Arts: "Work was hard to come by for these performers back in the late fifties. Racism was still a fact of life in the United States. Their albums were labelled "race records," and marketed as such. To its immeasurable credit, the CBC regularly hired them for their variety shows and even their own specials.
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We watched the show tonight. It was fantastic. Read the rest of this article now, while it's still available (gone after 7 days from the Globe's site)