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| - 2001 deaths
- Liberty Records artists
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- 20th-century American musicians
- American bandleaders
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- Burials at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
- Deaths from lung cancer
- Duke University alumni
- New York Military Academy alumni
- People from Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
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| - American big band leader, composer, saxophonist and clarinetist.A graduate of Duke University where he led his first dance band, the Duke Blue Devils, for which he also played clarinet and saxophone. The band would go on to professional fame in the 1940s under the name Les Brown And His Band Of Renown. During that decade Brown had several hit songs, most notably %22Sentimental Journey%22 (1944) and %22I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm%22 (1946). He performed extensively with Bob Hope and led the house bands for %22The Steve Allen Show%22 (1959-1961) and %22The Dean Martin Show%22 (1963-1972).Born: March 14, 1912, Reinerton, PennsylvaniaDied: January 4, 2001, Los Angeles, California
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| - Lester Raymond %22Les%22 Brown, Sr. (March 14, 1912 – January 4, 2001) was an American clarinetist, saxophonist, big band leader and composer, best known for his nearly seven decades of work with the big band Les Brown and His Band of Renown (1938–2001). The Band of Renown began in the late 1930s, initially as the group Les Brown and His Blue Devils, led by Brown while he was a student at Duke University. He was the first president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. The band now performs under the direction of his son, Les Brown, Jr.
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- Lester Brown
- Lester Raymond Brown
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