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YOUR MEMBERSHIP IS
SO IMPORTANT! --
Your low-cost membership fee will give you benefits PLUS it will help to promote live broadcasting of Big Band Swing by the musicians who started it -- and the mentoring of new, young Big Band Esquires! It cost very little to help and you get unique benefits!
Useful Advice for Big Band Swing Lovers!
Your Membership opens the door and paves the way for a colossal $million-dollar grant for national broadcasts and local community centers!
Your Charter Membership can help the Club to make a showing of the "Substantial Public Support" required by the IRS for a definitive 501(c)(3) Public Charity determination -- and that will help to unlock a proffered $1 Million Grant offered to turn
Big Band's Alive into a national,
coast-to-coast broadcast hosted from Alabama's *Tuxedo Junction.
Goal is 300
Tuxedo Club Members
Will you help us to hit the target ...?
Target date is
before year's end 2004.
Once the IRS has issued a 501(c)(3) determination status letter to the nonprofit parent organization (Tuxedo Junction Senior-Youth Cultural Foundation), it will have met all pending prerequisite conditions for submitting the grant application.
If you love Big Band Swing, then please join today!
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Please Choose One of the Memberships from the below:
· $10 for Charter-Starter Membership
Good thru 2006
· $25 for Charter-Bonus Membership
Good till end of 2007
· A Lifetime Charter Membership is only $250
and entitles you to Black-Tie member events!
To join by CREDIT CARD, please CLICK HERE.
--OR--
You can mail your membership check payable to
The TUXEDO CLUB to:
Attn: Stephen L. Gilbreath
The TUXEDO CLUB
1428 Virginia Road
Hueytown • Alabama 35023-8417
USA
Telephone 205-491-7867
Do it today! Your membership counts -- and helps big time!
Help turn $1, $10 or more into $1 Million for national broadcasting of Big Band Swing!
Air conditioned Big Band community centers are planned
for areas where membership in the Tuxedo Club is substantial.
Ask friends in your area to join while charter memberships are available!
YOUR MEMBERSHIP IS
HELPFUL! --
will help show the "substantial public support" that the IRS requires before it grants the 501(c)(3) status -- and it will help to secure funding for nationalizing this
Big Band preservation and promotion project!
It's so easy!
Join today!
The Tuxedo Club is named in honor of Erskine Hawkins,
a Swing-Era
Orchestra Leader,
and a Composer of the song, Tuxedo Junction,* (made world famous by Glenn Miller).
Ira Wesley, pictured above, is one of 80 of the musicians still alive and playing in one of four Big Band's Alive Orchestras. Your Tuxedo Club membership helps to honor these living tributaries -- the original musicians of the legendary orchestras of the WWII Swing era..
Members Receive Privileged Benefits!
Get Special Benefits While You Help Secure 501(c)(3) IRS Status
for a Grant to Preserve and Promote Big Band Swing in a Special Way!
You Get Exclusive and Valuable Gift Benefits Limited to Tuxedo Club Charter Members!
One: to provide unsurpassed benefits to its members, and;
Two: to secure the public support required for a 501(c)(3) designation
to qualify for a grant offered to promote and presever Big band Swing.
Unsurpassed VIP Benefits for You!
Lifetime Breakthru for Live Big Band Swing Lovers!!
Your TUXEDO CLUB Charter Membership gives you VIP status and among other liberal benefits you get > > >:
FREE Admission
to all Broadcasts
Privileged Special Seating
Unique Live Big Band
Swing CD! -- FREE!
Your membership is helpful to the goal of
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Ira Wesley
pictured here on bass fiddle is one of many legendary*** musicians still playing today.
***Mr. Ira Wesley carried the instruments of orchestra leader Harry James. Ira Wesley is still playing live on Big Band's Alive!
Your Tuxedo Club membership will enable thousands to see him and other authentics in coast-to-coast broadcasts and on the big screens in community centers nationwide!
*Tuxedo Junction is a real place in Alabama, where Jessie Elizabeth Scarbrough Gilbreath, 1926-2004, (pictured above in 2001) would change her trolley car in 1947 while she was pregnant with her son Stephen -- founder of the Tuxedo Club -- and a host of Big Band's Alive.
