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The Life and Times of Ray Davis
Ray Davis grew up on a counsellor's date, and was thoroughly working class. He would regularly go to the College Film Society's showings of films by people like Bergman, Kuru Sarwa, and Trufo. His particular love at the time was the cinema, and he would complain about having to pay a whole shilling for entry. The Dave Hunt Band included things like the old, mid-looks lowest boogie piece, Honky-Tunk Train Blues which they would play in the style of Bob Crosby's bobcats.
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