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    Music Review | Mary Cleere Haran: Celebrating the Lyrics, and the Life, of a Master
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    “A party animal” with “a pixie persona” who physically suggested "a cross between Matt Damon and David Letterman" is how the singer Mary Cleere Haran described Johnny Mercer on Thursday evening at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency. Full Article at The New York Times
    a cross between Matt Damon and David Letterman
    SOURCE: The New York Times 1 month ago
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Music Review | Mary Cleere Haran: Celebrating the Lyrics, and the Life, of a Master
  1. His heart was broken when Elvis Presley became a star, and he knew that the era of the great American songbook was over ... His bubble was burst, and he never got over it.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 1 month ago

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