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 Re: What was it like to play in a dance hall band in the 50s?
Author: Chris_C 2017
Date:   2023-10-04 15:51

We had a player (now deceased) in our wind band who ran a small dance band in the 50s/60s. One of his claims to fame was playing one dance hall every night for a year. He said the main requirement was "no gaps between numbers", so when the "relief band" came on between their sets the new pianist slid along the piano stool to take over seamlessly from his pianist.
Playing for 1000 dancers before the invention of PA systems meant he could play sax and clarinet extremely loudly!

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