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Lonnie Mack: The Instrumental Influence and Hit Star

Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 24 August 1963

BEAT instrumentals are probably at a higher degree of popularity in the States than ever before. Discs like 'Wipeout', 'Tips Of My Fingers', 'Pipeline', 'Hot Pastrami' and 'Wild Weekend', have all burned up – and down – the chart with astonishing frequency.

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