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The Rainmaker

“First day in August Last rain was in May When the rainmaker came to Kansas In the middle of a dusty day The rainmaker said to the people Tell me what you are prepared to pay” The rainmaker said to the people “Well, I’ll conjure up a rain today” Harry Nilsson, Bill Martin: Summer, 1969 [...]

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Piano Bar Primer – Part VII – You-Tube

In a previous blog I gave you a chilling account on how we used to learn songs before the advent of the tape machine. We would dump a couple of quarters in the jukebox and play the same song 6 times. Then, we would compare notes and fill in the blanks with whatever we thought [...]

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