12" ACETATE / DUBPLATE 

KEN ERRAIR of The Four Freshmen 

1957 Capitol T807 Lp "Solo Session" & a 1 sided Acetate of part of a rehearsal for the LP.

I got this at one of the Jane Withers moving/Estate sales she had in the Los Angeles area last year. Ken was married to Jane Withers 1956 & left the Freshmen so he wouldn't have to tour. Ken died in a plane crash in 1969.
KEN ERRAIR ‎– Solo Session With Pete Rugolo arranger/conductor. Frank Rosolino, Pete Candoli, Bob Cooper, & Milt Bernhart CONDITION: VG+ scratch  at start of "Without You" causes 3 loud pops, maybe slight skip
KEN ERRAIR ‎– Audition (sounds more like a rehearsal) This Acetate is one sided. He is getting notes/instructions. While rehearsing with just a piano. I have a feeling one of the 2 guys directing him is Pete Rugolo because Rugolo was the music / orchestra director of the LP. CONDITION: VG starts at VG- but mostly plays VG or better (Hear the last 3:45. The link is at the bottom of the listing) The disk runs art least 25 minutes,

KEN ERRAIR was on the 1st 3 Four Freshmen Lps, Below I copied a couple paragraphs about the 4 Freshmen & Ken Errair from the website "The Vocal Group Hall of fame" 

In May 1952 the group met up with Kenton in Chicago. Furious that Capitol gave up on his find, he demanded Capitol send demo copies of the songs to the group so they could promote it. That’s just what they did, breaking the record of “Blue World” in Detroit at WJBK and then at every other Detroit station. By the time Capitol re-signed the quartet and issued the single in July it had lost some momentum but still became their first national chart record reaching number 30 in late August. In the spring of 1953 after several years on the road, Hal Kratzsch decided he’d had enough of touring and asked the group to replace him. In May they came up with Ken Errair of Redford Township, Michigan, and his first session in July was their next chart single, “It Happened Once Before” (#29, September 1953). The year ended with the group winning the coveted down beat poll as Best Jazz Vocal Group of 1953. In August 1954 the Freshmen issued their first LP, titled Voices in Modern. It gave birth to their next chart single, the beautiful “Mood Indigo,” which reached number 24 on November 27, 1954.

In 1955 the group did a Jay Livingston-Ray Evans song called “How Can I Tell Her” for the film Lucy Gallant starring Charlton Heston and Jane Wyman. It came off so well they decided to try it as a single. The flip side, hastily chosen at the last minute, was Frank Sinatra’s 1946 hit “Day by Day” (#5). They gave the ballad an up-tempo Latin feel and waited to see what happened. Following a June release, radio gave cursory response to the film song and flipped the 45 chart single their fourth. The next Freshmen release, a Guy Lombardo 1927 smash (#1), gave them their first and only back-to-back top 100 number, reaching number 69 in December 1955.The February 1956 Four Freshmen and Five Trombones LP set a standard for modern jazz vocal groups; it reached number six nationally and resided on the charts for over eight months. Ken Errair, who had only a year before married actress Jane Withers, begged off of the road and was replaced by Ken Albers of Pitman, New Jersey, a member of the Stuarts jazz vocal group

Tracklist of "Solo Session"

Here Lies Love I Can't Give You Anything But Love Without You Gone WIth The Wind Out Of Nowhere What A Diff'rence A Day Made Black Coffee My Bolero I'm Yours Don't Take Your Love From Me Moon Song BELOW IS A LINK TO MY YOUTUBE UPLOAD TO THE LAST FEW MINUTES OF THE "AUDITION" DIS

KEN ERRAIR of 4 Freshmen rehearsal acetate for his Solo Lp ...

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