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... that singer Gary Williams (pictured) played Frank Sinatra in the West End production of The Rat Pack?
... that the album A Time for Love recorded by Arturo Sandoval was inspired by trumpeter Bobby Hackett and the album Clifford Brown with Strings?
... that after losing a job, the Salty Dogs Jazz Band would sometimes find that they had been replaced by another jazz band with the same name?
... that Duke Ellington's 1940 live recording At Fargo was an amateur bootleg not officially released until 1978?
... that three different versions of "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" reached the radio airplay charts in the same year? (Andrews Sisters pictured)

January 2011