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Glenn Miller
Glenn Miller
American big band musician, arranger, composer and bandleader (1904-1944)
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Ernie Caceres
Ernie Caceres
American musician
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Tex Beneke
Tex Beneke
American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader
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George Siravo
George Siravo
American musician
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Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey
American big band leader and musician
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Jimmy Dorsey
Jimmy Dorsey
American clarinetist, alto saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, brother of Tommy Dorsey
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zeke Zarchy
zeke Zarchy
American jazz trumpeter
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Metronome All-Stars
Metronome All-Stars
band that plays jazz
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Georgie Auld
Georgie Auld
Canadian jazz musician
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Bobby Hackett
Bobby Hackett
American jazz musician
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Artie Malvin
Artie Malvin
Composer and vocalist who was a member of The Crew Chiefs
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Moe Purtill
Moe Purtill
American musician
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Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman
American jazz musician, band leader
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Alvin Stoller
Alvin Stoller
American musician
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Bunny Berigan
Bunny Berigan
American musician
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Enoch Light
Enoch Light
American musician
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Murray McEachern
Murray McEachern
Canadian musician
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Tommy Pederson
Tommy Pederson
American musician
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Ray Eberle
Ray Eberle
American singer (1919-1979)
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Miff Mole
Miff Mole
American jazz musician
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Hal McIntyre
Hal McIntyre
American musician
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Red Nichols
Red Nichols
American jazz musician
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Conrad Gozzo
Conrad Gozzo
American musician
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Clyde Hurley
Clyde Hurley
American musician
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Allan Reuss
Allan Reuss
American jazz guitarist
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Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
US big band led by Glenn Miller (1937-1942)
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George Williams
George Williams
musician and an arranger for a number of major big bands
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Ray Linn
Ray Linn
American musician
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Ray McKinley
Ray McKinley
American musician
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Bernie Privin
Bernie Privin
American musician
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Ziggy Elman
Ziggy Elman
American musician
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Dave Barbour
Dave Barbour
American jazz guitarist
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Peanuts Hucko
Peanuts Hucko
American jazz musician
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Chummy MacGregor
Chummy MacGregor
American musician
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Ben Pollack
Ben Pollack
American musician
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Al Klink
Al Klink
American musician
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Eddie DeLange
Eddie DeLange
American stunt man, bandleader, lyricist
Babe Russin
American musician

Babe Russin

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Irving "Babe" Russin (June 18, 1911 – August 4, 1984) was a tenor saxophone player.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Russin played with some of the best known jazz bands of the 1930s and 1940s, including Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller. He led his own band briefly in the early 1940s. He solos in the recording the Glenn Miller band made of Jerry Gray's composition, "A String of Pearls" for Bluebird Records in 1941. In 1950, Russin was credited as a musician with the backup band on two Frank Sinatra songs for Columbia Records, "Should I?" and "You Do Something To Me". He co-wrote the instrumental "All the Things You Ain't" with Jimmy Dorsey which was released as a V-Disc 78 single, No. 391B, in March, 1945. He appeared briefly in the Universal-International movie The Glenn Miller Story (1954).

Russin plays on the soundtrack to the Warner Bros. movie A Star Is Born (1954), playing "Cheating on Me" with a small group. He also appeared in the Universal-International movie The Benny Goodman Story (1956).