piano : M. Philippe-Gérard REL
listen on Internet Archive 1954 Kirk Douglas with The Mellomen
  November 1955 Frankie Laine with Percy Faith & His Orch REC,REL, Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons - With Orchestra conducted by Jay Blackton BRD
  1960 Margaret Whiting with Chorus and Frank DeVol's Orchestra REC, Mary Martin PRF, Fran Warren with Orchestra conducted by Henri René REL
listen on Internet Archive February 1952 Doris Day with Paul Weston and His Orch.
September 1956 Irving Abrams & His Orchestra
October 31, 1960 Missouri Jazz Band [Sam Lanin] - Vocal Chorus Irving Kaufman
  September 1956 Buddy Golden and His Michigan Wolverines - Vocal Chorus by Irving Kaufman REC, Jack Haley and Zelma O'Neal PRF
Can I Forget You Mavis Rivers, arranged and conducted by Van Alexander 1961 Unverified
September 1954 David Whitfield with Mantovani and His Orchestra and Chorus
i September 1959 Don Redman and His Orchestra
i September 1959 Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy
September 1954 Bing Crosby
May 1957 (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)
October 1953 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Refrain by Carmen Lombardo
listen on Internet Archive Dancin' With Someone Molly Bee with Van Alexander's Chorus and Orchestra 1953 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive i 1939 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra with Vocal Refrain
Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief Mavis Rivers, arranged and conducted by Van Alexander 1961 Unverified
  October 1957 Walter Woolf King PRF, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Chorus by Carmen Lombardo REC,REL
February 1960 Mildred Bailey
March 29, 1939 Bing Crosby
i September 1959 Duke Ellington and His Kentucky Club Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive F. D. R. Jones Van Alexander and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Jayne Dover 1940 Unverified
i   November 1961 Stanley Holloway, Gordon Dilworth, Rod McLennan REC,REL, Stanley Holloway, Gordon Dilworth, Rod McLennan and Cast PRF
1957 George M. Cohan
August 1953 Brucie Weil - Don Costa and His Orchestra
October 19, 1959 Count Basie and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by James Rushing
February 1960 Jackie Souders and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Walton McKinney
i 1960 New Mayfair Dance Orchestra [Ray Noble]
listen on Internet Archive May 1957 (unknown)
1960 (unknown)
October 31, 1960 Harmony Brothers (Hall and Ryan)
October 31, 1960 Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike)
1957 Billy Murray with Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive February 1, 1939 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Jack Leonard
i   November 1961 Tex Ritter BRD,REC,REL
  November 1959 Peter Van Steeden and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Dick Robertson REL, Harold Richards REC
listen on Internet Archive May 1957 Alfred Newman and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive April 5, 1939 (unknown), Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights - Vocal Chorus Larry Cotton
October 31, 1960 Johnny Hamp and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Carl Graub
May 1956 George Beverly Shea
October 1957 Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Harry Cool
listen on Internet Archive I Can't Resist You Van Alexander and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Phyllis Kenny 1940 Unverified
  October 1957 Douglas McPhail BRD, Les Brown and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Shirley Howard REC,REL
October 19, 1959 Abe Lyman and His California Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Gracie Barrie
listen on Internet Archive December 7, 1938 The Boardwalk Orchestra (Ben Selvin)
listen on Internet Archive May 10, 1939 Ink Spots
April 1952 Gordon MacRae, Phyllis Kirk, Eddie Bracken, Virginia Gibson, Aileen Stanley, Jr., and Dick Wesson
i   1960 Dick Todd with Orchestra REC,REL, Tamara PRF
i 1960 Isham Jones, Guest Conductor with Ray Miller's Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Frank Bessinger
October 1957 Isham Jones, Guest Conductor with Ray Miller's Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Frank Bessinger
February 1960 Ted Daffan's Texans
listen on Internet Archive February 1, 1939 Larry Clinton and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bea Wain
  1957 (unknown), Harry Fox REC,REL,PRF
1960 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
October 1957 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
February 1960 The Cats and the Fiddle
i November 1961 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
October 19, 1959 George J. Gaskin, Knickerbocker Male Quartette
October 31, 1960 Henry Burr and John Meyer
listen on Internet Archive June 5, 1939 Tommy Dorsey and His Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Jack Leonard
February 1960 Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald
October 1957 Dick Powell
October 31, 1960 Stewart Hamony Singers
November 1952 Jimmy Boyd accompanied by Norman Luboff
  February 1960 Bob Allen and The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra BRD, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bonnie Lou Williams and The Sentimentalists REC
September 1956 Al Jolson
