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Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday, July 6, 1983 Pan of the Big Band era Harry James dead at 67 United Press International LAS V£GAS, Nev. — Harry James, c>jie of America’s best known big band leaders for more th^ii 40 years who helped launch Lfank Sinatra to star dom, di^d Tuesday of cancer. He was §7. staff photo by Eric Evan Lee I Art appreciation Student Center’s gallery Tuesday morning. The works are by faculty Kris Palas, a senior microbiology I major from Katy, looks over the ~ - the Memorial °t' t ^ ie environmental design college | pastel paintings in Jame^ who had been ill since April with lymphatic cancer but had performed as recently as last moruh, died at 5:30 a.m. PDT at Valley Hospital. He been hospitalized since July 1. James and his glitzy trumpet epitomized the big band sound, and he continued to play and improvise swing music through out his career, lamenting the passing of melodic music in favor of the driving beat of rock. James began taking music les sons under his father’s direction at age 6 and went on to join the ranks of Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey ctod Glen Miller during the big band era of World War II. At the height of his career, on July 5, 1943, James, the No. 1 Man races despite 7 heart attacks l ocjer il "sssr trumpeter, married the nation’s No. 1 pin-up girl, Betty Grable. Their marriage lasted until 1965 when they were divorced. James and Grable, who died in 1973, had two daughters and a son. From 1941 to 1943, the slen der, mustachioed James’ popu larity created traffic jams and riots during a New York appear ance. Sinatra first established him self as a big band crooner as James’ featured singer. James later hired newcomer Dick Haymes as his lead singer and Haymes, like Sinatra, went on to stardom. James was born March 15, 1916, in Albany, Ga., where the Mighty Haag Circus was pitched at the time. His mother per formed on a trapeze until one month before his birth. His father conducted the circus band. They proudly christened their son Harry Haag James. By age 10, James was playing solo trumpet and at the age of 12 was given the job of conducting the No. 2 circus band. When he was 15, he got tired of blowing marches for the cir cus and began sitting in with dance bands around the South west. Within a few years he was offered a job with Ben Pollack’s orchestra and he wrote a song, “Peekin’’ which started a dance craze among a newly spawned group of jazz music lovers who were known as jitterbugs. But it was a trumpet solo on a Pollack record called “Deep Elm” that brought James his first real break, a recording of “Sweet King.” Goodman heard the record and sent for James, w ho joined him in 1937. It was Goodman who encouraged James to form his own band and in 1939 he took the advice. When James took off on his own he found the going tough. His band was good but there were no listeners. Then James t<x)k advantage of his own horn and recorded the classic “You Made Me Love You” and the country sat up and listened. He had hit the big time. He followed his original hit re cording with “I Critd| “I Had the Craziest! other hits with £ solos. When the big I diminished,JatncM Vegas and spent 1950s and 1960s in \ lounges. He scoffed! merit and when lotiip gan to disappear, Jai three seven-weektoun| the South during the*! East in the spring and^ west in the fall. James appeared it| 20th Century Fox eluding "Do You Best Foot Forward, 1 Girls and a Sailor”anfl Beauties” and adviser and playedalldi pet parts in "Young MJ Horn.” Ilhis Among his most cordings, after an ab many years, was"'’ ter All These Years,">ffloliday joyed brisk sales in 197!| lowing “The Kingja sion" which sold 75,0 was a ft weekei ADOftfSS TEXAS AVE.I. POST OFFICE ST. BRYaH 2412 TEXAS AVE. COLLEGE STATION AOVWTOID ITEM KXICY lac), al ^ <t*ms Is r«qwlr*d to b* r%oddy avtrtlobte for Mite In •iKspf •• spoclftcolty do run out of pn United Press International NEW YORK — A man who has suffered seven heart attacks and had double bypass heart surgery is running a six-day, 300-mile marathon in Central Park. Joe Michaels, 42, of Queens said the purpose of the run is to show that even people with heart trouble can live a normal life. “He’s teaching heart patients not to sit down and wait to die,” said his mother, Gertrude Michaels. Michaels hopes to cover 300 miles — 50 miles a day — during his run. He is expected to finish the run July 10. Michaels suffered the last of his seven heart attacks when he was 36. Three years later he Mrs. Michaels said he ran and walked 581 miles from Toronto, Canada, to New York City to raise funds for research in spina bifida, a birth defect suffered by his son Jason, 10, which makes it difficult for the boy to walk. 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