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  • "Marvin certain knew it and Ray knew it ... the people who know that she was in that category," he said. "Whatever the marketplace did or didn't do or whether her lack of career management didn't do, it has nothing to do with her talent."

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  • By singing 'Minnie the Moocher,' a swinging lament for an opium addict he had written a half-century earlier.

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