Joe Haymes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Joe Haymes

American musician

Date of Birth: 10-Feb-1907

Place of Birth: Marshfield, Missouri, United States

Date of Death: 10-Jul-1964

Profession: conductor, pianist, bandleader, jazz musician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Joe Haymes

  • Joseph Lawrence Haymes (10 February 1907 – 10 July 1964) was an American jazz bandleader and arranger. Born in Marshfield, Missouri, Haymes relocated with his family to Springfield, Missouri, after his railroader father was killed in an accident.
  • Joe attended Greenwood Laboratory School in Springfield and was a drummer in the local Boy Scout Band; as a youth he also learned the piano.
  • Entering Drury College in 1926, he played locally with his own dance band before being hired as arranger by Ted Weems in 1928 and leaving school.
  • Haymes arranged the hit "Piccolo Pete", among many others, for Weems, setting a new, highly jazz-informed style for the orchestra. Haymes struck out on his own again in 1930, leading a band in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
  • Billed as "a Ted Weems unit", Joe continued to write Weems' arrangements.
  • During 1931 vocal trio The Merry Macs toured with the band.
  • Relocating to New York City by 1932, the Haymes orchestra was briefly one of the country's hottest dance bands, with a particular knack for jazz novelties and recording on all 3 major labels, but in late 1933 he sold the band to actor-leader Buddy Rogers, beginning a habit of selling orchestras to others. Early in 1934, Haymes put together a swing group with assistance from arranger Spud Murphy, but after Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey split in 1935, Tommy arranged a deal with Haymes to take over the latter's group.
  • Haymes himself hired several of Charlie Barnet's musicians for a new band, which recorded for ARC from 1935-1937 but was only modestly successful. Haymes toured as an arranger with Les Brown in 1938, re-formed in 1939, and then found work writing and arranging anonymously for radio.
  • He was briefly inducted into the U.S.
  • Army in 1942, where he served as a medical orderly.
  • On his return, he continued arranging for Hollywood studios from the 1940s into the late 1950s, interrupted by spells with Phil Harris and Johnnie Lee Wills.
  • Haymes' chief employer during the 1950s was Lawrence Welk's television show, although he sometimes performed solo in L.A.
  • area piano bars.

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