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Aguilar also became a huge concert attraction across the Americas with a gentlemanly vocal style that harks back to 20th century Mexico — an intoxicating blend of jubilant ranchera and misty bolero pathos.

Now, as that group spun slowly out of view, it was time for the gentlemanly Philly-soul greats — or at least a modern version of them — to take the baton at Saturday’s Fool in Love festival.

Tournaments began as rougher, less “gentlemanly” affairs in which competitors rode against each other with lances and then proceeded to fight with close-quarters weapons ahorse or on foot.

“He’s the opposite of Leland,” she said, describing him as “gentlemanly, kind, sensitive.”

Indeed, the gentlemanly Louis of the first segment is nothing like the L.A. sequence’s sexist creep, two very different portraits of thwarted lovers.