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At the war's conclusion, he returned to Greensboro, where he worked club dates with the Rhythm Vets, a combo composed of A and T students who had served in the U.S. Navy. The band recorded the soundtrack to a musical comedy featurette, ''Pitch a Boogie Woogie'', in Greenville, North Carolina, in the summer of 1947. The movie had a limited run at black audience theatres in 1948 but its production company, Lord-Warner Pictures, folded and never made another film. ''Pitch a Boogie Woogie'' was restored by the [[American Film Institute]] in 1985 and re-premiered on the campus of East Carolina University in Greenville the following year. Donaldson and the surviving members of the Vets performed a reunion concert after the film's showing. In the documentary made on ''Pitch'' by UNC-TV, ''Boogie in Black and White'',<ref>Massengale, Susan, Dir. "Boogie in Black and White." Chapel Hill, NC: UNC-TV, 1988.</ref> Donaldson and his musical cohorts recall the film's making—he originally believed that he had played clarinet on the soundtrack. A short piece of concert footage from a gig in Fayetteville, North Carolina, is included in the documentary.<ref>Albright, Alex. "Boogie Woogie Jams Again," American Film, June 1987: 36-40.</ref>
Donaldson's first jazz recordings were
He was inducted into the [[North Carolina Music Hall of Fame]] on October 11, 2012.<ref>{{cite news|title=N.C. Music Hall of Fame offers tickets |url=http://www.salisburypost.com/News/082912WEB--NC-Music-HAll--of-F |access-date=September 10, 2012 |newspaper=The Salisbury Post |date=August 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231002709/http://www.salisburypost.com/News/082912WEB--NC-Music-HAll--of-F |archive-date=December 31, 2013 }}</ref> Also in 2012, he was named a NEA Jazz Master by the [[National Endowment for the Arts]].<ref>{{cite news |title=National Endowment for the Arts Announces the 2013 NEA Jazz Masters |url=http://arts.gov/news/2012/national-endowment-arts-announces-2013-nea-jazz-masters-nations-highest-honor-jazz|website=Arts.gov |access-date=August 22, 2014 }}</ref>
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