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Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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The Obsession With Raymond Scott
Raymond Scott was born in Brooklyn in 1908. His father had sailed from Russia to New York two years earlier, on a ship called America. The electrified subway was brand new then. There were chickens in the street. Candy shops and tenements. Hot-spiced corn beef in the delis. And briny half-sour pickles in the Jewish market. Farms in salt water. It felt like the ends of the earth.
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