[78-L] Jan Garber - Durium80 - project

Taylor Bowie bowiebks at isomedia.com
Sat May 1 20:24:28 PDT 2010


> Garber became best known for a shameless imitation of Guy Lombardo from
> the late thirties onward...?!
>
> Steven C. Barr


Wrong. For several years around 1942-44  he had a very hard-swinging band 
which made some transcriptions and some great sides for Hit.  Then he did go 
back to the sweet sound...which,  BTW,  was often sweeter than anything 
Lombardo did.

Taylor





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