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The Day the Music Stopped
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Musicians Provided the Sound
At one point, across the country, something like 22,000 musicians worked in theaters. There were about 2,000 accompanists in James Petrillo's Chicago alone. The movie the jazz singer with its tropes drawn from minstrelcy is an American cultural relic. But it ushered in a new cinematic era of recorded soundtracks.
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