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Spike Robinson

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Aliases
Spike Robinson / Eddie Thompson Trio
Spike Robinson Quartet
Spike Robinson Quintet
Real name
Henry Bertholf Robinson
Born
January 16, 1930
Died
October 29, 2001
Country
United States
Comments
Jazz tenor saxophonist whose professional career was interrupted by a 30-year stint as an engineer. Known for his recordings of ballads from the Great American Song Book.
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Title Performer Release date Originally by
i 1989 Ella Fitzgerald - Orchestra conducted by Buddy Bregman
i   1985 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   1988 Fred Astaire BRD, Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Bob Lytell REC
i   1985 Fred Astaire BRD, Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Bob Lytell REC
i   1997 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Stanley Worth REC, Hiram Sherman, Frances Mercer, Hollace Shaw, Ralph Stuart PRF
i 1989 Leo Reisman and His Orchestra
i 1986 Al Jolson
i 1997 The Four Brothers
i   1992 Lena Horne and Avon Long PRF, Harold Arlen - Piano Accompaniment by Arthur Schutt REC
  1995 Lena Horne and Avon Long PRF, Harold Arlen - Piano Accompaniment by Arthur Schutt REC
i   1985 Frances Williams PRF, Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees REC
i   1989 Yves Montand BRD, Cora Vaucaire - Au piano : M. Philippe-Gérard REL
i 2000 Tamara PRF, Gertrude Niesen with orchestral acc dir. by Ray Sinatra REC, Henry Busse and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Richard Barry
i 1987 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday, Dorothy Dickson PRF, Turner Layton REC
i 1991 Mark Fisher's Orchestra
i   1992 Aida Ward PRF, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra REC,REL
i 1987 Fred Hamm and His Orchestra
i 1991 Ethel Waters and Dooley Wilson
i 2000 Charlie Parker's All Stars
i   1982 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Tex Beneke and The Four Modernaires REL, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra with Tex Benteke and the Modernaires and Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers BRD
i 1982 Hannah Williams and Company
i 1991 Peggy Lee
i   1992 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Sy Oliver REC, Ruby Hill, Harold Nicholas PRF
i 1989 Fred Astaire & Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra
i   1989 Walter Woolf King PRF, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Chorus by Carmen Lombardo REC,REL
i   1986 Tom Coakley and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Carl Ravazza REC, The Princeton University Triangle Club PRF
i   2012 Frances Langford with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra REC, James Stewart and Eleanor Powell [dubbed by Marjorie Lane] BRD
  1995 Frances Langford with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra REC, James Stewart and Eleanor Powell [dubbed by Marjorie Lane] BRD
1995 Al Cohn, David Frishberg
i   2012 Ginger Rogers and Allen Kearns PRF, Majestic Dance Orchestra [Lou God] - Vocal Chorus Irving Kaufman REC
i   1985 Ginger Rogers and Allen Kearns PRF, Majestic Dance Orchestra [Lou God] - Vocal Chorus Irving Kaufman REC
i 1984 Julie Andrews
i 1984 Kay Kyser and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Harry Babbitt
i 1993 Danny Kaye and Mary Jane Walsh
1995 Danny Kaye and Mary Jane Walsh
i 1984 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Herb Jeffries
i 1989 Claude Thornhill and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Fran Warren
i 1986 Margaret Whiting with Orchestra conducted by Jerry Gray
i 1991 Frank Sinatra with Orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle
i   1987 Tamara PRF, Les Brown and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Miriam Shaw REC
i 1986 Bing Crosby
i 1991 (unknown)
1995 The Oscar Peterson Trio REC, Herb Ellis REL, Jennie Smith - Arranged & Conducted by Mort Garson
i 1994 Jane Withers
i   1992 Ethel Waters BRD, Woody Herman and His Orchestra - Vocal by Frances Wayne REC,REL
i   1985 Joy Hodges & Austin Marshall PRF, Joe Rines and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Lee Sullivan REC,REL
i 1997 Adele Astaire & Allen Kearns
i 1997 The Four Brothers
i 1989 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Jack Fulton
i 1988 Bobbe Arnst
i   1997 Bob Hope PRF, Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Skinny Ennis REC
  1995 Frank Sinatra – Orchestra under the direction of Axel Stordahl REC,REL, Frank Sinatra BRD
i 1989 The Piccadilly Players [GB]
i If She Walked into My Life Spike Robinson 2005 Unverified
i   1992 Lillian Shade PRF, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra REC
i 1989 Mary Healy
i 1994 Dorothy Squires with Orchestra directed by Billy Reid
i 1989 Frank Sinatra – Orchestra under the direction of Axel Stordahl
i 1986 Harry James and His Orchestra
i 1984 Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Jean Bowes
i 1994 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
i 1997 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
i 2000 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
1987 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
i   1997 Leo Reisman and His Orchestra REC, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REL, Mary Ellis and Dennis King PRF
i 1985 Victor Herbert
i 1989 Margaret Whiting
i   1994 Jan Garber and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Lee Bennett REC,REL, Johnny Downs and Arline Judge BRD
i 1982 Dick Powell
i   1984 Bob Allen and The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra BRD, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bonnie Lou Williams and The Sentimentalists REC
i   1991 Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and His Orchestra REC, Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra REL, Fred MacMurray & Dorothy Lamour BRD
i 1989 The Ambassadors [US2]
i   1991 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Ray Eberle REC,REL, Tony Martin with Orchestra directed by Ray Sinatra BRD
i   1991 Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra REC, Bing Crosby BRD
i 1985 Jan Savitt and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Bon Bon
i   1988 Mary Hay and Clifton Webb PRF, Lee Wiley with Max Kaminsky's Orchestra REC,REL
i 1988 Ethel Merman
i 2000 Ethel Merman with Harry Sosnik and His Orchestra
i 1982 Dick Haymes with Orchestra under direction of Victor Young
i 1991 Henry Allen and His Orchestra
i 1997 Little Jimmy Scott
i   1997 Robert Preston REL,PRF
i   1997 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra REC,REL
i   1987 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra REC,REL
i 1991 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Frank Sinatra and The Pied Pipers
i   1989 Tony Bennett with Percy Faith & His Orch. REL, Sydney Chaplin and Judy Holliday PRF
  1987 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Stuart Allen REC,REL, June Knight & Charles Walters PRF
i 1985 Alfred Newman
i 1997 Alfred Newman
i   1992 Harold Arlen with Orchestral Acc. Dir. by Ray Sinatra REC, Art Jarrett BRD
i 1991 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Connie Haines, Frank Sintra & The Pied Pipers
i   2012 Dinah Shore PRF, Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra REC
i 1987 Gloria Grafton
i   1986 Evelyn Herbert PRF, Victor Arden-Phil Ohman and Their Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Male Quartet REC
1995 Billie Holiday
i   1986 Jan Garber and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Russ Brown REC, Kenny Baker [US1] BRD
i 1987 Bud Shank and Bob Brookmeyer
i 1982 Ted Fiorito and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Muzzy Marcellino & The Fio-rettes
i 1997 Eddy Howard
i 2012 Billy Butterfield and His Orchestra - Vocal by Margaret Whiting
i 1989 Henry Burr
i   1994 Martha Mears BRD, Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra REC,REL
i   1991 Fairchild and Carroll and Their Orchestra REL, Mitzi Green PRF
i   1992 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Eugenie Baird REC, Joan Leslie with Freddie Slack and his Orchestra BRD
i 1989 Frank Sinatra – Axel Stordahl and His Orchestra
  1995 Fred Astaire BRD, Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Johnny Morris REC
  1995 Jan Clayton with The "Show Boat" Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Edwin McArthur REL, Jan Clayton PRF
i   1988 Carl Fenton's Orchestra (Walter Haenschen) REC, Walter Catlett PRF
i 1987 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Male Quartet
i 2012 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
i 1985 The Horace Silver Trio
i   2012 Kenny Baker [US1] BRD, Abe Lyman and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Frank Parrish REC
i 1984 Ernie Golden and His Orchestra
i 1985 Elizabeth Spencer
i 1997 Johnny Mandel - Vocal: Ruth Price
i   1992 Celeste Holm & David Brooks PRF,REL
i 1987 The Stan Getz Quintet
i 2012 Charlie Parker Quintet
i 1985 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Chorus by Don Rodney and The Lombardo Trio
i 1986 Johnny Mandel
i 1987 Miles Davis All Stars
i 1986 Gene Krupa and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Anita O'Day
i 1989 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal by Al Hendrickson
i 1997 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Lew Sherwood
i   1988 Winnie Lightner PRF, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REL
i   1988 Gertrude Lawrence REC,REL,PRF
i 1986 The Art Farmer Quartet featuring Jim Hall
i 1989 The Six Hottentots - Vocal Chorus Irving Kaufman
i 1985 Judy Garland
i   1986 Jackie & Roy REC, Jerri Winters - With Orchestra conducted by Don Costa REL
i 1991 Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra
