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Rusty Michaels Beats Odds as Downey club singer
Nancy Irene Wilson known as Rusty Michaels, a self taught singer from Downey, wowed a hostile audience of 300 reform school delinquents in Downey. She adapted her set from Smokey Robinson to folk and pop and earned a standing ovation after an hour and a half.
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Todd Thomey
Curly Jones
Prime Rib West
Downey
Rusty Michaels
Rusty
Imperial Highway
Clark Avenue
Nancy Irene Wilson
St. Francis Hospital
Lynwood
California
Downey Ywca
Nancy Wilson
Los Padrinos
Smokey Robinson
Stevie Wonder
Peter, Paul and Mary
Warren Iigh
Michaels
Michael
Luella
Downey's
Imperial Elementary School
Canterbury Singers