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| | The Rise of the Crooners: Gene Austin, Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin, and Rudy Vallee Popular ... |
 | | The Rise of the Crooners: Gene Austin, Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin, and Rudy Vallee |
 | | The Rise of the Crooners: Gene Austin, Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin, and Rudy Vallee Michael Pitts and Frank Hoffmann with the assistance of Dick Carty and Jim Bedoian Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD, 2002 ix + 319 pp., ISBN 0-810-84081-2 |
 | | The Rise of the Crooners does a good job of explaining the history of this method of singing and of filling readers in on the careers of Austin, Marvin, and Lucas, artists who have had too little ink shed about them, considering their historical importance. |
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