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JazzWax List: '60s Wedding Songs

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Marc Myers
Aug 26, 2011
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A litle light fun today: In the 1960s, many jazz musicians found club gigs harder to come by. Many top players joined TV studio orchestras or went to work for Muzak. Others took teaching jobs. And a good number performed at weddings.

Back then, kids often were dragged along to the fussy marriages of uncles, older cousins and friends of parents. The big j…

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