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Phil Tate

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Aliases
Phil Tate & The Happy Gang
Phil Tate and His Orchestra
Phil Tate and His Party Band
Phil Tate & The Windjammers
Real name
Phil Tate
Born
April 28, 1922
Died
December 9, 2005
Country
United Kingdom
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Band leader and composer. He played violin from the age of eight, and was later an autodidact on clarinet and saxophone On radio, he was best known for his 144 appearances in Music While You Work. His most longstanding association came in 1965, when he became musical director for the Miss World Pageant. He disbanded his orchestra in 1967, and ran Mecca Agencies in addition to his duties with Miss World, where he remained until his retirement in 1992.
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Title Performer Release date Originally by
i 1963 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Bob Eberly
i June 1963 Dinah Shore
i 1961 Charles Hart [US], The Carter Family
i June 4, 1965 Julie Andrews
i   1963 Yves Montand BRD, Cora Vaucaire - Au piano : M. Philippe-Gérard REL
i 1963 Mark Fisher's Orchestra
i September 1958 Jeanette MacDonald with Male Quartet and Orchestra
1962 (unknown)
i March 1958 Else Adler
i   1971 Tom Jones REL, P.J. Proby REC
i   1971 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Chorus by Weston Vaughan REC,REL, Pit Musicians [What Price Glory] PRF
i March 1959 The Pied Pipers - With Paul Weston and His Orchestra
i June 1958 Jeanette McDonald
i 1958 Leroy Anderson and His "Pops" Concert Orchestra
i 1971 Blue Steele and His Orchestra with Vocal Chorus
i December 1958 Harmony Brothers (Hall and Ryan)
i October 1962 Billy Brown
i   1962 Ray Charles and His Orchestra REL, Percy Mayfield REC
1962 (unknown), (unknown)
i   April 1958 Judy Garland with Orchestra under direction of David Rose REC,REL, Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney BRD
1972 Mark Sheridan, Ted Yorke, Ella Retford
i   1963 Woody Herman and His Orchestra REC, Dick Foran BRD
i   April 1959 Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold BRD, Hank Jones [US1] REC
i   November 1958 Les Brown and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Herb Muse REC,REL, Fred Astaire PRF,BRD
i 1960 Adele Dixon
i 1958 Dino Di Luca e Coro
i 1971 Lambert Murphy
1972 Harry Fay, Mr. Harry Lauder, (unknown)
i   July 1958 Gene Kelly & Rita Hayworth [dubbed by Martha Mears] BRD, Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and His Orchestra REC
i July 1958 Kammersänger Richard Tauber mit Odeon-Künstler-Orchester – Leitung: Paul Dessau
1972 Majestic Dance Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Helen Rowland, Ted Wallace & His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by The Radio Imps
i 1961 Bobby Capo
1972 (unknown), Jack Charman, J. W. Myers, (unknown)
i 1971 Charles Braswell and All
i 1971 Hermanos Castilla
i 1971 The Beatles
i November 1958 (unknown performer)
i   October 1962 Audrey Hepburn BRD, Henry Mancini and His Orchestra and Chorus REC,REL
i 1960 (unknown)
i 1960 Melina Mercouri
i October 1958 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Male Quartet
i June 1959 David Rose and His Orchestra
i 1963 Judy Garland
i   December 1957 Pola Negri BRD, Leo Reisman and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Frances Maddux REC
1972 Gid Tanner and His Skillet-Lickers with Riley Puckett and Clayton McMichen, (unknown)
i 1971 Nat King Cole with Music conducted by Belford Hendricks
i 1971 Gracie Fields
1972 Miss Walton and Mr. Macdonough, William J. Halley
i So Blue Phil Tate And His Orchestra (Phil Tate) November 1959 Unverified
i   April 1959 Winnie Lightner PRF, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REL
i   April 1958 Lanny Ross BRD, Jimmie Grier and His Orchestra REC,REL
i   1971 Victor Young and His Concert Orchestra - Ray Turner at the Piano REC,REL, Victor Young and His Orchestra BRD
i 1961 Prince's Band
i 1963 Tarateño Rojas
i 1971 Mieko Hirota - Billy Taylor Trio
i March 1958 Mr. X [Arthur Fields]
1962 (unknown)
i   1960 Kate Smith REC, Ann Sothern BRD
i December 1958 Chick Bullock accompanied by His Orchestra
i October 1962 Andy Williams
i June 4, 1965 The Beatles
i   June 3, 1964 Meredith Willson and His Orchestra and Eileen Wilson, Barbara Cook and Robert Preston PRF, Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra with Sue Raney REC,REL
i 1962 Clay Cole
i December 1958 Amália Rodrigues
1972 (unknown), John Goss and the Cathedral Male Voice Quartet, (unknown), (unknown)
i October 1962 Cliff Richard - Norrie Paramor Orchestra
i   December 1958 Isham Jones Orchestra REL, Franklyn Baur REC
i   December 1958 Bebe Daniels BRD, Waring's Pennsylvanians - Vocal Refrain by Tom Waring REC,REL
i June 1959 Alice Faye, Jack Oakie & John Payne
i   June 1958 Hal LeRoy & Eunice Healy PRF, Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Joey Nash REC