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Aug 2024
40m 27s

N ovelty Songs of the 1940s and 1950s

BRICE FUQUA
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Songs include: Istanbul by The Four Lads, All Right Louie, Drop the Gun by Cass Daley, I've Got You Under My Skin by Stan Freberg, The William Tell Overture by Spike Jones and It's Magic by Jonathan and Darlene Edwards. 

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