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HARRY S. PEPPER revives The White Coons
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to audition for the White Coons Show. Holloway went on to star with Harry S. Pepper in
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minstrel series broadcast from 1933, which was a forerunner of
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The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year
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ever made for television, with original music by Pepper.
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Pepper was a national figure in the days of the weekly
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290:Produced by Harry Pepper, and Ronnie Waldman too,
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610:The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music
16:British musician, actor and producer (1891–1970)
635:Ride, Red, Ride: The Life of Henry 'Red' Allen
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485:(London: Frewin, 1967, OCLC 3647363), p. 49
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