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A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners.

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Favoriting February 27, 2020: Testify! - The Songs of the Bee Gees - A Bouquet of Cover Versions 1965 to 1973

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Flying Burrito Brothers  To Love Somebody   Favoriting The Gilded Palace of Sin  A&M  1969  LP  0:01:13 (Pop-up)
Jose Feliciano  I've Got To Get a Message To You   Favoriting 10 to 23  RCA  1969  LP  0:04:30 (Pop-up)
Wayne Newton  They'll Never Know   Favoriting Red Roses For a Blue Lady  Capitol  1965  LP  0:07:37 (Pop-up)
Status Quo  Spicks and Specks   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Cadet Concept  1968  45  0:10:08 (Pop-up)
John Holt  Morning Of My Life   Favoriting 1000 Volts of Holt  Trojan  1973  LP  0:12:52 (Pop-up)
Candy Staton  Nights On Broadway   Favoriting 45RPM Single  WB  1977  45  0:15:38 (Pop-up)
 
Shanes  NY Mining Disaster 1941   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Columbia  1967  45  0:23:26 (Pop-up)
Jennifer (Warnes)  Close Another Door   Favoriting I Can Remember Everything  Parrot  1968  LP  0:25:44 (Pop-up)
Johnny Young  Craise Finton Kirk   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Clarion  1967  45  0:28:32 (Pop-up)
The Cyrkle  Red Chair Fadeaway   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Columbia  1967  45  0:30:50 (Pop-up)
Bill Shepherd Singers  Red Chair Fadeaway   Favoriting Aurora (Bill Shepherd Singers Sing Bee Gees Hits)  Atco  1968  LP  0:32:58 (Pop-up)
Jackie Lomax  One Minute Woman   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Epic  1968  45  0:35:22 (Pop-up)
The Cyrkle  Turn of the Century   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Columbia  1968  45  0:38:13 (Pop-up)
James Carr  To Love Somebody   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Goldwax  1969  45  0:40:33 (Pop-up)
Tangerine Peel  Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You   Favoriting 45RPM Single  UA  1967  45  0:43:51 (Pop-up)
Nina Simone  I Can't See Nobody   Favoriting 45RPM Single  RCA  1968  45  0:46:28 (Pop-up)
Nina Simone  Please Read Me   Favoriting Nuff Said  RCA  1968  LP  0:49:34 (Pop-up)
Jackie Cain and Roy Kral  Holiday   Favoriting Grass  Capitol  1968  LP  0:52:25 (Pop-up)
Roberta Flack  To Love Somebody   Favoriting Quiet Fire  Atlantic  1971  LP  0:55:54 (Pop-up)
 
Tom Jones  Let There Be Love   Favoriting Tom  Decca  1970  LP  1:09:56 (Pop-up)
Richie Havens  I Started a Joke   Favoriting Stonehenge  Stormy Forest  1969  LP  1:13:24 (Pop-up)
Sharon Tandy  World   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Atlantic  1968  45  1:16:16 (Pop-up)
Mystic Moods  And the Sun Will Shine   Favoriting Love Token  Philips  1969  LP  1:19:37 (Pop-up)
PJ Proby  And the Sun Will Shine   Favoriting What's Wrong With My World  Liberty  1968  LP  1:22:57 (Pop-up)
Buck Owens  Massachusetts   Favoriting The Warner Brothers Recordings  Rhino Handmade  2007  CD  1:26:37 (Pop-up)
Hubert Laws  I've Got To Get a Message To You   Favoriting Crying Song  CTI  1969  LP  1:29:00 (Pop-up)
Gloria Loring  Words   Favoriting And Now We Come To Distances  Evolution  1969  LP  1:32:04 (Pop-up)
Brooks Arthur Ensemble  First of May   Favoriting Traces  Verve  1969  LP  1:35:25 (Pop-up)
Lulu  Melody Fair   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Atlantic  1970  45  1:38:26 (Pop-up)
Duane Dee  How Can You Mend a Broken Heart   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Cartwheel  1971  45  1:41:07 (Pop-up)
Brenda Lee  Give a Hand Take a Hand   Favoriting Memphis Portrait  Decca  1970  LP  1:44:24 (Pop-up)
Sarah Vaughan  Run To Me   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Mainstream  1973  45  1:47:27 (Pop-up)
Jennifer Warnes  In the Morning   Favoriting Jennifer  Reprise  1972  LP  1:50:26 (Pop-up)
Labi Siffre  Words   Favoriting Labi Siffre  Pye  1970  LP  1:53:20 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  2:00:45 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!

