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My father had a couple of Mitch Miller records and a Spike Jones record, and that was it. My older brother had two or three Elvis Presley singles, and that was about it. The rest of it I did on my own.
George Thorogood
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George Thorogood
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: February 24
Baseball Player
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Wilmington
Delaware
George Lawrence Thorogood
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