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Jimmy Jones Gets Used to Our One-Nighters

June Harris, Disc, 29 October 1960

IT IS TWO and a half weeks since Jimmy Jones started his British tour, and it was not until last week at the Astoria Cinema, Finsbury Park in London, that he experienced his first bad house — only about 500 turned up to the giant 3,000-seater, mainly because the show had started before most people had got home from work. The second house showed a distinct improvement!

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