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The Night Leonard Bernstein Introduced Janis Ian To America

Singer-Songwriter Janis Ian, 72, who graduated from East Orange High School, started young. She began writing “Society’s Child,” a protest song equal to anything from Bob Dylan or Phil Ochs, when she was 13. But America didn’t know how profound… how newsworthy… how brilliant and how universally true the song was in depicting an inter-racial romance in 1967. Why? Because no radio station would dare touch it.

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