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Fascinatin' Rhythm: Seven Remarkable Nights, 09/14/19

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Episode # 1937

9/14      Seven Remarkable Nights. In the space of a single week in 1925, four important musicals opened to run along with another half dozen that had just opened or were about to open—shows by Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein, Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar, and the Gershwins, among others. Broadway was nothing but melody.