Song Contest Part XVI, Host: ???, Theme:???, Noms Due: ???

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Agree with this... And that's the sad part really.

'Had everything else been the same -- the moves, the clothes, the look -- but Elvis had been a black man, would white America in the '50s have embraced him with the same enthusiasm?' asks Patricia Turner, co-author (with Gary Alan Fine) in the book 'Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America'. 'The answer is probably no. And there's a lot of resentment about that'.
 
Agree with this... And that's the sad part really.
I think I saw a documentary that included a bit of Elvis. He learned his Hip/knee swinging dance moves from a disabled white boy that could only walk with old timey leg braces on both legs.
 

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A host looking at the spreadsheet. This is a pleasant change.
I spend a LOT of time on that spreadsheet. I've entered most of the last 50(?) ish rounds myself.
 
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