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David Bennett

real name David Dresden Bennett

David Bennett is credited on 1,130 releases across 304 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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(Born 3 September 1892 in Ida Grove, Iowa - Died 13 August 1990 in Clarendon Hills, Illinois)
US composer, arranger, pianist and clarinetist. He studied at the Chicago College of Music and made a name for himself in the 1920s and 30s as an arranger for most of the leading bands and network radio shows. His ''Bye, Bye, Blues'' was composed in 1925 for a tap dance troupe performing at the Marigold Gardens at Grace Street and Broadway and was later published by Irving Berlin. Later he published many arrangements and original compositions for wind band with publishers like Carl Fischer and Southern Music Company. Among his many honors, he was elected to the American Bandmasters Association in 1954.

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