Catalogue: JASCD 355
Price Code: B
Release Date: 01/08/1999
Bar Code: 604988 03552 0
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Peggy LEE & Dave BARBOURA Musical Marriage
 
During the great Depression which lingered into the
late 1930s, having a job as singer with a "Big Band" must have seemed the height
of glamour, eclipsed only by the bright lights of Hollywood. In reality, the Big
Bands had to be very well-disciplined, in fact regimented, to earn a living from
the endless round of touring America, with recording sessions and radio
broadcasts thrown in. And if a band settled in any one town for an extended
period, it was usually to perform seven days a week and several times a day. The
concept for musicians of a normal home life was impossible and no wonder that
resort to alcohol or other addictions was common-place. For the female singers,
it could be worse, having to put up with both a demanding work load and a mob of
male chauvinists who might well regard the job of any ladies in the band to sew
on buttons, darn socks, act as maid, and who knows what else - all this and the
usually tyrannical demands for perfection from the band leader.
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