Paul Tanner

[Mikie]

Dead at 95.  Was instrumental in developing the Tannerin.  Played on Good Vibrations.
 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/glenn-miller-trombonist-and-beach-boys-good-vibrations-musician-paul-tanner-dies-at-95/2013/02/06/6e5697d8-7071-11e2-b3f3-b263d708ca37_story.html

Did he play on "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" and "Wild Honey" too?

[Wrightfan]

Brian Wilson facebook page seems to say yes:
Brian Wilson
Paul Tanner passed away at 95 today. Paul played the electrotheramin for Brian on "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times," "Good Vibrations" and "Wild Honey Paul first gained fame by playing trombone with Glenn Miller's band and is the last surviving member of that great band. Playing with both Glenn Miller and Brian Wilson - doesn't get much better than that.

[Cabinessenceking]

eas quite big on BBC anyway:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21353758

At 95 that is a ripe good age, hope he enjoyed it all!

[SMiLE-addict]

RIP.

[rn57]

eas quite big on BBC anyway:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21353758

At 95 that is a ripe good age, hope he enjoyed it all!

Not surprising that Paul Tanner's passing is getting substantial coverage in the UK - he was the last member of the classic Glenn Miller Band still around and in Britain, old Glenn is a religion to this day. The only thing that could top unearthing "Dickon" III there would be fishing Miller out of the English Channel - and I think it's been tried a few times.

[AndrewHickey]

eas quite big on BBC anyway:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21353758

At 95 that is a ripe good age, hope he enjoyed it all!

Not surprising that Paul Tanner's passing is getting substantial coverage in the UK - he was the last member of the classic Glenn Miller Band still around and in Britain, old Glenn is a religion to this day. The only thing that could top unearthing "Dickon" III there would be fishing Miller out of the English Channel - and I think it's been tried a few times.

Don't know who told you that, but it's nonsense. Miller's music is no more popular over here than in the states -- that is, it's loved by the surviving members of my great-grandparents' generation, and otherwise pretty much ignored except for use as the soundtrack to documentaries about the second world war. You'll notice that the BBC piece is headlined "Good Vibrations musician dies aged 95" and in the entire article mentions his career with Miller in three sentences total.

Personally, I was a great fan of the Miller orchestra as a kid (I was a strange child), but Miller's popularity over here is not notably higher than that of, say, Benny Goodman or Artie Shaw, and would probably be significantly lower if it weren't for his music's use as 'the soundtrack of the war'. I doubt one person in a hundred under about forty knows the name at all, and I'd be surprised if even 1% of people over that age owned a single record by him.

[harrisonjon]

LA Times article has Glenn Miller in headline:

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/06/local/la-me-paul-tanner-20130207

[harrisonjon]

Article on the Tannerin from 2004:

http://www.tompolk.com/Tannerin/Tannerin.html

I had always assumed it was also in the Star Trek theme but apparently that was a female voice. It is eerily similar.

[rn57]

Time for a correction to all the Tanner obits. 90 year old Ray Anthony, best known for recording the highest charting version of the Peter Gunn theme and for being Mamie Van Doren's husband for some years, just friended me on Facebook. So I looked him up on Wikipedia and learned he was in the Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1940 and 1941...is seen playing with the band in the movie Sun Valley Serenade, even. So there's at least one guy from the band left.

[AndrewHickey]

Time for a correction to all the Tanner obits. 90 year old Ray Anthony, best known for recording the highest charting version of the Peter Gunn theme and for being Mamie Van Doren's husband for some years, just friended me on Facebook. So I looked him up on Wikipedia and learned he was in the Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1940 and 1941...is seen playing with the band in the movie Sun Valley Serenade, even. So there's at least one guy from the band left.

I don't think Trigger Alpert is dead yet, either, though he'd be 96 now.

[The 4th Wilson Bro.]

Time for a correction to all the Tanner obits. 90 year old Ray Anthony, best known for recording the highest charting version of the Peter Gunn theme and for being Mamie Van Doren's husband for some years, just friended me on Facebook. So I looked him up on Wikipedia and learned he was in the Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1940 and 1941...is seen playing with the band in the movie Sun Valley Serenade, even. So there's at least one guy from the band left.

I don't think Trigger Alpert is dead yet, either, though he'd be 96 now.

Would he be the dad of Herb Alpert of "Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass?"

[AndrewHickey]

Time for a correction to all the Tanner obits. 90 year old Ray Anthony, best known for recording the highest charting version of the Peter Gunn theme and for being Mamie Van Doren's husband for some years, just friended me on Facebook. So I looked him up on Wikipedia and learned he was in the Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1940 and 1941...is seen playing with the band in the movie Sun Valley Serenade, even. So there's at least one guy from the band left.

I don't think Trigger Alpert is dead yet, either, though he'd be 96 now.

Would he be the dad of Herb Alpert of "Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass?"

No. Don't know if he's any other relation though.