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Ray Eberle

 
Artist: Ray Eberle

Similar Artists:

Denny Dennis, Dave Barbour & His Orchestra, Dick Todd, Joe Loss, Chick Henderson, Vaughn Monroe, Bing Crosby, Bob Eberly, Dick Haymes

Performed Songs By:

Ned Washington, Johnny Mercer, Leigh Harline

Worked With:

  • Active: '40s, '50s
  • Genres: Jazz
  • Instrument: Vocals
  • Representative Albums: "Plays Glenn Miller Favorites," "Ex-Glenn Miller Men: The 1943-1947 Broadcasts," "Biggest Big Band Hits"
  • Representative Songs: "Elmer's Tune," "At Last," "Blueberry Hill"

Biography

A vocalist and bandleader who at one time sang with Glenn Miller, then led his own band. They did essentially "sweet" material, and also some light pop. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide
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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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