Sittin' in with Chris Griffin: A Reminiscence of Radio and Recording's Golden Years

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Part 1 Editor's
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Part 2 Prelude
Part 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 Binghamton
Chapter 5 White Plains
Chapter 6 Emmett Donahue
Chapter 7 Johnny Caper
Chapter 8 Scott Fisher
Chapter 9 Charlie Barnet
Chapter 10 Bouf Turner
Chapter 11 Joe Haymes
Chapter 12 Helen O'Brien
Chapter 13 Bar Harbor
Chapter 14 CBS
Chapter 15 John Hammond
Chapter 16 Ziggy Elman
Chapter 17 Benny Goodman
Chapter 18 Mrs. Stegmaier
Chapter 19 Andy Ferretti
Chapter 20 Fritz Kreisler
Chapter 21 Frank Sinatra
Chapter 22 Manny Weinstock
Chapter 23 Ray Bloch
Chapter 24 Mel Torme
Chapter 25 Dinah Shore
Chapter 26 Benny Baker
Chapter 27 Johnny Pepper
Chapter 28 Jackie Gleason
Chapter 29 Easter Call
Chapter 30 Charles Martin Drama
Chapter 31 Tony Martin
Chapter 32 Milton Berle
Chapter 33 Kate Smith
Chapter 34 Peter Van Steeden
Chapter 35 Paul and Irene Griffin
Part 36 Discography
Part 37 About the Author

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This authentic account of the Big Band Era and the Age of Swing is alive with firsthand dialogue by Chris Griffin. Vaché traces the events spanning Griffin's career from his time in the Benny Goodman band with Harry James and Ziggy Elman in what Duke Ellington dubbed the best brass section of its day through his freelance years in radio, television and records where he recorded with legendary musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Tony Bennett, and Frank Sinatra. Griffin's honesty and humor shine through the text as he recalls a time when talent and dedication to quality were supreme. Seventeen photographs and an excellent discography provided by Ed Berger further the understanding of Griffin as a man and an artist. This book is ideal for music lovers, especially those with a keen interest in the big bands of the 1930s and the lives of the era's most memorable musicians.

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This small book offers Griffin's affectionate tales of Goodman, Gleason, Charlie Barnet, Frank Sinatra and others. He comes across as a modest, witty raconteur and any new first-hand testimony about those long-gone days when, for a moment, jazz was American popular music, is worth having

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