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Sep 2024
54m 56s

WETF Show - VDisc Dixie with Muggsy Span...

JOHN CLARK
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Great Condon-styled dixieland made for the war effort via V-discs in 1944, 45 and 48. In addition to Spanier and Hackett are Cutty Cutshall and Lou McGarity (trombone), Pee Wee Russell and Peanuts Hucko (clarinet), Bud Freeman (tenor), Ernie Caceres (baritone), Charlie Queener, Jess Stacy (piano), Eddie Condon and Hy White (guitar), Bob Casey, Irv Manning (bass), and George Wettling and Morey Feld on drums.

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