When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?

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Eckstine's recording of "I Apologize" (MGM Pop Single 1948) was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999. William Clarence Eckstine (July 8 1914 – March 8 1993) was an American singer of ballads and a bandleader of the swing era.