Quoted: ?They weren?t thinking about this in musical terms or a musical legacy, especially the race stuff,? said Matt Appleby, a curator at the University of Wisconsin library, which runs a Paramount discography. ?Their business model was just ?If we think we can make some money off this, then let?s record.? It was ephemera to them, with new songs out every month. That was the extent of their interest.?
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