Harry Bluestone was an English-American composer and violinist who composed music for TV and film.
11 Facts About Harry Bluestone
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Harry Bluestone was prolific and worked mainly on composing with Emil Cadkin.
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Harry Bluestone graduated from the Institute of Musical Art, and freelanced on numerous radio programmes in the 1930s with the Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw.
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Harry Bluestone played with Bix Beiderbecke, Bunny Berigan and Red Nichols.
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Harry Bluestone moved to Hollywood in 1935 with the Lennie Hayton Orchestra, which had been known as the Ipana Troubadors on Fred Allen's Show in New York, when it became the first orchestra on Your Hit Parade.
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Harry Bluestone had his own 15-minute radio show, recorded for Brunswick Records and was hired by Paramount Studios as its concertmaster.
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Harry Bluestone enlisted in the Air Force in 1942, rose to the rank of Master Sergeant and organised both the Army Air Force Orchestra and the Army Air Force Training Command Orchestra that replaced Glenn Miller, who went overseas to his eventual death.
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Harry Bluestone got a first taste of the music library business as production manager for Standard Transcriptions.
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Harry Bluestone spent the rest of his life setting up various music publishing houses, writing and getting out his baton or violin, as a heavily in-demand "first chair," to work on hundreds of albums by a wide variety of artists, including the Beach Boys, Peggy Lee, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, and Stevie Wonder.
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Harry Bluestone wrote books in the 1980s on playing violin, guitar and trumpet.
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Harry Bluestone died of complications of Parkinson's disease in 1992.