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New Orleans R&B stalwart Benny Spellman

John Broven, Now Dig This, July 2011

BENNY SPELLMAN, the New Orleans R&B singer, died of respiratory failure on June 3, 2011, in Pensacola, Fla., at the age of 79. He was born in Pensacola on December 11, 1931.

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