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A Song Is Born (1948)

Conversations With Willard Van Dyke (1981)

The Lonely Night (1954)

The Lonely Night (1954)

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Song Is Born, A (1948) -- (Movie Clip) How Jazz Was Born

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A Song Is Born (1948)

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Conversations With Willard Van Dyke (1981)

The Lonely Night (1954)

The Lonely Night (1954)

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Song Is Born, A (1948) -- (Movie Clip) How Jazz Was Born The musical show-stopper, joining the original novelty number by Don Raye and Gene de Paul, Virginia Mayo dubbed by Jeri Sullavan, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet on sax, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Mel Powell on piano, and Louie Bellson drumming, Danny Kaye the professor in charge, in Howard Hawks’ remake of his own Ball Of Fire, 1942, A Song Is Born, 1948.

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