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Trending topics shown first"I just played Bing Crosby. ... Sometimes I had a priest's collar; sometimes I dressed some way else."
"started with Vallee, Rudy Vallée, didn't it? ... I was glad to be classified anything, just to be working."
"I don't think I ever did pick a hit song, unless it was "Sweet Leilani". ... Some of the songs that Jack picked didn't work, but 99% of them did."
"My two sons, Harry and Nathaniel, my father and my father-in-law and many of my friends idolized Roberto Clemente and so did I. I called him a double superstar."
"Louis Armstrong ... was marvelous to be with. He had tremendous warmth, appeal. And I idolized him, not only for how great he was singing and playing, but for himself. ... I used to get postcards from…"
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