Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen: Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
Mick Houghton, Let It Rock, May 1975
When you step up to a Juke box and you slip a nickel in,
You can bet your bottom dollar when the record starts to spin,
You'll hear a fiddle and a guitar. with that honky tonkin' sound,
It's that hillbilly breakdown that's spreading all around.
– 'Hillbilly Fever' by George Vaughn
Total word count of piece: 480
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