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"If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story."

Kate Smith, American Musician

Music, Nothing, Wrong

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"If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story."

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