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Charlie Barnet American bandleader.
Charles Daly Barnet (October 26, 1913 – September 4, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. His major recordings were "Skyliner", "Cherokee", "The Wrong Idea", "Scotch and Soda", "In a Mizz", and "Southland Shuffle". Charlie Barnet was born in New York City. His parents divorced when he was two, and he was raised by his mother and her grandparents. His grandfather was Charles Frederick Daly, a vice-president for the New York Central Railroad, banker, and businessman. Barnet attended various boarding schools, both in the New York and Chicago areas. He learned to play piano and saxophone as a child. He often left school to listen to music and to try to gain work as a musician.
BIG BAND JUKEBOX 06
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BUDDY DEFRANCO and OSCAR PETERSON "They Can't Take That Away From Me" HENRY
JEROME "Temptation" HENRY MANCINI "Tiger" JACK TEAGARDEN "Yankee Doodle"
PA...
GLENN MILLER "Medley"
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Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – disappeared December 15, 1944) was an
American Big band trombonist, arranger, composer, and bandleader in the
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GLENN MILLER "It Happened In Sun Valley"
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When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted
Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson.
When solo...
Karl Haas (December 6, 1913 – February 6, 2005)
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Karl Haas was a German-American classical music radio host, known for his
sonorous speaking voice, humanistic approach to music appreciation, and
populari...
GLENN MILLER "Medley"
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Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – disappeared December 15, 1944) was an
American Big band trombonist, arranger, composer, and bandleader in the
S...
Happy Accident
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In 1968 my father, Raymond Scott, spoke at length with a young man named
Art Shifrin for his WNYC radio program, "Antiquity on Tape."
Art had spent many...
JOE FRANKLIN
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We lost an American icon today. Joe Franklin passed at the age of 88. Joe
and i had been friends for quite a while. We met at one of the Al Jolson
Society...
The OTR Revival Of The 1970s
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Although I grew up hearing tales of old-time radio from my parents, for
this child born in the mid-1950s,...
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