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MVFinds1
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Way Out West -Album inscribed on back cover by Mae West)

This is a rare Record inscribed by Actress Mae West to a fan in 1966.
Teen rock band Somebody's Chyldren was her back up on this album.

Tower(Capitol Records) – ST 5028
Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
US
1966

keramikos, 1 year ago
MVFinds1, Wow, that is some strange ish. };-)

The first track that caught my eye (probably because of the formatting on the album cover) was "Shakin' All Over," which was most familiar to me as a pre-Burton Cummings Guess Who cover.

Then I looked up the album in Discogs to get a gander at the rest:

https://www.discogs.com/release/703136-Mae-West-Way-Out-West

And my eye lit on the name "Ian Whitcomb."

That rang a bell, so I hadda look him up to find out why.

Whitcomb is probably best known (at least in the USA) for his novelty song, "You Turn Me On:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2FkCnDg0Us

Too mad Mae didn't include a cover of Sinatra's "My Way," but then I guess that wouldn't have been very rock-and-roll, huh? };-)

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