Lee Barron
Lee Barron was an American big band leader and radio and TV personality. His bands included Elroy Lee and the Crookston Dinner Club Orchestra, Snorty and His City Slickers, Lee Barron and His Belltone Music and the Lee Barron Orchestra, a territory band. He started in radio at KOIL in 1944 and later worked for several other radio and TV stations. In the late 1980s, he wrote the book The Odyssey of the Mid-Nite Flyer.Former band members
Elroy Lee was born to Earl C. Lee and Emma J. Lee. Elroy also had a brother, Clayton H. Lee. Elroy was married to Bernice Lucile Lee. A stone memorial commemorating the lives of both Elroy and Bernice was laid at Concordia Cemetery, Fertile, Minnesota.
