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Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.

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Art Garfunkel
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: November 5
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