Jun 13
Huey Long Dies
Posted by Slobokan @ 00:44 · 124 words · print
Frank Davis and his Louisiana Jazz Band were booked to play at the Rice Hotel in Houston in 1925. The banjo player never showed. For Huey Long, who shined shoes outside the hotel and occasionally got onstage to announce the bands, this was the unmistakable sound of opportunity knocking. Putting down his ukulele, he ran out to a music store, got a banjo on credit and stepped into the breach.
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He died on Wednesday in Houston, the last surviving Ink Spot from the days when the group still had some of its original members. He was 105.
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In addition to his daughter, Anita Long of Houston, he is survived by two sons, Rene and Shiloh, both of San Jose, Calif.; and seven grandchildren.
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