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Saturday Night Swing Club
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Leith Stevens
Orchestra Leader
Buddy Hackett
Orchestra Leader
Paul Douglas
Master of Ceremonies
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Leith Stevens leads his orchestra in a nice assortment of standards in a variety of musical styles, including Dixieland and swing. Mr. Stevens was a popular orchestra leader of the era who later became a musical director for an assortment of television shows and his facility with more than one style of music, so important for his later career, is much in evidence here.
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1938-07-30
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