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Music Appreciation

Tomconroy

(7,611 posts) Mon Jul 26, 2021, 09:40 AM Jul 2021

American Patrol- Glenn Miller

Last edited Mon Jul 26, 2021, 11:00 AM - Edit history (1)

We won the War because we had songs like this!

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American Patrol- Glenn Miller (Original Post) Tomconroy Jul 2021 OP

Years ago I played in a 16 piece big band sdfernando Jul 2021 #1

A few years ago there was a restaurant in Old Lyme, CT called Cherrystones. Tomconroy Jul 2021 #2

sdfernando

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1. Years ago I played in a 16 piece big band

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Mon Jul 26, 2021, 12:41 PM

Jul 2021

playing lead Alto & lead Tenor at different times....In high school we also had an 18 piece big band and I was playing Bari-Sax and occassionally Flute....Always loved playing this genre...and my parents loved to dance to it as it was the music of their late teens and twenties.

Tomconroy

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2. A few years ago there was a restaurant in Old Lyme, CT called Cherrystones.

Reply to sdfernando (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 26, 2021, 01:00 PM

Jul 2021

Twice a month a 14 piece big band complete with female singer would rehearse there. It was maybe the only place in America that, for the price of a decent, not too expensive meal, you could regularly go out dancing to a live big band on a regular basis. We went there a lot!

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