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Huey Long, Guitarist for Ink Spots, Dies at 105

Huey Long, Guitarist for Ink Spots, Dies at 105

Source: Michael Ricci

Frank Davis and his Louisiana Jazz Band were booked to play at the Rice Hotel in Houston in 1925. The banjo player never showed. For Huey Long, who shined shoes outside the hotel and occasionally got onstage to announce the bands, this was the unmistakable sound of opportunity knocking. Putting down his ukulele, he ran out to a music store, got a banjo on credit and stepped into the breach. And so began an 80-year career in jazz and popular ...

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