Joe Haymes

Joe Haymes is a totally forgotten name yet through the golf swing period he was one of the most talented arrangers. Regrettably he had not been a lot of a businessman and tended to become passive therefore two potentially amazing big rings that he began were bought out by more powerful personalities. Haymes, who was raised in Springfield, Missouri, started his performing profession quite colorfully, dealing with a traveling circus like a trapeze designer (!) and playing bass drum using the circus music group. He was self-taught like a pianist and arranger, led and organized for an area dance orchestra and got his first main work with Ted Weems in the past due 1920’s. Among the countless plans that he published for Weems was the main strike “Piccolo Pete.” Haymes created his 1st big music group in 1930, they performed six months in the Mayo Resort in Tulsa and relocated to NY. The Joe Haymes Orchestra do quite well for a while and started documenting in 1932 however in Nov. 1933 Friend Rogers negotiated to dominate the best music group. Haymes next come up with a swinging orchestra but, when Tommy Dorsey break up with Jimmy Dorsey in 1935, TD swiped twelve of Haymes’ players. The arranger structured another orchestra however nothing at all much came from it commercially. Haymes freelanced for additional big rings (touring with Les Dark brown in 1938), spent period surviving in Oklahoma in the 1940’s after that composed anonymously for the Hollywood studios as well as for CBS in NY before his loss of life in the past due 1960’s. Joe Haymes’ orchestras documented thoroughly during 1932-37 (although he himself didn’t play) and his sidemen over time included clarinetist Johnny Mince, trumpeters Pee Wee Erwin and Sterling Bose, and tenor-saxophonist Bud Freeman (during 1934-35). The music ranged from swinging instrumentals to crazy novelties, ambitious agreements to run-ofthe-mill dance music. Nevertheless, no real matter what the design, Joe Haymes was struggling to create a distinct segment for himself.