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[Photograph 2012.201.B0910.0366]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Vaughn Monroe, famous band leader who made a one-night appearance in Municipal auditorium Tuesday night, saw Oklahoma City with nine lovelies during his stay in town The beauties are candidates for queen of the big "Salute to Freedom" pageant to be held in Taft stadium on July 4."

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Source context

Visible Gateway description identifies Vaughn Monroe and the role band leader; visiting performer. Creation information: Owen, A. Y.; June 20, 1950. Source: "Queens Are His Guides", Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 21, 1950. Collection: Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection.

Oklahoma connection

Gateway caption identifies Vaughn Monroe as a band leader making an Oklahoma City appearance; no instrument role is visible in this item.

People, groups, or instruments recorded

band leader; visiting performer

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.

Sources

  1. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc473848/