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Leon Breeden Orchestra, Lake Worth Casino, Ft. Worth, circa 1950, 2

Description: Recording of the Leon Breeden Orchestra in Lake Worth Casino, Ft. Worth, Texas. This recording is a live recording of the Leon Breeden Orchestra. Breeden can be heard speaking to announce tunes as the band plays. This is a second copy of this specific recording.
Date: 1950
Duration: 58 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Breeden, Leon
Location: 26.614692 -80.037206
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Grand Prairie High School Band, made in Band Hall, 1957. Leon Breeden Orchestra at the Casino Ballroom on Lake Worth, circa 1950

Description: Recording of the Grand Prairie High School Band at the Gopher Band Hall on December 12, 1957 and the Leon Breeden Orchestra at the Lake Worth Casino, Fort Worth, Texas. The Grand Prairie High School Band plays marches and some popular jazz tunes with interludes of speaking from the students. The Leon Breeden Orchestras plays many jazz standards.
Date: {1950,1957}
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Breeden, Leon
Location: 26.614692 -80.037206
Partner: UNT Music Library
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The Orchestra of Washington, D.C.

Description: Recording of The Orchestra of Washington, D.C., likely with singer Jack Maggio. The band plays selections that also appear on their lone full-length album, Willis Conover's House of Sounds Presents THE Orchestra, including "Willis" (written for Willis Conover), and "Light Green."
Date: 1950~
Duration: 26 minutes 01 second
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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