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and an auditorium. A garage was built to store their tour buses.

In 1970, the group performed an Independence Day festival in Gypsy Hill Park in Staunton. The event, known as "Happy Birthday USA", went on for 25 years, often drawing in excess of 100,000 fans.

Lew DeWitt retired in 1982 after years of ill health. After a two-year hiatus, he undertook a solo career to the extent that his health permitted. He died in 1990, aged 52.

DeWitt was replaced by Jimmy Fortune,

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