Ray Eberle

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Ray Eberle (19 January 1919 Mechanicville, New York - 25 August 1979 Douglasville, Georgia) was a vocalist during the Big Band Era. Eberle sang with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and later became one of the members of the group The Modernaires. He was born in Mechanicville, New York, and was the brother of another famous Big Band singer, Bob Eberly, who sang with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra.

Glenn Miller ran a tight ship, he usually fired people after the first incident. Ray Eberle was replaced by Skip Nelson. Eberle sang lead on "Sometime", composed by Glenn Miller in 1939, "Polka Dots and Moonbeams", the jazz standard "At Last", and "To You".

He appeared in the Twentieth Century Fox movies Sun Valley Serenade (1941)and Orchestra Wives (1942). He died in Douglasville, Georgia in 1979.

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