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Monday, August 24, 2026

Pickettywitch - Baby I won't let you down 1970

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The name Pickettywitch is often said to have been taken from a village in Cornwall through which their eventual lead singer, Polly Brown, had passed with her sister; [2] in fact, there is no such village, though there was a pub of that name at Yeovil in Somerset.
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