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From: jm@tekadg.UUCP (Jeff Mizener)
Newsgroups: net.general,net.music
Subject: ***** In Memoriam: William "Count" Basie *****
Message-ID: <5@tekadg.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Apr-84 08:14:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 26 08:14:41 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Apr-84 05:29:58 EDT
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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	Count Basie, one of the last of the Big Band Era SuperStars,
	dead of pancreatic cancer at age 79.  He will be missed.

	"We just play the music and try to make it swing..."


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It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.

	Jeff Mizener/Tektronix ADG/Beaverton OR/tekadg!jm@tek