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As an adult he weighed nearly 300 pounds. Trotter's professional music career began at the University of North Carolina in 1925 when he became pianist and arranger for a college band led by Hal Kemp. Trotter's first arrangement for the Kemp band was Muddy Water, which ironically was Bing's first solo hit recording in 1927.
Trotter met Bing for the first time at the Manger Hotel (renamed the Taft Hotel in 1931) in New York City in 1930 while Bing was one of the Rhythm Boys with the Paul Whiteman orchestra.
John scott trotter biography of michael
Trotter's chance to work with Bing came when their mutual song-writing friend Johnny Burke recommended him for musical director of Bing's independent 1936 film Pennies from Heaven. Bing must have been pleased with Trotter's work.
The following year he was summoned to Los Angeles from New York