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Skitch Henderson

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Aliases
Skitch Henderson and His Orch.
Skitch Henderson and His Orchestra
Skitch Henderson, His Piano and His Orchestra
Skitch Henderson & the "Tonight Show" Orchestra
Real name
Lyle Russell Cedric Henderson
Born
January 27, 1918
Died
November 1, 2005
Country
United States
Comments
Conductor, pianist and radio and television entertainer who provided music for the "Tonight" show in the 1950's and 1960's and who founded and led The New York Pops.
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Covers by Skitch Henderson

Title Performer Release date Originally by
May 1948 (unknown)
listen on Internet Archive 1946 Gene Austin
i   June 1968 Emma Carus PRF, Collins and Harlan REC
i January 30, 1967 Frankie Randall
i June 1968 John Steel and Ruth Thomas
i   1957 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Stanley Worth REC, Hiram Sherman, Frances Mercer, Hollace Shaw, Ralph Stuart PRF
i 1957 William Gaxton & Bettina Hall
i June 1968 Irving Kaufman
listen on Internet Archive 1965 Irving Kaufman
i July 1967 Nicole Croisille – Pierre Barouh
i   January 30, 1967 The Singing Serenaders REC, Jack Hylton and His Orchestra REL
listen on Internet Archive And so to bed Skitch Henderson and His Orchestra - Vocal by Eileen Wilson 1946 Unverified
i July 1962 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
i March 1966 Ethel Merman
i   1956 Evelyn Hoey PRF, Marion Chase REL
i   1969 Warren Burton and Company PRF, The Company [Hair, Original Cast] REC,REL
i   1957 Lena Horne and Avon Long PRF, Harold Arlen - Piano Accompaniment by Arthur Schutt REC
listen on Internet Archive i   February 1949 J. Harold Murray PRF, Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Joey Nash REC,REL
i   1956 Yves Montand BRD, Cora Vaucaire - Au piano : M. Philippe-Gérard REL
i   July 1966 Helen Gallagher and Thelma Oliver PRF, Gallagher, Oliver REL
i   1958 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Helen Forrest REC, Vivienne Segal PRF
i May 1948 Jeanette MacDonald with Male Quartet and Orchestra
i   2003 The Foursome PRF,REC,REL
i   July 1966 Peggy Lee REC,REL, Helen Gallagher and Thelma Oliver PRF
i 2003 (unknown)
i 2001 Shirley Ross
i   June 1968 Belle Baker PRF, Imperial Dance Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Arthur Fields REC
i   1966 Angela Lansbury and Beatrice Arthur PRF, Angela Lansbury, Beatrice Arthur REC
listen on Internet Archive i 1950 (unknown)
i   July 1962 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Chorus by Weston Vaughan REC,REL, Pit Musicians [What Price Glory] PRF
  January 1950 "T" Texas Tyler - The Man with a Million Friends REC, Red Foley REL
listen on Internet Archive i 1958 The Bar Harbor Society Orchestra (Ben Selvin)
i 2001 Barney Bigard and Orchestra
i 1956 Pierre Dudan - Orch. dir. Jacques-Henry Rys
i 1948 Harriet Cohen with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hubert Bath
January 1950 Phil Regan with Lou Bring and His Orchestra
i 1957 Jessie Matthews
listen on Internet Archive i 1958 Selvin's Novelty Orchestra
i   1963 Henry Mancini, His Orchestra and Chorus REL, [Unknown Studio Artists] BRD
i July 1962 James Melton
i 1956 André Claveau avec André Grassi et son orchestre
i   June 1968 Samuel Ash, Marilyn Miller and Clifton Webb PRF, Meyer Davis and His Orch. – Vocal Refrain by Lou Conrad REC
i   1957 Tom Coakley and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Carl Ravazza REC, The Princeton University Triangle Club PRF
i 2001 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday
i   1958 Frances Langford with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra REC, James Stewart and Eleanor Powell [dubbed by Marjorie Lane] BRD
i   July 1962 Marlene Dietrich - Begl.: Fr. Holländer und seine Jazz-Symphoniker BRD,REL, Weintraubs Syncopators REC
listen on Internet Archive 1965 Muriel Angelus
