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<\/a>Patti Page, \u201cSay Wonderful Things\u201d single 1963. Jeffrey Chamberlain music collection, Collection #C0185, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University.<\/p><\/div>
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<\/a>Somethin' Smith and the Redheads, "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire" single 1950s. Jeffrey Chamberlain music collection, Collection #C0185, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University.<\/p><\/div>
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<\/a>Carl Dobkins Jr., "My Heart is an Open Book" 1959. Jeffrey Chamberlain music collection, Collection #C0185, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University.<\/p><\/div> Here are three examples of 45 rpm singles from the Jeffrey Chamberlain Music Collection. These singles with song titles like “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire” and the contrasting red label and black stripes on the sleeve of the Patti Page album made me very curious as to what these sounded like.<\/p>\n The Jeffrey Chamberlain Music Collection is a recently acquired collection of records. It includes 78s, long play records, and 45s that date from the 1910s to the 1980s.\u00a0 Classical, jazz, and popular music genres are represented in the collection, as well as, show tunes and many French 45 rpm singles. Chamberlain was a George Mason associate professor of French in the Department of Modern and Classical languages.<\/p>\n For your listening pleasure here are links to Carl Dobkins Jr “My Heart is an Open Book”<\/a>, Patti Page “Say Wonderful Things”<\/a>, and Somethin’ Smith and the Redheads “I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire”<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Looking through old records can be a frustrating task,\u00a0mainly because you want to be able to listen to what you are looking at. 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\nLooking through old records can be a frustrating task,\u00a0mainly because you want to be able to listen to what you are looking at. Of course looking at old records can be rewarding in that the artwork of the label, box, or sleeve it comes in is often engaging, but there is nothing like looking at and<\/em> listening to classic vinyl.<\/p>\n