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Apr 2010
16m 44s

Beverly Kenney

BRICE FUQUA
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A special podcast to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of jazz singer Beverly Kenney. Songs include: If I Were a Bell, Tis Autumn, For All We Know and More Than You know.

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