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“MOM! Please! I’m rehearsing down here!!”

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Emil Nargi IS Elvis   “It’s Now or Never”   There are so many records by Elvis impersonators you can’t imagine.   Each one stranger than the last.   Emil looks like he could be one of the little dolls or porceline statuettes that my Grandma Loretta kept in a glass case.

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Spirit in the sky

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“Heaven’s Satellite”   with The Good News Singers from Bakersfield, California.   Vision Records   This one is highly sought after and rarely found.

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The sweetest Caroline

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“Sweet Caroline” Neil Diamond Uni Records (shown here with a very special spindle girl – my sweet Caroline!)

Officially released on September 16, 1969, Neil only recently revealed that he wrote this after seeing a Life magazine photo of Caroline Kennedy riding a pony in the mid-sixties.   But every Caroline owns it.   The song has been a tradition at Boston’s Fenway Park since 1997, and since 2002 it has been played at every game in the middle of the eighth inning.   Elvis liked to sing it.

Sweet Caroline
Good times never seemed so good
I’ve been inclined
To believe they never would

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Off the strip

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“The World of Las Vegas”   “Night Club Music”   Las Vegas & Country Western   Words and Music by Ken (Nevada) Maines.     Smile Records   A DIY effort that has gotten some recognition in outsider and incredibly strange music circles.   Includes the frightening

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Side One is the Vegas side with song titles like “Freemont Street” and “$$$ Signs.”   Side Two is the Country side with “Shooting…” “You Made a Fool Outa Me” and the unexplainable “Oy Vey, What a Dream”.

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Re-touch that feeling

Check out FunFaceCam.com and put yourself on an lp cover.

Contest: Let us see your best one, we might post it and send you a shirt too.

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Papa Joe’s A Go-Go

“Live! At Papa Joe’s Northern A Go-Go”   The Starliners

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Bachelor’s pad

“Bachelor at Large”   with Jerry Bachelor

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Ya gotta believe!

“The World Series”   A sermon by Reverend Roy E. Easley.   Check out Jesus’ team!

(At this moment the Phillies are up 2 games to 1 and have a 2 to 0 lead in the bottom of the 3rd inning with bases loaded!)

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Sermon on the mound

“The Ball Game of Life”   A sermon by Pastor L.J. London of the New Jerusalem Temple, Detroit, MI.

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Three little birds

The Singin’ Swingin’ Sandpipers   Art Records

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