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Protomartyr

ROGER MILLER

Story And Songs From Robin Hood DISNEYLAND, 1973

This was the first record I was obsessed with. I can still vividly remember being five or six and lying down in front of our green and blue polka dot record player and lifting the needle to hear “Whistle Stop” again and again. I’m pretty sure I skipped over “Love” at the beginning of side B – I wasn’t ready. In those days, pre-video cassette, I’d only seen the movie once or twice, but I heard Roger Miller tell the story and sing the songs hundreds of times. This album did a lot for

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