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rosent76

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Which individual dropped out of high school at the age of 15 so he/she could work in Tin Pan Alley as a song plugger
  earning a respectable fifteen dollars a week? S/he began composing and wrote around 350 songs, many for musicals and
  films. At the ripe age of twenty-one he/she became rich and famous after composing a hit song, Swanee.


 
 

a. George Gershwin
  b. Louis Armstrong
  c. Bessie Smith
  d. Andrew Lloyd Webber
  e. Duke Ellington



Question 2

Which group of musicians is associated with swing?
 
 

a. Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton
  b. Lew Soloff, Chuck Mangione, and Kenny G
  c. Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, and Dave Brubeck
  d. Charlie Bird Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Thelonious Monk
  e. Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and Benny Goodman



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Reply #1 on: Jul 25, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANSWER: a

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER: e


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