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When i was young, i never bought records because my brother joseph played saxophone and had a record player. i loved listening to his records: the dorsey brothers, duke ellington, all the big american jazz bands, and vocalists like ella fitzgerald, ernestine anderson, and kitty white, a singer from the us who was a friend of nina simone. nobody in america seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in south africa.
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When I Was Young, I Never Bought

Miriam Makeba
When i was young, i never bought records because my brother joseph played saxophone and had a record player. i loved listening to his records: the dorsey brothers, duke ellington, all the big american jazz bands, and vocalists like ella fitzgerald, ernestine anderson, and kitty white, a singer from the us who was a friend of nina simone. nobody in america seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in south africa.
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