[78-L] Died with their boots on [was Delta Rhythm Boys/ Jan Johansson]

[Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr.]

Julian Vein wrote:
> Michael Biel wrote:
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>> Kristjan Saag wrote:
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>>> Taylor Bowie wrote:
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>>>> I recall from reading an obit for one of the DRBs (Lee,  the tall bass guy)
>>>> that two or three of them relocated to Sweden some time in the 1950s.
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>>> Lee Gaines first lived in France, then in Finland, where he died in 1987. 
>>> One of the funeral guests was baritone Hugh Bryant, who had joined the group 
>>> in 1962. He had just started to sing "He Will Understand And Say Well Done" 
>>> from the organ loft, when he fell dead from a heart attack.
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>> I remember that.  It was being covered by TV and they showed on the news 
>> here in the U.S.  I might have it on videotape.  A similar thing happend 
>> to Lil Hardin Armstrong.  She was playing at some outdoor event in 
>> Chicago and keeled over at the piano dead.  I have audiotape of the TV 
>> news playbacks of it.   I wonder if the video is somewhere.  There also 
>> is audio of at least the commotion and announcement after Leonard Warren 
>> died during a performance at the Met. 
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>> Any others?
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Lou Breese collapsed into Leo Henning's arms, onstage at the Conrad 
Hilton Hotel in Chicago in 1969. He died within hours afterward.

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