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The Penguins: ‘Earth Angel’ and the Heavenly Host

Bill Millar, Let It Rock, February 1973

THERE WERE a lot of a angels in the Rockin’ Fifties: ‘Teen Angel’, ‘Angel Baby’, ‘Angel Face’, ‘Angel of Romance’, ‘Angel of Mine’; Angels in the Rain, in the Sky, in the Fountain, on the Shoulder, Angels looking homeward. Angels singing and Angels Listening In, Angel of Death, Death of an Angel.

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