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98 Cards in this Set
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Lady Be Good
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Ella Fitzgerald 49
or Fred Astaire and JATP ensemble 52 (George Gershwin) |
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Yellow Rose of Texas
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Mitch Miller 55
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Kiss of Fire
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Georgia Gibbs 52
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You Belong to Me
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Jo Stafford 52
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Jezebel
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Frankie Lane
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Cry
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Johnny Ray 51
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Come on a my house
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Rosemary Clooney
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There'll be a hot time in the town of Berlin
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Bing Crosby
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Boogy Woogy Bugle Boy
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The Andrews Sisters
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When that man is dead and gone
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Mildred Bailey and the Delta Rhythm Boys
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Song of the Fifth Marines
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Bing Crosby
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How High the Moon
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Les Paul and Mary Ford 51
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The Last time I saw Paris
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Tony Martin
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Straighten Up and Fly Right
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Nat King Cole Trio
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G. I Jive
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Black, slow: Johnny Mercer
groovy, faster, instrumental: Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five |
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Mack the Knife
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Louis Armstrong 55
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A boy in Khaki a Girl in Lace
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Dinah Shore
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I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen
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Sammy Kaye
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Ma, I miss your apple pie
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The Jesters
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Rock N Roll Music
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Chuck Berry and the Beatles
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ShBoom
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The Chords
The Crew Cuts mid50s |
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Roll over Beethoven
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Chuck Berry, Beatles
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Aint that a Shame
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Fats Domino 55
Pat Boone 55 |
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Ella Fitzgerald
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You're the Top
I've Got Rhythm Blue Skies Over the Rainbow It don't mean a thing Night and Day Always |
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Frank Sinatra
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I've got you under my skin
I thought about you Makin Whoopee We'll be together again How About you? Anything Goes Oh Look At me now Capitol! swingin down the lane |
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He's got the power
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The Exciters
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Going to the Chapel
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Dixie Cups
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Will you still love me tomorrow
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The Shirelles
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Boys
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The Shirelles
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Tell Him
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The Exciters
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victory polka
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glenn miller army air forces training command 44
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jeannie with the light brown hair
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glenn miller army air forces training command 44
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salt peanuts
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dizzy gellespie sextet, 45
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the way you look tonight
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fred astaire and oscar peterson, 1953
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bugle call rag
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benny goodman and his orchestra, 1936
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blue moon of kentucky
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elvis presley 54
bill monroe and the bluegrass boys |
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i'll be seeing you
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billie holiday, 1944
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when my man comes home
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buddy johnson and his orchestra, 1944
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what'd i say
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ray charles 1959
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good rockin tonight
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elvis and wynonie harris both 1954
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come go with me
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the dell vikings , late 50s
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sherry
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frankie valli and the 4 seasons 1962
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you send me
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sam cooke 1957
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The twist
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1959 Hank Ballard and the Midnighters
1960 Chubby Checker |
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he's so fine
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the chiffons 1962
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dancing in the street
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martha and the vandellas 64
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the way you do the thing you do
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the temptations mid 60s
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how sweet it is to be loved by you
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Marvin Gaye 64
Junior Walker and the All Stars 66 |
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I heard it through the grapevine
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Gladys Knight and the Pips 1967
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uptight (everything's alright)
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Stevie Wonder 65
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Beatles time
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blackbird, a day in the life, tomorrow never knows, strawberry fields forever 1966-1968
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I'm going to live the life I sing about in my song
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Mahalia Jackson early 60s
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I will move on up a little higher
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Mahalia Jackson early 60s
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What's goin on
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Marvin Gaye 1971
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This little light of mine
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Betty Mae Fikes 63
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the a & p groove
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integration grooves 60
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A change is gonna come
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sam cooke 65
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This little gal of mine
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Ray Charles 55
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Aint no mountain high enough
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Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terell 67
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James Brown
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High energy, 63, live track
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I wish I didn't love you so
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Aretha Franklin 6?
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People Get Ready
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Aretha Franklin 67
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I feel love
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Donna Summer 77, love to love you 75
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a fifth of beethoven
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77 Walter Murphy
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more than a woman
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beegees 77
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good times
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chic 79
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YMCA
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village people 1978
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rappers delight
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the sugarhill gang 79
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the message
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grandmaster flash and the furious five 82
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night of the living baseheads
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begins with mlk, public enemy 1988
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the evil that men do
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queen latifah 89
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video killed the radio star
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buggles 79
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fight the power
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public enemy 89
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its hard out here for a pimp
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djay ft. shug 2006
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theme from a summer place
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percy faith and his orchestra 59
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bond theme
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monty norman orchestra 63
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whitney houston and madonna time period
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mid and late 80s
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why was Nat so successful
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first black pop singer, reached out to a white audience
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Problems for bands during the war
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-transportation: gas and rubber rationing
-train schedules frozen -no profits, made live appearances -petrillo ban |
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Petrillo Ban
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musician strike, recording industry ruining the jobs of 60% of AFM members: no profit from records and from 42-44 only Hollywood was hiring musicians
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V-disc
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closed by 1949, compilation albums that had special recordings and messages for the troops, combined artists from dif labels
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
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life of George M. Cohan who wrote patriotic WWI songs, connects movies with government
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Phil Spitalny and the Hour of Charm Orchestra
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most successful all girls band, very choral, perfect for "picture disk," white
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Der Fuehuer's Face
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spike jones and his city slicker
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Doris Day
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breaks thru in the 40s as a singer with a band and then becomes an actress, top box office draw for half of the 50s!
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Magnetic tape
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technology from Germany that allowed singers to harmonize with themselves as in the TN Waltz, the biggest hit of the 1950s
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Jo Stafford
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was a canary for the Dorsey band and revamped in 50s, you belong to me
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Capitol Records
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LA established in 42, high quality beautiful records, big star: Nat, Armstrong
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Who were subtle civil rights activists?
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Nat King Cole and Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong's job/audience
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state department sent him all over the world to represent America, made people feel good
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Johnny Ray
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Cry, early Rock n Roll voice on Okeh label (Columbia Label normally for black artists)
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Mitch Miller
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Yellow rose of texas, record producer for Columbia, created a sing a long collections
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Who invented the electric guitar
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Les Paul
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52nd st
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cluster of jazz clubs, music scene without dancing, virtuous
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Beebop
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early 40s, derived from swing, fast, asymmetrical, not seeking pop success, not to please audience, ie Minton's playhouse
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Dizzy Gellespie's Salt Peanuts
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changed rhythmic emphasis from 1st and 3rd beat, to 2nd and 4th, unnatural
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Norman Granz
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organised desegregated jam sessions, ended up being JATP, jazz at the philharmonic, producer of JATP tours and what became Verve records, managed Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald
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David Stone Martin
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designed album covers, worked for Granz
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