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WR:

Checkin in early, will be running around doing errands but listening via my phone when I have signal.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey WR!
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John from NP:

TESTIFY!!!
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βrian:

Is it time to get up offa that thing?
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doctorjazz:

Oh, yeah!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey John! Brian! Doc!
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John from NP:

Hello fellow Manalapanosaurus
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doctorjazz:

Burrito covers, so good!
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doctorjazz:

(One of those tunes that's hard to do a bad cover of)
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edelkakao cha cha:

hi everyone! Viva burritos!
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Funky16Corners:

Hi edel!
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Pauly from Clifton:

Good afternoon, all! Delicious Burrito coverage of BGs!
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John from NP:

Great show so far, Larry
:)
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doctorjazz:

In an early Bee Gees kinda mood, huh?
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Funky16Corners:

Hi Pauly!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks John!
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Julie:

1969 was such an amazing year for music
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Hubig Pie:

Low does a nice cover of I started a Joke
  3:08pm
CupcakeJenny:

Hi all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:08pm
Funky16Corners:

Julie! Hubig Pie! Jenny!
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Erica:

Hey Testifiers! Sorry I'm late to the chat. I had trouble with the chat on my phone as the layout changed a bit.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:11pm
Funky16Corners:

Hi Erica!
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Julie:

I was just saying there's a couple songs on the first Genesis album I swear Peter is trying to sound like the Bee Gees
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:12pm
doctorjazz:

Sounded Like a Fountains of Wayne song (before the singing started). THAT'S where the riff (simple as out is)came from!
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Funky16Corners:

@Erica - I just noticed that (I monitor the show on my phone)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:12pm
Funky16Corners:

@Julie - It wouldn't surprise me, They were much bigger in the UK than they were here at the time
Avatar 3:14pm
Julie:

A lot of people still don't know there's much more to them than disco
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:14pm
Funky16Corners:

@Doc - I wouldn't be surprised if FoW ingested the early Bee Gees stuff heavily
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:15pm
Funky16Corners:

@Julie - I got into the earky stiuff back in the mod/garage days of the 80s and I've been an evangelist for that stuff ever since
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dutchtheo:

Howdy Larry & gibbsters
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Stanley:

Sweet Candy
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Funky16Corners:

Theo! Stanley!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:18pm
doctorjazz:

The status a Quo line with just the guitar playing a single note, FOW used it on a tune that escapes me this moment
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Little Danny:

Heya Larry, hey all
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Erica:

The Expanded edition of the Bee Gees early albums include Christmas songs.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Danny!
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23 Wolves:

I'm so excited for this BG special! I love the Brothers Gibb so much. Super show so far!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey 23Wolves! Thanks!
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Creature Boy:

Also a great version of I Am Waiting by the Stones on that "Jennifer" album
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Creature Boy! Yes, those first three albums of hers (two on Parrot and one on Reprise) are outstanding.
  3:31pm
CupcakeJenny:

Ok I have to go to a meeting. By everyone. See u soon Larry G.
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Creature Boy:

Ah! I'll check out the others , funk
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Funky16Corners:

Bye Jenny! See you at home!
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Erica:

See you Jenny.
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Funky16Corners:

The third Jennifer Warnes album is produced by John Cale. Really good
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:33pm
Little Danny:

Dang. Don't think I've ever heard any '60s versions of "Red Chair Fade Away." This is pretty faithful, I even hear some mellotron-like tones!
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Sem:

Hello, Larry the G, the freely-testifying, and those doing do under duress. That's worse than being under the weather, underwater and under a misapprehension. Understand?
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Funky16Corners:

Here comes another!
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Little Danny:

(one of my top five Bee Gees tracks btw, Red Chair Fade Away)
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Little Danny:

Whoooa
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:34pm
Funky16Corners:

Hey Sem!
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Funky16Corners:

Bill Shepherd was the arranger on all the early Bee Gees LPs. This is his album of easy takes on their stuff. Atco 1968
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:40pm
Funky16Corners:

The Cyrkle with two separate 45s with Bee Gees covers!
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Sem:

I wonder if this was before or after Red Rubber Ball?
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Funky16Corners:

After
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Funky16Corners:

Red Rubber Ball was 1966
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doctorjazz:

James Carr, ahhhhhhhhh......
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:43pm
Funky16Corners:

My sentiments exactly
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Creature Boy:

John Cale ! Jeepers! That red rubber ball album has Lotsa great chunks in it
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KevinfromBayRidge:

