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 Born:
August 9, 1934
Avonlea, SK
Current home: Vancouver BC
Bobby (Robert Arthur) Hales studied trumpet in Regina
before moving to Chilliwack, BC, in 1952, and 1955-7
attended Westlake College of Modern Music in Los Angeles
where his teachers were Ollie Mitchell and Dick Groves.
Based thereafter in Vancouver, he initially played and
arranged music for Dave Robbins' big band and has led
bands in various supper clubs and played in the city's
studios. He was music director in 1963 for the Vancouver
edition of CBC TV's 'Music Hop' and 1976-7 for CTV's
'Rolf Harris Show,' and composed theme and incidental
music for the CBC series 'The Manipulators' and 'The
Beachcombers' and for the CBC TV movie 'The Overlanders.'
In 1988 he completed a suite, The Beginning of the End,
for the closing ceremonies of the Calgary Winter *Olympics.
The Bobby Hales Big Band, formed in 1965, was heard
often on the CBC's 'Jazz Canadiana' and 'Jazz Radio-Canada,'
performed nightly during the Pacific National Exhibition
for several years, and in 1977 gave concerts and workshops
elsewhere in British Columbia and Alberta. Vancouver's
leading jazz orchestra during the 1970s, it made the
LP One of My Bags comprising six Hales compositions.
It continued largely as a commercial orchestra in the
1980s, recording an album of dance-band music, Bobby
Hales Big Band, for CENTER LINE late in the decade,
accompanying pop performers, and playing for musicals,
dances, and conventions.
Bobby Hales is currently President of the Vancouver
Musicians' Association, Local 145, AFM.
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Dave Robbins - CBC RM49 - Vancouver,
B.C., October 27, 1961
Bobby Hales,Stewart Barnett, Don Clark (tp) Doug Kent
(fhr) Dave Robbins (tb)Don Dorazio (fl) Dave Quarin
(as) Fraser MacPherson (ts) Wally Snider (bar) Ray Lowdon
(vib) Chris Gage (p) Paul Ruhland (b) George Ursan (d)
Django
Down home
Suspensions
Dave Robbins - CBC RM49 - Vancouver, B.C., early
1962
Dave Robbins Orchestra : prob similar pers.
Burlesque
Rapid motion
Doug Parker - CBC LM35 - Vancouver, March 24,
1967
Doug Parker Big Band : Stu Barnett, Don Clark,
Carse Sneddon, Bobby Hales (tp) Ian McDougall, Dave
McMurdo, Bill Trussell (tb) Wally Snider, Cliff Binyon,
Fraser MacPherson, Dave Quarin (sax,fl) Doug Parker
(p,org) Ray Moga (g) Stan Johnson (b) Al Johnson (d)
Broadway
Yesterday
The "In" crowd
Carioca
Keepin' myself for you
It's love
Dave Robbins - CBC LM89 - Vancouver, B.C., August,
1970
Dave Robbins Band : Don Clark, Robert Herriot, Stew
Barnett, Bobby Hales, Carse Sneddon (tp,flhrn) Dave
Robbins, Ian McDougall, Dave Pepper, Bill Trussell,
Ted Lazenby (tb) Fraser MacPherson (woodwinds, melodion)
Wally Snider, Roy Bull, Dave Quarin, Jack Stafford (woodwinds)
Robert Creech, Doug Kent, Dianne Dunn (fhr) Ralph Dyke
(vib) Bob Murphy (org) Ron Johnston (p) Oliver Gannon
(g) Ray Moga (b) George Ursan (d) Don Knispel (perc)
Games people play
Didn't we?
Oliver Gannon - CBC LM216, LM422 - Vancouver,
Canada, December 9, 1972
Oliver Gannon (g) acc by big band: Don Clark, Stew Barnett,
Robert Hilton, Robert Herriot, Bobby Hales (tp) Ian
McDougall (tb, arr) Jack Fulton, Bob Hamper, Bill Trussell,
Sharman King (tb) Ron Johnston (p) Tony Clitheroe (b)
George Ursan (d) Don Knispel (cga) Ken Moore (perc)
One bad apple
Corky Corcoran - C.C. Production Rec. 4012
- Vancouver, BC, September, 1973
Plays everywhere : Corky Corcoran (ts) + 18 musicians
incl. Stu Barnett, Robert Herriot, Don Clark, Bobby
Hales (tp) Bob Hamper (tb) Fraser MacPherson (ts) Wally
Snider (bar) Oliver Gannon (g) Ray Sims (vcl)
Everywhere
Dream of you
A sinner kissed an angel
Sophisticated lady
Some Saturday
Wine and roses
It never entered my mind
Mobile Bay
Glocca-Morra
Topsy
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