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If you've ever been to Amateur Night at The Apollo it can be absolutely brutal.

Here's a good article about Ella's early years (Ella Fitzgerald would have been 100 years old today) how her career started in Harlem at the Apollo Theater when she accepted a dare.

An interesting tidbit is that Ella ran numbers in Harlem and got caught and sent to reformatory school.

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