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  Al Jolson
  Al Jolson (May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer".
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• Alec Wilder
  Alec Wilder (born Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder in Rochester, New York, February 16, 1907; d. Gainesville, Florida, December 24, 1980) was an American composer.
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  Alexander Pope
  Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an eighteenth-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson. Pope is famous for his use of the heroic couplet.
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  Alexander Woollcott
  Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 – January 23, 1943) was an American critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine, and a member of the Algonquin Round Table.
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  Alice Faye
  Alice Faye (May 4, 1915 – May 9, 1998) was an American actress and singer, called by the New York Times "one of the few movie stars to walk away from stardom at the peak of her career." She is remembered first for her stardom at 20th Century Fox and, later, as the radio comedy partner of her husband, bandleader-comedian Phil Harris. She is also often associated with the Academy Award–winning standard, "You'll Never Know", which she introduced in the 1943 musical, Hello, Frisco, Hello.
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  Annie Oakley
  Annie Oakley (August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926), born Phoebe Ann Mosey, was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's amazing talent and timely rise to fame led to a starring role in ''Buffalo Bill's Wild West'' show, which propelled her to become the first American female superstar.
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  Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as The Queen of Soul. Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B; and gospel music. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Franklin No. 1 on its list of The Greatest Singers of All Time.
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  Barbra Streisand
  Barbra Streisand ( ; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, director, and songwriter. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, and a Peabody Award.
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• Ben Selvin
  Ben Selvin (March 5, 1898 – July 15, 1980), son of Russian-immigrant Jewish parents, was a musician, bandleader, record producer and innovator in recorded music. He was known as The Dean of Recorded Music.
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  Benny Goodman
  In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman (May 30, 1909 - June 13, 1986) led one of the most popular musical groups in America. His January 16, 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music."
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  Bessie Smith
  Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer.
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  Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Above all, she was admired worldwide for her deeply personal, intimate approach to singing.
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  Bing Crosby
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. His career stretched more than half a century from 1926 until his death in 1977. Crosby's unique bass-baritone voice made him the best-selling recording artist until well into the rock era, with over half a billion records in circulation.
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  Carl Sandburg
  Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat."
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• Celine Dion
  Céline Marie Claudette Dion CC, OQ (; born March 30, 1968) is a Canadian pop singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur. Born to a large, impoverished family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record. In 1990, she released the anglophone album Unison, establishing herself as a viable pop artist in North America and other English-speaking areas of the world.
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  Cher
  Cher (; born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946) is an American recording artist, actress, director and record producer. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes, a Cannes Film Festival Award and a People's Choice Award for her work in film, music and television.
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  Clark Gable
  William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the greatest male stars of all time.
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  Cole Porter
  Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate, Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!" and "I've Got You Under My Skin". He was noted for his sophisticated, bawdy lyrics, clever rhymes and complex forms. Porter was one of the greatest contributors to the Great American Songbook. Cole Porter is one of the few Tin Pan Alley composers to have written both the lyrics and the music for his songs.
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• Connee Boswell
  Constance Foore "Connee" Boswell (December 3, 1907, Kansas City, Missouri – October 11, 1976, New York) was an American female vocalist born in Kansas City but raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. With her sisters, Martha and Helvetia "Vet" Boswell, she performed in the 1930s as The Boswell Sisters and became a highly influential singing group during this period via recordings and radio. Connee herself is widely considered one of the greatest jazz female vocalists and was a major influence on Ella Fitzgerald who said, "My mother brought home one of her records, and I fell in love with it....I tried so hard to sound just like her."
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  Count Basie
  William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. Basie led his jazz orchestra almost continuously for nearly 50 years. Many notable musicians came to prominence under his direction, including tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison and singers Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams. Basie's theme songs were "One O'Clock Jump" and "April In Paris".
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• Daniel Rodriguez
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  Diana Ross
  Diana Ernestine Earle Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown sound as lead singer of The Supremes, before leaving the group for a solo career on January 14, 1970. Since the beginning of her career with The Supremes and as a solo artist, Ross has sold more than 150 million records.
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  Dick Powell
  Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss.
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  Doris Day
  Doris Day (born April 3, 1922) is an American actress and singer, and has been an outspoken animal rights activist since her retirement from show business. Day's entertainment career began in her late teens as a big band singer. In 1945 she had her first hit recording , "Sentimental Journey", and, in 1948, appeared in her first film, Romance on the High Seas. During her entertainment career, she has appeared in thirty-nine films, recorded more than six-hundred-fifty songs, received an Academy Award nomination, won a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award, and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.
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• Dorothy Fields
  Dorothy Fields (July 15, 1905 – March 28, 1974) was an American librettist and lyricist.
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  Dorothy Goetz
  Dorothy Goetz (February 5, 1892 - July 17, 1912) was the first wife of the famous songwriter, Irving Berlin.
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• Douglas Moore
  Douglas Stuart Moore (August 10, 1893 – July 25, 1969) was an American composer, educator, and author. He wrote for music the theater, film, ballet and orchestra, but his greatest fame was for his operas The Devil and Daniel Webster (1938) and The Ballad of Baby Doe (1956).
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  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower ( ; October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas – March 28, 1969), at Walter Reed Army Hospital, in Washington D. C. was a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961, and the last to be born in the 19th century. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45, from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.
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• Dwight Eisenhower
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  E. Ray Goetz
  E. Ray Goetz (June 12, 1886 to June 12, 1954) was an American composer, songwriter, author and producer. He was a charter member of ASCAP in 1914, and was a director until 1917.
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• Edgar Leslie
  Edgar Leslie (December 31, 1885, Stamford, Connecticut – 1976) was an American songwriter. His first song Lonesome in 1909 was an immediate success, recorded by the Haydn Quartet and again by Byron G. Harlan. Other notable artists he worked with are:
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  Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist. With a vocal range spanning three octaves (Db3 to Db6), she was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
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• Ernest Tubb
  Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music. In 1948, he was the first singer to record a hit version of "Blue Christmas", a song more commonly associated with Elvis Presley and his mid-1950s version. Another well-known Tubb hit was "Waltz Across Texas" (1965), which became one of his most requested songs and is often used in dance halls throughout Texas during waltz lessons. In the early 1960s, he recorded duets with up-and-coming Loretta Lynn, including their hit "Sweet Thang". Tubb is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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  Ethel Merman
  Ethel Merman (January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer. Known primarily for her powerful voice and roles in musical theatre, she has been called "the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage." Among the many standards introduced by Merman in Broadway musicals are "I Got Rhythm", "Everything's Coming Up Roses", "I Get a Kick Out of You", "It's De-Lovely", "Friendship", "You're the Top", "Anything Goes", and "There's No Business Like Show Business", which later became her theme song.
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  Frank Sinatra
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.
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  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio (Chicago, March 30, 1913 – San Diego, February 6, 2007), was a successful American singer, songwriter and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005. Often billed as America's Number One Song Stylist, his other nicknames include Mr. Rhythm, Old Leather Lungs, and Mr. Steel Tonsils. His hits included "That's My Desire", "That Lucky Old Sun", "Mule Train", "Cry of the Wild Goose", "Jezebel", "High Noon", "I Believe", "Hey Joe!", "The Kid's Last Fight", "Cool Water", "Moonlight Gambler", "Love is a Golden Ring", "Rawhide", and "Lord, You Gave Me a Mountain".
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  Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films.
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• Gary Condit
  Gary Adrian Condit (born April 21, 1948) is a former American politician, a Democrat who served in the House of Representatives from 1989 to 2003. Condit represented California's 18th congressional district which includes much of the northern San Joaquin Valley (when he was first elected, this district was the 15th District; it became the 18th district after redistricting following the 1990 census). He is most noted for his extramarital affair with Chandra Levy, which was exposed after Levy's disappearance in May 2001.
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  Gary Giddins
  Gary Giddins (born March 21, 1948) is an American jazz critic, author, and director, best known for his longtime work with The Village Voice. Born in Brooklyn, and raised on Long Island, Giddins graduated from Grinnell College, Iowa, in 1970. After some freelance work as a music and film critic, in 1974 he started writing his column "Weather Bird" for the Village Voice, which he ended in December 2003.
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• George A. Whiting
  :This article is on the American vaudeville performer and popular lyricist. For the classical composer and organist, see George Whiting.
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• George C. Marshall
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  George Gershwin
  George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known.
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  George H. W. Bush
  George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts) was the 41st President of the United States (1989–1993). He was also Ronald Reagan's Vice President (1981–1989), a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.
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  George M. Cohan
  George Michael Cohan (pronounced Coe-han; July 3, 1878 – November 5, 1942), known professionally as George M. Cohan, was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer.
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  George Olsen
  George Olsen (18 March 1893 - 18 March 1971) was an American band-leader.
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  George Pataki
  George Elmer Pataki (; born June 24, 1945) is an American politician who was the 53rd Governor of New York. A member of the Republican Party, Pataki served three consecutive four-year terms from January 1, 1995 until December 31, 2006.
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  Gerald Ford
  Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. As the first person appointed to the vice-presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment, when he became President upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, he also became the only President of the United States who was elected neither President nor Vice-President.
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  Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century.
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• Harry Richman
  Harry Richman (10 August 1895–3 November 1972) was an American entertainer. He was a singer, actor, dancer, comedian, pianist, songwriter, bandleader, and night club performer, at his most popular in the 1920s and 1930s.
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  Harry S. Truman
  Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953). As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice-president and the 34th Vice President of the United States, he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his historic fourth term.
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• Herbert Fields
  Herbert Fields (July 26, 1897 - March 24, 1958) was an American librettist and screenwriter.
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  Huey Long
  Huey Pierce Long, Jr. (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), nicknamed The Kingfish, served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928–1932 and as a U.S. Senator from 1932 to 1935. A Democrat, he was noted for his radical populist policies. Though a backer of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election, Long split with Roosevelt in June 1933 and allegedly planned to mount his own presidential bid for 1936.
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  Ian Whitcomb
  Ian Whitcomb (born Ian Timothy Whitcomb, 10 July 1941, in Woking Hospital, Woking, Surrey, England) is an entertainer, singer, songwriter, author, record producer, and actor. As part of the British Invasion, his hit song "You Turn Me On" reached number 8 on Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1965.
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• Ira Gershwin
  Ira Gershwin (December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.
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  Isaac Stern
  Isaac Stern (; July 21, 1920, Kremenets – September 22, 2001) was a Ukrainian-born violinist. He was renowned for his recordings and for discovering new musical talent.
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  Israel Zangwill
  Israel Zangwill (January 21, 1864 - August 1, 1926) was a British-Jewish humourist and writer.
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  J. Edgar Hoover
  John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a large and efficient crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modern innovations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.
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• Jack Yellen
  Jack Selig Yellen (Jacek Jeleń) (July 6, 1892 - April 17, 1991) was a Jewish-American lyricist and screenwriter.
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• James Rocco
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  Jerome Kern
  Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", "Long Ago (and Far Away)" and "Who?". He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and E. Y. Harburg.
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• Jesse Lasky
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  Jo Stafford
  Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008) was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s. Stafford was greatly admired for the purity of her voice and was considered one of the most versatile vocalists of the era.
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  Joan Leslie
  Joan Leslie (born January 26, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan) is a former American actress.
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  John F. Kennedy
  John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
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• Johnnie Ray
  John Alvin Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage persona.
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• Judy Garland
  Judy Garland (June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage. Respected for her versatility, she received a Juvenile Academy Award, won a Golden Globe Award, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for her work in films, as well as Grammy Awards and a Special Tony Award. After appearing in vaudeville with her sisters, Garland was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. There she made more than two dozen films, including nine with Mickey Rooney and the 1939 film with which she would be most identified, The Wizard of Oz. After 15 years, Garland was released from the studio but gained renewed success through record-breaking concert appearances, including a critically acclaimed Carnegie Hall concert, a well-regarded but short-lived television series and a return to acting beginning with a critically acclaimed performance in A Star Is Born (1954).
