Maurice Winnick

Maurice Winnick

Maurice Winnick

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There's a Boy Coming Home on Leave
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Bei mir bist du schon [1937]
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A Little Bit Independent
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The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven

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Maurice Winnick

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b. 28 March 1902, Manchester, Lancashire, England, d. 26 May 1962, England. A child prodigy, Winnick studied violin at the Manchester College of Music before taking a job in a cinema orchestra, playing for silent films. While still in his teens, he led a band on a transatlantic liner and around this time also studied saxophone. In 1928 he formed a small dance band he took into Manchester's Plaza and worked with artists such as the male soprano, Frank Colman. Winnick moved to Nottingham to take charge of the city's Palais band, until then directed by Jan Ralfini but from the ea...
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