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Click HERE to see the records we currently have on the site that came out in 1959.

Click HERE to see the records from 1959 that we’ve done Hot Stamper shootouts for (a substantially larger group as you can imagine).

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Posted in *Our Record Overview - The Good, The Year in Music on March 24, 2018 by humorem.

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