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"I'd always win the auditions, and finally the Schiffmanns, who owned the Apollo, said, 'We're never ..." — Leslie Uggams
I'd always win the auditions, and finally the Schiffmanns, who owned the Apollo, said, 'We're never gonna get rid of this kid! Nobody else will get a chance.' So they put an act together for me and put me on the same bill with Louis Armstrong.
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View AllWell, to start, for me, at seven years old, I was on a television contest called 'The Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club.' Each week you won a prize, a washing machine, you know, a dryer. The grand prize was a Nash Rambler car. And before I came on, a young African-American boy had won. He was a tap dancer and he won the grand prize.— Leslie Uggams
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