Some 80+ musicians playing now in four Big Band's Alive Orchestras were the noted musicians of the famous swing-era orchestras of ...
This remarkable program -- that your Club membership supports -- features the now few remaining musicians and singers from the legendary WWII Swing-Era Orchestras.
Artie Shaw,
Glen Miller,
Stan Kenton,
<<<............................................Harry James,
Benny Goodman,
Duke Ellington,
Larry & Les Elgart,
Jimmy & Tommy Dorsey,
Les Brown,
Tex Beneke,
Charlie Barnet,
Count Basie,
and others.
*Tuxedo
Junction also refers to the fraternal dance hall on the second floor of the building just behind the late Mrs. Gilbreath, where native big band leader Erskine Hawkins wrote the song* by the same name.
Turn
$10
into
$10 Million
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The Tuxedo Club was designed for two initial purposes:
--OR--
· Join the Benefactor's Kemosabe Club for as little as $1
(Each $1 or more in tandem with others can help to secure the IRS status needed for
the $1 Million Grant to be used for broadcasting and promoting Big Band music and dancing!)
Your Membership Helps Promote Big Band Swing and
Provides Valuable Benefits and Recognition to You!
JOIN NOW and RECEIVE BENEFITS AVAILABLE ONLY TO CHARTER MEMBERS!
Your $10 membership fee can be helpful in securing funds from a $1 Million grant for this project -- proffered to promote the broadcasting of Big Band music by the original musicians who made it famous -- and for establishing huge-screen community centers where people of all ages and cultures can enjoy the live Swing music and dancing.
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Join The Authentic Tuxedo Club!
Stephen L. Gilbreath hosts from the original Tuxedo Junction* in Alabama
with cohost Dexter Ray in California.
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Your Membership opens the door and paves the way for a colossal $million-dollar grant for national broadcasts and
air-conditioned
local Community
Swing Centers!
Help Us Get Ready For Take Off!
Will you?
Will you help? The year-end goal to reach 300 Tuxedo Club memberships (at a minimum of $10 each) is a minimum to fulfill an IRS requirement for receiving a 501(c)(3) Public Charity determination by a good showing of
"substantial
public support."
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It will help us to show the IRS required
"SUBSTANTIAL PUBLIC SUPPORT"
300 Members
is not a hard goal to hit if you will help us!
Oringinally a Southern California show that, with your help to secure the grant, can become a coast-to-coast broadcast with dancers seen from local air conditioned community centers in selected cities.
transforming Big Band's Alive into a coast-to-coast broadcast and establishing air-conditioned, big-screengoogle
Community Swing Centers in selected cities where Miss America
local multi-city audiences can see and be seen and can listen or dance to the authentic sounds of the legendary WW2 Swing-Era musicians now playing in one of the latest Big Band orchestras broadcast live from Southern California! yahoo miss america dictionary britany spears ebay Tex Beneke, Les Brown, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy & Tommy Dorsey, Les & Larry Elgart, Duke Ellington, Harry James, Glenn Miller, Artie Shawyahoo.com
Receive
Benefits
& Promote
Big Band
Swing
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For Your Membership you get valuable free gifts and wonderful benefits and privileges while helping to facilitate the goals of the Tuxedo Club to preserve and promote Big Band Swing.
Will You Help?
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2005, 2006, New Year, New Year's, New Year's Day, Easter, Valentine, Valentine's Day, Sunday, Pentecost, Halloween, Pumpkin, Halloween Costume, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Trinity, Nativity, Gifts, Christmas Gifts, Giftgiving
Regular e-mail (Stephen L. Gilbreath): SLG@BigBandsAlive.com
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Like Magic Your Bargain $10 Charter Membership
Will Help Open The Door to a Gigantic $1 Million Grant
for
Coast-to-Coast Live Big Band Broadcasts!
New Huge-Screen Community Swing Centers!
and Valuable Personal Benefits for Tuxedo Club members!
