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“When I listen to this rock and roll and look at you kids, I don't think it's a whole lot different than the Charleston and the Varsity Drag.”

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Helen Kane

1959 interview. https://archive.org/details/HelenKaneInterview

“I know when I was a kid, I used to look at these pictures and listen to the songs of the Gay Nineties, and I used to say to my mother, 'Oh, I wish I had lived then; it was so gay and so wonderful.' […] Now [the Jazz Age] seems very mysterious and wonderful to you, kids, and when you have kids, they'll say, 'Gee, Dad, those 50's, they were something.' […] I really think it goes in cycles. When your kids come in and say 'Gee, Dad, I wish we had done that,' and so on and so forth, it's the same thing. I don't think it's changed a great deal.”

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Helen Kane

1959 interview. https://archive.org/details/HelenKaneInterview

“I'm so happy to be a part of this ... era of wonderful nonsense.”

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Helen Kane

Source: Interview (1959)