On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:35 AM, billurie <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> I remember (or I think I do) seeing and hearing Lena, in
> late 1938 or early 1939, singing with Bunny Berigan's
> band, in a 'ballroom' outside of New Haven, Connecticut.
> Can anybody confirm this?

Doesn't ring a bell. Lena signed with Sissle&Blake in 1935 (her
first contract) and then in 1941 with Charlie Barnett.
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gloria monti, ph.d.
assistant professor
radio-TV-film
CSUF, fullerton, CA
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Jesse Helms, whose courtly
manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that
opposed civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art, died.

there's no RIP for you, not with your record.