Alan Copeland, known for his many years with The Modernaires and performances on 'Your Hit Parade' and 'The Red Skelton Hour,' has died
, the songwriter, Grammy-winning arranger and ultra-smooth vocalist known for his many years with The Modernaires and performances on Copeland died Dec. 28 in an assisted living facility in Sonora, California, his friend Bob Lehmann told As recently as this fall, Copeland was still singing and playing keyboards in a quartet called
. “It was his dream to play in a small group until the last curtain, that’s how he termed it,” said Lehmann, the drummer.Copeland wrote or co-wrote songs including “Make Love to Me” — Jo Stafford’s version made it to No. 1 on the Billboard chart in 1954 — “Too Young to Know,” “High Society,” “This Must Be the Place, “Darling, Darling, Darling” and “While the Vesper Bells Were Ringing.”
After taking arranging lessons from Henry Mancini, he arranged vocals for big bands and the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Bing Crosby, Jim Nabors, Count Basie, Engelbert Humperdinck, Peter Marshall and Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme. In 1968, Copeland won a Grammy for best contemporary pop performance by a chorus for pairing the theme from CBS’ Known for combining musicality with wit, as noted jazz critic Stanley Dance once put it, Copeland also spent several years in the 1960s on Skelton’s CBS variety show with The Modernaires, who would morph into The Skel-tones and The Alan Copeland Singers.
Copeland, who went by the nickname Weaver, was born in Los Angeles on Oct. 6, 1926. As a member of the Robert Mitchell Boy Choir, he sang in such fabled films as
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