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Modern Soviet Poetry and Humor: Read by...
A. (Aleksandr) Demidov
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A Double Barrel Blast
Various Artists
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Nobody and Other Songs
Bert Williams
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The Fuzzy Peach
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Irish Humour
Hal Roach
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Ten Little Bottles
Bert Williams
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O Death Where Is Thy Sting?
Bert Williams
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Nobody
Bert Williams
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My Last Dollar
Bert Williams
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I'm Gonna Quit Saturday
Bert Williams
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I'm Neutral
Bert Williams
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La Ploop de Ma Tante
Leonard Elliott
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The High Cost of Dying (Funeral Parlor...
Various Artists
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Listening in on Computer Conversations
Various Artists
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Somebody
Bert Williams
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The Moon Shines on the Moonshine
Bert Williams
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Twenty Years
Bert Williams
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Bring Back Those Wonderful Days
Bert Williams
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I Want to Know Where Tosti Went
Bert Williams
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Unlucky Blues
Bert Williams
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He's a Cousin of Mine
Bert Williams
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You Can't Get Away From It
Bert Williams
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Passport - Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky
A. (Aleksandr) Demidov
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Flowers - Sergey Alexandrovich Yesenin
A. (Aleksandr) Demidov
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