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My Brief Career as a Recording Artist

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It is a matter of record that my career as a recording artist spanned more than a decade. Four songs. Three records. Total royalties: less than $1. No reason to be jealous. It began accidentally in about the late 1960s. Here's the cover of the EP.   And here's the back cover. " Nobody Knows " was later used to lull rowdy teenagers to sleep at Gold Coast Secondary School Camps run by the Methodist Church. Doubtless, my soporific performance enhanced sleepiness. Also on this EP is a recording of my big sister's group, The Goldenway Three. Judith, the aforementioned Big Sis, is the lead and two other sisters (not mine), Janet and Heather Bishop, do the harmonies. I can be heard playing the piano on " Go Tell It On The Mountain ". Following this brilliant start was my venture into country music with a song about a horse. Not any horse. Gunsynd , the Goondiwindi Grey.  When Gunsynd ran his last race, a couple of established arti