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Nye Mayhew - There's No Harm in Hoping

2009-08-15 4 Dailymotion

This recording is credited to Nye Mayhew and his Westchester Country Club Orchestra. Tenor saxophonist Nye Mayhew did lead a band for a couple of years between 1937 and 1939. The band never broke through despite the facts that it was backed by Hal Kemp and used Hal's arranger, John Scott Trotter (who also played the piano in the band). Hugo Winterhalter played Sax. The Band had dates at both the Glen Island Casino and the Hotel Pennsylvania. However, on this 1933 recording, it is a pseudonym, according to several sources for Freddy Martin's orchestra. However, trumpet player Weinstock is not present and the orchestra has no brass section, hence it probably is a working orchestra. The vocal credit goes to a certain Douglas Newman (or on other records "Doug"), whom I have never heard of and who in fact sounds like Dick Robertson. It should be noted that I found no directly related pictures and that I included sheet music of works by the same composer.

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