He graduated in 1960 with a bachelor’s degree in education and an emphasis on composition. In 1955 he graduated from Starkville High School and went on to attend North Texas State University in Denton, Texas. Barton regularly played with his twenty-some piece jazz orchestra at Carmelos when he lived in the Los Angeles/Woodland Hills area. Then I thought, my God, here is this orchestra…and they just blew everybody away” (Myers, Clarion Ledger).
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Gary Collins, a TV talk show host and Mary Ann Mobley’s husband said this, “He (Barton) was playing here at a place called Carmelos, well, I thought jazz was dead. People don’t realize that Mississippi has produced such a talented man “(Myers, Clarion Ledger). But it’s a behind the scenes kind of reputation. He has such an enviable reputation in this business. Mary Ann Mobley says about Barton, “Dee is one of the most talented and nicest persons you’d want to meet. Like Barton, Mobley was a part of the Lions Club band for three years. In addition, Barton was voted the most musical in his senior class.ĭuring those four years, he had the opportunity to get to know Mary Ann Mobley, an actress and former Miss America, but at that time she was in the high school band at Brandon, Mississippi. He also was the student director of the Starkville High School band. These musicians competed in the annual International Lions Club convention. From the time he was a freshman until he was a senior, he was involved in The Mississippi Lions Club band, which was for top musicians only. He let everyone know that he was here and here to stay in the music business. When Barton reached high school, his musical talents bloomed.
In a recent interview Barton had this to say, “We had 350 students in the school of whom 130 were in the band” (Gleske, Herald) When Barton became an eighth grader, he received his first opportunity to help his father with his band. As Barton lived and attended school in Starkville, he was around music all the time because his father was the band director for Starkville High School for fourteen years. Born in Houston, Mississippi, in 1937, he moved at the age of four with his family to Starkville, Mississippi, where Dee grew up.
Barton and Mary Chafee, has already accomplished more than some musicians only dream about. Dee Barton’s Starkville High School senior picture, 1955ĭee Barton, son of D.W.
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