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Published in 1929, but the song is best known today as the centerpiece of the 1952 musical film Singin' in the Rain. Its listed as number 3 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs. The film offers a comic depiction of Hollywood's transition from silent films. Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) is a popular silent film star with humble roots as a singer, dancer and stunt man...

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Armstrong grew up at the bottom of the social ladder, in a highly segregated city, but one which lived in a constant fervor of music, which was generally called “ragtime”, and not yet “jazz”. Despite the hard early days, Armstrong seldom looked back at his youth as the worst of times but instead drew inspiration from it, “Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine—I look right in the heart of good old New Orleans...It has given me something to live for

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