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I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.

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Billy Eckstine
Age: 78 †
Born: 1914
Born: July 8
Died: 1993
Died: March 8
Bandleader
Conductor
Jazz Guitarist
Jazz Musician
Singer
Trumpeter
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Popular
Everybody
Stills
School
Still
Time
Cab

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