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Let’s make this viral: “Yes, You Can in Spokane”

A 45rpm record distributed at Expo '74 featured the song "Yes, You Can in Spokane."
A 45rpm record distributed at Expo '74 featured the song "Yes, You Can in Spokane."

A friend pulled one of these out of his collection of Spokane history ephemera and showed it to me.  No doubt many of these exist in record collections or dusty boxes of Expo '74 souvenirs, but these are a delightfully kitchy songs waiting to be heard again forty-plus years later. Singer Bob Bellows has the booming voice of a young Jack Jones or Steve Lawrence, but it's the songs that are the stars here.

Listen to the song here.



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