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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 “Shooting of Govenor Wallace”.

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

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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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Breaking ground with Jim Robinson

Jim Robinson IS “Construction Man”     Another private press release by a hardworking, blue collar American who earned his helmet and wants to tell his story in song.   “Job #001” is just the beginning.

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The Residents

The Fabulous FOUR SKINS “Sing Songs of Medicine and Med School.”   A homemade record by four doctors without borders!   (This comes as a single but when you rub it it turns into an LP.)

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Suburban initiative

“Do-It-Yourself”   Another is the Columbia Records series “Music for Gracious Living”   Peter Barclay and His Orchestra.

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