  October 1957 Mary Hay and Clifton Webb PRF, Lee Wiley with Max Kaminsky's Orchestra REC,REL
  March 1956 Rex Harrison REL,PRF
i November 1961 Adele Dixon
October 31, 1960 Claude Hopkins and His Orchestra
i September 1959 Claude Hopkins and His Orchestra
September 1956 Franklyn Baur
July 1960 Lil Armstrong and Her Swing Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive i July 10, 1939 International Novelty Orchestra (Nathaniel Shilkret)
October 19, 1959 Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive June 5, 1939 Ray Herbeck and His Music with Romance – Vocal Chorus Kirby Brooks
1961 Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee
1960 Frank Sinatra - Orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle
Love and the Weather Mavis Rivers, arranged and conducted by Van Alexander 1961 Unverified
1960 Rosemary O'Reilly, Robert Clary & Eartha Kitt
September 1954 Willy & Ruth
November 1959 Antoinette Stirling
Love You Madly Mavis Rivers, arranged and conducted by Van Alexander 1961 Unverified
i November 1961 Ted Fiorito and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Muzzy Marcellino & The Fio-rettes
  1957 Sterling Holloway - June Cochran PRF, The Knickerbockers [Ben Selvin] REC
1957 Fay Templeton
November 1959 (unknown), Arthur C. Clough, Harvey Hindermeyer
i 1960 Jackie Gleason and His Concert Orchestra
  October 31, 1960 Gene Austin REL, Monarch Orchestra REC
i 1960 (unknown)
  1960 Ted Weems and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Arthur Jarrett REC, Eddie Cantor BRD
October 31, 1960 The Virginians
  October 31, 1960 Mistinguett, Fanny Brice REC,PRF
October 1957 Vic Damone and Music by Camarata, Frank Sinatra
listen on Internet Archive i   December 28, 1938 Leo Reisman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Fred Astaire REC, Fred Astaire PRF
October 19, 1959 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra, Jimmy Forrest and All Star Combo
April 1952 Gordon MacRae & Aileen Stanley, Jr.
listen on Internet Archive May 1957 Jack Guthrie and His Oklahomans
i   November 1961 Jules Bledsoe PRF, "Kenn" Sisson and His Orchestra REC
October 19, 1959 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal by Al Hendrickson
September 1956 Ben Bernie and His Orchestra
  February 1960 Mary Martin & Bing Crosby BRD, Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra REC,REL
On Second Thought Mavis Rivers, arranged and conducted by Van Alexander 1961 Unverified
i 1953 The Goldman Band - Edwin Franko Goldman, Conductor
listen on Internet Archive i December 28, 1938 (unknown), (unknown)
September 1954 Shirley Gunter and The Queens
i September 1959 Hudson - DeLange Orchestra
July 1960 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Kenneth Sargent
January 1954 Billy Jones [US1]
February 1960 Ernie Golden and His Orchestra
i 1939 Bob Roberts with Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive   May 1957 Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Blackwell Lunsford REL, Carl T. Sprague REC
i September 1959 Mills Blue Rhythm Band under the direction of Lucky Millinder
October 19, 1959 Bob Geddins Cavaliers
Sadie Thompson's Song (The Blue Pacific Blues) Leo Diamond with Van Alexander & Orch. (Leo Diamond, Van Alexander) 1953 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive May 1957 Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Vocal by Tommy Duncan with Orchestra
i November 1961 Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra
  September 1957 Eddie Fisher with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra and Chorus REL, Miyoshi Umeki BRD
listen on Internet Archive 1939 Frankie Masters and His Orchestra
October 19, 1959 Les Brown and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Doris Day
February 1955 Leo Diamond
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November 1959 (unknown)
October 19, 1959 Douglas Richardson
  September 1956 Al Jolson REC,BRD
i November 1961 Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
i September 1959 Chick Webb's Savoy Orchestra
i   November 1961 Max Hoffman PRF, Victor Arden-Phil Ohman and Their Orchestra with Vocal Refrain REC,REL
listen on Internet Archive i July 10, 1939 Nathan Glantz and His Orchestra
October 31, 1960 Abe Lyman's California Orchestra
October 19, 1959 Ben Bernie and His Orchestra
October 1957 Dick Farney - Orchestrated and conducted by Paul Baron
October 1952 Pee Wee King and His Band featuring Redd Stewart and Shorty Boyd
  1960 Jeanne Crain [dubbed by Louanne Hogan] & Dick Haymes BRD, Dick Haymes with Victor Young and His Orchestra REL
September 1954 (unknown), Côro Misto com Conjunto, Billy Shepard with Orchestral Accompaniment
November 1959 Mr. Herbert Payne (Ernest Pike)
  September 1956 George Olsen and His Music - Vocal Refrain by Bob Borger REC, Mary Lawlor and John Price Jones PRF
listen on Internet Archive May 1957 Gene Krupa and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Howard Du Lany
listen on Internet Archive   January 11, 1939 Dolly Dawn and Her Dawn Patrol REC, John Payne, Johnnie "Scat" Davis, Jerry Colonna, Joe Venuti and His Swing Cats BRD, Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra REL
1939 Lionel Hampton and Orchestra
i 1960 Frank Sinatra with Orchestra conducted by Billy May
listen on Internet Archive May 1957 George Olsen and His Music
1961 Benny Carter and His Orchestra - Vocal by Roy Felton
i 1960 (unknown)
