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Della Reese: Putting On The Squeal — It's Like Cooking Rice

Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 21 July 1962

IN AMERICA today, the sound to make is a coloured sound. The pop scene is riddled with young men aping Ray Charles, but they don't have a larynx made of leather, nor the exquisite timing of those whoops and squeals.

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