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• L. Wolfe Gilbert
  Louis Wolfe Gilbert (August 31, 1886 – July 12, 1970) was a Russian-born American songwriter.
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  Lady Diana Cooper
  Lady Diana Cooper, Viscountess Norwich (29 August 1892 – 16 June 1986) was an English socialite and actress.
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• Lawrence Langner
  Lawrence Langner the Great (May 30, 1890 – 1962) was a playwright, author, and producer.
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  Louis Armstrong
  Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.
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  Louis B. Mayer
  Louis Burt Mayer (1884 – October 29, 1957) was a Belarus-born American film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in its golden years. Known always as Louis B. Mayer and often simply as "L.B.", he believed in wholesome entertainment and went to great lengths so that MGM had "more stars than there are in the heavens".
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  Marc Anthony
  Marc Anthony (born Marco Antonio Muñiz; September 16, 1968) is a Puerto Rican-American musician, singer-songwriter, actor and producer. Anthony is the top selling tropical salsa artist of all time. The five-time Grammy winner has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. He is best known for his Latin salsa numbers and ballads. Anthony was the first solo salsa act to ever sell out Madison Square Garden.
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  Marx Brothers
  The Marx Brothers were a Jewish-American family comedy act, originally from New York City, that enjoyed success in Vaudeville, Broadway, and motion pictures from the early 1900s to around 1950. Five of the Marx Brothers’ thirteen feature films were selected by the American Film Institute as among the top 100 comedy films, with two of them (Duck Soup and A Night at the Opera) in the top twelve.
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• Mary Ellin Barrett
  Mary Ellin Barrett, oldest daughter of composer Irving Berlin, was born on November 25, 1926. She grew up in New York City, where she attended the Brearley School. She then went to Barnard College, majoring in music. After graduation, she began to work for Time Magazine, where she met her future husband, Marvin Barrett. Mary Ellin was the book critic for Cosmopolitan Magazine, where she worked very closely with Helen Gurley Brown.
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  Mel Brooks
  Melvin "Mel" Kaminsky (born June 28, 1926), better known by his stage name Mel Brooks, is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor, and producer. He is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks is a member of the short list of entertainers with the distinction of having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony award. Three of his films ranked in the Top 20 on the American Film Institute's list of the Top 100 comedy films of all-time: Blazing Saddles, The Producers and Young Frankenstein.
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  Michael Curtiz
  Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 — April 10, 1962) was a Hungarian-American director. He had early credits
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• Morton Gould
  Morton Gould (December 10, 1913 – February 21, 1996) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist.
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  Moss Hart
  Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961) was an American playwright and theatre director, best known for his interpretations of musical theater on Broadway.
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• Nellie Lutcher
  Nellie Lutcher (October 15, 1912 - June 8, 2007) was an African-American R&B; and jazz singer and pianist, who achieved prominence in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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  Ozzie Nelson
  Oswald George "Ozzie" Nelson (March 20, 1906 – June 3, 1975) was an American entertainer and band leader who originated and starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet radio and television series with his wife and two sons.
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  Patsy Cline
  Patsy Cline (September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963), born Virginia Patterson Hensley, was an American country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville sound in the early 1960s. Since her death in 1963 at age 30 in a private airplane crash at the height of her career, she has been considered one of the most influential, successful, and acclaimed female vocalists of the 20th century.
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  Paul Whiteman
  Paul Samuel Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was an American bandleader and orchestral director.
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• Perle Mesta
  Perle Skirvin Mesta (October 12 1889 – March 16 1975) was an American socialite, political hostess, and U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg (1949-1953).
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• Philip Furia
  Philip George Furia (born November 15, 1943) is an American author and English literature professor. His books focus on the lyricists of the Tin Pan Alley era.
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• Ray Charles
  Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. Ray was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.
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• Richard Corliss
  Richard Nelson Corliss (born March 6, 1944) is a writer for Time magazine who focuses on movies, with the occasional article on music or sports. Corliss is the former editor-in-chief of Film Comment. Talking Pictures, one of his three books as well as his writing for TIME and other publications were some of the first writings to help draw attention to the role of the screenwriter, as opposed to the director, in the creation of movies.
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  Richard Rodgers
  Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. His compositions have had a significant impact on popular music down to the present day, and have an enduring broad appeal.
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  Rita Reys
  Rita Reys (born Maria Everdina Reijs 21 December 1924 in Rotterdam) is a jazz singer from the Netherlands.
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  Ronald Reagan
  Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975).
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  Rosemary Clooney
  Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House" written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian (David Seville) creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks, which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me" (a cover version of the Italian song Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina by Alberto Rabagliati), "Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", "Hey There" and "This Ole House", though she would go on to success as a jazz vocalist.
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• Rudolph Giuliani
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• Rudy Vallee
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  Rudyard Kipling
  Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was a British author and poet. Born in Bombay, in British India, he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book (1894) (a collection of stories which includes Rikki-Tikki-Tavi), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure), many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888); and his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), and If— (1910). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works are said to exhibit "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".
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• Sammy Cahn
  Sammy Cahn (June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993) was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area. He and his collaborators began a series of hit recordings with Frank Sinatra during the singer's tenure at Capitol Records, but also enjoyed hits with Dean Martin, Doris Day and many others. He played the piano and violin. He won the Academy Award four times for his songs, including the popular song "Three Coins in the Fountain".
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• Sammy Turner
  Sammy Turner (born Samuel Black, June 2, 1932, Paterson, New Jersey) is an American singer, who was popular at the end of the 1950s.
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• Schubert
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  Scott Joplin
  Scott Joplin (between July 1867 and January 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. He achieved fame for his unique ragtime compositions, and was dubbed the "King of Ragtime." During his brief career, Joplin wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became ragtime's first and most influential hit, and has been recognized as the archetypal rag.
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  Sophie Tucker
  Sophie Tucker (13 January 1884 – 9 February 1966) was a Russian/Ukranian-born American singer and actress. Known for her stentorian delivery of comical and risque songs, she was one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first two-thirds of the 20th century. She was widely known by the nickname "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas."
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• Stephen Holden
