Person

Carroll, Jimmy

1913-1972

New York born bandleader Jimmy Carroll received a bachelor’s degree in Music at Eastman School of Music, and he later attended the Juillard and the Yale Music School. He served in the Army’s Special Services during the war after which his career began. He sang tenor for RCA Victor’s 1951 recording with Al Goodman’s orchestra of six highlights from Victor Herbert’s operetta “Naughty Marietta.” His main talent, however, was arranging music. He arranged for such bands as those of Mitch Miller, Harry James and Vaughan Monroe, and for singers Frankie Laine (for example his “High Noon) and Rosemary Clooney (“Come on a My House”). His arrangements for Miller’s “Yellow Rose of Texas” and “March from the River Kwai” were among his most successful. He also made arrangements for Schaeffer Beer commercials and for Frank Sinatra. He collaborated mainly with Marshall Barer and Paul Parnes. Much of his later work was as a band leader, conducting for his own Jimmy Carroll Orchestra and other bands.