Big Band Academy of America: Quizapalooza

Ed Cecchini helps us bid farewell to summer with another of his world-famous big band quizzes. Answers below, as always:

1. This actress ("Hello, Dolly!") and singer
    ("Takes Two to Tango") was married to a
    well-known drummer. Name both.

2. Which Marx brother led his own big band?

3. He was an average guitar player but a brilliant
    promoter of jam sessions that brought big-name
    performers to his New York club. Identify him.

4. Ann Richards sang with her husband's orchestra.
Name him.

5. This actress/singer may be more familiar to
    young people as an animal-rights activist.
    Who is she?

6. Tell us the mother and daughter who each sang
lead with the Modernaires.

7. Before becoming a legend in pictures, Judy
Garland served a stint as vocalist with
    this leader's big band.

8. By what stage name was Norma Deloris Egstrom
known?

9. And while on the subject of birth names,
    identify the bandleader born Antonio
Pestritto.

10. Future movie star Gloria DeHaven sang with two
    famous big bands. Name their respective
    leaders.

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Larry Clinton Jr. writes in from Sausalito, Calif.:

"I had an idea for a Big Band Reunion that might be less expensive to produce than the traditional format. How about a big band film festival? Segments of band appearances in such movies as "Sun Valley Serenade," fictionalized biopics like the Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman stories, old Vitaphone shorts, TV shows, etc. There's a wealth of material out there if you could get the rights to use it."

So what do you think? Would you attend a Big Band Reunion if the band were on film instead of in person? E-mail us at the address at the bottom of this post and we'll print selected replies. Thanks!

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And here are the quiz answers:

1. Pearl Bailey and Louie Bellson