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in 1951. After army service, he and his brother moved to Los Angeles in 1954, and he soon began session recordings as a full-time musician, backing artists such as
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and others. He remained a leading session player for almost twenty years, averaging two sessions a day and playing everything from movie soundtracks and
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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he was a regular member of Henry Mancini's studio orchestra and in 1963 he recorded "
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in 1970, and also played with a number of jazz and swing bands of the period. He joined
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in creating direct-to-disc recordings for Sheffield Labs. He later recorded for the
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Jesse Hamlin, "'Panther' tune has 9 lives for visiting sax cat Plas Johnson"
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as well as scores of other R&B performers. An early supporter was
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Michael G. Mooney, "Plas Johnson gave character to 'Panther' theme"
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for the budget CRC Charter label to avoid contractual disputes.
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in the mid-1950s, Johnson also played on innumerable records by
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in the late 1940s. He first toured with R&B singer
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albums, to rock and roll singles by such artists as
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Donaldsonville, Louisiana
Jazz
soul-jazz
hard bop
tenor saxophonist
Henry Mancini
The Pink Panther Theme
Donaldsonville, Louisiana
soprano saxophone
alto
tenor saxophone
New Orleans
Charles Brown
B.B. King
Johnny Otis
Maxwell Davis
Modern
Dave Cavanaugh
Capitol Records
Peggy Lee
Nat "King" Cole
Glen Gray
Frank Sinatra
Les Baxter
exotica
Ricky Nelson
Bobby Vee
R&B
Larry Williams
Bobby Day

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