- After the war, Bluestone set up his own orchestra which backed Jo Stafford and Dinah Shore.
- He enlisted in the Air Force in 1942, rose to the rank of Master Sergeant and organised both the Army Air Force Orchestra and the Army Air Force Training Command Orchestra that replaced Glenn Miller, who went overseas to his eventual death.
- He was prolific and worked mainly on composing with Emil Cadkin.
- He got a first taste of the music library business as production manager for Standard Transcriptions.
- He took up the violin at a young age, and the liner notes on his Artistry in Jazz album reveal "he performed the Bruch G-Minor Violin Concerto to critical acclaim when only 7 years old.
- Harry moved to Hollywood in 1935 with the Lennie Hayton Orchestra, which had been known as the Ipana Troubadors on Fred Allen's Show in New York, when it became the first orchestra on Your Hit Parade (eventually replaced in 1939 by the Raymond Scott).
- Harry Bluestone was a composer and violinist who composed music for TV and film.
- Among his discoveries while recording in France (to get around Jimmy Petrillo's union) was singer Robert Clary,[1] who later co-starred on Hogan's Heroes.
- As a teenager, he travelled to Paris with a small jazz group to back up expatriate singer Josephine Baker.
- Bluestone had his own 15-minute radio show, recorded for Brunswick Records and was hired by Paramount Studios as its concertmaster.
- Bluestone spent the rest of his life setting up various music publishing houses, writing and getting out his baton or violin, as a heavily in-demand "first chair," to work on hundreds of albums by a wide variety of artists, including the Beach Boys, Peggy Lee, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder and the Beatles (on their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band).
- He has also made many original compositions with Emil Cadkin, who is famous for composing the music for cartoon series from the 1950s and 1960, such as Gumby and The Quick Draw McGraw Show. These compositions were later archived in the Carlin Archive Series albums and have been used in various episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants.
- Harry graduated from the Institute of Musical Art (later renamed Juilliard School), and freelanced on numerous radio programmes in the 1930s with the Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. Some of his compositions were also featured on APM Music.
- He played with Bix Beiderbecke, Bunny Berigan and Red Nichols (who had in his employ a future cartoon sound genius named Treg Brown).
- He also wrote books in the 1980s on playing violin, guitar and trumpet.
- Much of Harry's film work was uncredited, as directors and producers culled stock music he had written for their movies, such as Journey to Freedom and The Invisible Avenger. In fact, one of Harry's legacies is the sheer amount of production music he wrote, frequently in tandem with Emil Cadkin. These musical nuggets were frequently anywhere between ten seconds and four minutes in duration, designed for use in commercials, news and weather intros and outros, and perhaps radio drama and film. They boast self-explanatory titles such as "What's the Temperature Now", "Here is the News", "Romantic Entrance", and "Evil Alien Attack". These shorties are still being used, even by such high-tech entities as Microsoft.
- Harry composed one of the themes for the 1960s television program, American Sportman Show, hosted by Curt Gowdy.
- As an author, he penned a number of instruction books, including Easy Solos for Clarinet, Easy Solos for Flute, Easy Solos for Trumpet, and Easy Solos for Violin.
- As a musician, he worked with nearly everyone who is anyone: He was the concertmaster on Herb Alpert's 1979 release, Rise, and performed similar duties on Dolly Parton's 1977 album, Here You Come Again, Johnny Mathis's & Deniece Williams' That's What Friends Are For, and Elton John's Blue Moves (credited as "Leader"). Other artists with whom he worked include Rita Coolidge, Neil Diamond, Leo Sayer, Livingston Taylor, and Mel Torme.
- He recorded with the likes of Bing Crosby, Benny Goodman and Frank Sinatra in the 1950s and left a valentine for B-movie fans everywhere in composing the music for the sci-fi/horror schlock-fest, The Killer Shrews.
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