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Jul 21, 2004 · In a career that spanned nearly half a century, King was a vital cog in Detroit music: He was the fashionable bandleader at the fabled Flame Show Bar, the most important outlet for black...
Jul 28, 2020 · King joined a government Works Progress Administration (WPA) concert band around 1940, and caught the eye of Leroy Smith, a trailblazing black Detroit society bandleader, who had led ensembles in Detroit (and later New York) for more than 20 years.
Dec 13, 2008 · Famed choreographer Cholly Atkins was hired to teach dance steps, bandleader Maurice King was the tour conductor, and former actress and modeling-school owner Maxine Powell groomed the acts...
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Feb 1, 2014 · In a career that spanned nearly half a century, King was a vital cog in Detroit music: He was the fashionable bandleader at the fabled Flame Show Bar, the most important outlet for black entertainers during the 1950s.
Last month, in one of the final rock releases on Columbia, King and Baker had collaborated on Good Daddy, a record in which Baker outshone King’s band and proved to any doubters that she had stardom in her future.
In July, they sailed for Europe with director Maurice King. Europe loved the Sweethearts and the Sweethearts loved Europe. They played two shows a day at camps in France and Germany, primarily for white U.S. soldiers.
