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Alton Adams

Alton Adams
Alton Adams, American composer and bandleader (d. 1987)

Alton Augustus Adams, Sr. was an American who is remembered primarily as the first black bandmaster in the United States Navy. His music was performed by the bands of John Philip Sousa and Edwin Franko Goldman and his march "The Governor's Own" (1921) appears as the first selection on the bicentennial album Pride of America, released by New World Records.

4 November 1889

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