Hudson, Will

Will Hudson Bandleader and composer Barstow, California, March 8, 1908; South Carolina, July 27, 1981. Hudson is best remembered for composing the standard “Moonglow.” His family moved from California to Detroit, Michigan, when he was a teenager, and it was there that he founded his first band. By the mid-1950s, he was well established, having composed and arranged for a number of popular bandleaders in working for the music publisher Irving Mills (who often took “cocomposer” credit on Hudson’s…