Huey Long (singer) Huey Long (singer) Huey Long (April 25, 1904 – June 10, 2009) was an American jazz and swing singer-songwriter and musician and was a member of the close harmony vocal traditional pop group The Ink Spots. Born in Sealy, Texas, Long began his musical career in 1925 playing banjo for Frank Davis' Louisiana Jazz Band, based in Houston. He switched from the banjo to the guitar after moving to Chicago, where he appeared at the 1933 World's Fair with Texas Guinan's Cuban Orchestra. He performed with artists such as Lil Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson, and his career also encompassed sideman,
Vocal jazz to his former student, Dave Barduhn, who directed this group until his retirement in the Spring of 2012. 11 years later, in 1978, Lonnie Cline brought the jazz ensemble format to a small Idaho town and high school named Mountain Home (Which won the Mt. Hood and Reno Jazz Festivals in 78, 79, and 80) before forming a sister group to Hal's at Clackamas Community College. This group eventually took the name Mainstream, which it performs under today. Mainstream was a new type of ensemble, one that moved away from performing the big band arrangements and other jazz standards and