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Russ Garcia was an American bandleader, conductor, trumpeter, arranger, and songwriter, born on April 12, 1916, in Oakland, California. He passed away on November 20, 2011, in Kerikeri, New Zealand. Garcia was known for composing and arranging a wide variety of music for stage and screen, serving as the composer/arranger at NBC Studios for shows such as "Rawhide" and "Laredo." He worked on MGM films, including "The Time Machine" (1960) and "Atlantis, the Lost Continent," and orchestrated themes for "Father Goose" and "The Benny Goodman Story." Throughout his career, he collaborated with numerous artists, including Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Judy Garland, Henry Mancini, and Charlie Chaplin, providing arrangements and conducting orchestras. At the age of eleven, the Oakland Symphony Orchestra performed his arrangement of "Stardust." By high school, he was already working five nights a week as a musician and earning more than his father. Before joining NBC, he played as a trumpeter in dance bands. Among his popular song compositions is the instrumental piece "Adventures in Emotion."

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