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  • Text: ...lly the first time I met Pete, but he was a good-looking gentleman, and I said, he was a good dancer, and he liked classical music and so did I, and he had a wonderful bass voice. I was impressed with him because he was so gentle and so understanding, so sensitive, which for a young man of ...
Emma Jane "Red" Petach Hanks interview (video and transcript, 3 of 8), 1991

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  • Text: ...they couldn't play nothing I mean, but they could make a lot of noise, and that was the ones that were playing all this music, I mean supposedly music, I mean for our welcome into Toungoo. And of course, we appreciated them going through the effort I mean, come out to see us c...
J. J. Harrington interview (video and transcript, 3 of 14), 1991

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  • Text: ROBERT MOSS: I have known, I guess, as long as I've known Doc Rich that if there happened to be music and a woman, he was dancing. FRANK BORING: What were some of the stops along the way like? Do you recall any shore leave, or were you allowed off the ship at all?
Robert "Moose" Moss interview (video and transcript, 2 of 11), 1991

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  • Text: ...n't recall holding a conversation with them for too long a period of time. FRANK BORING: There was this battle of the music going on. ERIK SHILLING: Well R. T. Smith and Red and - I've forgotten now - but there about 5 or 6 of them that used to harmonize and of course the more...
Erik Shilling interview (video and transcript, 2 of 8), 1991

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  • Text: ...Well, he was partially right because he died before I got back to the States. But then we went up to - Jim Music, I met him on the train, he and I went up together to San Francisco and they had reservations for us in a hotel there I've forgotten the name now, but we stayed there for se...
Robert M. Smith interview (video and transcript, 1 of 6), 1991

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  • Text: ...When those things hit you - whew - I didn't stop for anything - just get that door open and get the music roll and get going'. What we had was a private garden, you know out there they use human feces all the time and our doctors inspected and claimed it was all right and that...
Willard Musgrove interview (video and transcript, 3 of 3), 1991

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  • Text: ...amored of getting serious, but it was fun. He was a very good dancer and I had a good time with him. We didn't play our music so much down in Rangoon because of the environment, the mosquitoes and everything else, it was just so crude, but we did enjoy each other's company. We wou...
Emma Jane "Red" Petach Hanks interview (video and transcript, 4 of 8), 1991

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  • Text: ...HARRINGTON: That was the party… FRANK BORING: The last party where you played musical chairs or something like that. Were you at that? J. J. HARRINGTON: I've got to say something about the Madam because she was a wonderful lady. FRANK BORING: Let's get that little bit fir...
J. J. Harrington interview (video and transcript, 12 of 14), 1991

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  • Text: ...I read his diary and he has more damn time off then I ever thought. I'll get you R. T. He used to listen to a lot of music I think. But the fellows, we worked together because the crew chiefs and everybody, everybody was working there is no doubt about that. Of course the pilots when t...
Chuck Baisden interview (video and transcript, 4 of 11), 1991

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  • Text: ...we pulled into the train depot at night and they actually had a band out to meet us and I couldn't believe it. Here was music playing and people yelling and greeting us and really trying to make us feel at home. I didn't expect anything like that. I don't know whether I'...
Ken Jernstedt interview (video and transcript, 2 of 6), 1991

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  • Text: ...e frontier westerns – everybody had a gun, everybody was mixed. They would go around, there'd be shootings, there was music going and blaring. We came out one night after eating there in a restaurant and these two Burmese drivers were coming up the road with this cat - this Snow Leop...
Robert "Burma Bob" Locke interview (video and transcript, 2 of 8), 1991