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Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne, and this is the Desert Island Disks podcast.

For right reasons, the music is shorter than on the original broadcast.

The presenter is Roy Plomley.

I hope you enjoy listening.

How do you do, ladies and gentlemen?

I'm happy to welcome ashore onto our Desert Island this week, a very famous visit from

the United States, and one of the great names of jazz.

He's probably excited more controversy and argument than any other figure in the world

of popular music, it's Stan Kenton.

Well, Stan, welcome ashore.

Your records have proceeded due to this Desert Island on quite a number of occasions.

Thank you, Roy.

Well, this tour of yours is going to a close now.

It's not too much a tour.

It's a triumphal progress, I gather with people just about hanging from the rafters

and every whole you play.

And is that so?

Well, Roy, it's been pretty exciting and a very warm thing.

You, of course, yours is the first American band player since 1934, isn't it?

That's what they tell me.

I think Cab Calloway was the last of the American bands to be here, so it's been quite a

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