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Who Played Bass
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 8:32 am
by Kaiser
on Alfie? Promises, Promises?
I would appreciate hearing from anyone on this.
I just found this terrific forum 10 minutes ago!
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Kaiser
Re: Who Played Bass
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 10:08 pm
by steveo_1965
If you are referring to Burt/ Dionne recording of Alfie from around 1967, I think that was Ray Brown on Bass....He did a fantastic job on it.
Re: Who Played Bass
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2015 8:46 pm
by An Enormous BB Fan
steveo_1965 wrote:If you are referring to Burt/ Dionne recording of Alfie from around 1967, I think that was Ray Brown on Bass....He did a fantastic job on it.
Who later played bass on The Merv Griffin Show! Both Merv's show and Johnny's show had some really great musicians in those bands. You couldn't do better than Ray Brown, that's for sure.
Re: Who Played Bass
Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 8:22 pm
by steveo_1965
You are right about Ray Brown playing on the TV show mentioned .One time he was coming out and walking down the street, and I talked to him...This was on Vine St. in Hollywood near the Merv Griffin Show.I asked him about his composition Gravy Waltz...(words and recording by Steve Allen)and he was mentioning the Donnn Trenner Orchestra, who played on the Allen record.