Burt Phillips
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Burt Phillips
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Burt Phillips, nicknamed "Foreman", was an American disc jockey, bandleader, and music promoter in the 1940s. Phillips was a major promoter of the music artist Spade Cooley. Beginning in 1942, he was the first to use the term Western swing, as a sub-genre of country music. He and Cooley would later have a falling out, leading to Phillips firing him. Phillips promoted country-western barn dance programs at a string of dance halls in the Los Angeles area in the 1940s, led by the old Town Hall buil
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American disc jockey, bandleader, and music promoter
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2022-06-14T16:51:40Z
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