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"Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course."
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"I worked with practically everybody in the business in all of the years in NBC, but I worked personally many years with people like Crosby and Sinatra, so of course that was a great ground school for me."
"And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood."
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