Music In The Morgan Manner

Meet the Bandleader!

APPROPIATE

1936 / 10min.

Rating7

Genres

Music

Synopsis

This is the full ten minute film from which the Russ Morgan "Meet The Bandleaders" segment was created on video in the 1980s. It features Russ in his first year, singer Linda Lee, and Lewis Julian, a former NBC page boy. Also featured is 22-year-old Billy Fisher on saxophone and clarinet (in front of the bass drum), who later played with Al Donahue and the CBS Orchestra. He was later the arranger for the Ed Sullivan and Jackie Gleason shows and the Tony Awards.

Directors

Actors

Russ Morgan

Lewis Julian

Linda Lee

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