Dick Stabile

Richard Dominic Stabile (May 29, 1909 – September 18, 1980) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader.

[1] The son of a band leader and violinist, Stabile learned piano and violin at an early age.

[3] In 1936, Stabile started his own ensemble,[1] the All-America "Swing" Band, which featured Bunny Berigan, Dave Barbour, Frank Signorelli, and Stan King.

[4] He recorded with vocalists such as Berigan, Paula Kelly, Burt Shaw, and Gracie Barrie, the last of which he would go on to marry.

[5][6] After spending the latter 1960s leading dance bands at Los Angeles ballrooms, Stabile took a job at the Hotel Roosevelt in New Orleans,[1] where he worked from the middle of the 1970s until his death from a heart attack in 1980.

Cary Grant , Betsy Drake , Dick Stabile (1955)