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This is really super what you are doing! Much as I love rock and roll (grew up in the 50s), nothing beats the Big Bands and the music of the 1930s and 40s. I saw Elvis perform in concert and have autographs of Buddy Morrow, Ray Anthony and another whose name escapes me from the days when the Big Bands traveled to smaller ballrooms throughout the country. This occurred after the popularity of radio and people felt they could listen to the music of the big bands for free and would no longer pay the price of admission to larger venues. The bands, sometimes reduced in size, cut their fees and traveled to many “podunk” places in the later 1940s and the 1950s. I guess this is why the Junior Prom at Penn State University was able to afford the Glenn Miller Band. Prowell (Seitzinger) would love this. He was a character!
-Judith Witmer

Note-Prowell Seitzinger became the band director for Lower Dauphin County High School in Pennsylvania. -Larry

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