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Saxophone player and novelty singer Butch Stone spent over thirty years with Les Brown’s Band of Renown, first joining the orchestra in late 1941. A natural showman, he was immensely popular with audiences and critics alike.

Though he attempted on several occasions in the mid-1940s to front groups of his own, Stone never managed a successful solo career, and he always returned to Brown’s fold, where he finally settled for good in 1948. Stone became such a fixture in Brown’s orchestra that in 1955 one reviewer commented: “The eternal Butch Stone, now in his 97th year with the band.”

Stone played and sang with Van Alexander’s orchestra from 1938 until the leader disbanded in September 1940.

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Stone then joined Jack Teagarden. By January 1941 he was with Larry Clinton, for whom Alexander was arranging. Stone was singing with Clinton when Brown heard him perform the song “My Feet’s Too Big” at Loew’s State Theater in New York.

When Clinton took a two-week layoff in October 1