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Jack Strachey
"These Foolish Things"
music by Jack Strachey and Harry Link
words by Eric Maschwitz (aka Holt Marvell)
1935
Basic Information
Born: John Francis Strachey, September 25, 1894, Chelsea, London, England, UK
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