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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
"And I Am Telling You" The History Of That Song
The NYPOst's Michael Riedel has a brief story about
the writing of the titanic central number from "Dreamgirls."
Think about it: that first line ("And I am telling you I'm not going") is an awkward mouthful but they turned it into a smash.
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