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BIBB, CHARLES LEON

(*1924)> FOLKSINGER

BIBB, CHARLES LEON. Folksinger (c1924 in Louisville, Kentucky). As a child he sang in a church choir and later sang in his high-school glee club. After service in the U.S. Armed Forces, he settled in New York, where he began singing professionally, at first in small nightclubs, then in Off-Broadway productions of such shows as Livin' the Life (1957), Lost in the Stars (1958), Annie, Get Your Gun (1958), and Finian's Rainbow (1960). Beginning in the late 1950s he toured widely as a folksinger in…

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