  Stephen Holden (born July 18, 1941) is an American writer, music critic, film critic, and poet.
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• Stephen Sondheim
  Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (eight, more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. His most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins, as well as the lyrics for West Side Story and . He was president of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981.
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• Susannah McCorkle
  Susannah McCorkle (4 January 1946–19 May 2001) was an American jazz singer much admired for her direct, unadorned singing style and quiet intensity.
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• Ted Snyder
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• Tony Pastor
  :For Tony Pastor the saxophonist and bandleader, see Tony Pastor (bandleader).
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• Tsar of Russia
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• Vernon Castle
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  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I. He was also prominent among the tin pan alley composers and was later a founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). A prolific composer, Herbert produced two operas, a cantata, 43 operettas, incidental music to 10 plays, 31 compositions for orchestra, nine band compositions, nine cello compositions, five violin compositions with piano or orchestra, 22 piano compositions and numerous songs, choral compositions and orchestrations of works by other composers, among other music.
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  Vincent Lopez
  Vincent Lopez (30 December 1895 – 20 September 1975) was an American bandleader and pianist.
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  Walt Whitman
  Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.
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  Willie Nelson
  Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, and remains iconic, especially in American popular culture.
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• 
  Woodrow Wilson
  Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States. A leader of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. With Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft dividing the Republican Party vote, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912.
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  World War I
  World War I was a military conflict centered on Europe that began in the summer of 1914. The fighting ended in late 1918. This conflict involved all of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred around the Triple Entente) and the Central Powers. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million combatants were killed, due largely to great technological advances in firepower without corresponding ones in mobility. It was the second deadliest conflict in history.
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• Ziegfeld
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  Belarus
  Belarus, ( ; , ), officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno (Hrodna), Gomel (Homiel), Mogilev (Mahilyow) and Vitebsk (Viciebsk). Forty percent of its is forested, and its strongest economic sectors are agriculture and manufacturing.
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• 
  Bowery
  The Bowery (, ) is the name of a street and a small neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan. The neighborhood's boundaries are East 4th Street and the East Village to the north, Canal Street and Chinatown to the South, Allen Street and the Lower East Side to the east and Bowery (the street) and Little Italy to the west.
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• Broadway theater
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  Broadway theatre
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theatres with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan, New York City.Although theater is the preferred spelling in the U.S.A. (see further at American and British English Spelling Differences), the majority of venues, performers, and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
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• Camp Upton
  Camp Upton was an installation of the United States Army located in Yaphank on Long Island in Suffolk County, New York. It was located near Camp Mills.
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  Chinatown, Manhattan
  '''Manhattan's Chinatown''' (simplified Chinese: 纽约华埠 ; traditional Chinese: 紐約華埠; pinyin: Niŭyuē Huá Bù), home to the largest concentration of Chinese people in the Western hemisphere, is located in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Manhattan's Chinatown is one of the oldest ethnic Chinese enclaves outside of Asia.
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  Havana
  Havana (, , officially Ciudad de La Habana,) is the capital city, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city is one of the 14 Cuban provinces. The city/province has 2.1 million inhabitants, the largest city in Cuba and the largest in the Caribbean region. The city extends mostly westward and southward from the bay, which is entered through a narrow inlet and which divides into three main harbours: Marimelena, Guanabacoa, and Atarés. The sluggish Almendares River traverses the city from south to north, entering the Straits of Florida a few miles west of the bay.
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  Hollywood
  Hollywood is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California - situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonym of American cinema, and is often interchangeably used to refer to the greater Los Angeles area in general. The nicknames StarStruck Town and Tinseltown refer to Hollywood and its movie industry. Today, much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as the Westside neighborhood, but significant auxiliary industries, such as editing, effects, props, post-production, and lighting companies remain in Hollywood, as does the backlot of Paramount Pictures.
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• 
  Israel
  Israel (, ''Yisrā'el; , Isrā'īl), officially the State of Israel (Hebrew: , Medīnat Yisrā'el; , Dawlat Isrā'īl''), is a parliamentary republic in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and Gaza on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Israel is the world's only predominantly Jewish state, and is defined as A Jewish and Democratic State by the Israeli government.
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• Jesse Lasky
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  London
  London () is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
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• 
  Nashville, Tennessee
  Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, music, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home to a large number of colleges and universities.
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• National Cathedral
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  New York
  New York (; locally or ) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the north and west, and Quebec to the north. New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
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  Russia
  Russia (; ), also officially known as the Russian Federation (), is a state in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the United States by the Bering Strait. At , Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earth's land area. Russia is also the ninth most populous nation with 142 million people. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 9 time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources. It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.
  http://wn.com/Russia
• the Bronx
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• Tin Pan Alley
  Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
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  Tyumen
  Tyumen () is a city in Urals Federal District in Russia, located on the Tura River east of Moscow. It is the administrative center and the largest city of Tyumen Oblast in the Urals Federal District. Population: 609,100 (2010 est.);
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  United States
  The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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  Washington, D.C.
  Washington, D.C. (), formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. Article One of the United States Constitution provides for a federal district, distinct from the states, to serve as the permanent national capital. The City of Washington was originally a separate municipality within the federal territory until an act of Congress in 1871 established a single, unified municipal government for the whole District. It is for this reason that the city, while legally named the District of Columbia, is known as Washington, D.C. The city shares its name with the U.S. state of Washington, which is located on the country's Pacific coast.
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  World Trade Center
  The World Trade Center (WTC) was a complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan in New York City that were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The site is currently being rebuilt with six new skyscrapers and a memorial to the casualties of the attacks.
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• Yale
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Use checked songs to create your playlist

