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Billy Stewart

CTL-P-0323 · Person

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Combined Graph record U-01557 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-0323. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Chess Records; 'Summertime'; Chicago

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Chess Records; 'Summertime'; Chicago

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Singer William Larry 'Billy' Stewart, born March 24, 1937, in Washington, D.C., and died January 17, 1970, in North Carolina; signed to Chess Records, for whom he recorded through the 1960s; his 1966 Chess album Unbelievable featured his take on 'Summertime,' a Top 10 hit on both the pop and R&B charts (Soulwalking biography).

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