Stakes and Chips

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I recently got the Roulettes' one and only album Stakes and Chips.  The Roulettes is one of the bands that Russ Ballard and Bob Henrit were in before Argent.

I've listened to it only twice so far, but I really like it.  While listening to it this morning, I realized how weirdly coincidental it is that one of the bonus tracks is their cover of Smokey Robinson & the Miracles' "The Tracks of My Tears."  Mishearing "if you look closer, it's easy to trace" is how Rod Argent came up with the phrase "time of the season" (if I recall correctly, he misheard it as "at the close of the season").