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“Sloane: A Jazz Singer,” which will be screened Sunday in Newburyport, brings into focus the life and career of the Providence native, who died earlier this year at 85. ....
The New York Times wrote about the Jazz singer from Rhode Island, "After seemingly being on the verge of stardom, she languished for decades, battered by changing tastes and bad luck, before enjoying a midlife comeback."
In the early 1960s Kansas City native Dave Dexter Jr., as a record company executive, held the first right of refusal to sign the Beatles in the United States. He rejected them. Here's the story of how he scrambled to get them back. ....