Born September 20, 1911· Moundsville, West Virginia, USA
† Died October 27, 1999
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Emerging from a musical family in West Virginia and raised in Ohio, De Vol began composing at twelve, joined the Musicians’ Union at fourteen, and honed his craft on violin in his father’s orchestra before arranging for the Horace Heidt and Alvino Rey bands. By the 1940s he was supplying sophisticated arrangements for leading vocalists such as Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald and Doris Day, most fam…
