Editing Raymond Scott (section)

==Middle career==
After serving as music director for programs ''[[The Frank Sinatra Show (radio program)#Broadway Bandbox (1943)|Broadway Bandbox]]'' from 1942 to 1944, Scott left the network. He composed and arranged music (with lyrics by [[Bernie Hanighen]]) for the 1946 Broadway musical ''[[Lute Song (musical)|Lute Song]]'' starring [[Mary Martin]] and [[Yul Brynner]].

In the late 1940s, contemporaneous with guitarist [[Les Paul]]'s studio work with [[Mary Ford]], Scott began recording pop songs using the layered [[History of multitrack recording|multi-tracked]] vocals of his second wife, singer [[Dorothy Collins]]. A number of these were commercially released, but the technique failed to earn him the chart success of Les Paul and Mary Ford.

In 1948, Scott formed a six-man "quintet" which served for several months as house band for the CBS radio program ''[[Herb Shriner]] Time''. The group made studio recordings, some of which were released on Scott's short-lived Master Records label. This was not the Irving Mills-owned label of the same name; Scott allegedly named his label in tribute to the defunct Mills enterprise.

When his brother Mark Warnow died in 1949, Scott succeeded him as orchestra leader on the CBS Radio show ''Your Hit Parade'' . During the following year, the show moved to NBC Television, and Scott continued to lead the orchestra until 1957. Collins was a featured singer on ''Your Hit Parade''. The high-profile position paid well, but Scott considered it strictly a "rent gig" and used his salary to finance his electronic music research out of the limelight.

In 1950, Scott composed his first—and only known—classical work, entitled ''Suite for Violin and Piano''. The five-movement suite was performed at Carnegie Hall on February 7, 1950, by violinist [[Arnold Eidus]] and pianist Carlo Bussotti, who recorded the work.<ref>[http://www.bastamusic.com/product/raymond-scott-suite-for-violin-and-piano Basta website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314013513/http://www.bastamusic.com/product/raymond-scott-suite-for-violin-and-piano |date=2014-03-14 }}, details on release of Scott's ''Suite for Violin and Piano''</ref>)

In 1958, while serving as an A&R director for [[Everest Records|Everest]], Scott produced singer [[Gloria Lynne]]'s album ''Miss Gloria Lynne''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/gloria-lynne-mn0000664883|title=Gloria Lynne {{pipe}} Biography, Albums, Streaming Links|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=October 27, 2019}}</ref> The sidemen included many of the same session players (e.g., [[Milt Hinton]], [[Sam Taylor (saxophonist)|Sam Taylor]], [[George Duvivier]], [[Harry "Sweets" Edison]], [[Eddie Costa]], [[Kenny Burrell]], [[Wild Bill Davis]]) who participated in Scott's 1959 Secret 7 recording project.