Karen Schoemer hosts “The Schoemer Show” on WGXC 90.7 fm Hudson/Catskill and www.wgxc.org. She is the author of Great Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair with ’50s Pop Music (Free Press, 2006). She lives in upstate New York.
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