Here is Big Band Phil in the Dean Hudson orchestra, circa the 1940's.
Off to the right hand side are the beauteous Sherry Sisters. Carolyn, Janie, and Paula Manthey, from left to right.
Big Band Phil is shown in a rare photo, since he is playing trombone using his ARM, rather than his more oft used foot...
Laddie Popek, future husband of Paula, is shown playing his saxophone over the small letter "s".
The sax player over the large capital "D" is Philip Marlowe. Look closely, and you can see his revolver in his pocket.
The saxophone player playing over the small "a" was called "Whitey", and could he wail, man! To his right, just to the left of Uncle Laddie, was the "licorice stick" player, Dean Hudson's own Benny Goodman... everyone called him "Blackie".
The tuba? No one played it, but it sure looked cool!
As for the gowns of the Sherry Sisters, they reputedly were knitted by Aunt Genevieve (the Sherry's older sister), with help from her mother, Grandma "Happy", aka "Manthey".
Little known fact: Dean Hudson, pictured grooving in the left foreground, was the model for the KEN doll, which debuted in the 1960's...
4 comments:
Hi,
Wow,
I had no idea my father was the model for the Ken doll...then I married a Ken doll...literally. My father Dean Ashley Hudson a.k.a Marion Ellsworth Brown, Great (scratch) golfer at Eastlake Country Club too. My how time flies!
I forgot also the name Ashley Hudsonwas a great trumpet and trombone player also! I didn't know Phil but this is a great tribute page.
Mhazelrig, if you are Dean Hudson's daughter, I'm your first cousin, Dean William Brown, son of Fred Brown.
Are you "Mary Margret", daughter of Nany Rose Gagnon Pare Hudson? Please send me an email to Navajo36us80917@comcast.net or Facebook me at Dean William Brown. Would really like to talk family history with you.
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