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Topic: Ernie Freeman


In the News (Sat 28 Nov 09)

  
  Ernie Freeman - Biography - AOL Music
He worked on dates for the L.A. indies Specialty, Modern, and Aladdin, as well as white artists such as Duane Eddy, Johnny Burnette, the Crickets, Bobby Vee, and Buddy Knox; his most memorable session appearance was probably on the Platters' "The Great Pretender," to which he contributed the stuttering piano riffs.
Freeman also put out many instrumental records of his own, mostly for Imperial, and usually in a generic rocked-up jump R&B sort of style.
Freeman's cover copied Justis' fairly closely, and wasn't quite as good; it's almost always Justis' original that is played on oldies radio today.
music.aol.com /artist/ernie-freeman/77754/biography   (285 words)

  
 Ernie Freeman : Oldies.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A noted pianist, arranger and producer, Freeman enjoyed a series of minor hits during the late 50s and early 60s.
Freeman appeared on material by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Connie Francis, and later became musical director with the Reprise Records label, a post he held for 10 years.
Freeman retired during the 70s and died as the result of a heart attack.
www.oldies.com /artist-view/Ernie-Freeman.html   (166 words)

  
 Ernie Freeman
Freeman started playing with groups in Cleveland while he was still in high school, and he and his sister Evelyn formed a combo that became quite popular among young fl audiences in the area.
Freeman arranged, conducted, and played on many Imperial releases, and it's been suggested that he ghosted for Fats Domino on some of the singles Imperial rushed to market during Fats' heyday.
Freeman then switched to Liberty, which was just kicking into high gear with the success of Martin Denny, and he continued to record current pop instrumentals while handling a variety of other musical chores.
www.spaceagepop.com /freemane.htm   (583 words)

  
 Terisa Baker Freeman
Freeman - a self-made man who'd grown up in the projects - was not the sort that Judge Baker had imagined for his Brahmin daughter, and he put his foot down.
Ernie usually brings her lunch and they eat in her office (or on court days, near the courthouse.) From 1-5, she continues to work, often staying later than five, but usually making it home in time for dinner.
The Freeman household: There are currently seven people living in the Freeman household - Ernie, Terisa, their four children, and Ernie's sixty-five year old mother Betty, who keeps the house and watches the kids.
www.mactyre.net /archives/pbem/chicago_pbem/TERISA2.HTM   (1778 words)

  
 Jazzed in Cleveland - Part 67 - Evelyn Freeman Remembers Her Swing Band
The Evelyn Freeman Swing Band was historic because several members of the group went on to national prominence in music.
The leader and manager of the band, Evelyn Freeman, was a high school student at the time and later told me she and her younger brother, Ernie, were exposed to music early by their father who had played in a variety of Cleveland bands in the teens and '20s.
Ernie Freeman became a leading Hollywood record arranger for such people as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Simon and Garfunkel.
www.cleveland.oh.us /wmv_news/jazz67.htm   (1043 words)

  
 DUMPLIN'S * ERNIE FREEMAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Ernie Freeman was Born 16 August 1922, Cleveland, Ohio and died 15 May 1981, Beverly Hills, California.
Bumble Boogie, Freeman was brought in to raise the quality of musicianship, and he played lead for most of the 'groups' other releases.
Freeman also had a hit on the RandB charts in 1955 with his Jivin' 'O' Round.
www.johnnyspencer.info /imagetexts06/dumplinsEF.htm   (172 words)

  
 The Payson Roundup: Man rescued from abandoned well
Freeman, along with other volunteers from the Northern Gila County Historical Society, was working in a shed next to the Rim Country Museum at Green Valley Park Monday when he unexpectedly disappeared.
Instinctively flailing his arms, Freeman's fall came to an abrupt stop when he became snagged on some debris in the well shaft.
Using a nearby tree to anchor a system of cables, TRT members, along with Payson police officers, were able to lift Freeman from the well.
www.paysonroundup.com /section/frontpage_lead/story/21967   (686 words)

  
 Jazzed in Cleveland - Part 24
At the piano is Evelyn Freeman, the leader of the group.
After the war, Ernie Freeman returned to Cleveland and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, went to New York and arranged for Woody Herman, and moved to California where he became a top Hollywood arranger for such vocalists as Sinatra, Dean Martin and Tony Bennett.
Evelyn’s daughter, Claire Freeman, became the director of the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority in 1990.
www.cleveland.oh.us /wmv_news/jazz24.htm   (686 words)

  
 Arkansas News Bureau - Bill Halter's charmed life
Brad Freeman is a Republican fund-raising virtuoso from Los Angeles who's a close personal friend of the president and who's raised millions for Bush's campaigns.
Their politics are worlds apart, Freeman said, but he's "supporting my friend" and "the best man for the job."
As for the cat, Ernie, Freeman said: "Oh God, he's fat." The Bush family gave Freeman the tomcat in 2001.
www.arkansasnews.com /archive/2006/06/03/DougThompson/336454.html   (869 words)

  
 Stan Freeman
By the early 1950s, he was getting hired as a comedian as often as as a musician.
At about the same time, Percy Faith used Freeman's harpsichord to play the melody on his early hit, "Delicado." From then on, Freeman could rely on dusting off the harpsichord whenever he needed a quick buck (viz his Twist album, which is...
Freeman's career was hardly as narrow as this, though.
www.spaceagepop.com /freeman.htm   (377 words)

