Skitch Henderson’s Death – Cause and Date

The pop singer Skitch Henderson died at the age of 87. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Bandleader on The Tonight Show in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the recipient of the Handel Medallion from the City of New York for his contribution to New York City culture.

He married Faye Emerson in 1950, then, after their divorce in 1957, he married Ruth Einseidel Michaels on February 7, 1958.

Henderson died of natural causes on November 1, 2005 at 87.

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While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music.

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I worked with practically everybody in the business in all of the years in NBC, but I worked personally many years with people like Crosby and Sinatra, so of course that was a great ground school for me.

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I grew up on film scores and scores from films.

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I’ve watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

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I listen to everything.