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If you’re from a small town in America, I bet you’ve heard these three country songs from 1979 at least once. And I bet at least one of them still gets carried around in your heart today. “Don’t wait ...

There’s no crying in baseball — when you root for the Yankees. Mets fans are in even more despair this week as the team got swept by the Cubs and fired their manager. But a 5-year-old Long Islander ...

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Were you born and raised in a small town, or somewhere in rural America? If you enjoyed your simple childhood during the 1970s, I bet these three small-town country songs from 1973 still sit heavy in ...