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Time Machine

1962

May 22, 2018

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This time it's 1962, the year of Bob Dylan's first album. Sam Cooke was Twistin' the Night Away. There were big instrumentals from Dick Dale and from Booker T and the MGs, and Ray Charles issued "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music," which many thought career suicide -- but that wouldn't be the case.

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