i Farewell Amanda Skitch Henderson and His Orch. 1957 Unverified
1946 Bob Crosby and His Orchestra
1960 (unknown), Ray Noble and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Roy Lanson
i 1969 Don Ho
i July 1967 The Seekers
i 2001 Ted Wallace and His Swing Kings (Ed Kirkeby)
i July 1967 Johnny Darrell
  2000 Gertrude Lawrence PRF, Frank Sinatra – Orchestra under the direction of Axel Stordahl REC
i   1963 Tex Ritter BRD,REC,REL
listen on Internet Archive i 1958 Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra
i 1969 The Beatles
i June 1968 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Jack Fulton
i   2001 Julie Andrews, Philippa Bevans REC,REL, Julie Andrews, Philippa Bevans and Cast PRF
  2000 Marcy Westcott and Richard Kollmar PRF, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Louise Tobin REC,REL
i 1966 Angela Lansbury
i 2001 The Piccadilly Players [GB]
i   1957 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bob Lawrence REL, Rex Weber PRF
listen on Internet Archive 1965 Jan Clayton and John Raitt with Carousel Orchestra under direction of Joseph Littau
listen on Internet Archive November 1946 Perry Como with Russ Case and His Orchestra
i July 1966 Gwen Verdon
i   2001 Enric Madriguera & His Hotel Weylin Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Tony Sacco REC,REL, Georges Metaxa PRF
1960 (unknown), Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Bob Eberly
i 1956 Edith Piaf - Orchestre dir. Robert Chauvigny avec les chœurs R. Saint-Paul
i   1958 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain Ramona REC, William Gaxton & Ethel Merman PRF
listen on Internet Archive   1965 Peggy Wood & George Metaxa REC,REL,PRF
i   June 1968 Billy Murray REC, Harry Fox and Ensemble PRF
i   1958 Les Baxter with His Chorus and Orchestra REC,REL, Lilo PRF
i   July 1966 Wheeler, Davis, Gallagher, Oliver, Girls, Patrons REL, John Wheeler [US2] PRF
i 1958 Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth [dubbed by Nan Wynn]
i 1957 Andy Williams
i 2001 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
i 1957 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1965 Lucy Isabelle Marsh with Victor Light Opera Company
i   1963 Jeanne Crain [dubbed by Louanne Hogan] BRD, Dick Haymes with Victor Young and His Orchestra REC,REL
i   2000 Jeanne Crain [dubbed by Louanne Hogan] BRD, Dick Haymes with Victor Young and His Orchestra REC,REL
2000 Shirley Ross
listen on Internet Archive i 1958 Ethel Merman & Bob Hope
i 1966 Angela Lansbury and All
i June 1968 Dick Powell & Alice Faye
i 1956 Roland Gerbeau – Orchestre, direction Guy Luypaerts
listen on Internet Archive i   1958 Paul Whiteman and His Ambassador Orchestra REL, Olive Kline REC
listen on Internet Archive i February 1949 International Novelty Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Elliott Shaw
i July 1962 Gene Austin
listen on Internet Archive 1965 Fritzi Scheff
i 1956 Orchestre Joe Heyne
i 1956 Edith Piaf
i 1969 The Doors
i March 1966 Irving Kaufman
i   2003 Sammy Fain REC, Nick Lucas and Ruby Keeler BRD
i   1958 Gene Kelly & Rita Hayworth [dubbed by Martha Mears] BRD, Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and His Orchestra REC
i   1963 (unknown performer) PRF, Don Cornell REC,REL
listen on Internet Archive 1965 Kathryn Grayson
i 1958 Jeanette MacDonald
listen on Internet Archive 1965 Jeanette MacDonald
2000 Jeanette MacDonald
i 2001 Billie Holiday
i July 1962 Gloria Swanson
i   1963 Dick Powell with Jimmie Grier and His Orchestra REC, Wini Shaw BRD
i   2000 Sterling Holloway - June Cochran PRF, The Knickerbockers [Ben Selvin] REC
  1948 Jesse Crawford with Nat Shilhkret and The Victor Orchestra REC, Oscar Shaw & Gertrude Lawrence PRF
i July 1962 Mizzi Günther & Louis Treumann
i 1956 Maurice Chevalier
i 2000 Maurice Chevalier
i 1963 Sergio De Karlo
i 1957 The Jungle Band [Duke Ellington]
listen on Internet Archive i   February 1949 Joe Venuti and His Orchestra REC,REL, Valaida & Dee Lloyd McKaye PRF
