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Lionel Newman

While still an adolescent, Connecticut-born musician Lionel Newman secured a conductor’s work using the Los Angeles-based Earl Carroll’s Vanities. For quite some time thereafter, he was the accompanist for Mae Western. Hired mainly because rehearsal pianist at 20th Century-Fox in 1943, Newman spent another four years at that studio room, …

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