November 1959 (unknown)
October 1957 Julia Sanderson and Donald Brian
  September 1954 Eddy Arnold, The Tennessee Plowboy and His Guitar REL, Eddy Arnold REC
listen on Internet Archive i   May 15, 1939 Broadway Nitelites - Vocal Chorus by Franklyn Baur REC,REL, William Gaxton & Constance Carpenter PRF
i November 1959 (unknown)
September 1956 Nick Lucas "The Crooning Troubadour"
October 1957 Victor Young and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Louanne Hogan
  1957 Fred Astaire BRD, Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and His Orchestra REC,REL
November 1959 Eddie Harkness and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Van Fleming
listen on Internet Archive   May 1957 Sons of the Pioneers REC, The Ranch Boys REL
i September 1959 John Kirby and His Onyx Club Boys
i September 1959 Ethel Waters, Andy Kirk and His Twelve Clouds of Joy - Vocal Chorus by Pha Terrell
listen on Internet Archive   May 1957 Everett Marshall PRF, George Olsen and His Music – Vocal Refrain by Joe Morrison and Quartet REC
listen on Internet Archive i May 22, 1939 Margaret Young
February 1960 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Joey Nash
February 1960 Manuel Romain
1960 Eric Mattson and Jean Darling with Carousel Orchestra under direction of Joseph Littau
listen on Internet Archive July 1954 Arthur Fields
  October 1957 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Joey Nash REC, Bing Crosby BRD
1957 George M. Cohan
listen on Internet Archive April 5, 1939 Bunny Berigan and His Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Kathleen Lane
February 1960 Mills Brothers
listen on Internet Archive July 1954 Ames Brothers
listen on Internet Archive December 21, 1938 George Hall and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Dolly Dawn
September 1956 Ona Munson and Jack Whiting
listen on Internet Archive December 21, 1938 Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye - Vocal Refrain by The Three Barons
September 1956 Majestic Dance Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Glenn Cross

Releases

Singles

Title Performer Release date Label
A Hundred Years from Today Artie Wayne – Orchestra conducted by Van Alexander March 1955 Mercury
A Woman in Love Gordon MacRae with Van Alexander and His Orchestra with Vocal Group November 1955 Capitol Records
Cara Mia Gordon MacRae with Orchestra conducted by Van Alexander September 1954 Capitol Records
Diga-Diga Doo Van Alexander and His Orchestra 1939 Bluebird
East Side of Heaven Van Alexander and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Phyllis Kenny March 29, 1939 Bluebird
God Bless Us All Molly Bee with Van Alexander's Chorus and Orchestra August 1953 Capitol Records
Green Acres and Purple Mountains Gordon MacRae – Orchestra conducted by Van Alexander February 1952 Capitol Records
I Cried for You Van Alexander and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Jayne Dover December 7, 1938 Bluebird
If I Didn't Care Van Alexander and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Phyllis Kenny May 10, 1939 Bluebird
(I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over Van Alexander and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Jayne Dover February 1, 1939 Bluebird
I Never Should Have Let You Go The Lancers with Van Alexander Orchestra April 1954 Trend Records
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus Molly Bee with Orchestra conducted by Van Alexander November 1952 Capitol Records
Just for a Thrill Kay Starr – Orchestra conducted by Van Alexander July 1960 Capitol Records
Let There Be Love Van Alexander and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Phyllis Kenny June 5, 1939 Bluebird
On the Mall Leo Diamond with Van Alexander & Orch. November 1953 Ambassador [US1]
On the Road to Mandalay Van Alexander and His Orchestra December 28, 1938 Bluebird
Oop-Shoop Kay Brown with Van Alexander and His Orchestra September 1954 Crown Records [US2]
Prairie Home Tex Ritter with Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Van Alexander September 1954 Capitol Records
Sayonara Gordon MacRae with Orchestra conducted by Van Alexander September 1957 Capitol Records
Scatter-Brain Van Alexander and His Swingtime Band 1939 Varsity
Shtiggy Boom The Nuggets with Orchestra conducted by Van Alexander February 1955 Capitol Records
Stop Chasin' Me Baby The Lancers with Van Alexander Orchestra January 1954 Trend Records
Stumbling Van Alexander and His Orch. July 10, 1939 Bluebird
Tennessee Tango Molly Bee with Orchestra conducted by Van Alexander October 1952 Capitol Records
The Girl Friend of the Whirling Dervish Van Alexander and His Orchestra January 11, 1939 Bluebird
The Jumpin' Jive (Jim Jam Jump) Van Alexander and His Orchestra 1939 Bluebird
Tony's Wife Van Alexander and His Orch. May 15, 1939 Bluebird
'Way Down Yonder in New Orleans Van Alexander and His Orch. May 22, 1939 Bluebird
Y' Had It Comin' to You Van Alexander and His Orchestra April 5, 1939 Bluebird
You Always Hurt the One You Love Kay Starr with Orchestra conducted by Van Alexander February 1960 Capitol Records
You Can't Buy Happiness Andy Williams with Orchestra directed by Van Alexander July 1954 "X"
You're Gonna See a Lot of Me Van Alexander and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Butch Stone December 21, 1938 Bluebird

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