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📻 Interview to Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn [1946] — DeepCutsArchive
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📻 Interview to Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn [1946]

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June 20, 1946, Duluth, Minnesota: Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn are interviewed at WDSM's Duluth studio by Daryl Knutsen ("The Milkman"). The interview was broadcast over WDSM in the afternoon and again at midnight.

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Mercer Kennedy Ellington (March 11, 1919 – February 8, 1996) was an American musician, composer, and arranger. His father was Duke Ellington, whose band Mercer led for 20 years after his father's death.

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