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I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.

— Little Richard Yesterdays : Popular Song in America (1979)

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Studying Popular Music (1990/2002) by Richard Middleton

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