Word: blakley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lionel Hampton and his Band were scheduled to give a swing concert Sunday evening but actually nothing but a glorified stage show took place. From an entertainment viewpoint, the singing of Rubel Blakley and Dinah Washington, the comical acrobatics of Hampton and pianist Milton Buckner, and the valiant efforts of eight Boston Symphony violinists kept the evening from being a dull one. Musically, however, the band displayed merely the polish and intonation of any well-rehearsed name band and its sole distinctive feature was a seven-man brass section which could probably out blow even the Basic...