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Scott Dorsey wrote:

One of the mixers (maybe the 1202) came in a box labeled "mix music and
martinis", or something like that.

Fred Waring did both.

I didn't know that Fred was so well rounded. Was he from Hamilton Beach?
No, he invented the Waring blender. No joke, he really did.

I figured that. I didn't know he mixed music, though.

He had one of the greatest big bands of all time. He might have been the
greatest ever if Stan Kenton and Benny Goodman hadn't been in the way.
--scott


Oh yeah... It all comes back to me now.