listen on Internet Archive i   1958 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REL, "Kenn" Sisson and His Orchestra REC
  2000 Mary Martin, Patricia Neway PRF,REL, Percy Faith and His Orchestra REC
i 2001 Byron G. Harlan
i   1958 Jessie Matthews PRF, Ambrose and His Mayfair Orchestra REC
i 1956 Edith Piaf accomp. par l'orchestre Jacques Météhen
1960 Germaine Alexandre, Larry Clinton and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bea Wain
i   2001 Carl Fenton's Orchestra (Walter Haenschen) REC, Walter Catlett PRF
i   2000 Alfred Drake, Joan Roberts, Betty Garde, Barry Kelley & Edwin Clay with Oklahoma Orchestra under Direction of Jay Blackton REL, Alfred Drake, Joan Roberts, Betty Garde, Barry Kelley & Edwin Clay PRF
listen on Internet Archive 1965 Grace Moore
i 2003 Smith Ballew & His Orchestra
i 1963 Judy Garland
i 1956 Edith Piaf
i   July 1962 The Troubadours [Nathaniel Shilkret] – Vocal Refrain by Frank Munn REC,REL, Ramon Novarro BRD
  October 1947 Nanette Fabray and Jack McCauley PRF, The Three Suns REL
i   July 1962 Pola Negri BRD, Leo Reisman and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Frances Maddux REC
i 1956 Mary Ellis & Tullio Carminati
i 1956 Mlle Lucienne Boyer
i 1956 Georges Ulmer - Orchestre direction Marius Coste
October 1947 Frankie Laine and Carl Fischer's Orchestra
i 2003 Conway's Band
i   July 1962 Dolores Del Rio BRD, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REC,REL
i 2000 Broadway Nitelites - Vocal Chorus by Franklyn Baur REC,REL, William Gaxton & Constance Carpenter PRF, Jessie Matthews
i 2000 Mary Martin, Men's Chorus with Orchestra conducted by Salvatore Dell'Isola REL, Company [South Pacific, Broadway, 1949] PRF, Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner REL,PRF
2000 Gloria Grafton & Donald Novis, Nat Finston and his Paramount Studio Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Sam Coslow REL, Maurice Chevalier, Rolfe Sedan, Bert Roach, Jeanette MacDonald BRD
listen on Internet Archive November 1946 (unknown), (unknown)
i   1963 Doris Day REC,REL,BRD
i   1958 Tamara PRF, Gertrude Niesen with orchestral acc dir. by Ray Sinatra REC
i 2003 Claude Thornhill and His Orchestra
i March 1966 Claude Thornhill and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive i February 1949 J. Harold Murray and Katherine Carrington
i July 1967 Carson and Gaile
i   1958 Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Harry Cool REC, Dinah Shore with Orchestra conducted by Paul Wetstein REL
i 1957 Margaret Schilling and Jerry Goff
i 2001 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
i July 1967 Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive 1965 Grace Moore
1960 (unknown), Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Ray Eberle
  1960 (unknown), Nelson Eddy with Orchestra conducted by Robert Armbruster REL, Lawrence Brooks and Helena Bliss PRF
listen on Internet Archive   1965 (unknown), Nelson Eddy with Orchestra conducted by Robert Armbruster REL, Lawrence Brooks and Helena Bliss PRF
1960 Karel Kuchera, Doretta Morrow & Richard Kiley
i October 1967 (unknown)
i July 1967 Bert Kaempfert
i   1969 Judy Collins REL, The Stormy Clovers PRF
i July 1967 Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra
i 2003 Ben Bernie and His Orchestra
i   2003 Helen Clark–Lewis James REC, Phyllis Cleveland and Jack Barker PRF
i 1969 Simon & Garfunkel
listen on Internet Archive i 1958 Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Erik Rhodes and Lillian Miles
i   1958 The Melody Sheiks (Sam Lanin) REC, Eva Puck and Sam White PRF
i   June 1968 Ray Middleton PRF, Frank Sinatra – Orchestra under the direction of Axel Stordahl REC,REL
i 2001 (unknown)
  1960 Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra, Kay Kyser and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Ginny Simms REC, Mildred Bailey and Her Orchestra REL
i   1956 Kate Smith REC, Ann Sothern BRD
i   1969 Dusty Springfield REL, Stan Getz REC
listen on Internet Archive i 1950 Everett Marshall
