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Quirky tours showcase jazz greats, other stars at Woodlawn Cemetery

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Woodlawn Cemetery.“She was the diva of her day. The Beyoncé of her day,” he said, brushing leaves off the modest stone commemorating vaudeville star Nora Bayes.The group had to lean in toward the old windup Victrola to hear Bayes’ big voice, necessary in the age before microphones, belting her biggest hit, 1917’s “Over There.”The song’s author, George M.

Cohan, was also honored on this tour of jazz and vaudeville greats buried at Woodlawn, a grand old cemetery and arboretum in the heart of the Bronx.

Cohan and his family lie in an imposing mausoleum with Tiffany stained-glass windows.Other stops included the resting places of jazz pioneers W.C.

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