Hey Larry et al. You can't go wrong with this one ( To Love Somebody. Saw Swamp Dogg do this as a show finale at a free noon show at MetroTech in Brooklyn. WooooooW!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Kevin!
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Funky16Corners:

Been getting into Roberta Flack's first five or six albums lately. Lots of great stuff.
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Brian in UK:

Hello Larry, how slow can you go.
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Brian! I've gone slower...
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Brian in UK:

Me too but I was horizontal at the time.
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John from NP:

Good luck to your son, Larry. Hope all goes well.
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doctorjazz:

I also thought Nina Simone sounded like another Bee Gee.
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks John!
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zivilars:

Hey Larry – long time listener via podcast, but first time live. Great show, great job, thanks for all the great hours of music!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks zivilars! Welcome to the chat!
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Erica:

Hi Zivilars. Welcome to the chat.
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zivilars:

Thanks Erica & Larry!
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doctorjazz:

PJ, another singer with that insane vibrato.
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Funky16Corners:

Yeah, he and Robin Gibb could have a quaver-off
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Funky16Corners:

Proby was kind of wacky, but when he was on, he was really good
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Brian in UK:

Did P J Proby cover Somewhere from west Side Story. Some-er-where.
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Funky16Corners:

I think he did
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doctorjazz:

Buck Owens? Wouldn'ta, guessed.
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Sem:

Love some Buck from time to time. Thx, Larry.

Greets, BiUK.
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Funky16Corners:

I think this was initially unreleased. It came out on a comp in 2007
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Funky16Corners:

@Sem - I LOVE 1960s Buck/Buckaroos!
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Sem:

Isn't BiUK Owens a Welsh name?
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zivilars:

You can give me Buck Owens any day – love him
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:30pm
Brian in UK:

Hey Sem, did I see you quoting Dylan Thomas the other day?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:32pm
Sem:

Yes, you did.

Quoted the 4th stanza, about Wild men. Also learned that the form of that piece was an Italian form, the word for which translated into "peasant."
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Brian in UK:

Are you acquainted with Under Milk Wood - A play for voices?
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Sem:

villanelle.

Yes, Brian. Have heard it on a number of occsions, always just mind-altering. That voice, I would kill for one like it. To say nothing of the romantic sensibility. And the vocabulary. And the intensity, ...ah, shit.
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Brian in UK:

F16C this covers came out so soon after the album.
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Funky16Corners:

Yes, lots of very contemporary covers. I suspect the Bee Gees publishing was getting the material out there very fast
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Brian in UK:

There are several versions but it has to be Richard Burton. Such wonderful use of words. '...thirst like a dredger'. comes to mind.
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Funky16Corners:

BTW when this came out,Lulu was Mrs Maurice Gibb
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Sem:

Yes, Burton the sine qua non no doubt.
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Sem:

Forgotten that pop culture nugget.
Everyone so young.
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Erica:

I didn't know Lulu married Morris. Thanks for sharing Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

That's why I'm here!
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zivilars:

This is such a nice calming set for a late evening here ...
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Brian in UK:

I think that Lulu wore a fur lined outfit on the day (this is a very distant memory and probably dodgy memory)
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Funky16Corners:

@zivilars - Thanks! I always try to keep the final set mellow.
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doctorjazz:

This is the end, my only friend, the end.
Great show, though, thanks, Larry! (Going to catch up with the parts of last night's Bodega Pop Beatles tribute whilewaiting for Flash).
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Funky16Corners:

Take it easy Doc!
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zivilars:

@Larry: You definitely did a perfect job! :)
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Brian in UK:

So, parts 2-11 after the marathon.
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Sem:

@Brian: d29l8fj0bhi1tg.cloudfront.net...
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Funky16Corners:

That does appear to be fur-lined!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:51pm
Brian in UK:

Sem, Stroll on, not seen that since it happened.

Good luck for next week, Larry.
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Erica:

What time does the marathon start Larry? Just want to be sure.
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Funky16Corners:

This Saturday on Todd's show
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks Brian!
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Erica:

Not sure I can make it Larry, if it's in the morning or afternoon.
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Sem:

Been a smooth ride down memory lane, much obliged, Larry. See you 'round the Marathon. Catch up w/ you and all then.
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doctorjazz:

Don't know Labi Siffri, fine singer.
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Funky16Corners:

Later Sem!
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zivilars:

Thanks, Larry – have a great day! Goodnight everybody!
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Funky16Corners:

@Doc - Much bigger in the UK and Europe. Really nice voice
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Erica:

Thanks for the Bee Gees tribute show Larry. Until next time.
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks zivilars! Erica!
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