The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra

The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra was one of the most unusual bands from the Golf swing Period, not least since it didn’t even enter into existence until following the Golf swing Period was over. The outfit’s two market leaders, Edward Ernest (Eddie) Sauter (b. December 2, 1914, in NY [Brooklyn], NY; d. Apr 21, 1981, in Western world Nyack, NY) and William J. (Costs) Finegan (b. Apr 3, 1917, in Newark, NJ), had been each prominent big music group arrangers. Sauter, who performed mellophone, trumpet, and drums, was informed at Columbia School as well as the Juilliard College of Music. Through the 1930s and ’40s, he performed, arranged, and composed tunes for rings led by Archie Bleyer, Charlie Barnet, Crimson Norvo, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman, and Ray McKinley. At exactly the same time, Finegan was an arranger for Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Horace Heidt, and Les Elgart. Using the decline from the Golf swing Era, he visited study on the Paris Conservatory in the past due 1940s and early ’50s, matching along with his friend Sauter, who was simply residing in a sanatorium dealing with a episode of tuberculosis. Both made a decision to unite to generate agreements that would use their imagination, without respect to industrial factors. That meant a determination to try uncommon issues, including such tools as piccolo, flute, oboe, bass clarinet, harp, British horn, recorder, tuba, glockenspiel, tympani, and kazoo. (Finegan actually defeat on his upper body to imitate the audio of horses’ hooves in “Midnight Sleighride”). Because of this, while the music group was hailed by some because of its imaginativeness, it reminded others from the design of musical humorist Spike Jones. Some jazz enthusiasts also complained how the preparations left little space for improvisation. The initial idea was to create a studio-only device, and both arrangers authorized the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra to RCA Victor, which released the debut solitary “Doodletown Fifers” (an version from the Civil Battle song “Kingdom Arriving and the entire year of Jubilo”) and noticed it rise in to the graphs in August of 1952. “Nina Under no circumstances Knew,” with Joe Mooney on vocals, do a similar thing in Dec, and “The Moon Can be Blue,” a film theme track with Sally Sweetland on vocals, charted in August of 1953. Exactly the same season, the music group released its first 10″ LP, boldly entitled New Directions in Music (the record was reissued within an extended form being a 12″ LP in 1956.) The industrial success from the information brought promoters contacting, and Sauter and Finegan made a decision to release a long term touring music group; the 21-piece Sauter-Finegan Orchestra first strike the street in June 1953. Regrettably, those promoters insisted the music group play dance locations as opposed to the concert halls to that they had been better suited, and also the dance music group business was almost moribund from the middle- ’50s. The group remained on the highway until Dec 1955, where time the market leaders had been deeply with debt. Meanwhile, that they had continuing to record for RCA Victor, nevertheless, generating Inside Sauter-Finegan as well as the Sound from the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra in 1954, plus a collaboration using the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, executed by Fritz Reiner, Concerto for Jazz Music group and Orchestra. Concert Jazz and Sons of Sauter-Finegan made an appearance in 1955. After arriving off the street, the music group made even more information, Adventure with time (1956), Under Evaluation (1957), and ALONG the center (1957). However they threw within the towel in March 1957 and disbanded when Sauter recognized employment as musical movie director for the South-West Radio Big Music group in Baden-Baden, Western world Germany. Finegan returned to freelance organizing, however when Sauter came back towards the U.S. in 1959, both began to interact again, rerecording a few of their preparations to get a Sauter-Finegan Orchestra LP, The Come back from the Doodletown Fifers, released on United Performers Records, and composing industrial jingles for radio and tv. But they didn’t revive the band like a full-time task. Instead, Finegan continuing to write advertisements and plans, and he also considered teaching. In the 1970s, he once again wrote graphs for the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Sauter published plans for Andre Kostelanetz and orchestrated some Broadway musicals like the Apple Tree (1966), 1776 (1969), and Two by Two (1970). He also published and orchestrated a whole recording for Stan Getz, the 1962 arranged Focus, which gained him a Grammy nomination, and made up the rating for the 1965 film Mickey One. He passed away of a coronary attack at 66 in 1981. Finegan come up with a new model from the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra to get a concert at City Hall in NEW YORK in the middle- ’80s.