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Album:Bye Bye Birdie
I recently read (or, more precisely, skimmed) the chatty, spottily written, anecdotal memoir by Charles Strouse, composer of (among other things) Bye, Bye Birdie and Annie. Birdie was the first Broadway musical to incorporate rock and roll, or the idea of rock and roll, at a time when it was considered a passing fad. (They began work on it in 1958; it opened on Broadway in April 1960.) It's not...
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