However, though the couple were divorced, they continued to sing together for years afterward.

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"They had begun to sing together at home, with LaVerne teaching her younger siblings the 'hot' songs of the day, like the Boswell Sisters rendition of 'Dinah' and 'When I Take My Sugar to Tea, ' " the biography said.

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Perhaps the habit of singing is less a part of everyday life than it once was, where previous generations without televisions and computers would naturally come together to sing and share stories.

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Mr. OLIN THOMAS (Executive Director, Affirmation): When people in Affirmation get together, people want to sing the songs that they sang in primary, which is what we call Sunday School for children.

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Have I tried to put an organization together that could raise funds, give dinners, get celebrities to sing and dance to get medicine, to do something to try and help these people that are dying, and dying this horrible death?

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But what they do need is better glue to tie all these devices together and make them sing.

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There was also suggestion that we might sing a duet together. (Applause.) And I have to tell you, though, you try to limit these appearances so that you leave them hungry for more. (Laughter.) So we may not hear me singing for quite some time.

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