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Bobby Hammack

Bobby Hammack is credited on 210 releases across 55 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1953–2012 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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210

Pressings credited

55

Albums

7

Decades active

12

In collections

Biography

Robert Vernor Hammack, Jr. (January 22, 1922 Brookston, Texas – March 28, 1990 Riverside, California) was an American musician, originally from Texas, whose principal instrument was jazz piano. He led a prolific career in Los Angeles as a pianist, organist, conductor, arranger, and composer in live venues, broadcast studios for radio and television, and recording studios for records, radio, television, and film. Hammack flourished in a wide spectrum of genres that included dixieland, Blues, swing, sweet dance music (e.g., Lawrence Welk), easy listening, gospel, liturgical jazz, musical theatre, Tin Pan Alley, classical, and film score.

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Credited work

210 releases · 55 albums · active 1953–2012

  • Performance · 263
  • Other credits · 21

Studios: Shrine Auditorium · RCA's Music Center Of The World · Radio Recorders · Sunset Sound Recorders

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Henry Mancini
  • Various
  • Matty Matlock And His Dixie-Men
  • George Shearing With Quintet And Woodwinds Choir
  • Ray Conniff His Orchestra And Chorus
  • The Clebanoff Strings & Percussion
  • Dennis Farnon And His Orchestra And Chorus
  • Red Nichols And His 5 Pennies

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