George Greeley

George Greeley was a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music who, rather than aim for a career in the concert hall, devoted his talents to elevating the sounds of popular music. The Rhode Island-born pianist (and later orchestra leader) worked with such figures as Tommy Dorsey, Glen Gray, Abe Lyman, and Kay Kyser during the big-band era, and was also extremely busy on radio (and later television) from the end of the '30s thru the mid-'50s. He subsequently went to work for Columbia Pictures in the soundtrack department, providing mostly uncredited incidental music for a few d...