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Roy Fox

Roy Clifton Fox was an American-born British dance bandleader born on October 25, 1901, in Denver, Colorado. He began playing the cornet at age eleven and joined Abe Lyman’s orchestra at sixteen, where his soft playing style earned him the nickname “The Whispering Cornetist”. Fox moved to London in 1930 to lead a band at the Café de Paris and recorded for Decca Records and the BBC. Following a period of convalescence for pleurisy in Switzerland in 1932, he returned to London to lead a new ensemble at the Café Anglais. Fox appeared in the films On the Air in 1934 and Radio Pirates...