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Buck Hill

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Aliases
Buck Hill Quartet
Real name
Roger Hill
Born
February 13, 1927
Died
March 20, 2017
Country
United States
Comments
Jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist. Hill was called the "Wailin' Mailman" because he kept his day job as a Washington, D.C. mailman for over thirty years, refusing to give up this gig even after achieving success as a professional musician.
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Title Performer Release date Originally by
i 1983 Leo Reisman and His Orchestra
  1995 Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra REL, Nat "King" Cole with Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Les Baxter REC
i 1992 Jane Froman & Everett Marshall, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Male Quartet, Jane Powell accompanied by Johnny Green and the M-G-M Studio Orchestra REL, Jane Powell BRD
1995 Jeanette MacDonald with Male Quartet and Orchestra, Doris Day REC,REL,BRD, Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday
1995 Shirley Ross, Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Kenneth Sargent
i 1995 Oscar Pettiford and His Jazz All Stars
i January 21, 1992 Bing Crosby
i   1990 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra REC, Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra REL
  1992 Tony Pastor and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by John McAfee REC, Orchestra [You'll Never Get Rich] BRD
i   1982 Frances Langford with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra REC, James Stewart and Eleanor Powell [dubbed by Marjorie Lane] BRD
i July 18, 2006 Miles Davis
i 1991 Ray Noble and His Orchestra featuring Jack Dumont, Alto Sax
i 1992 Adele Astaire & Allen Kearns
i   1992 Dick Haymes with Orchestra under direction of Emil Newman REC,REL, Dick Haymes with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra BRD
i 1995 James Ingram and Patti Austin
i 1992 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Helen Forrest REC, Frances Comstock & Alfred Drake PRF, Charlie Parker Septet
i   1992 Bob Hope PRF, Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Skinny Ennis REC
i 1991 Bing Crosby
1995 Peter Lind Hayes, Eddie Quillan, Frank Jenks & Robert Paige BRD, Russ Morgan and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Jimmy Lewis REC, Gene Krupa and His Orchestra
1995 Victor Young and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Vera Van REC,REL, Brice Hutchins, Vivian Janis PRF, John Reardon & Nancy Dussault PRF, Perry Como REC,REL
i January 21, 1992 Harry James and His Orchestra
i 1983 John Coltrane
i 1995 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
  1995 Fred Astaire with Johnny Green and His Orchestra REC,REL, Fred Astaire BRD
1995 Doris Day
i   1991 Rex Harrison REL,PRF
1995 Eddie Quillan and June Clyde BRD, Leo Reisman & His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by George Beuler REC, Florence George
i   January 21, 1992 Phyllis Cleveland and Skeets Gallagher PRF, Carl Fenton's Orchestra (Walter Haenschen) REC
1995 Lawrence Tibbett with Orchestra – Nathaniel Shilkret, Director
1995 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Stuart Allen REC,REL, June Knight & Charles Walters PRF, 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, Leo Reisman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Fred Astaire, Bob Crosby and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Helen Ward, Doris Day - Orchestra under the direction of Frank Comstock
  1992 Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and His Orchestra REC,REL, Bing Crosby BRD
i 1992 Billie Holiday
i 1992 The Troubadours - Vocal Refrain by Lewis James
1995 Jesse Crawford with Nat Shilhkret and The Victor Orchestra REC, Oscar Shaw & Gertrude Lawrence PRF, Margaret Whiting with Orchestra conducted by Jerry Gray
i July 18, 2006 Miles Davis All Stars
1992 Roy Smeck and His Serenaders – Vocal Chorus by Clark Ross
  1995 Jan Clayton with The "Show Boat" Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Edwin McArthur REL, Jan Clayton PRF
i 1995 Charley Parker's Ree Boppers
i 1992 Larry Clinton & His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bea Wain
i July 18, 2006 Larry Clinton & His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bea Wain
i 1978 Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins and Horace Silver, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke
1995 Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra
i 1992 Victor Arden–Phil Ohman and Their Orchestra – Vocal Refrain by Sylvia Froos and Frank Luther
i 1992 Smith Ballew & His Orchestra
i 1992 Smith Ballew & His Orchestra
i July 18, 2006 Miles Davis Sextet
i 1992 Gene Ammons and His Sextet
  1995 Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye - Vocal Refrain by Tommy Ryan REC, Don Ameche & Mary Martin BRD
i 1995 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
i   1990 Gertrude Lawrence REC,REL,PRF
1992 Johnnie Johnston with Paul Weston and His Orchestra
i 1990 Chick Webb's Savoy Orchestra
i 1995 Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra
i 1990 Kenny Clarke and His 52nd Street Boys
  1992 Frank Sinatra BRD, Margaret Whiting with Frank De Vol and His Orchestra REC
i 1978 Buster Williams Trio
i 1992 Dick Farney - Orchestrated and conducted by Paul Baron, Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra, Ronald Graham
i January 21, 1992 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
1995 Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, Sid Caesar PRF,REL
i 1992 Helen Morgan REC,REL,PRF, Julia Sanderson and Donald Brian
1995 Lois Deppe & Russell Woodling's Jubilee Singers, 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   1978 Fay Templeton PRF, Leo Reisman and His Orchestra REC,REL
i   1992 Enric Madriguera & His Hotel Weylin Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Tony Sacco REC,REL, Georges Metaxa & Libby Holman PRF
i   1991 Carol Bruce REC, Ella Fitzgerald REL
i 1995 McCoy Tyner & Jackie McLean

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