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Big-band vocalist Joan Durell sang with many orchestras through the ’50s, including rings led by Ray Anthony and Artwork Mooney. She wedded bandleader Ray Flory (her true name getting Joan Fry Flory) in the first ’50s and, afterwards that 10 years, performed on the 1958 Monterey Jazz Celebration. Durell retired …

CITY Hero’s Aaron Bruno (vocals/electric guitar) and Drew Stewart (electric guitar) were teenage pals while going to SoCal’s Westlake SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in the mid-’90s. These were also big followers of these who produced that city a music picture years before — Rancid, Procedure Ivy, WITHOUT DOUBT — and relished …