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41. Sorry. You be wrong as can be.

Thu Apr 5, 2012, 11:41 PM

Apr 2012

Billie did it in 1939.

Nina in 1965.

It was news in 1939.

Though both great jazz singers, Billie is incontestably greater, possibly the greatest ever.

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