• Act I: Opening
• Act I: Let's Go Back to the Waltz
• Act I: In Our Hide-Away
• Act I: The First Lady
• Act I: Meat and Potatoes
• Act I: I've Got to Be Around
• Act I: The Secret Service
• Act I: It Gets Lonely in the White House
• Act I: Is He the Only Man in the World?
• Act I: They Love Me
• Act I: Pigtails and Freckles
• Act I: Don't Be Afraid of Romance
• Act I: Laugh It Up
• Act I: Empty Pockets Filled With Love
• Act II: Glad to Be Home
• Act II: You Need a Hobby
• Act II: The Washington Twist
• Act II: The Only Dance I Know
• Act II: I'm Gonna Get Him
• Act II: This Is a Great Country / Finale

• I'll Capture Your Heart
• Lazy
• You're Easy to Dance With
• Happy Holiday
• Let's Start the New Year Off Right
• Abraham
• Be Careful, It's My Heart
• I Can't Tell a Lie
• Easter Parade
• Song of Freedom
• I've Got Plenty to Be Thankful For
• White Christmas

• Overture
• Colonel Buffalo Bill
• I'm a Bad Bad Man
• Doin' What Comes Naturally
• The Girl That I Marry
• You Can't Get a Man With a Gun
• There's No Business Like Show Business
• The Say It's Wonderful
• Moonshine Lullaby
• My Defences Are Down
• Wild Horse Ceremonial Dance
• I'm an Indian Too
• I Got Lost in His Arms
• I Got the Sun in the Morning
• Old Fashioned Wedding
• Anything You Can Do
• They Say It's Wonderful
• There's No Business Like Show Business

