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China Smith, KING Seattle, 1971 (restored) (1:06:40)

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… three dogs tonight, mama …
[Description by Uncle Ricky. This exhibit was contributed by Scott Lowe] Sure sounds like China Smith is introduced as Shana, at least to me it does, but since KING was using the first generation Johnny Mann jingles, I guess it doesn’t matter. Still, I’ve heard the Mann stuff used better, we all have. This restoration is interesting because the music variety is exciting and the original fidelity was very good. But, there was nothing left of any commercial sets, and there are glaring restorative shortcomings. But, China is too cool at the Big Eleven with lots of hit rock ‘n’ roll music. China Smith, KING Seattle, 1971 ©2007 – 2010 REELRADIO, Inc.

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