Lucius Venable "Lucky" Millinder (August 8, 1910 – September 28, 1966) was an American swing and rhythm-and-blues bandleader. Although he could not read...

Millinder is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jim Millinder (born 1958), American soccer player and coach Lucky Millinder (1910–1966)...

friend, joined Millinder's band, replacing the alto saxophonist Tab Smith. On May 26, 1944, Harris made his recording debut with Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe's vocals on the upbeat blues song "Rock Me", by Lucky Millinder, as "rock-and-roll spiritual singing". In 1951, Cleveland-based disc...

later. It was successfully recorded by many other musicians including Lucky Millinder, Roy Milton, Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong...

and "Pretend". He worked with Count Basie, the Mills Rhythm Boys and Lucky Millinder. Smith was born in Kinston, North Carolina, United States. He joined...

evolved from the music of big bands such as those of Lionel Hampton and Lucky Millinder in the early 1940s which produced musicians such as Louis Jordan, Jack...

Stubbs was a singer. Later, attending a variety show featuring the Lucky Millinder band, the band announced a talented young singer who Fakir recognized...

Mallory and Dave Nelson all had temporary stints as band leader, until Lucky Millinder permanently took over the role in 1934. The band recorded 150 sides...

Ray Charles. “Sweet Slumber” was a 1940s hit for swing band leader Lucky Millinder. Green is heard in a quintet with tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson,...

performed by Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra. With Wynonie Harris on vocals, "Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well" became Lucky Millinder's most successful...

author from New Orleans. He was a rhythm guitarist for Cab Calloway, Lucky Millinder and Benny Carter during the 1930s. One of Barker's earliest teachers...

"Lucky Lindy" Lucky Luciano (1897–1962), Italian-American mobster Lucky Millinder (1910–1966), American rhythm and blues and swing bandleader Lucky Peterson...

written by Lucius "Lucky" Millinder, Prince Robinson and Ernest Purce and recorded for Decca Records on July 29, 1942 by Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra...

born in Philadelphia. During the 1930s and early 1940s he worked for Lucky Millinder, Frank Fairfax and arranger Jimmy Mundy. In 1942 he was hired as the...

Redman, Billy Eckstine (alongside Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker), Lucky Millinder, and Count Basie, he worked in rhythm and blues and then established...

parents. Merian learned trumpet from Georges Mager. He was a sidesman to Lucky Millinder, touring with his band in the segregated south, where, not welcome...

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Harris, and Lucky Millinder. In 1951, Federal Records signed her to sing with Millinder's orchestra. She scored other hits with Millinder such as "I'll...

was a member of the bands of Nat Towles, Lloyd Hunter, Snub Mosley, Lucky Millinder and Fats Waller before getting his big break with the Count Basie Orchestra...

performed at the Cotton Club for two years, working with the orchestras of Lucky Millinder, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Jimmy Lunceford. During this time...

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work in bop, hard bop, and Latin jazz. In 1947, after working with Lucky Millinder, Tab Smith, J. C. Heard, and Coleman Hawkins, he replaced Ray Brown...

into a recording of "Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well", recorded by Lucky Millinder. Tyler says, "So from all of us at Aerosmith to all of you out there...

(1916–2004) Glenn Miller (1904–1944) (Glenn Miller Orchestra, 1937–1942) Lucky Millinder (1900–1966) Charles Mingus (1922-1979) Bob Mintzer (born 1953) (Bob...

3, Ch. 10); Anita O'Day (Pt. 3, Ch. 10); Stan Getz (Pt. 4, Ch. 1); Lucky Millinder (Pt. 4, Ch. 4); and Duke Ellington (Pt. 5). Jazz and other types of...

August 2 – Helen Morgan, US singer and actress (d.1941) August 8 – Lucky Millinder, US bandleader (d.1966) August 22 – Váša Příhoda, Czech violinist (d...

played with Frankie Fairfax's Campus Club Orchestra in 1936, with Lucky Millinder in 1939, and following this, with Benny Carter, Tiny Bradshaw, Lionel...

South, Don Redman (1943), Chris Columbus, Cab Calloway (1945–48), Lucky Millinder (1949–51), Jimmy Rushing, Buddy Tate, Benton Heath (1953–61), Ray Charles...