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Title: Paul Tanner Post by: Mikie on February 06, 2013, 09:10:45 AM 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? Title: Re: Paul Tanner Post by: Wrightfan on February 06, 2013, 05:10:25 PM 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. Title: Re: Paul Tanner Post by: Cabinessenceking on February 07, 2013, 01:12:52 AM 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! Title: Re: Paul Tanner Post by: SMiLE-addict on February 08, 2013, 06:01:53 PM RIP. :(
Title: Re: Paul Tanner Post by: rn57 on February 08, 2013, 07:21:23 PM 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. Title: Re: Paul Tanner Post by: AndrewHickey on February 08, 2013, 07:35:18 PM 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. Title: Re: Paul Tanner Post by: harrisonjon on February 09, 2013, 09:01:11 AM LA Times article has Glenn Miller in headline:
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/06/local/la-me-paul-tanner-20130207 Title: Re: Paul Tanner Post by: harrisonjon on February 09, 2013, 09:09:29 AM 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. Title: Re: Paul Tanner Post by: rn57 on February 13, 2013, 11:18:25 PM 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.
Title: Re: Paul Tanner Post by: AndrewHickey on February 13, 2013, 11:55:56 PM 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. Title: Re: Paul Tanner Post by: The 4th Wilson Bro. on February 14, 2013, 01:28:38 PM 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?" Title: Re: Paul Tanner Post by: AndrewHickey on February 14, 2013, 02:29:29 PM 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. |