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"DEAD CATS: THEY EXPLAIN FOSSILS"
by Ken Ham
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Ham is director and co-founder of the Creation Science Foundation of Australia; this is from his radio series "Answers", which provides responses to questions you didn't ask. | November 2004 | |
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"WE REMEMBER LACI (STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN)"
by Tony Handy
(From "Laci Peterson Tribute Songs"
by Various)
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"We Remember Laci (Straight to Heaven)" was written and performed by Oakland resident Tony Handy who described it as "a pop tune with strains of jazz and soul." Handy added, "Everyone has been moved by the events as they unfold. As the story went on, I wanted to get more involved." Maybe I'm just being cynical, but the lack of any Laci-specific content and the frequent references to “Princess Angels” make it appear that Handy merely dusted off a Princess Diana tribute and slapped the Peterson brand on it. Listen for the excited backup singers who make it sound as if Laci's leaving on that midnight train to heaven. | March 2007 | |
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"THERE AIN'T NO RUNNING AWAY"
by Hand of Doom
(From "LSD Connection/Mushroom Metal Mayhem, vol. 8"
by Various Artists)
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February 2007 | ||
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"LIVE AT SXSW, MARCH 14, 2008"
by Hank IV
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More from WFMU's first SXSW bash in Austin on March 14th at Spiro's. Hank IV put on one hell of a rocking performance. Singer Bob McDonald (ex-Denver hardcore band Bum Kon) had just become ambulatory after screwing up his knee a few months back in San Francisco with one of his trademark stage pirouettes. Although hobbled, Bob gamely gave his best, dragging his leg apparatus around the stage in a no-less amped-up performance. Go here for a full set list and individual downloads. | March 2008 | |
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"ENLIGHTENMENT: DRUID II"
by David M. Hanlon
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The infamous Swedish cracking group Fairlight would always use this song on their early intros. A spooky classic. Read more about hacking and cracking and teenage computer shenanigans here. | July 2005 | |
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"DEMO"
by Derrick Hannibal
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Feeling Old Feelings, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, A Capella Medley, Conclusion demos made without the help of backup musicians. | April 2007 | |
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"GOOD MORNING, MR. KOKOMO"
by Bob Hannon
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At exactly three forty-five on September 19, 1957, unemployed organ grinder Bob Hannon entered RCA Studio 4 and made monkey history with this two-sided tribute to the "Today" show's Animal Editor, Kokomo, Jr., the Talking Chimpanzee. | March 2008 | |
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"GOOD MORNING, MR. KOKOMO-SIDE 1"
by Bob Hannon
(From "Good Morning, Mr. Kokomo"
by Bob Hannon)
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Side 1 includes "Good Morning, Mister Kokomo" and "Poughkeepsie." | March 2008 | |
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"GOOD MORNING, MR. KOKOMO-SIDE 2"
by Bob Hannon
(From "Good Morning, Mr. Kokomo"
by Bob Hannon)
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Side 2 includes "Every Monkey Should Go To School," "Mother Kokomo's Lullaby," and "I Like Everybody." | March 2008 | |
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"ARTZA ALINU"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers
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"Artza Alinu" is a lovely and haunting album of Israeli folk songs, recorded circa 1967, perhaps not long after the Six-Day War. Check out the scans of the jacket back and transliteration/translation sheet here for some context. | November 2007 | |
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"ARTZA ALINU-YESH RECHOV AROCH"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers
(From "Artza Alinu"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers)
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November 2007 | ||
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"HA YOSHEVET BAGANIM"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers
(From "Artza Alinu"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers)
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November 2007 | ||
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"UHALU HAGRANOT-BAR EILEH CHAMDA LIBI"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers
(From "Artza Alinu"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers)
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November 2007 | ||
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"SIMI YADECH"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers
(From "Artza Alinu"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers)
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November 2007 | ||
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"BNEI YERUSHALAIM"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers
(From "Artza Alinu"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers)
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November 2007 | ||
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"SHIR HALETSAN"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers
(From "Artza Alinu"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers)
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November 2007 | ||
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"HASELA HAADOM"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers
(From "Artza Alinu"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers)
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November 2007 | ||
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"RAKEFET"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers
(From "Artza Alinu"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers)
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November 2007 | ||
