I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You
Favorite Quartet Of The Jack Benny Show
Arranged and Conducted by John Rarig and Lew Raymond
Gold Award Records C-8042
Note: Gold Award issued pressed on ruby red vinyl
The Sportsmen
Favorite Vocal Group Of The Jack Benny Show
Arranged and Conducted by John Rarig and Lew Raymond
Produced by Dave Pell
TOPS L1625
From the back cover (TOPS issue): When the moment for vocal interlude arrives on the eternally popular, seam-splitting Jack Benny Show via radio and television, audiences throughout the country settle back for a few minutes of some of the best group singing ever to waft over the airwaves: The Sportsmen are up and swinging.
The Benny Show commercials are made positively palatable by this quartet. Taking a popular tune, they usually sing the first chorus as written by the lyricist. Then they cleverly alter the lyric to coincide with their sponsor's message. This has become a trademark of the group.
With years of personal appearances behind them in the nation's leading clubs, theaters, and hotels, The Sportsmen are familiar figures – and voices – not only with Jack Benny, but with Red Skelton, Shower of Stars, Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Colgate Comedy Hour. They've starred in shows at the famed New York Roxy, the Chicago Theater and the Palace, Cleveland. Some of their supper club appearances include the Los Angeles Statler; The Fair- mont, San Francisco; L. A.'s swank Cocoanut Grove and the Biltmore Bowl at the hotel of the same name.
The Sportsmen are longtime favorites in fabulous Las Vegas spots such as the New Frontier and the Flamingo. Reno and Lake Tahoe are also regular ports of call for this quartet where they have delighted holidaymakers at Riverside and Mapes Hotels and at the Cal-Neva and Harrah's Club.
For this TOPS album, in which the fidelity is highest both in entertain- ment and sound reproduction, The Sportsmen's vocal renditions of well loved evergreens are backstopped by the arranging and conducting talents of two of formed a vocal aggregation, The Continentals, with whom he worked at leading hotels all over the country. He is a veteran of TV appearances.
Deep-voiced bass, Gurney Bell, has been a member of The Sportsmen since 1942. Born and reared in Los Angeles, Gurney entered the music profession immediately upon graduation from Los Angeles City College. In '39 he joined the chorus ct Republic Studios, later becoming a member of The Notables quartet with whom he remained until he joined The Sportsmen.
Not only does top tenor, Bill Days, sing high-he flies high. For the past 15 years Bill has held a pilot's license. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Bill has lived in Los Angeles since he was 10. Although his parents wanted him to follow the professions of either medicine or law, he stuck with his ambi- tion to follow a musical career. In the years following his schooling he sang on the RKO circuit of theaters, graduating to a leading role in the Pacific Coast cast in Student Prince. Before joining The Sportsmen, Bill was a member of many groups on top radio shows emanating from Hollywood and sang solo on the Groucho Marx, Bekins and Marion Talley programs.
Newest of The Sportsmen, baritone Jay Moffett is a native of Seattle, Washington. After spending the war years in the U. S. Navy, Jay arrived in Los Angeles and joined the Roger Wagner Chorale. He studied at the Ameri- can Operatic Laboratory and was in on the forming of that vocal group called The Continentals with whom he sang in the nation's finest hotels and night clubs. Another television vet, he has worked with Red Skelton, Milton Berle, Ed Sullivan and Jackie Gleason, to mention a few of the many video personalities with whom he has been associated.
(Gold Award track list)
I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance
Let's Take The Long Way Home
Mood Indigo
Don't Worry 'Bout Me
Solitude
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
Red Sails In The Sunset
When My Sugar Walks Down The Street
The Benny Show commercials are made positively palatable by this quartet. Taking a popular tune, they usually sing the first chorus as written by the lyricist. Then they cleverly alter the lyric to coincide with their sponsor's message. This has become a trademark of the group.
With years of personal appearances behind them in the nation's leading clubs, theaters, and hotels, The Sportsmen are familiar figures – and voices – not only with Jack Benny, but with Red Skelton, Shower of Stars, Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Colgate Comedy Hour. They've starred in shows at the famed New York Roxy, the Chicago Theater and the Palace, Cleveland. Some of their supper club appearances include the Los Angeles Statler; The Fair- mont, San Francisco; L. A.'s swank Cocoanut Grove and the Biltmore Bowl at the hotel of the same name.
The Sportsmen are longtime favorites in fabulous Las Vegas spots such as the New Frontier and the Flamingo. Reno and Lake Tahoe are also regular ports of call for this quartet where they have delighted holidaymakers at Riverside and Mapes Hotels and at the Cal-Neva and Harrah's Club.
For this TOPS album, in which the fidelity is highest both in entertain- ment and sound reproduction, The Sportsmen's vocal renditions of well loved evergreens are backstopped by the arranging and conducting talents of two of formed a vocal aggregation, The Continentals, with whom he worked at leading hotels all over the country. He is a veteran of TV appearances.
Deep-voiced bass, Gurney Bell, has been a member of The Sportsmen since 1942. Born and reared in Los Angeles, Gurney entered the music profession immediately upon graduation from Los Angeles City College. In '39 he joined the chorus ct Republic Studios, later becoming a member of The Notables quartet with whom he remained until he joined The Sportsmen.
Not only does top tenor, Bill Days, sing high-he flies high. For the past 15 years Bill has held a pilot's license. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Bill has lived in Los Angeles since he was 10. Although his parents wanted him to follow the professions of either medicine or law, he stuck with his ambi- tion to follow a musical career. In the years following his schooling he sang on the RKO circuit of theaters, graduating to a leading role in the Pacific Coast cast in Student Prince. Before joining The Sportsmen, Bill was a member of many groups on top radio shows emanating from Hollywood and sang solo on the Groucho Marx, Bekins and Marion Talley programs.
Newest of The Sportsmen, baritone Jay Moffett is a native of Seattle, Washington. After spending the war years in the U. S. Navy, Jay arrived in Los Angeles and joined the Roger Wagner Chorale. He studied at the Ameri- can Operatic Laboratory and was in on the forming of that vocal group called The Continentals with whom he sang in the nation's finest hotels and night clubs. Another television vet, he has worked with Red Skelton, Milton Berle, Ed Sullivan and Jackie Gleason, to mention a few of the many video personalities with whom he has been associated.
(Gold Award track list)
I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance
Let's Take The Long Way Home
Mood Indigo
Don't Worry 'Bout Me
Solitude
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
Red Sails In The Sunset
When My Sugar Walks Down The Street
(TOPS track list)
Say It Ain't So
When The Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along
Red Sails In The Sunset
Garden In The Rain
I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You
Let's Take The Long Way Home
When My Sugar Walks Down The Street
Blue Skies
Mood Indigo
Solitude
I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You
Don't Worry About Me
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