Bill Stegmeyer
Bill Stegmeyer (October 8, 1916 – August 19, 1968) was an American jazz clarinetist and arranger. Stegmeyer attended Transylvania College from 1934 to 1936, and following his studies played with Austin Wylie (1937), Glenn Miller (1938), and Bob Crosby (1939–40). In the 1940s, he did arrangement work and played clarinet (and occasionally, saxophone) with Billy Butterfield, Yank Lawson, Bobby Hackett, Will Bradley, and Billie Holiday (1945–47). He arranged for WXYZ, a Detroit radio station, from 1948 to 1950, and following this arranged for Your Hit Parade (1950–58) and CBS (early 1960s). In the 1950s he also continued to play jazz, with Lawson, Butterfield, Bob Haggart, Jimmy McPartland, and Ruby Braff. He died of cancer at age 51 in 1968. His only recordings as a leader were five tunes for Signature Records in 1945 and some V-Discs. |
Birth and Death Data: Born October 8, 1916 (Detroit), Died August 19, 1968
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1939 - 1962
Roles Represented in DAHR: clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, leader
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Recordings (Results 76-100 of 266 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Decca | 73300 | 1/22/1946 | Good morning heartache-1 | Billie Holiday | instrumentalist, alto saxophone, leader | |||
Decca | 73301 | 1/22/1946 | No good man | Billie Holiday | instrumentalist, alto saxophone, leader | |||
Decca | 73301[a] | 1/22/1946 | Big Stuff | Billie Holiday | instrumentalist, alto saxophone, leader | |||
Decca | 73313 | 1/28/1946 | What is there to say | Bobby Hackett Orchestra | instrumentalist, alto saxophone | |||
Decca | 73343 | 2/5/1946 | Soon | Bobby Hackett Orchestra | instrumentalist, alto saxophone | |||
Decca | 73344 | 2/5/1946 | With a song in my heart | Bobby Hackett Orchestra | instrumentalist, alto saxophone | |||
Decca | 73345 | 2/5/1946 | If there is someone lovelier than you | Bobby Hackett Orchestra | instrumentalist, alto saxophone | |||
Decca | 73372 | 2/15/1946 | Easy to love | Bobby Hackett Orchestra | instrumentalist, alto saxophone | |||
Decca | 73373 | 2/15/1946 | Yesterdays | Bobby Hackett Orchestra | instrumentalist, alto saxophone | |||
Decca | 73374 | 2/15/1946 | More than you know | Bobby Hackett Orchestra | instrumentalist, alto saxophone | |||
Decca | 73375 | 2/15/1946 | What is there to say? | Bobby Hackett Orchestra | instrumentalist, alto saxophone | |||
Decca | 73792 | 2/13/1947 | Deep song | Billie Holiday | instrumentalist, alto saxophone, clarinet | |||
Decca | 73793 | 2/13/1947 | There is no greater love | Billie Holiday | instrumentalist, alto saxophone, clarinet | |||
Decca | 73794 | 2/13/1947 | Easy living | Billie Holiday | instrumentalist, alto saxophone, clarinet | |||
Decca | 73795 | 2/13/1947 | Solitude | Billie Holiday | instrumentalist, alto saxophone, clarinet | |||
Decca | 73985 | 6/30/1947 | Louisville Lou | Sophie Tucker | instrumentalist, clarinet | |||
Decca | 73986 | 6/30/1947 | Some of these days | Sophie Tucker | instrumentalist, clarinet | |||
Decca | 81138 | 6/6/1951 | Wolverine blues | Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band | instrumentalist, clarinet | |||
Decca | 81139 | 6/6/1951 | Dead man blues | Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band | instrumentalist, clarinet | |||
Decca | 81157 | 6/13/1951 | Milenberg joys | Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band | instrumentalist, clarinet | |||
Decca | 81158 | 6/13/1951 | Cannonball blues | Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band | instrumentalist, clarinet | |||
Decca | 81193 | 6/20/1951 | Kansas City stomp | Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band | instrumentalist, clarinet | |||
Decca | 81194 | 6/20/1951 | King Porter stomp | Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band | instrumentalist, clarinet | |||
Decca | 81225 | 6/27/1951 | Jelly Roll blues | Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band | instrumentalist, clarinet | |||
Decca | 81226 | 6/27/1951 | Sidewalk blues | Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band | instrumentalist, clarinet |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Stegmeyer, Bill," accessed November 22, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/209797.
Stegmeyer, Bill. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 22, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/209797.
"Stegmeyer, Bill." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 22 November 2024.
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