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Billy Usselton: His First Album

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Marc Myers
Aug 08, 2018
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For nearly his entire recording career, Billy Usselton was a big band saxophonist. He spent most of his early years with Ray Anthony (from 1949 to 1953) and then Les Brown (from 1955 to 1960). In the years that followed, he recorded with many different bands, including Bob Hope's U.S.O. touring orchestra. Amazingly, Usselton recorded only one album as a…

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