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Googie Rene
Googie Rene was a Detroit band that formed in the late 1960s. Their 1968 single "Smokey Joe's La La" became an immediate hit, though it was later the subject...
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Googie Rene was a Detroit band that formed in the late 1960s. Their 1968 single "Smokey Joe's La La" became an immediate hit, though it was later the subject of plagiarism accusations from The Marvelettes.
They never matched the success of that first single and disbanded by the late 1970s.
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