Harry James was born in a rundown hotel next to the city jail in Albany, Georgia. His mother and father were members of a circus - she as a trapeze artist and he a band leader - with the Mighty Haag Circus. At seven, they settled in Beaumont, Texas where Harry learned yo play drums. By twelve, he was playing trumpet in the Christy Brothers circus band...See full bio »
1950Young Man with a Horn
(performer: "Shadow Waltz" - uncredited, "The Very Thought of You" - uncredited, "Baby Face" - uncredited, "Get Happy" - uncredited, "Sweet Georgia Brown" - uncredited, "Silent Night, Holy Night" - uncredited, "Ain't She Sweet" - uncredited, "The Blue Room" - uncredited, "Can't We Be Friends?" - uncredited, "Tea for Two" - uncredited, "The Man I Love" - uncredited, "'S Wonderful" - uncredited, "Limehouse Blues" - uncredited, "Someone to Watch Over Me" - uncredited)
1948On Our Merry Way
("You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" - uncredited)
1946Do You Love Me
(music: "AS IF I DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH ON MY MIND" - uncredited, "Back Beat Boogie" - uncredited)
1945Man from Oklahoma
(writer: "I'm Beginning to See the Light" - uncredited)
1944Bathing Beauty
(music: "Trumpet Blues and Cantabile" 1942, "Boogie Woogie" - uncredited / performer: "I'll Take the High Note" 1943 - uncredited, "Trumpet Blues and Cantabile" 1942, "Hora Staccato" 1906 - uncredited)
TV commercial: demonstrated the strength of Kleenex tissue by playing his trumpet through a Kleenex while wife Betty Grable sang a jingle, in an early 1960s commercial.
Band leaders must be like automobile manufacturers before the war. They must be bringing out new models all the time. We have to vary our programs, playing sweet numbers and jump numbers, and we have to play them different ways.
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Trivia:
Entombed in Eden Vale Mausoleum, Las Vegas, Nevada.
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