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Michael Feinstein's American Songbook | Episode 1 - Putting on the Tailfins | PBS

Duration: 04:54
Program: Michael Feinstein's American Songbook #101
Broadcast Date: Oct. 6, 2010

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Putting On the Tailfins focuses on the 1950s and 1960s, when the Great American Songbook was in competition with new forms like rock and roll, and rhythm and blues. Viewers learn how iconic singers like Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Rosemary Clooney kept the Songbook alive by reinventing pop standards of the 1930s and 1940s.

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