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Episode 35: Cole Porter

Episode 35: Cole Porter

Update: 2021-01-01
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Find out how Cole Porter had to rewrite two of his greatest hits, one bowing to political correctness and the other due to a notorious kidnapping. Another of his standards was, darkly, inspired by a lynching!


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Episode 35: Cole Porter

Episode 35: Cole Porter

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