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Source context
Visible Gateway description identifies Smoki Durham / The Sophisticates and the role vocalist; band leader. Creation information: ; May 30, 1951. Source: "Terrace", Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 3, 1951. Collection: Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection.
Oklahoma connection
Gateway caption identifies Smoki Durham as a vocalist and band leader who conducts The Sophisticates in an Oklahoma City floor show.
People, groups, or instruments recorded
vocalist; band leader
Reading this source
This is a narrow band-leader or band-wording capture, not a full biography or identity resolution. Vocal-only or role-only evidence is retained as supporting rather than promoted as instrument-playing evidence. Exact Oklahoma origin, duplicate relationships, and republication rights require separate review. Per-page local hashes are recorded in the Markdown record.