where audience members would be called onto stage in an attempt to conduct the orchestra, with the possibility of winning batons.

He was the first to record and release "Blueberry Hill" in 1941, a song which became a standard in several genres, including pop, jazz, Big Band, Swing, and rock and roll.

On December 17, 1941, RCA Victor recorded the song, with Sammy Kaye's Swing and Sway Band and The Glee Club.

By 1955, Kaye was also featured five times a week on several national radio networks through the RCA Thesaurus transcription service.

[1] Singers included Don Cornell (not related to Dale Cornell), Billy Williams (the country music singer with the Pecos River Rogues), Tommy Ryan, Gary Willner, Barry Frank, Tony Russo, and Nancy Norman.

Although his musicians were always competent, the jazz critic George T. Simon described them as "magnificently trained and exceedingly unoriginal".

Prior to his death in 1987, Sammy Kaye left his orchestra to Roger Thorpe of New Paltz, New York.

11), "I Gotta See a Dream About a Girl",[8] "I Miss Your Kiss"[9] and "Bottoms Up (Let's Have a Ball)" with Sunny Skylar, "The Midnight Ride", and "Hawaiian Sunset".