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Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra record Love Me, When You're Counting the Stars Alone and Waiting At The End Of The Road in New York City, USA, for Columbia Records. During this session, the band's alcoholic cornet virtuoso Bix Beiderbeck becomes unable to perform and has to return home to Davenport, Iowa, to recover. Whiteman keeps him on full pay.
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