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of the kitchen. By then the interest in electronics had taken hold. Also the same year he was given an accordion by his father and started taking lessons. At some stage he grew tired of the lessons and the routine and wanted to quit, however his father wouldn't let him. He also played clarinet at the
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By the time he was in his early twenties, he had opened the
Bloomquist Music Studios which was based in Lansing, Michigan. He started his career as a music teacher and was also recording music professionally. By the time he was in his late twenties, he would have success with a hit making single. The
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Lee had an interest in electronics and how things worked which was sparked off from when he was eight years old. He was given a train set and would run it throughout his house as well as taking it apart to see how it worked. He also was experimenting with things and was told by his mother to keep out
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the single was said to be climbing steadily, heading for the charts. On June 29 it was at #2 on the WAAF 950 AM chart. By
September 9, it was already being recognized as a hit. It became a hit for him in the Summer of that year. In the Chicago charts it had a run for ten weeks peaking at #18.
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Following the success of his single, he toured the country and then came back to
Michigan and opened up The Don Lee Studios which was a chain of teaching and recording studios. He toured again in the mid 1960s and spent two seasons performing in the half time breaks for the
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In his last years, around 2011, he was a resident at
Pennington Place Senior Living in Hendersonville, TN.. He gave weekly shows there and soon became a favorite. The following year in 2012, he became a finalist in Nashville's senior talent competition, Silver Stars.
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