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The House That George Built by Wilfrid Sheed

by Glenn C. Altschuler [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[9.Oct.07] :. By the 1950s, the golden age of popular music was just about over. America "wasn't a listening nation anymore," writes Wilfrid Sheed, but a televisual "shaking, rattling and rolling one."

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