John McWhorter – Glenn and John Go Across the Pond
The Glenn Show
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Shuffle Along
Shuffle Along played on Broadway. It ran, I think it ran 524 long run for 1921. Gershwin really liked Black jazz pianists and learned tricks from them. And so he was definitely watching this sort of thing. His music for 1924 doesn't sound like it does after 1924.
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