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Are America too good to be true?

Rosalind Russell, Disc, 1 April 1972

AMERICA ARE young, average age 19. They have only a few months of strong, regular professional experience behind them in Britain, plus one hit single 'A Horse With No Name' and one album. With this naive vulnerability, they took courage and brass neck in both hands and presented themselves in America. And they have survived. How¶was America (the country) persuaded to take this band of adventurers to heart?

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