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Lester Lanin
Bandleader Lester Lanin dead at 97
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All About Jazz
NEW YORK (AP)- Bandleader Lester Lanin, who supplied music for presidential inaugurations, Queen Elizabeth's 60th birthday party and gatherings hosted by the Rockefellers, duPonts and Chryslers, died Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 97.
His death was announced by his spokeswoman, Betty Shulman.
Lanin led his band in playing Dixieland, swing and light rock 'n' roll for every presidential inauguration since Eisenhower's, except two _ those of Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush.
He serenaded Grace Kelly at her engagement party ...
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