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Fascinatin' Rhythm: If Swing Goes, 03/27/21

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Episode #2113

3/27      If Swing Goes  It’s hard to imagine our popular music without the influence of jazz. It needs whatever jazz gives it. Part of the answer is the capacity to swing, so it soon became something we sang about--especially during the thirties and forties when jazz and popular music became the same thing.