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TIL that the first jazz performance of "Someday My Prince Will Come" was by the Ghetto Swingers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. To avoid causing controversy, the band had to change the program name from "Music by Frank Churchill" to "Music from Disney's Snow White"

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