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Fact #160742

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Noted saxophone sideman and bandleader Harold W. 'Hal' McIntyre, dies when his apartment in Los Angeles, California, USA, is set on fire by a cigarette. McIntyre played with Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller and others, and his band backed The Mills Brothers on their classic recording of Glow Worm.