Lucky Millinder - Later Years

Later Years

By 1952 Millinder was working as a radio DJ as well as continuing to tour with his band, but his style was beginning to fall out of favor and the band went through many personnel changes. In 1954 he took over the leadership of the house band at the Apollo Theater for a while. He effectively retired from performing around 1955, although his final recordings were in 1960.

He became active in music publishing, and in public relations for a whiskey distillery, before dying from a liver ailment in New York City in September 1966.

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