• Overture
• Colonel Buffalo Bill
• I'm a Bad, Bad Man
• Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
• The Girl That I Marry
• You Can't Get a Man With a Gun
• They Say It's Wonderful
• My Defenses Are Down
• Moonshine Lullaby
• I'm an Indian, Too
• I Got Lost in His Arms
• Who Do You Love I Hope?
• I Got the Sun in the Morning
• Anything You Can Do
• There's No Business Like Show Business

• Isn't This A Lovely Day
• Cheek To Cheek
• Top Hat, White Tie And Tails
• Shaking The Blues Away
• Steppin' Out With My Baby
• A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody
• Mandy
• Puttin' On The Ritz
• Let's Face The Music And Dance
• Blue Skies
• Let Me Sing And I'm Happy
• Heat Wave
• Marching Along With Time
• Alexander's Ragtime Band
• I Got The Sun In The Morning
• Colonel Buffalo Bill
• You Can't Get A Man With A Gun
• They Say It's Wonderful
• Anything You Can Do
• There's No Business Like Show Business
• Remember
• My Walking Stick
• All Alone
• Marie
• Mandy
• Blue Skies

• The Hostess With the Mostes'
• Washington Square Dance
• Lichtenburg (Cosmo's Opening)
• Can You Use Any Money Today?
• Marrying for Love
• The Ocarina
• It's a Lovely Day Today
• The Best Thing for You
• Something to Dance About
• Once Upon a Time Today
• They Like Ike
• You're Just in Love
• Panama Hattie: My Mother Would Love You (1940 studio cast)
• Panama Hattie: I've Still Got My Health (1940 studio cast)
• Panama Hattie: Let's Be Buddies (1940 studio cast)
• Panama Hattie: Make It Another Old Fashioned, Please (1940 studio cast)

• Main Title
• No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)
• Isn't This a Lovely Day
• Top Hat, White Tie and Tails
• Cheek to Cheek
• Piccolino
• End Title
• A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody
• Puttin' on the Ritz
• A Couple of Song and Dance Men
• Heat Wave

• There's No Business Like Show Business
• Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
• The Girl That I Marry
• You Can't Get a Man With a Gun
• There's No Business Like Show Business (reprise)
• I'll Share It All With You
• Moonshine Lullaby
• There's No Business Like Show Business (reprise)
• They Say It's Wonderful
• My Defenses Are Down
• Finale Act I (You Can't Get a Man With a Gun)
• Entr'acte (The European Tour)
• I Got Lost in His Arms
• Who do You Love, I Hope
• I Got the Sun in the Morning
• An Old Fashioned Wedding
• The Girl That I Marry (reprise)
• Anything You Can Do (feat. Bernadette Peters & Tom Wopat)
• Finale Act II (They Say It's Wonderful)

• There's No Business Like Show Business: Opening Titles
• When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam'
• Play a Simple Melody
• A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody
• Alexander's Ragtime Band
• After You Get What You Want (You Don't Want It)
• If You Believe
• Heat Wave
• A Man Chases A Girl (Until She Catches Him)
• Lazy
• A Sailor's Not A Sailor ('Til a Sailor's Been Tattooed)
• There's No Business Like Show Business
• Finale
• Play a Simple Melody
• Play a Simple Melody (original mono version)

• The Girl That I Marry
• They Say It's Wonderful
• There's No Business Like Show Business
• You Can't Get A Man With A Gun
• My Defenses Are Down
• Moonshine Lullaby
• Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
• Who Do You Love, I Hope
• Anything You Can Do
• I'm A Bad, Bad Man
• I Got The Sun In The Morning
• How Deep Is The Ocean?
• Alexander's Ragtime Band
• Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
• All Alone
• I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm

