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George Holmes "Buddy" Tate was a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist. He has been counted as one of the great tenor saxophonists of his generation and... was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame. Tate was born in Sherman, Texas. He began on alto saxophone, but quickly switched to tenor making a name for himself in bands like Andy Kirk's. He joined Count Basie's band in 1939 and stayed with him until 1948. He had been selected by Basie due to the sudden death of Herschel Evans, which Tate states he predicted in a dream. After his period with Basie ended he worked with several other bands before his own gained success starting in 1953 in Harlem. His band would work at the "Celebrity Club" there until 1974. After that he co-led a band with Paul Quinichette and worked with Benny Goodman in the late 1970s. In 1980 he was seriously injured by scalding water at a hotel shower, which kept him inactive for four months and later suffered from a serious illness. The 1990s saw him slow down, but he remained active playing with Lionel Hampton among others. In 1992 he also took part in the documentary, Texas Tenor: The Illinois Jacquet Story.
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Zach Blair is the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for Chicago-based melodic hardcore band Rise Against. He is originally from Sherman, Texas.... Before joining Rise Against in early 2007, Blair was a member of hardcore punk group Only Crime along with his brother, Doni Blair, who currently plays with the Toadies. The brothers were founding members of the bands Hagfish and Armstrong. Blair was also Flattus Maximus of GWAR from 1999-2002. He has also been a second touring guitarist for The Loved Ones and was second guitarist on the instrumental band, The Mag Seven's album The Future Is Ours, If You Can Count. Rise Against's fifth studio album, Appeal to Reason, released on October 7, 2008, was its first with Blair. He also appeared on the band's sixth studio album release, Endgame, which was released on March 15, 2011. On the reverse of his Les Paul standard, there is a Bill Hicks sticker with a skull and cross bones on the left to it. Blair currently resides in Austin, Texas. He lives the straight edge lifestyle, as do his bandmates Tim McIlrath and Joe Principe.
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Bess Flowers was an American actress. By some counts considered the most prolific actress in the history of Hollywood, she was known as "The Queen... of the Hollywood Extras," appearing in over 700 movies in her 41 year career. Born in Sherman, Texas, Flowers's movie debut came in 1923, when she appeared in a movie titled Hollywood. She made three movies in that year, and then began working extensively, with seven movies in 1926 alone. Most of her appearances are uncredited, as she generally played non-speaking roles. By the 1930s, Flowers was in constant demand. Her appearances ranged from Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford thrillers to comedic roles alongside of Charley Chase, the Three Stooges, Leon Errol, Edgar Kennedy and Laurel and Hardy. Along with actors Wallis Clark and Franklyn Farnum, she holds the record for the most appearances in movies which have won the Academy Award for Best Picture. She appeared in the following five Academy Award Best Picture winners: It Happened One Night, You Can't Take it With You, All About Eve, The Greatest Show on Earth, and Around the World in Eighty Days. In each of these movies, Flowers was uncredited.
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Jean Jarratt Darnell was an American silent film actress who had a brief career between 1912 and 1913.

Teddy Buckner was a jazz trumpeter associated with Dixieland music. Early in his career Buckner played with Sonny Clay. He worked with Buck Clayton... in Shanghai in 1934 and later worked with Benny Carter among others. From 1949 to 1954 he worked in Kid Ory's band, which was perhaps the closest to the style he preferred. In the late 1950s his work with Sidney Bechet in France made him popular there but prior going to France, he recorded the sound track of the movie "King Creole" with Elvis Presley in 1958. From 1965 to 1981 he performed traditional jazz band at Disneyland's New Orleans Square. In addition to this he worked with blues musician T-Bone Walker and did some acting. This included an uncredited role in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? He played cornet in a few of his film roles.
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Samuel J. Coomes is an American musician, and currently one-third of the Portland-area indie band Quasi, along with drummer and ex-wife Janet Weiss... and bassist Joanna Bolme. Coomes was also a member of the mid 1980s folk revival band The Donner Party and replaced Brandt Peterson as the bassist for the 1990s Portland grunge band, Heatmiser. Coomes was born in Sherman, Texas in 1964 and moved to southern California as a child. He started playing in The Donner Party in San Francisco in 1983 and released two albums with them before they disbanded in 1989. He formed Motorgoat in Portland in 1990 with Janet Weiss and they released two cassettes and one 7" single before disbanding and becoming Quasi in 1993. Coomes released a solo album under the name Blues Goblins in 2003 and sometimes performs under that name. He also performs on keyboards and vocals with the Oakland, California-based band, Pink Mountain. Coomes currently lives in Portland. Coomes has done much recording work with other bands, mostly on keyboards and bass.
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Zach Blair is the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for Chicago-based melodic hardcore band Rise Against. He is originally from Sherman, Texas.... Before joining Rise Against in early 2007, Blair was a member of hardcore punk group Only Crime along with his brother, Doni Blair, who currently plays with the Toadies. The brothers were founding members of the bands Hagfish and Armstrong. Blair was also Flattus Maximus of GWAR from 1999-2002. He has also been a second touring guitarist for The Loved Ones and was second guitarist on the instrumental band, The Mag Seven's album The Future Is Ours, If You Can Count. Rise Against's fifth studio album, Appeal to Reason, released on October 7, 2008, was its first with Blair. He also appeared on the band's sixth studio album release, Endgame, which was released on March 15, 2011. On the reverse of his Les Paul standard, there is a Bill Hicks sticker with a skull and cross bones on the left to it. Blair currently resides in Austin, Texas. He lives the straight edge lifestyle, as do his bandmates Tim McIlrath and Joe Principe.
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Maidel Turner was an American movie actress featured in almost 60 films between 1913 and 1951, beginning as the leading lady of The Angel of the... Slums and becoming a comical character actress as she aged. Prominent sound films include The Raven and State of the Union .
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