Solid!

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Famous cowgirl Dale Evans began her career as a pop singer. She worked for various radio stations in the South before becoming featured vocalist with Anson Week's orchestra in the mid-1930s.

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• Wade, Stuart -- vocalist (Bobby Byrne, Freddie Martin)
• Wagner, Buddy -- orchestra leader
• Wain, Bea -- vocalist (Larry Clinton)
• Wald, Jerry -- orchestra leader, Artie Shaw admirer
• Waldman, Herman -- popular Texas bandleader
• Wallace, Louise -- vocalist (Frank Dailey)
• Waller, Fats -- composer, pianist
• Ward, Helen -- vocalist (Benny Goodman, Harry James)
• Waring, Fred -- orchestra and glee club leader
• Warrington, Johnny -- radio orchestra leader
• Watkins, Sammy -- orchestra leader
• Watters, Lu -- Yerba Buena Jazz Band leader
• Wayne, Francis -- vocalist (Woody Herman, Charlie Barnet)
• Webb Chick -- drummer, bandleader
• Weber, Kay -- vocalist (Bob Crosby, Dorsey Brothers)
• Weeks, Anson -- West Coast bandleader
• Welk, Lawrence -- Champagne Music orchestra leader
• West, Alvy -- saxophonist, bandleader
• Weston, Paul -- father of lounge music
• Whiteman, Paul -- popular bandleader
• Whitney, Jayne -- vocalist (Johnny Hamp)
• Whittall's Anglo-Persians -- Boston-based orchestra
• Wickman, Dick -- Midwestern bandleader
• Wiedoeft, Herb -- 1920s bandleader
• Wiedoeft, Rudy -- saxophone pioneer
• Wilde, Ran -- Texas-based bandleader
• Williams, Clarence -- early jazz impresario
• Williams, Cootie -- trumpeter, bandleader
• Williams, Fess -- hot jazz bandleader
• Williams, Gene -- bandleader, vocalist (Claude Thornhill)
• Williams, Griff -- orchestra leader
• Williams, Midge -- jazz vocalist
• Wills, Bob -- Western Swing bandleader
• Wilson, Gerald -- trumpeter, bandleader
• Wilson, Teddy -- pianist, bandleader
• Winterhalter, Hugo -- lounge music orchestra leader
• Wolfe Kahn, Roger -- bandleader
• Woods, Barry -- orchestra leader
• Wright, Edythe -- vocalist (Tommy Dorsey)
• Wylie, Austin -- Cleveland orchestra leader
• Wynn, Nan -- vocalist (Hal Kemp, Raymond Scott)