i July 1967 The New Vaudeville Band
i July 1966 Gwen Verdon, Helen Gallagher, Carmen Morales
i July 1962 Joseph Knecht's Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra
i   1958 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Jack Fulton REC,REL, Tamara and William Hain PRF
i 1963 Fred Astaire
i   June 1968 Bing Crosby with Orchestra directed by Jay Blackton REC,REL, Ethel Merman & Ray Middleton PRF
2000 Ezio Pinza
i 1969 Alexander Vertinsky
i 1963 Frank Sinatra with Orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle
i   2003 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by The Rhythm Boys BRD,REC
1960 (unknown), Les Brown and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Doris Day
i March 1966 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
1960 (unknown), Freddy Martin and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Clyde Rogers
i   July 1966 James Luisi REL,PRF
listen on Internet Archive i   February 1949 Johnny Green and His Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by George Beuler REC, Gloria Grafton PRF
listen on Internet Archive i   February 1949 Bob Hope & Shirley Ross BRD, Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye - Vocal Refrain by Charles Wilson REC
i   1956 Jean Bretonnière BRD, Jacques Hélian et son orchestre REC,REL
listen on Internet Archive 1965 Mizzi Günther, (unknown)
i 1966 Angela Lansbury, Frankie Michaels, Jane Connell, Sab Shimono, Charles Braswell
i 2003 Johnny Mathis with Ray Conniff and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive March 1948 Henry Thies and His Hotel Sinton Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Don Dewey
i   July 1966 Barbra Streisand - Arr. & Cond. by Robert Mersey REC,REL, Gwen Verdon PRF
i 2001 D'Orsay Dance Orch. – Vocal Chorus by Le Dandy
i July 1967 (unknown)
2000 John Hundley & Lillian Taiz
April 1947 Trudy Erwin
i 1963 Alice Faye
i   June 1968 Ethel Merman & Dick Haymes - Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra and Chorus REL, Ethel Merman and Russell Nype PRF
i   2003 Tony Martin [US1] BRD, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Ray Eberle and The Modernaires REC,REL
i   March 1966 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

Releases

Albums

Title Performer Release date Label
A Starry Night Nelson Eddy - Orchestra conducted by Skitch Henderson 1960 Everest
A Tribute to Irving Berlin Skitch Henderson, His Piano and His Orchestra June 1968 Columbia [US]
Broadway Tonight - Skitch Henderson & the Tonight Show Orchestra Play Music from "Mame" Skitch Henderson & the Tonight Show Orchestra 1966 Columbia [US]
Hollywood Award Winners! Skitch Henderson and His Orchestra 1963 Columbia [US]
Honey Pie Skitch Henderson 1969 Columbia [US]
Keyboard Sketches by Skitch Henderson Skitch Henderson February 1949 Capitol Records
Keyboard Sketches by Skitch Henderson [10"] Skitch Henderson 1950 Capitol Records
Legends Skitch Henderson & Bucky Pizzarelli 2003 Arbors Records
Lush and Lovely Skitch Henderson July 1962 Columbia [US]
More Skitch Tonight! Skitch Henderson & the "Tonight Show" Orchestra March 1966 Columbia [US]
One Night of Love Anna Moffo – RCA Victor Orchestra - Skitch Henderson, Conductor 1965 RCA Victor
Paris at Midnight Skitch Henderson His Piano and Orchestra 1956 Decca
Sketches by Skitch Skitch Henderson and His Orch. 1957 RCA Victor
Skitch Henderson and His Orchestra Play Music from Sweet Charity Skitch Henderson and His Orchestra July 1966 Columbia [US]
Skitch Henderson on the Bandstand Skitch Henderson and His Orchestra 1958 RCA Victor
Swinging with Strings Skitch Henderson 2001 Arbors Records
The Eyes of Love Skitch Henderson, His Piano and His Orchestra July 1967 Columbia [US]
Tribute to Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and Jerome Kern Skitch Henderson 1958 Seeco
With a Song in My Heart - The Great Songs of Richard Rodgers The New York Pops / Skitch Henderson - Guess artist Maureen McGovern 2000 Reader's Digest