i 1989 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians
i 1997 Al Cohn & Zoot Sims
i 1997 Al Cohn & Zoot Sims
i 1989 Russ Columbo and His Orchestra
i   1988 Helen Jepson REL, Abbie Mitchell PRF, Abbie Mitchell under the direction of George Gershwin REC
i   2012 Helen Jepson REL, Abbie Mitchell PRF, Abbie Mitchell under the direction of George Gershwin REC
i 1987 The Buddy De Franco Wailers
i   1984 Adele Astaire & Allen Kearns PRF, Frank Crumit REC,REL
  1987 Adele Astaire & Allen Kearns PRF, Frank Crumit REC,REL
i 1997 Herbie Steward Quintet
i 1997 Al Cohn
i 1992 Ethel Waters
i 1986 Glen Gray and His Casa Loma Orchestra
i 1997 Kenny Clarke and His 52nd Street Boys
i 1989 Virginia Verrill
i 1986 Nat "King" Cole
i 1997 David Raksin
i   1985 Marion Harris REC, Adele Astaire PRF
i 2012 Agostinho dos Santos
i   1982 Harry James and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Buddy Di Vito REC, Dick Haymes BRD, Dick Haymes with Orchestra under direction of Victor Young REL
i 1997 The Al Cohn-Zoot Sims Quintet
i 1989 Isham Jones Orchestra
i 1997 The Four Brothers
i 1994 Isham Jones and His Orchestra
i 1985 Isham Jones' Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Woody Herman
i 1994 Stan Getz
i 1989 Tullio Carminati
i 1985 Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Skinny Ennis
i 1986 Fred Astaire
i   1988 Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and His Orchestra BRD, Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Ozzie Nelson REC,REL
i 1989 Julia Sanderson and Donald Brian
i   1987 Eddie Albert & Marcy Westcott PRF, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Martha Tilton REC, Les Brown and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Miriam Shaw REL
i   1982 Fred Astaire BRD, Louis Prima and His Orchestra - Vocal by Lilyann Carol REC,REL
i   1982 George Paxton and His Orchestra - Vocal by Lee Taylor REL, Bobby Byrne and His Orchestra REC, (unknown performer) BRD
i 1992 Priscilla Lane
i 1991 Priscilla Lane
i 1997 Count Basie and His Orchestra
i   1989 Frank Sinatra BRD, Margaret Whiting with Frank De Vol and His Orchestra REC
1989 Les Brown and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Ralph Young
i 1987 Sammy Davis, Jr.
Too Close for Comfort Spike Robinson 1987 Unverified
i Under a Blanket of Blue Spike Robinson 1995 Unverified
i 1985 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
i 1994 Bob Crosby and His Orchestra featuring Trumpet by Billy Butterfield
i 1985 Kammersänger C. Richard Tauber
i 1994 Victor Young
i 1987 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Connie Haines
i 1989 Gene Austin
i   1986 Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Harry Cool REC, Dinah Shore with Orchestra conducted by Paul Wetstein REL
  1987 Billy Fields REL, David Daniels and Gloria Marlowe PRF
i 1997 The Al Cohn-Zoot Sims Quintet
i 1989 Savoy Hotel Orpheans (Carroll Gibbons)
1995 Busby Berkeley and Joyce Barber
i 1987 Harry James and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Dick Haymes

Releases

Albums

Title Performer Release date Label
At Chesters - Volume 2 Spike Robinson / Eddie Thompson Trio 1986 Hep Jazz
At Chester's - Volume One The Eddie Thompson Trio & Spike Robinson 1984 Hep Jazz
At the Stables Gene DiNovi meets Spike Robinson 1997 Hep Jazz
Henry B. Meets Alvin G. "Once in a Wild" Spike Robinson • Al Cohn Quintet 1987 Capri Records
In Town Spike Robinson with Elaine Delmar 1987 Hep Jazz
In Town [CD] Spike Robinson with Elaine Delmar 1993 Hep Jazz
It's a Wonderful World Spike Robinson Quintet 1985 Capri Records
Jusa Bit 'O' Blues Volume 1 Spike Robinson/"Sweets" Edison Quintet 1989 Capri Records
Jusa Bit 'O' Blues Volume 2 Spike Robinson/"Sweets" Edison Quintet 1989 Capri Records
London Reprise Spike Robinson - Martin Taylor, Dave Green, Spike Wells 1985 Capri Records
Nice Work! Ellyn Rucker & Spike Robinson 1995 Capri Records
One Man in His Time Spike Robinson with The Jim Doherty Trio 1991 Cargo [1]
Spike Robinson • George Masso Play Arlen Spike Robinson • George Masso 1992 Hep Jazz
Spike Robinson's Tenor Madness Spike Robinson 1997 Essential Jazz
Spike Robinson Very Live in Boulder, Colorado Spike Robinson 2012 Hep Jazz
Spike & Strings Spike Robinson 1994 September
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most Spike Robinson 1986 Capri Records
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most [CD Re-issue] Spike Robinson 1986 Capri Records
Stairway to the Stars Spike Robinson 1991 Hep Jazz
The Gershwin Collection Spike Robinson, Strings arranged and conducted by Jimmy Deuchar 1988 Hep Jazz
The Music of Harry Warren, Vol. 2 Spike Robinson Quartet 1982 Discovery Records [US1]
The Odd Couple Spike Robinson / Rob Mullins 1989 Capri Records
Three for the Road Spike Robinson and Louis Stewart 1989 Hep Jazz
Young Lions Old Tigers Spike Robinson / Derek Nash 2000 Jazzizit Records
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