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Fact #191288

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The song In The Summer Of His Years, a tribute to the recently assassinated US President John Kennedy, is performed for the first time by Millicent Martin on a special broadcast of the BBC's satirical weekly news programme That Was the Week That Was, in London, England, UK, Europe. It will go on to be recorded by Mahalia Jackson, Connie Francis, Bobby Rydell, Toni Arden and others.