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Old 09-08-2010, 05:23 AM   #11 (permalink)
Jedey
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The Searchers were the first group to take a folk song and give it a rock treatment. Recorded in 1964 a year, before The Byrds "Mr. Tambourine Man", The Searchers covered Malvina Reynolds folk song about nuclear fallout entitled "What Have The Done To The Rain".

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