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Voices in the Wire

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The Sound of Selling

I did a whole record on the sound of selling. Vegetable men shouting apples apples on the street. I've got horse and wagon selling vegetables. My mule is white. My charcoal is black. I sell my charcoal. It was February third 1956 when Tony Schwartz appeared at the information desk of the animal shelter to ask for a dog. These are obedience trained dogs working toward degrees which of course that's like receiving a college diploma.

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