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Chicago disc jockey Howard Miller suggested to Wood that he might want to sign Hunter, who was enormously popular and had just packed a stage show in Chicago with screaming girls. Wood asked if Hunter could sing, but Miller replied, "I don't know, it doesn't matter, I
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Sanford Clark's "The Fool" from producer
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re-record their old hits at various times; in 1968, Dot issued a various-artists album devoted to remakes of these artists' million-sellers.
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2659:"Beat Vinyl: Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker"
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2692:"Five things you don't know about Leonard Nimoy"
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2505:"Republic Records Revive Legendary Dot Records"
1126:. Big Machine discontinued the label in 2017.
856:. Later in 1967, Randy Wood left Dot to found
2303:"THE TEN COMMANDMENTS : General Release"
314:Dot's founder, Randy Wood, a veteran of the
2428:"Dot Album Discography, Part 6 (1971–1977)"
2354:"Dot Album Discography, Part 5 (1968-1973)"
2328:"Randy Wood: The Dot Records Story, Part 2"
2277:"Randy Wood: The Dot Records Story, Part 3"
2179:"Dot Album Discography, Part 2 (1955-1960)"
2153:"Randy Wood: The Dot Records Story, Part 1"
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2207:. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1956-12-01.
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1448:The Fairmount Singers
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159:MCA Records (1985–86)
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16:American record label
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1536:The Griffin Brothers
1151:adding missing items
645:The Ten Commandments
625:Warner Bros. Records
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299:Nashville, Tennessee
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21:Dot (disambiguation)
19:For other uses, see
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1885:The Shenandoah Trio
1640:Dr. Charles Kendall
1492:The Fontane Sisters
1217:The Andrews Sisters
1112:Big Machine Records
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864:Country music label
743:and the subsequent
673:the Andrews Sisters
586:, DLP-3024, 1956).
563:I Hear You Knocking
519:the Fontane Sisters
324:Gallatin, Tennessee
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1854:Warner Music Group
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653:Tony Martin
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468:Fats Domino
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1944:Gale Storm
1895:The Shires
1881:Ray Sharpe
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1698:Robin Luke
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1649:Gary Usher
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1540:Margie Day
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1395:Mac Curtis
1390:Bob Crosby
1382:The Counts
1294:Jimmy Boyd
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1267:Leon Berry
1147:incomplete
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1051:Jan Howard
1005:Blue Thumb
962:Ray Pillow
950:Eddy Raven
946:Buck Trent
842:Jerry Moss
783:Joe Feeney
617:Young Love
613:Ric Cartey
608:Tab Hunter
578:John Serry
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547:Gale Storm
523:the Jewels
464:Two Hearts
460:the Charms
444:Wayne King
403:, and the
401:the Counts
377:honky tonk
336:Cecil Gant
238:rockabilly
206:Randy Wood
127:(original)
106:Randy Wood
95:(original)
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2704:0319-0781
2591:March 25,
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1467:Jack Fina
1411:Jimmy Dee
1351:Roy Clark
1278:Pat Boone
1186:Hal Aloma
1032:Nashville
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974:Joe Barry
966:Doug Sahm
958:Ray Griff
938:Ray Price
894:Roy Clark
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