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Back in the early eighties when I ran a record store on Wilshire in Santa Monica, my morning ritual for a couple years was to drop the needle on side one of this album at full volume as I turned the key and opened the doors. There was no other

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I once met Sam in his downtown Philadelphia store on Chestnut Street, when he came up and introduced himself to me. I doubt I was yet fourteen. "Hi...I'm Sam Goody", he said extending his hand, and he asked if he could help me find something.

For 50 years, Gene Shay's been the Philadelphia Folk Festival's hero BY JONATHAN TAKIFF Philadelphia Daily News takiffj@phillynews.com 215-854-5960 FOR SURE, there'll be some very familiar faces at the 50th annual Philadelphia Folk Festival, returning to the Old Pool Farm in Upper