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Music Appreciation

Dyedinthewoolliberal

(15,577 posts) Mon Jan 2, 2023, 10:10 AM Jan 2023

Roger Miller was born on this date.

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Roger Miller was born on this date. (Original Post) Dyedinthewoolliberal Jan 2023 OP

Saw him perform at a block party in downtown Tacoma in the early Eighties. Aristus Jan 2023 #1

Aristus

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1. Saw him perform at a block party in downtown Tacoma in the early Eighties.

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Mon Jan 2, 2023, 10:33 AM

Jan 2023

It was an event designed to help revive the downtown core after the white flight of the Seventies to the suburbs. Tacoma still looked like bombed-out Beirut back then. It's gotten much better since.

He put on a charming show.

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