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Fran Jeffries: the Sixties

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Marc Myers
May 05, 2016
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Many talented pop singers who were young adults in the mid-1960s ran into career trouble. Most had come up in the late 1950s hoping to follow in the footsteps of Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Peggy Lee, but the powerful rock and Motown incursions of the pop charts in 1964 and '65 completely changed the landscape. Most young traditionalists stuck in T…

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