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Audio Autopsy, 1983: "They Don't Know" About Tracey Ullman's Brief Recording Career

After introducing America to "The Simpsons," Ullman recorded a modern pop classic whose music video produced a surprise cameo for the ages.

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Feb 02, 2022
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Presumably, we wouldn’t have had over three decades of The Simpsons without Matt Groening’s fractured family appearing regularly on the Fox network (US) from April 1987 through May 1990.

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The jaundice-hued clan (Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa et al) began their hilarious and sometimes controversial life as a series of animated shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show …

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