Vic Schoen
Swing music, Musical Artist
1916 – 2000
Who was Vic Schoen?
Victor "Vic" Schoen was an American bandleader, arranger, and composer whose career spanned from the 1930s until his death in 2000. He furnished music for some of the most successful persons in show business including Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Les Brown, Woody Herman, Gene Krupa, George Shearing, Jimmie Lunceford, Ray McKinley, Benny Carter, Louis Prima, Russ Morgan, Guy Lombardo, Carmen Cavallaro, Carmen Miranda, Gordon Jenkins, Joe Venuti, Victor Young, Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops, and his own The Vic Schoen Orchestra.
Schoen arranged and recorded with well-known artists such as The Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Irving Berlin, Marion Hutton, Betty Hutton, Perry Como, Dick Haymes, Ella Fitzgerald, Al Jolson, Maurice Chevalier, Enzo Stuarti, Lauritz Melchior, Mary Martin, Bob Crosby, The Weavers, Burl Ives, Eddie Fisher, Mildred Bailey, Peggy Lee, Patti Page, the McGuire Sisters, the Sherman Brothers, and Kay Starr.
Schoen wrote TV specials for Jack Carson Show, The Dave King Show, Ethel Merman, The Big Record with Patti Page, The Dinah Shore Show, Shirley MacLaine, Shirley Temple, Andy Williams, and Pat Boone. He is probably best remembered as the musical director and arranger for the Andrews Sisters.
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- Born
- Mar 26, 1916
Brooklyn - Also known as
- Victor Schoen
- Vic Schoen and His Orchestra
- Victor "Vic" Schoen
- Spouses
- Kay Starr
(1953 - 2000/01/05) - Marion Hutton
(1954 - 1987/01/10) - Sally-Jan Calbeck
(1944 - ) - Yvette Agnes Gowdy
(1943 - 1948)
- Kay Starr
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Brooklyn
- Died
- Jan 5, 2000
Corona del Mar
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on July 23, 2013
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