11.   Abiola worked his way through the Baptist Boys School by selling firewood and leading a dance band in which he played banjo and talking drums.

12.   After his graduation, Nygaard went to Dallas and worked in a dance band for about a year.

13.   Every good dance band had a singer, and Crawford fills that spot, as well as conducting and writing arrangements.

14.   He was the co-founder, with Robert Smith, of the angsty new wave dance band the Cure.

15.   Herwig, a trombonist, worked in salsa dance bands during his apprenticeship in New York.

16.   His father was a musician who played with dance bands all over New England, down the Cape, even beside the bright, white lights of Broadway.

17.   His predilection for show business was demonstrated by his singing in a dance band at the Astoria on Charing Cross Road, according to The Times of London.

18.   In New York, symphonic jazz played by Paul Whiteman and others wrestled with large dance bands and ragtime orchestras for supremacy.

19.   In the brief period these recordings cover, the Beatles evolved from a high-energy, provincial dance band into polished performers and sophisticated songwriters.

20.   It has solo pianists and harpists, a chamber orchestra, string ensembles, a dance band and a Dixieland band.