Alvin Stoller
Alvin Stoller (October 7, 1925 – October 19, 1992) was an American jazz drummer. Though he seems to have been largely forgotten, he was held in high regard in the 1940s and 1950s. He was best known for playing drums on both Mitch Miller's recording of "The Yellow Rose of Texas" and Stan Freberg's parody of Miller's recording. |
Birth and Death Data: Born October 7, 1925 (New York City), Died October 19, 1992 (Los Angeles)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1946 - 1958
Roles Represented in DAHR: drums
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Recordings
| Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victor | D6VB-1312 | 10-in. | 3/1/1946 | (Ah-yes) there's a good blues tonight | Clam Bake Group (Tommy Dorsey) ; Tommy Dorsey ; Sy Oliver | Male vocal solo, with jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, drums | |
| Victor | D6VB-1313 | 10-in. | 3/1/1946 | Don't be a baby, baby | Clam Bake Group (Tommy Dorsey) ; Tommy Dorsey ; Sy Oliver | Male vocal solo, with jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, drums | |
| Victor | D6VB-1314 | 10-in. | 3/2/1946 | There's no one but you | Clambake Seven ; Tommy Dorsey ; Stuart Foster | Male vocal solo, with jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, drums | |
| Victor | D6VB-1315 | 10-in. | 3/2/1946 | Sweet Eileen | Clambake Seven ; Tommy Dorsey ; Sy Oliver | Male vocal solo, with jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, drums | |
| Decca | L 5419 | 3/9/1950 | Blue skies | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5420 | 3/9/1950 | Dancing in the dark | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5423 | 3/10/1950 | This can't be love | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5424 | 3/10/1950 | What is this thing called love? | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5425 | 3/10/1950 | Desert serenade | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5499 | 4/5/1950 | Home cookin' | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5500 | 4/5/1950 | Crazy she calls me | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5501 | 4/5/1950 | In the mood | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5707 | 6/27/1950 | You wonderful you | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5708 | 6/27/1950 | Dig-dig-dig dig for your dinner | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5709 | 6/27/1950 | Re-stringing the pearls (A ball of twine) | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5775 | 7/31/1950 | Honestly, I love you | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5776 | 7/31/1950 | I don't care if the sun don't shine | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5777 | 7/31/1950 | Vagabond shoes | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5778 | 7/31/1950 | No other love-1 | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5783 | 8/15/1950 | Farewell blues | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5794 | 8/23/1950 | And you'll be home | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5795 | 8/25/1950 | Where do I go from you? | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5796 | 8/25/1950 | Accidents will happen | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5799 | 8/25/1950 | The spirit is willing | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5800 | 8/25/1950 | Off limits (Passage interdit) | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5801 | 8/25/1950 | Minuet in G | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5957 | 12/15/1950 | Circus | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5958 | 12/15/1950 | Holiday for strings | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 5959 | 12/15/1950 | Begin the beguine | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6036 | 2/2/1951 | Valse triste | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6037 | 2/2/1951 | Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6038 | 2/2/1951 | Johnson rag | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6039 | 2/2/1951 | Gospel train | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6466 | 10/5/1951 | I never was loved by anyone | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6467 | 10/5/1951 | Turn back the hands of time | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6468 | 10/5/1951 | Miracles seem to happen | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6469 | 10/5/1951 | Bess, you is my woman now | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6526 | 11/23/1951 | Necessary evil | Louis Armstrong ; Louis Armstrong ; Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6527 | 11/23/1951 | Oops! | Louis Armstrong ; Louis Armstrong ; Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6528 | 11/23/1951 | Would you like to take a walk | Louis Armstrong ; Louis Armstrong ; Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6529 | 11/23/1951 | Who walks in (when I walk out) | Louis Armstrong ; Louis Armstrong ; Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6677 | 3/5/1952 | Awful waffle man | Wingy Manone | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6678 | 3/5/1952 | At last | Wingy Manone | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6695 | 3/28/1952 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6696 | 3/28/1952 | Somewhere along the way | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6697 | 3/28/1952 | Darktown Strutters' Ball | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6698 | 3/28/1952 | At last | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6757 | 5/9/1952 | Just you, just me | Georgie Auld ; Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6758 | 5/9/1952 | I wonder | Georgie Auld ; Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6759 | 5/9/1952 | Crazy she calls me | Georgie Auld ; Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6760 | 5/9/1952 | On the Alamo | Georgie Auld ; Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6866 | 9/2/1952 | You belong to me | Georgie Auld ; Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6867 | 9/2/1952 | Early Autumn | Georgie Auld ; Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6868 | 9/2/1952 | Lullaby of Broadway | Georgie Auld ; Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6869 | 9/2/1952 | Harlem nocturne | Georgie Auld ; Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6948 | 11/28/1952 | No moon at all | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6949 | 11/28/1952 | My heart belongs to Daddy | Jerry Gray Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6955 | 11/30/1952 | I can't lie to myself | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 6956 | 11/30/1952 | Don't wake me up | Ella Fitzgerald | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 7344 | 9/1/1953 | Chattanooga choo choo | Tex Beneek Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 7345 | 9/1/1953 | Danny's hideaway | Tex Beneek Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 7346 | 9/1/1953 | Mr. Peepers | Tex Beneek Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 7347 | 9/1/1953 | Cimarron | Tex Beneek Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 8999 | 2/27/1956 | Puttin' on the style | The Gateway Singers | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 9000 | 2/27/1956 | The midnight special | The Gateway Singers | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 9001 | 2/27/1956 | Fair maid | The Gateway Singers | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 9337 | 6/26/1956 | Monaco | The Gateway Singers | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 9338 | 6/26/1956 | Run, come see Jerusalem | The Gateway Singers | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 9339 | 6/26/1956 | Rock Island line | The Gateway Singers | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 9340 | 6/26/1956 | I was born about 10,000 years ago | The Gateway Singers | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 9341 | 6/26/1956 | Sally don't you grieve | The Gateway Singers | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 9415 | 7/24/1956 | Come to the dance | The Gateway Singers | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 9416 | 7/24/1956 | True love | The Gateway Singers | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 9417 | 7/24/1956 | Ezekiel saw the wheel | The Gateway Singers | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 9418 | 7/24/1956 | Tumbalalaika | The Gateway Singers | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 9419 | 7/24/1956 | Bury me in my overalls | The Gateway Singers | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 10805 | 10/30/1958 | Jane's jump | Jack Kane Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 10806 | 10/30/1958 | It's a lonesome old town | Jack Kane Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 10807 | 10/30/1958 | Sound of the blues | Jack Kane Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 10808 | 10/30/1958 | Wouldn't it be loverly | Jack Kane Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 10809 | 10/31/1958 | Carioca | Jack Kane Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 10810 | 10/31/1958 | Some of these days | Jack Kane Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 10811 | 10/31/1958 | I'm getting sentimental over you | Jack Kane Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 10812 | 10/31/1958 | Poor butterfly | Jack Kane Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 10813 | 11/2/1958 | St. Louis blues | Jack Kane Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 10814 | 11/2/1958 | Alfern song | Jack Kane Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 10815 | 11/2/1958 | Lazy river | Jack Kane Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums | |||
| Decca | L 10816 | 11/2/1958 | Clare's tune | Jack Kane Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Stoller, Alvin," accessed April 25, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/345500.
Stoller, Alvin. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/345500.
"Stoller, Alvin." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 25 April 2024.
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