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Platypus was just a little known, short-lived disco-funk music group that was mixed up in past due ’70s and early ’80s. Shaped in Dayton, Ohio, in 1978, the music group contains Arthur Stokes (business lead vocals, percussion), Kerry Rutledge (business lead vocals, rhythm acoustic guitar), Lloyd Jones (bass), Curtis Sanford …

Among the last big-band market leaders to take pleasure from consistent commercial achievement, trumpeter Ralph Marterie had several strikes for Mercury in the first and mid-’50s. While he could play golf swing when the event was ideal, Marterie had not been, nor do he pretend to become, a jazzman. Creative …