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"RONU RONU"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers
(From "Artza Alinu"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers)
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November 2007 | ||
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"SHALOM CHAVERIM"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers
(From "Artza Alinu"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers)
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November 2007 | ||
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"YASHEN LO KFARIM"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers
(From "Artza Alinu"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers)
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November 2007 | ||
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"SAHKI, SAHKI"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers
(From "Artza Alinu"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers)
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November 2007 | ||
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"HAFLE VAFELE"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers
(From "Artza Alinu"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers)
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November 2007 | ||
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"BO VEESHAK LECHA"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers
(From "Artza Alinu"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers)
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November 2007 | ||
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"NIVIM DOVRIM HAG"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers
(From "Artza Alinu"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers)
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November 2007 | ||
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"YATZANU AT"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers
(From "Artza Alinu"
by The Hanoar Hazioni Singers)
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November 2007 | ||
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"NOTORIUS B.I.G.'S LIFE AFTER DEATH"
by Hazy Haphace
(From "Ten Albums in Ten Minutes"
by Various)
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March 2007 | ||
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"CLAP YOUR TENTACLES"
by Happy Monsters
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A faithful cover version of the Godfather himself, nice and raw with decent production. However, the Happy Monsters appear to be on lead vocals: Klaxons, bells, squeaks and parps are strewn all over the top of the final mix, making the whole thing rather comical. The music on this record comes from The Soul Symphony’s Symphony of Soul LP on the Stereo Gold label. | February 2007 | |
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"AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls
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This track comes from an album called "Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls." Produced in 1970, It bears no relation whatsoever to to the stage show/movie. In fact, there's not a single show tune on the album. It's 60% hymns, 15% traditional Korean folks songs, and 15% Americana. Who is Billy James Hargis? Well, he not only helped establish the modern Religious Right movement, but he also laid the groundwork for one of its greatest leaders, Ted Haggard. A year or so after this album came out, Hargis found himself booted out of the college he founded for alledged sexual misconduct with both male and female students in his youth choir. | March 2009 | |
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"BILLY JAMES HARGIS' KOREAN GUYS AND DOLLS"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls
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Last month in On the Download, we presented "America the Beautiful" from this album. Due to overwhelming disgust, we are now presenting the entire thing for your edification. | April 2009 | |
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"THREE KOREAN CHILDREN'S SONGS"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls
(From "Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls)
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"KOREAN FOLK SONGS"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls
(From "Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls)
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April 2009 | ||
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"LIFT THINE EYES"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls
(From "Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls)
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April 2009 | ||
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"PSALM 23"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls
(From "Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls)
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"AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls
(From "Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls)
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"MY JESUS THOU WILT/BLESSED ASSURANCE"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls
(From "Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls)
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"HOW GREAT THOU ART"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls
(From "Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls)
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"HE HIDETH MY SOUL"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls
(From "Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls)
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"IN THE GARDEN"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls
(From "Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls)
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"BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls
(From "Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls)
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"DOWN IN THE VALLEY"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls
(From "Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls"
