Harry Charles Prime (March 5, 1920 – June 15, 2017) was a
Big Band
A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s an ...
vocalist who performed from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s.
[Rubin, Daniel]
Daniel Rubin: At 90, big-band singer Harry Prime gets another encore
Philly.com, Philadelphia, 17 December 2010. Retrieved on 2011-01-19.
Prime was a featured vocalist with the orchestras of
Randy Brooks,
Tommy Dorsey
Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era. He was known as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing" because of his smooth-toned trombo ...
,
Jack Fina
Jack Fina (August 13, 1913 – May 14, 1970) was a bandleader, songwriter, and pianist.
Fina was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and educated at the New York College of Music and was a student of August Fraemcke and Elsa Nicilini. He started out pla ...
and
Ralph Flanagan
Ralph Elias Flenniken (April 7, 1914 – December 30, 1995), known professionally as Ralph Flanagan, was an American big band leader, pianist, composer, and arranger for the orchestras of Hal McIntyre, Sammy Kaye, Blue Barron, Charlie Barnet, an ...
. He died in Chalfont, Pennsylvania in 2017 at the age of 97.
Music career
Prime recorded nearly 100 songs in the 1940s and 1950s, including "Until," a million-seller with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
"Until" peaked at number four in the US chart.
References
External links
Big Band Vocalist, Harry PrimeHarry Prime on discogs.com
1920 births
2017 deaths
American jazz singers
Big band singers
American male jazz musicians
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