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"I think that's maybe my best strength as a musician: the ability to accompany and to breathe with whoever's taking the lead," Thomas Lauderdale says. Autumn de Wilde hide caption

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"I like the emotional criers," Neil Sedaka says of ballads. Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Danny Kaye arrives at London Airport with his wife, Sylvia Fine Kaye, in 1948. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption