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unusual facts about Les Elgart


Les Elgart

Among their better-known tunes is "Bandstand Boogie", which was used by Dick Clark as the theme song for American Bandstand.


Howie Smith

As a freelance musician Smith composed and produced commercial jingles for radio and television between 1966 and 1972, and in the late 1960s and early 1970s toured with Elvis Presley, Glen Campbell, Bob Crosby, Warren Covington and Les Elgart, among others.

Sonny Igoe

Owen Charles "Sonny" Igoe (October 8, 1923 Jersey City, New Jersey – March 28, 2012 Emerson, New Jersey) was an American jazz drummer and music educator who, from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s, toured with the orchestras of Tommy Reed (1913–2012), Les Elgart, Ina Ray Hutton, Benny Goodman, and Woody Herman.


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