JIM WINBURN SINGS, "Sing it Sam"
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A Tribute to Randy Van Horn, a musician, singer, musical director, song writer and my friend. Special arrangement: "The Lady is a Tramp"
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1. The Lady is a Tramp
2. Blue Moon
3. I'll take Manhatthan
4. Witchcraft
5. Bewitch,
6. Stranger in the Night
7. Summer Wind
8. I've got the World on a string
9. Night and Day
10. Chicago
11. My Funny Valentine
12. A Man in Love
aka
A Woman in Love
13. My Way
Partial History of Randy Van Horn career.
Randy Van Horne's career began in the late 1940s as a Los Angeles studio musician.[1] He formed his
first musical group, the Encores, in the early 1950s with three other musicians.[1] The Encores broke
up in the late 1950s.
He went on to create the Randy Van Horne Singers in the late 1950s following the breakup of the
Encores. Several members of the Randy Van Horne Singers would eventually become successful solo
recording artists, such as Marni Nixon.[1] The group was known for its easy style of music and
remained predominantly a studio musical group. However, the Randy Van Horne Singers did make
occasional television performances, such as on The Nat King Cole Show in 1957.[1]
The group became most famous for recording the theme songs for several high profile Hanna-Barbera
cartoons, including The Flintstones and The Jetsons.[1] They were hired by Hanna-Barbera’s music
composer, Hoyt Curtin, to complete the theme songs. However, the group also continued to record for
commercials and radio station spots and jingles. Many of the jingles were written by Randy Van Horne.
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The Randy Van Horne Singers also recorded several albums including Other Worlds Other Sounds in
1958 with Juan Garcia Esquivel, a Latin musician famous for his "space age pop" style of music.[1]
The Randy Van Horne Singers officially disbanded in the early 1970s but Van Horne reincarnated the
group after 2000, which continues under direction of Alan Wilson.[1]
Van Horne continued to perform in clubs in the Los Angeles area. He also worked as the bandleader of a
group called the Alumni Association, which was made up of musicians from the Big Band era.[1] Van
Horne created a symphonic suite called The Running of the Bulls, which premiered at La Mirada Civic
Theatre in 1981.[1]
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