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10382
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Skinnay Ennis was a national singer from Salisbury, N.C. Ennis graduated from UNC in Chapel Hill in 1925 and participated with Hal Kemp's local band, Saxie Dowell, for twelve years. Ennis later left the band and formed his own, which opened in 1938 in Beverly Hills, California. The highlight of his career was serving as maestro for Bob Hope's NBC PEPSODENT radio program.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 34 Issue 8, Sept 1966, p13, por
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35807
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The interview with this Big Band leader revealed his musical beginnings in the late 1930s with his band, the Duke Blue Devils, and his first musical influence, his father, a music teacher. Illustrations of an illustrious career included giving Doris Day her first opportunity as a band singer and touring overseas with Bob Hope for almost two decades. As for the musical genre he played, he was optimistic about its enduring popularity with modern audiences.
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Tar Heel (NoCar F 251 T37x), Vol. 7 Issue 2, Mar/Apr 1979, p35-36
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38260
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Fans of dancing fads from the late 1930s to early 1970s and from Eastern North Carolina to Tidewater Virginia got their entertainment fill from a venue that became an establishment: Nags Head Casino. Begun as living quarters for stonemasons building the Wright Brothers National Memorial, the site for seminal memories included bowling alleys and was near another site synonymous with Nags Head: Jockey’s Ridge.
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