{"id":4129,"date":"2019-01-19T08:15:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T14:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=4129"},"modified":"2019-01-19T08:26:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T14:26:19","slug":"russ-morgan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/russ-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Russ Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom, his roommate in pilot training, <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/mort-and-laurale-blaisdell\/\">Mort<\/a>, and Tom&#8217;s date, <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/barbara-price\/\">Barbara Price<\/a>, attended a show at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, California, with music by Russ Morgan. He describes this <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/transition-to-night-fighter-training-july-1944\/71-september-11-1944-salinas-california\/\">in his September 11, 1944 letter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/MkbS4NZQNcE<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4130\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/Russ_Morgan_Billboard.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4130\" src=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/Russ_Morgan_Billboard-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"Russ Morgan in a 1944 issue of Billboard Magazine\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/Russ_Morgan_Billboard-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/Russ_Morgan_Billboard.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russ Morgan in a 1944 issue of Billboard Magazine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russ_Morgan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><b>Russell Morgan<\/b>\u00a0(April 29, 1904 \u2013 August 7, 1969) was an American\u00a0<a title=\"Big band\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_band\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">big band<\/a>\u00a0leader and arranger during the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of the composers of &#8220;<a title=\"You&#039;re Nobody till Somebody Loves You\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/You%27re_Nobody_till_Somebody_Loves_You\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You&#8217;re Nobody till Somebody Loves You<\/a>&#8221; with Larry Stock and James Cavanaugh. Morgan was the first to record the song.<\/em><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom, his roommate in pilot training, Mort, and Tom&#8217;s date, Barbara Price, attended a show at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, California, with music by Russ Morgan. He describes this in his September 11, 1944 letter. https:\/\/youtu.be\/MkbS4NZQNcE From Wikipedia: Russell Morgan\u00a0(April 29, 1904 \u2013 August 7, 1969) was an American\u00a0big band\u00a0leader and arranger during the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/people\/russ-morgan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russ Morgan<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":55,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4129","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4132,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4129\/revisions\/4132"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}