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Acting Out

The Last Archive

CHAPTER

The Voice of Fanny French Morse

Fitzgerald started fronting for a band chick webs orchestra Not long after that she had her first big hit and then she became one of the most famous singers of all time But what I kept thinking about is she didn't write the song she sang. Her voice is something so singular so beautiful That all she had to do was begin to sing and everyone in that room at the Apollo fell in love. Then I thought about fanny french morse's all white choir And how they couldn't hear her voice because all they could see was her skinThat's what segregation does to a mind. It's a prison an elephant's Gerald escaped In the summer of 1936 two years after morayno

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