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| | The Morning News - The Non-Expert: Not Fade Away, by Kevin Guilfoile |
 | | My own record collection is far from complete, but, true enough, the earliest instance of a fade I can find is on ‘Lean Baby,’ a terrible Sinatra tune about dating skinny women recorded in 1953, some 13 years before his marriage to an emaciated Mia Farrow. |
 | | It’s a now familiar technique, with Frank’s ‘do, do, dos’ sounding farther and farther away before diminishing into nothing, but, as Pat suggested, it was also an anomaly for records of the period. |
 | | The fade became part of our musical vocabulary and not a single person gave it another thought until you brought it up just now. |
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