Perhaps his most well-known recordings are the ones done in 1947 in New York for V-Disc, credited to Louis Armstrong with Roy Ross and His Ragamuffins. However one interprets "ragamuffin," it surely doesn't describe some of the players that took part on these dates, on which Ross played accordion as well as supposedly leading the session. The other musicians include the wonderful drummer Big Sid Catlett, trombonist Jack Teagarden, clarinetist Edmond Hall, and tenor saxman Flip Phillips. Perhaps these players applied pressure on Ross to come up with a less insulting name, because eventually Ross would stick to the bland Roy Ross and His Orchestra for future projects, including a series of big band singles for the Coral label. The decline of the big band scene and his involvement in both recording studios and radio broadcast media led to Ross developing some of the first radio jingles while hosting his own program on New York radio in the '50s. Radio stations were still willing to invest in having their own house bands during this time, and the concept of teaching these groups to play musical commercial themes took off bigtime. Ross had a knack not only for inventive themes but for commercial jargon; in an era when air conditioning was a trendy status symbol, he came up with the term "ear conditioned" to promote one radio station. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, Rovi