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Leroy Cooper

Baritone saxophonist Leroy Cooper served 2 decades to get R&B icon Ray Charles, including a protracted stint as music movie director — the fruits of the cooperation include such common Charles recordings seeing that “Unchain My Heart,” “Crying Period,” and “America the stunning.” Delivered August 31, 1928, in Dallas, Cooper …

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