Which individual dropped out of high school at the age of 15 so he/she could work in Tin Pan Alley as a song plugger
earning a respectable fifteen dollars a week? S/he began composing and wrote around 350 songs, many for musicals and
films. At the ripe age of twenty-one he/she became rich and famous after composing a hit song, “Swanee.”
a. George Gershwin
b. Louis Armstrong
c. Bessie Smith
d. Andrew Lloyd Webber
e. Duke Ellington
ANSWER: a
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