This rare clip featuring Harry James and his Orchestra is from an early 1950’s television series made for the Dumont Network titled “Cavalcade of Bands.”
The Dumont Network, unable to compete with CBS, NBC and ABC, ceased broadcast operations in 1956.
Lester Young
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