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Dexys Midnight Runners: Rambler in the Rye

Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 30 March 1983

AT LAST, a foot in the door! Dexys Midnight Runners: the name is finally getting around because of their brilliant, buoyant single 'Come On Eileen', and the album it graces, Too-Rye-Ay. This group that has enjoyed massive popularity in their native England has been a criminally unknown property in this country.

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