Thank You For A Lovely Evening - Billy Butterfield

 

Close Your Eyes

Thank You For A Lovely Evening

Billy Butterfield And His Orchestra

Vocals by Dottie Smith

Arrangements by Bill Stegmeyer

Cover Car courtesy of H. L. Motors, Inc., Staten Island, N. Y.

RCA Victor LPM-1590

1958

Trumpets: Billy Butterfield, Doc Severinsen, Tony Faso and Louis Mucci

Trombones: Urbie Green and Nutty Cutshall

Saxophones: Toots Mondello, Peanuts Hucko, Deane Kincaid, Hank D' Amico and Hub Lytle

Drums: Cliff Lehman or Don Lamond

Piano: Mickey Crane

Bass: Jack Lesberg

Vocal: Dottie Smith

All trumpet solos, naturally, are by Butterfield. All trombone solos are by Urbie Green, except for Cutty Cutshall's on Changes; Peanuts Hucko blows the tenor sax solos, Hank D'Amico the clarinet solos and Toots Mondello the alto sax solos.

From the back cover: Billy Butterfield is one hellova trumpet player, and on this recording he is in front of the best band that he has ever led. With clean, swinging arrangements by Bill Stegmeyer and twenty of the brightest (yet generally overlooked) tunes in the Tin Pan Alley book, the result is an album of dance music that simply can't be beat!

You may challenge that statement if you wish, but only after listening to the album.

At any rate, Billy the Butterfield, who has played with such bands as Artie Shaw's, Bob Crosby's and Benny Goodman's, besides running his own band since 1946, has been part or in command of enough dances to know exactly how the music should go. In particular, Billy has specialized in the colleges – Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton, Amherst, Northwestern, UCLA, Texas, Rutgers or what have you – and this is a resounding conception of a college prom, from the swinging start to the romantic end. Each side of the album is carefully programmed, thus duplicating on record a couple of sets played exactly the same way as Billy would play them at any function for which his band is engaged. Here is Billy's own type of dance music, sharp, crystal-clear, uncluttered and swinging. It is that rare type of music so seldom heard these days on records, both superb for dancing and great for listening. Try it any time at any occasion and see if we're not right.

Whiffenpoof Song

Medley: I'm Shooting High, Swingin' Down The Lane, I'm Stepping Out With A Memory Tonight

Cabin In The Sky

You Stepped Out Of A Dream

Medley: I'll Never Have To Dream Again, I'll See You In My Dreams, The Lamp Is Low

Four Or Five Times

Breakin' In A Pair Of Shoes

Medley: I Saw Stars, You Were Meant For Me, It's Been So Long

Changes

Close Your Eyes

Linger A While

Medley: Thank You For A Lovely Evening, Goodnight My Love, Goodnight Sweetheart