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A Cello Helped Launch One of the Most Popular TV Shows of All Time

19 January 2022
Articles, Cellos in Popular Culture

Have you seen the recent movie, Being the Ricardos? Did you know that a cello helped launch the I Love Lucy show? Without this “loaded” cello, the most popular TV show of all time might never have existed. It was 1951, and due to prejudice in America at the time, it had

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