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
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7 heart attacks
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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.
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pet parts in "Young MJ
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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
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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
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