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Session #55

Label: Jake Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Floatin

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Article: Album Review

Les Brown and His Band of Renown: Session #55

Read "Session #55" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Few bandleaders enjoyed longer or more successful careers than Les Brown. After coming out of Duke University in 1936, where he led his first dance band, the Blue Devils, Brown formed what would later become the Band of Renown in 1938. Les got a big break in 1947 when comedian Bob Hope hired the band to ...


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