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Specialty Records: An Interview with Billy Vera

Tony Burke, Record Collector, September 2021

As the Specialty label celebrates 75 years, Tony Burke talks to Billy Vera – singer, songwriter, and the author of Rip it Up: The Specialty Records Story, a history of Art Rupe's label. 

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