Page Cavanaugh Trio

Page Cavanaugh (January 26, 1922 in Cherokee, Kansas – December 19, 2008 in Los Angeles) was an American jazz and pop pianist, vocalist, and arranger.

He began on piano at age nine and played with Ernie Williamson's band in 1938–39 before moving to Los Angeles and joining the Bobby Sherwood band at age 20.

While serving in the military during World War II, he met guitarist Al Viola and bassist Lloyd Pratt, with whom he formed a trio. After the war's end they performed together in the style of the Nat King Cole Trio, scoring a number of hits in the late 1940s, including "The Three Bears", "Walkin' My Baby Back Home", and "All of Me". The trio appeared in the films A Song Is Born, Big City, Lullaby of Broadway (with Doris Day) and Romance on the High Seas (Doris Day's first film, in 1948).

In the early 1950s, Cavanaugh had a program, Page Pages You, on the short-lived Progressive Broadcasting System., Additionally, the trio played on Frank Sinatra's radio program, Songs by Sinatra, and on The Jack Paar Show.

The trio appeared in the 1958 horror movie, "Frankenstein's Daughter", and on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson on October 7, 1965 in Hollywood (and rebroadcast on October 9, 1966), playing Cole Porter's "Love for Sale" at a brisk tempo. In his introduction to the performance, Carson recalled hearing Cavanaugh play at "The Captain's Table" when Carson was getting started in television on the west coast. He added, "I think he's one of the fine, fine jazz pianists around".

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