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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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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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