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Watch Taylor Swift Sing The Names Of All The States On The Voice

In 1961, a songwriter named Ray Charles -- not the famous Ray Charles, a different Ray Charles -- wrote a kids' novelty song called "Fifty Nifty United States" for the weekly variety show Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall. The song includes the names of all 50 states, sort of tunelessly jammed together into alphabetical order.

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13:29 on October 29 2019

Watch Taylor Swift Sing The Names Of All The States On The Voice

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