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    Chauncey M. Haughton Source: The Black Perspective in Music, 1989, Vol. 17, No. 1/2 (1989), P. 175 Published By: Professor J. Southern (Managing Editor-Publisher)

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    This document provides obituaries for four musicians who passed away in 1989: - Chauncey M. Haughton, a jazz clarinetist who played with many famous bandleaders from the 1920s-1940s and later focused on composing. - Eddie "Son" House, a blues guitarist and preacher from Mississippi who recorded extensively from the 1920s-1960s and toured internationally. - Sylvester, a flamboyant disco singer in the late 1970s known for hits like "Dance (Disco Heat)" and "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)." - Samuel "Baby" Lovett, a jazz drummer from Louisiana who played with Count Bas

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    This document provides obituaries for four musicians who passed away in 1989: - Chauncey M. Haughton, a jazz clarinetist who played with many famous bandleaders from the 1920s-1940s and later focused on composing. - Eddie "Son" House, a blues guitarist and preacher from Mississippi who recorded extensively from the 1920s-1960s and toured internationally. - Sylvester, a flamboyant disco singer in the late 1970s known for hits like "Dance (Disco Heat)" and "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)." - Samuel "Baby" Lovett, a jazz drummer from Louisiana who played with Count Bas

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    This document provides obituaries for four musicians who passed away in 1989: - Chauncey M. Haughton, a jazz clarinetist who played with many famous bandleaders from the 1920s-1940s and later focused on composing. - Eddie "Son" House, a blues guitarist and preacher from Mississippi who recorded extensively from the 1920s-1960s and toured internationally. - Sylvester, a flamboyant disco singer in the late 1970s known for hits like "Dance (Disco Heat)" and "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)." - Samuel "Baby" Lovett, a jazz drummer from Louisiana who played with Count Bas

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    Chauncey M. Haughton Source: The Black Perspective in Music, 1989, Vol. 17, No. 1/2 (1989), P. 175 Published By: Professor J. Southern (Managing Editor-Publisher)

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    Haughton
    Source: The Black Perspective in Music , 1989, Vol. 17, No. 1/2 (1989), p. 175
    Published by: Professor J. Southern (Managing Editor-Publisher)

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    Haughton, Chauncey M. Jazz clarinetist. B. 26 February 1909


    in Chestertown, Maryland; d. 1 July 1989 in North Tarrytown,
    New York. He obtained his musical education in Baltimore, and
    played in the Morgan State University Band as a student. He began
    playing professionally in 1927, and settled in New York in 1932.
    Thereafter he played with many of the celebrated bandleaders, in-
    cluding Blanche Calloway, Cab Calloway, Chick Webb, Ella Fitz-
    gerald, Claude Hopkins, Duke Ellington, and Noble Sissle, among
    others. During World War II he toured with a USO company;
    afterwards he toured abroad with Don Redman. He also worked
    with Cab Calloway in his late career.

    House, Eddie ("Son"). Blues guitarist. B. 21 March 1902 in


    Coahoma County (between Lyon and Clarksdale), Mississippi; d.
    19 October 1988 in Detroit, Michigan. He was active throughout
    his career as both a preacher and a bluesman; he began preaching
    in local churches at the age of fifteen. Self-taught on the guitar, he
    began playing with local bluesmen in the 1920s, and in 1930
    formed a band with Charley Patton and Willie Brown. He recorded
    extensively, including a program for the field-recording project of
    the Library of Congress. He performed at numerous folk festivals,
    including the Newport Folk Festival (1964-66), and toured abroad
    with the American Folk Blues Festival in 1967.

    James, Sylvester ("Sylvester"). Popular-music singer. B. c 1946


    in Los Angeles, California; d. 16 December 1988 in San Francisco,
    California. As a youngster he sang in churches and at gospel con-
    ventions. In the late 1970s he became popular as a flamboyant dis-
    co entertainer. Among his best- known disco recordings were
    "Dance (Disco Heat)" and "You make me feel (mighty real)." His
    back-up singers, Two Tons O'Fun, later became the popular dance
    act The Weather Girls.

    Lovett, Samuel ("Baby"). Jazz drummer. B. c1900 in Alexan-


    dria, Louisiana; d. 23 January 1989 in Leavenworth, Kansas. He
    began playing with local groups at an early age. After moving to
    Kansas City he played with the band of jazz-violinist Julia Lee for
    many years. He also played with other noted jazz musicians, includ-
    ing Count Basie, Joshua Johnson, and Bennie Moten, and toured

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