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1409:Bob Merrill
1358:Bob Merrill
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1234:. Spokesman
1047:October 23,
961:"Carnival!"
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717:Jane Morgan
601:Prettybelle
529:(1982) and
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439:Tony Curtis
118:Occupations
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218:Early life
214:in 1961.
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124:Songwriter
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171:Carnival!
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419:(1967),
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