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Star Of The Week — No. 7: Lonnie Donegan

Ian Dove, Record Mirror, 29 April 1961

LONNIE DONEGAN'S new single — to be released on May 3 — is 'Take a Drink On Me'. It is an adaptation of an old folk song that dealt with the dubious pleasures and pains of sniffing cocaine and called 'Take a Whiff On Me'.

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