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Its self-effacing, its hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Co

Its self-effacing, its hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor. – Jerry Leiber

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I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was Aint Nobodys Business. It got me. I thought, I can do this. I decided just like that. No romantic story. – Jerry Leiber

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