The Final Chorus

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Dal_Richards_(March_2009)

Vancouver’s Dal Richards has died at 97

Lew Shaw February 1, 2016

DALLAS “DAL” RICHARDS, 97, of prostate cancer on Dec. 31 in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. A popular bandleader whose career spanned eight decades from the 1930s

Kitty Kallen

Kitty Kallen has died at 94

Lew Shaw February 1, 2016

KITTY KALLEN, 94, on Jan. 7 at her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. As a young girl from Philadelpia, she sang on The Children’s Hour, a

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