Joseph Anthony "Fud" Livingston (April 10, 1906 – March 25, 1957) was an American
jazz
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clarinetist, saxophonist, arranger, and composer.
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Career
In the 1920s, he performed with Ben Pollack
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and served as his arranger (to summer 1925, and again summer 1926 – autumn 1927),[ Dapogny, James]
"Livingston, Fud."
''Grove Music Online''. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 29 November 2022. with the California Ramblers
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(autumn 1925),[ ]Jean Goldkette
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Goldkette was reportedly born on March 18, 1893 in Valenciennes, France,Russel B. Nye (1976). Music in the Twenties: The Jean Goldkette Orchestra ...
(from late 1925),[ and played on the 1928 Brunswick recording of "]Room 1411 "Room 1411" is a 1928 instrumental composed by Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman and released as a Brunswick 78 by Benny Goodman's Boys. The song was Glenn Miller's first known composition and was an early collaboration between Glenn Miller and Benny ...
" as a member of Benny Goodman
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From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing big bands in the United States. His co ...
's group Bennie Goodman and His Boys, which also featured Glenn Miller
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, Jimmy McPartland
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, Bud Freeman
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Biography
In 1922, Freeman and some friends from high sch ...
, and Pollack.
He worked with Fred Elizalde
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in London
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in 1929, then returned to New York City
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to record with the Frank Trumbauer Orchestra for OKeh Record Co. on July 22, 1930[ and later that same week with ]Paul Whiteman
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As the leader of one of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s and early 1930s, ...
and his Orchestra on Columbia Phonograph Co., adding alto sax to the tenor sax and clarinet he had played on the previous session.[
Livingston replaced Trumbauer for a second stint in Whiteman's orchestra (August 1932–September 1933),][ which included numerous recordings for the Victor Talking Machine Co.,][ Rayno, Don (2012)]
''Paul Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music, 1930-1967'', pp. 589-591; 612-634. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810883228, 9780810883222.
''Google Books''. Retrieved 29 November 2022. with recording session notes from that period showing Livingston as arranger as well as playing tenor sax and clarinet, featuring on several solos.[
Later in the 1930s he worked with ]Benny Goodman
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From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing big bands in the United States. His co ...
(1934),[ ]Jimmy Dorsey
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(1935–37),[ ]Bob Zurke
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Biography
Born Boguslaw Albert Zukowski in Hamtramck, Michigan, United States, he was already using ...
, and Pinky Tomlin
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(1940). He essentially stopped writing and arranging at this point, though he occasionally performed in small-time venues in New York in the 1950s. He never recorded as a leader.
Compositions
His compositions included "Feelin' No Pain" (1927),[ recorded by ]Red Nichols
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Nichols was born in Ogden, Utah, United States. His father was a college music profes ...
and Lud Gluskin
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, "Imagination", "Humpty Dumpty",[ recorded by ]Frankie Trumbauer
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with Bix Beiderbecke
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Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted for an inventive lyrical app ...
, "Harlem Twist" with Chauncey Morehouse
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Biography
Morehouse was born in Niagara Falls, New York, United States, and was raised in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, where he played drums from a very early ...
, "Sax Appeal", recorded by B.A. Rolfe, and the jazz standard "I'm Thru with Love" (1931), co-written with Matty Malneck
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Career
Born in 1903, Malneck's career as a violinist began when he was age 16. He was a member of the Paul White ...
and Gus Kahn
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.[Lasser, Michael]
''City Songs and American Life, 1900-1950'', p. 219. Boydell & Brewer, 2019.
''Google Books''. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
Cover versions of "I'm Thru with Love"
Bing Crosby
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recorded the song that same year.[
]Marilyn Monroe
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sings the song in the 1959 film ''Some Like It Hot
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''.''Soundtrack: Some Like It Hot''.
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References
;General
*Scott Yanow
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Yanow was born in New York City and grew up near Los Angeles.
Since 1974, he was a regular reviewer of many jazz styles an ...
, Fud Livingston
Joseph Anthony "Fud" Livingston (April 10, 1906 – March 25, 1957) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, arranger, and composer.
Career
In the 1920s, he performed with Ben Pollack and served as his arranger (to summer 1925, and again ...
at ''Allmusic
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* ''Jazz Journal'' vol. 28, 1975, p. 21
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1906 births
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