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Music trivia

From: Eve
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Remote Name: 24.116.87.108
Date: 12-Sep-2002
Time: 10:30 AM

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A stock car racer who had his own radio show in the 1940s, he

died of a heart attack in 1982, at age 57. His biggest hit, a #1

song in 1959, was more than four and a half minutes long, which

was unusual at the time. One of his 1957 hits was at #17 at the

same time that Guy Mitchell's version was at #1. The artist, his

biggest hit, and his "Guy Mitchell competitor" were . .

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