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Gold in the Hills. Meanwhile, Lanza was making test records for RCA Victor to gauge when his voice would be right for commercial recordings. The records found their way to Ida Koverman, Louis B. Mayer's executive secretary, a power at M-G-M and a board member of the Hollywood Bowl. She played the discs for an impressed Mayer, then persuaded the Bowl to book Lanza. In the late summer of 1947, Lanza interrupted a concert tour to appear at the Bowl; it was his 200th concert. In one of his own favorite phrases, he fractured...
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