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Charlie Spivak - The Chart Decade 1941-51 AEC Music of which eight made theCharlie Spivak was a trumpeter and bandleader of Ukrainian heritage, who played with a string of well known bands during the 1920s and '30s, including those of Paul Specht, Ben Pollack, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Ray Noble and Glenn Miller, and it was with Miller's backing that he started his own orchestra in 1939. He was known as "The Man Who Plays The Sweetest Trumpet In The World", playing powerful lead melody parts, although he was not especially