James “Pop Charlie” Scott

James Scott was a Greensboro native who was a senior at Dudley High School when he enlisted for service in the Navy’s B -1 band. as a string bassist, which he played with the Moonglowers. Otto Harris writes that he didn’t learn  tuba until he arrived with the band in Hawai’i in May 1944.

Harris, Otto. “Musically Speaking” Pearl City, HA. The Mananan. 13 May 1945: 7.