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Lucky Millinder

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Aliases
Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra
Real name
Lucius Venable Millinder
Born
August 8, 1910
Died
September 28, 1966
Country
United States
IPI
00020867002 15 works
Affiliation
BMI
Comments
Rhythm and blues and swing bandleader. Although he could not read or write music, did not play an instrument and rarely sang, his showmanship and musical taste made his bands successful.
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Covers by Lucky Millinder

Title Performer Release date Originally by
April 1946 Martha Tilton with Orchestra and Vocal Octet
i Big John's Special Mills Blue Rhythm Band under the direction of Lucky Millinder 1936 Unverified
April 1951 Billy Briggs
Dinah Lou Mills Blue Rhythm Band under the direction of Lucky Millinder, Vocal Refrain by Chuck Richards (Chuck Richards, Lucky Millinder, Mills' Blue Rhythm Band) 1935 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive i   March 1949 Paul Williams and His Hucklebuckers REC,REL, Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra BRD
November 1943 Bessie Smith - James P. Johnson at the Piano
1998 Fisk University Jubilee Singers
1998 Western Wanderers (Bob Haring)
June 1944 Benny Carter and His Orchestra - Vocal by Savannah Churchill
June 1944 The Nat King Cole Trio
December 1949 Savannah Churchill and The Red Norvo Quintet
October 1959 Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra
December 1941 Gene Krupa and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Anita O'Day and Roy Eldridge
November 1950 Louis Prima and Keely Smith
May 1942 Charles Beck
i November 1936 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
November 1950 Ruth Brown with Budd Johnson's Orch.
October 1942 Washington Phillips, Sister Rosetta Tharpe
1998 Gene Austin
listen on Internet Archive 1941 Thelma La Vizzo
October 1959 Thelma La Vizzo
listen on Internet Archive March 1942 Carson Robison with Orchestra
October 1942 Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra
1945 Freddie "Schnickelfritz" Fisher and His Orchestra
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