• Always
• Blue Skies
• Easter Parade
• A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody
• I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
• How Deep Is the Ocean (How High Is the Sky)
• Medley: Marie / Cheek to Cheek
• Remember
• They Say It's Wonderful
• Let's Take an Old Fashioned Walk
• Soft Lights and Sweet Music
• Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee
• What'll I Do
• Top Hat, White Tie and Tails
• All Alone
• Say It With Music
• Count Your Blessings
• Alexander's Ragtime Band
• The Song Is Ended
• Sayonara

• Overture
• I'm a Bad, Bad Man
• Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
• The Girl That I Marry
• You Can't Get a Man with a Gun
• Moonshine Lullaby
• They Say It's Wonderful
• My Defenses are Down
• I'm an Indian Too
• I Got Lost in His Arms
• I Got the Sun in the Morning
• Anything You Can Do
• There's No Business Like Show Business

• Overture Act I
• Colonel Buffalo Bill
• I'm a Bad, Bad Man / Dance
• Doin' What Comes Natur'Lly
• The Girl That I Marry
• You Can't Get a Man With a Gun
• There's No Business Like Show Business
• They Say It's Wonderful
• Moonshine Lullaby
• I'll Share It All With You / Dance
• Circus Dance ("Ballyhoo")
• Reprise: There's No Business Like Show Business
• My Defenses Are Down
• Drum Dance (Wild Horse Ceremonial dance)
• Ceremonial Chant / I'm an Indian Too / Adoption Dance
• Finale Act I
• I Got Lost in His Arms
• Ballroom Scene
• Who Do You Love, I Hope / Dance
• I Got the Sun in the Morning
• Reprise: The Girl That I Marry
• Anything You Can Do
• Finale Act II
• An Old Fashioned Wedding

• There's No Business Like Show Business
• The Song Is Ended (But the Melody Lingers on)
• What'll I Do?
• You're Just in Love
• Cheek to Cheek
• How Deep Is the Ocean (How High Is the Sky)
• Blue Skies
• Be Careful, It's My Heart
• Heat Wave
• Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails
• Alexander's Ragtime Band
• I Got the Sun in the Morning
• The Girl That I Marry
• God Bless America
• White Christmas

• Overture
• Colonel Buffalo Bill (feat. Jerry Orbach & Benay Venuta)
• I'm a Bad, Bad Man (feat. Bruce Yarnell)
• Doin' What Comes Natur'lly (feat. Ethel Merman & Ronn Carroll)
• The Girl That I Marry (feat. Bruce Yarnell)
• You Can't Get a Man With a Gun (feat. Ethel Merman)
• There's No Business Like Show Business (feat. Ethel Merman, Bruce Yarnell, Rufus Smith, & Jerry Orbach)
• They Say It's Wonderful (feat. Ethel Merman & Bruce Yarnell)
• Moonshine Lullaby (feat. Ethel Merman)
• There's No Business Like Show Business (reprise) (feat. Ethel Merman)
• My Defenses Are Down (feat. Bruce Yarnell)
• I'm an Indian Too (feat. Ethel Merman)
• I Got Lost in His Arms (feat. Ethel Merman)
• I Got the Sun in the Morning (feat. Ethel Merman)
• An Old Fashioned Wedding (feat. Ethel Merman & Bruce Yarnell)
• Anything You Can Do (feat. Ethel Merman & Bruce Yarnell)
• Finale: There's No Business Like Show Business (reprise) / They Say It's Wonderful (reprise)

• A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody
• Alexander's Ragtime Band
• Blue Skies
• I Never Had a Chance
• He Ain't Got Rhythm
• I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket
• We Saw the Sea
• You Keep Coming Back like a Song
• Let Me Sing and I'm Happy
• I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
• All Alone
• Let Yourself Go
• The Piccolino
• This Year's Kisses
• Heatwave
• Let's Face the Music and Dance
• Slumming on Park Avenue
• Because I Love You
• Cheek to Cheek
• Marie
• Top Hat, White Tie and Tails
• White Christmas

• Let Me Sing and I'm Happy (feat. The Dorsey Brothers)
• Puttin' on the Ritz
• Say It Isn't So
• I Love a Piano
• Face the Music (medley): Soft Lights and Sweet Music / On a Roof in Manhattan / Manhattan Madness / Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee / I Say It's Spinach (feat. Bing Crosby)
• Mandy
• Easter Parade
• Harlem on My Mind
• Alexander's Ragtime Band (feat. The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra)
• Cheek to Cheek
• Let Yourself Go
• Remember
• This Year's Kisses (feat. Billie Holiday)
• I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (feat. Mildred Bailey)
• How Deep Is the Ocean (feat. Peggy Lee)
• Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
• Always
• You're Just in Love
• White Christmas
• What'll I Do
• Irving Berlin (medley): This Is the Army, Mr. Jones / Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning / Top Hat, White Tie and Tails / Blue Skies / The Song Is Ended