  
 SoulfulDetroit.com FORUM
Ernie Freeman started his career as a session pianist in LA - his most memorable work was his piano intro on the Platters' "The Great Pretender".
Freeman arranged, among others, "Strangers In The Night" for Frank Sinatra and Petula Clark's "This Is My Song".
Ernie did arrange Dino's "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometimes," which led to his work with Sinatra.
www.soulfuldetroit.com /archives/4472/4633.html?1059497562   (261 words)

  
 Parker's Mood by Ernie Andrews: Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Ernie Andrews' first record for the Dot label is a fine piece of jazz-blues in the vein of Joe Williams or Jimmy Rushing, and it's a puzzle why he wasn't accorded respect to match his obvious talent.
He possessed a higher register than Al Hibbler or Johnny Hartman but still featured their rich tone, and was closest to Billy Eckstine but, on this album, sang much more expressively than Eckstine.
Recording with a band led by Ernie Freeman or an organ trio headed by Tyrone Parsons, Andrews...
www.mp3.com /tracks/20726145/reviews.html   (146 words)

  
 eBay Australia - ernie, bert, Character Toys, Guitars items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
BERT and ERNIE # 2 - Iron On Transfer
SESAME ST (BERT and ERNIE) #9 IRON ON TRANSFER
Ernie Dingo, King of the Kids by Sally Dingo P/B
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 Ernie Freeman - AOL Music
Although Ernie Freeman is best known for his work with Frank Sinatra in the mid-1960s, space age pop fans should check out...
Ernie Freeman - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s...
Download, listen and watch Ernie Freeman music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
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 eListas.net - Mis eListas: 50s: Mensajes
> Freeman also put out many instrumental records of his own, mostly for > Imperial, and usually in a generic rocked-up jump R&B sort of style.
> Members of the Ernie Freeman Combo included Plas Johnson on sax, > Earl Palmer on drums and Irving Ashby on guitar.
Freeman was unable > to make the Top 40 again, although he had minor hits with "Indian Love > Call," "Theme from 'The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" and a cover of > Chubby Checker's "The Twist".
www.elistas.net /lista/50s/archivo/indice/255/msg/267   (486 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Raunchy: Music: Ernie Freeman & His Combo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Featuring the title hit, this is the first ever reissue of the great R&B instrumentals cut by Freeman & his fellow stellar West Coast session men.
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 Minnie Belle Lee & Fielding G. Freeman
Mar 1984 Englewood, McMinn Co., TN Haskell Freeman b.
The Paris Express, dated 8 Jan 1953, “Ernie Freeman, 54, formerly of Paris, who was killed Christmas Eve in a car wreck at Coolidge, CA.
Brothers; Cornelius & Arvel Freeman, both of Ft. Smith and Norman Freeman.
www.angelfire.com /ak2/genealogy/gen68.html   (396 words)

  
 New Document
This 45 rpm rhythm and blues single, "Raunchy"/"Puddin"", by Ernie Freeman, Imperial 5474, reached #4 on the Billboard chart in 1957.
This is the original pressing of this record and is in VG+ (no audible faults) condition (play graded).
Please e-mail any questions at least 48 hours before the close of this auction.
www.epier.com /iq.asp?402864   (110 words)

  
 EDDIE FISHER
Let the rest of the world go by (w/Ernie Freeman) 2:04
The life that I love (w/Ernie Freeman) 1:51
They call the wind Maria (w/Ernie Freeman) 2:42
www.bigbandmusic.com /malevocals/letterf/fishereddie.htm   (60 words)

  
 Ernie Freeman : Raunchy - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Ernie Freeman : Raunchy - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
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If you have a hard time sitting through an entire album's worth of instrumental rock by, say, Duane Eddy, 25 tracks of Freeman at once will drive you nuts.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,307798,00.html   (138 words)

  
 Monte Easter's KANSAS CITY JAZZ HOMEPAGE
Trained at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music, under Jimmy Stamps, Easter's sound influenced and participated in the careers of many of music's popular entertainers.
With arrangements by Ernie Freeman, Monte Easter and his Harlem Swingsters released four records including "I'm Hunched" (meaning " I'm hip to that jive").
This success led Easter and his band to performing in venues such as the Uptown Ballroom in Los Angeles (formerly the Savoy).
members.tripod.com /kcjazzman   (346 words)

  
 Ernie Freeman Combo: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Ernie Freeman Combo: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more
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 ttgapers store - USA - Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 11: Organs in Orbit - Various Artists - Product Details :: ttgapers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Fever/Comin' Home Babay - The Ernie Freeman Combo
The sound quality of the Ultra-Lounge series is excellent, even though the songs were recorded mostly in the 50's and 60's.
plays the song "the Twist" just like the style as "Ernie Freeman" on ORGAN and other songs on the LP in 1950/60s
www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-B000002U4S-locale-us.html   (848 words)

  
 Vinyl LPs starting with: Ernie Freeman - Limbo dance party - Record 3100 to 3180
Vinyl LPs starting with: Ernie Freeman - Limbo dance party - Record 3100 to 3180
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