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“A few days ago I got an e-mail from Mick Orton whose message requested I print a letter he included talking about his band Silver Laughter. You are able to read that letter below.

At first I was a bit hesitant about the letter wondering if this was some sort of scam, but as I looked online I determined Silver Laughter was in fact a band that played a lot of Beatles music as well as their own. I should have known. After all, “Mick Orton” just sounds like a musicians name, doesn’t it?

In his letter he writes about their heyday in the late 70s when they would play at places like Donovan’s in Redwood Falls.Although I have spent my life in Redwood Falls I really had little connection with this local establishment…”

(continues) “While I determined Silver Laughter was in fact legit, I wanted to find out more about them and hoped to find some sort of local connection…”

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