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Interview: Jackie Cain

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Marc Myers
May 18, 2009
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There is no cheerier voice in jazz than Jackie Cain's. A teenage singing sensation in Milwaukee and then Chicago in the mid-1940s, Jackie met her life-long husband and singing partner Roy Kral by accident after dropping in at a local club. [Publicity still above of Jackie Cain and Roy Kral]

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