swing band
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“He could overhaul an engine and not get his hands dirty,” said Tommy Hays, 92, a Western swing band leader.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2022
Stationed in Germany, he performed original songs on the Armed Forces radio Network, traveled with a western swing band and earned a high school diploma.
From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2021
The event retained some of the pomp and circumstance — even in the rain — as a 1940s-era swing band tune played as members of the commission cut the ribbon unveiling the memorial.
From Washington Times • Sep. 17, 2020
Richard Oberacker and Robert Taylor’s original musical about a group of World War II veterans who form a swing band is laying down its instruments.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2017
On Friday and Saturday nights, to pay his tuition and help with the home finances, he played saxophone and clarinet in a swing band, the Blue Lyres, he had started in high school.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
