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2 unusual facts about Don Redman


Don Redman

Redman and his orchestra also provided music for the animated short I Heard, part of the Betty Boop series produced by Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount.

Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You

"Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You" is a 1929 song written by Andy Razaf and Don Redman.


Howard E. Johnson

Although never a prominent figure in jazz, during a career which lasted from the 1930s to the 1980s he worked and recorded with many of the most famous jazz musicians of his time, including Benny Carter, Don Redman, Dizzy Gillespie, Bessie Smith, Teddy Hill, Chick Webb, and Panama Francis' Savoy Sultans.

Sidney De Paris

He worked with Charlie Johnson's Paradise Ten (1926–1931), Don Redman (1932–1936 and 1939), Zutty Singleton (1939–1941), Benny Carter (1940–41), and Art Hodes (1941).


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