• Overture
• White Christmas
• We'll Follow the Old Man
• Lazy / No Strings / Blue Skies
• Sisters
• Snow
• The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing
• Let Me Sing and I'm Happy
• Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
• It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow
• I Love a Piano
• Choreography
• Sisters (reprise)
• Falling Out of Love Can Be Fun / Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep (reprise)
• Love You Didn't Do Right by Me / How Deep Is the Ocean?
• What Can You Do With a General?
• We'll Follow the Old Man (reprise)
• Gee I Wish I Was Back in the Army / White Christmas (reprise)

• Overture
• Happy Holiday
• Happy Holiday / Let Yourself Go
• Love and the Weather
• Sisters
• The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing
• Snow
• What Can You Do With a General?
• Let Me Sing and I'm Happy
• Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
• Blue Skies
• I Love a Piano
• Falling Out of Love Can Be Fun
• Love, You Didn't Do Right by Me / How Deep Is the Ocean
• How Deep Is the Ocean (reprise)
• The Old Man
• White Christmas
• I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

• Overture
• Watch Your Step
• Office Hours
• What Is Love
• Let's Go Round the Town
• Come to the Land of the Argentine
• I Gotta Go Back to Texas
• Bird of Paradise
• Lock Me in Your Harem
• They Follow Me Around
• I Love to Have the Boys Around Me
• When I Discovered You
• Show Us How to Do the Fox Trot
• I'm a Dancing Teacher Now
• Syncopated Walk
• Lead Me to Love
• I Hate You
• Metropolitan Nights
• Opera (medley)
• Homeward Bound
• Move Over
• Settle Down in a One Horse Town
• Simple Melody / Old Fashioned Wedding / Your Just in Love
• Encore: Simple Melody

• Overture
• Mrs. Sally Adams
• Hostess With the Mostes' on the Ball
• Hostess With the Mostes' on the Ball (Encore)
• Washington Square Dance
• Lichtenburg
• Can You Use Any Money Today?
• Marrying for Love
• The Ocarina
• It's a Lovely Day Today
• The Best Thing for You
• Entr'acte
• Something to Dance About
• Once Upon a Time Today
• They Like Ike
• It's a Lovely Day Today (reprise)
• You're Just in Love
• Mrs. Sally Adams (reprise)
• You're Just in Love (Finale)

• Steppin' Out With My Baby
• A Fella With an Umbrella
• Shaking the Blues Away
• I Love a Piano / Snooky Ookums / When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam'
• A Couple of Swells
• It Only Happens When I Dance With You
• Better Luck Next Time
• Easter Parade

• Always
• Blue Skys
• A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody
• Love Is Worth Waiting For
• I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
• In Old New York
• How Deep Is the Ocean
• Remember
• Marie
• But Not Too Much
• Let's Take an Old Fashion Walk
• Strolling Through the Park

• Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
• The Girl That I Marry
• You Can't Get a Man With a Gun
• There's No Business Like Show Business
• They Say It's Wonderful
• Moonshine Lullaby
• My Defenses Are Down
• I'm an Indian Too
• I Got Lost in His Arms
• Who do You Love, I Hope?
• I Got the Sun in the Morning
• Anything You Can Do
• Overture
• Colonel Buffalo Bill
• I'm a Bad, Bad Man
• An Old-Fashioned Wedding

• Alexander's Ragtime Band
• Putting on the Ritz
• There's No Business Like Show Business
• Anything You Can Do
• White Christmas
• The Song Is Ended
• All by Myself
• Blue Skies
• Top Hat, White Tie and Tails
• The Girl That I Marry
• They Can't Take That Away From Me (feat. Perry Corno)
• Lets Call the Whole Thing Off (feat. Norman Luboff)
• A Foggy Day (In London Town) (feat. John Gary)
• S'wonderful (feat. Delia Reece)
• Embraceable You (feat. Andre Previn)
• Love Walked In (feat. Gorgi Grant)
• Of Thee I Sing (feat. Tommy Leonetti)
• I've Got a Crush on You (feat. Lou Monte)
• Aren't You Glad We Did? (feat. Ames Brothers)
• Looking in for a Boy (feat. Eartha Kitt)

• Overture
• Sex Marches On
• Louisiana Purchase
• It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow
• I'd Love to Be Shot From a Cannon With You
• It'll Come to You
• Louisiana Purchase (reprise)
• Outside of That I Love You
• Dance With Me (Tonight at the Mardi Gras)
• Finale
• Entr'acte
• Wild About You
• Latins Know How
• What Chance Have I With Love?
• The Lord Done Fixed Up My Soul
• Fools Fall in Love / Old Man's Darling - Young Man's Slave
• Finale Ultimo
• Apologia
• You're Lonely and I'm Lonely
• You Can't Brush Me Off

Born: 1888-05-11

Died: 1989-09-22

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