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Secret History of Chicago Music: Shel Silverstein 

The music career of the famous cartoonist

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The title track for "Freaker's Ball" namechecks Chicago's own Cynthia Plaster Caster, and I think the line is "Plaster Casters casting their plaster/Masturbators baiting their master"

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