by Billy James Hargis' Korean Guys and Dolls)
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"THIRD MAN ROCK, NOISY RESERVATION"
by Buddy Harman Combo
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This past August, the music world suffered a catastrophic loss when drummer Buddy Harman died of congestive heart failure at age 79. For many years, Harman was the drummer for Nashville's "A-team" of session musicians. One obituary pointed out that Harman had played on over 18,000 recording sessions. Records featuring Buddy's drumming include Roy Orbison's "Oh! Pretty Woman," Patsy Cline's "Crazy," Johnny Cash's "Ring Of Fire," Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man," and Elvis Presley's "Little Sister." Perhaps best of all, he was the drummer on Ray Price's "Crazy Arms," a record that gave birth to one of the most enduring and irresistible sounds in all of recorded music: the country shuffle. Here is Buddy on one of the all-too-rare occasions when he recorded under his own name. R.I.P., Buddy. | October 2008 | |
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"LIVE AT ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES FESTIVAL"
by Harmonia
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German supergroup Harmonia = the pioneering ambient-electronic duo Cluster (Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius) + Michael Rother (of Krautrock legends NEU!). The group began in 1973, and originally called it quits after their 1976 album "Tracks and Traces," which featured Brian Eno. But the original Harmonia lineup reunited last year, and put on an amazing show at September's All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Monticello, NY. The set was a universal highlight among many festival goers and WFMU listeners. Here it is in its entirety. | November 2008 | |
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"I WISH I WAS A SINGLE GIRL AGAIN"
by Kelly Harrell
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One of the lovelier residents of WFMU's Cassette Library (we still keep 'em and play 'em from time to time) are tape collections called Victrola Favorites, put out by Seattle experimentalists and sometime WFMU guests the Climax Golden Twins. This amazing series of tapes floated around like a midway point between Yazoo's Secret Museum series and the Sun City Girls' recent Sublime Frequencies series; wedding old time jazz, pop, novelty tunes from the early 20th century with super 78s from exotic locales around the world (some of my favorite moments are taken from various comedy/theater 78s from the Far East). The Twins have posted a few MP3, one of my favorite being Kelly Harrell's "I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again" (MP3), a hillbilly gem from 1928. Kelly being a he is probably the key point in question here, and hence possibly also explains the 1927 song "My Wife Done and Left Me Again"? | August 2005 | |
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"MAY YOU ALWAYS"
by Harry Harrison
(From "When DJs Sing"
by Various Artists)
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Not actually released as a single. Dave the Spazz taped it off the air from the old CBS-FM, when its airing was an annual ritual. | May 2007 | |
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"PARTY TIME: DANCE AND GAME SONGS"
by Betty Harris and Jack Arthur With the Diplomat Orchestra and Chorus
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(Twinkle Records TW-18) | September 2007 | |
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"LITTLE BOY, LITTLE GIRL"
by Betty Harris and Jack Arthur With the Diplomat Orchestra and Chorus
(From "Party Time: Dance and Game Songs"
by Betty Harris and Jack Arthur With the Diplomat Orchestra and Chorus)
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"STASHU PANDOWSKI"
by Betty Harris and Jack Arthur With the Diplomat Orchestra and Chorus
(From "Party Time: Dance and Game Songs"
by Betty Harris and Jack Arthur With the Diplomat Orchestra and Chorus)
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September 2007 | ||
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"TURKEY IN THE STRAW"
by Betty Harris and Jack Arthur With the Diplomat Orchestra and Chorus
(From "Party Time: Dance and Game Songs"
by Betty Harris and Jack Arthur With the Diplomat Orchestra and Chorus)
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September 2007 | ||
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"MEXICAN CLAP HANDS"
by Betty Harris and Jack Arthur With the Diplomat Orchestra and Chorus
(From "Party Time: Dance and Game Songs"
by Betty Harris and Jack Arthur With the Diplomat Orchestra and Chorus)
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September 2007 | ||
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"HOKEY POKEY"
by Betty Harris and Jack Arthur With the Diplomat Orchestra and Chorus
(From "Party Time: Dance and Game Songs"
by Betty Harris and Jack Arthur With the Diplomat Orchestra and Chorus)
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September 2007 | ||
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"A LETTER TO FARON YOUNG"
by Rod Harris
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Speaking of Faron Young, here's a late 60s goofball 45 by Rod Harris, who writes a letter to Faron begging for a slot in Faron's band. | December 2008 | |
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"STYLOPHONE PLAY-ALONG 45 - LATIN AMERICAN STYLE"
by Rolf Harris
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For all Stylophone owners out there, here is the third in a series of records for you to play your stylophone along to. Eight Latin American grooves all the way from Cricklewood in West London. Ay Caramba! Etc. Crackly old vinyl, but that just adds to the charm. Check out the wild jazz guitar on Chinatown. Performers: Rolf Harris - Stylophone, Jack Emblow - Transicord, Bernie Woods - Bass, Sid Jacobsen - Guitar, Terry Seymour - Drums, Bert Meredith - L/A Percussion. | September 2007 | |
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"TUNING-A + BLUE MOON"
by Rolf Harris
(From "Stylophone Play-along 45 - Latin American Style"
by Rolf Harris)
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September 2007 | ||
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"BRAZIL"
by Rolf Harris
(From "Stylophone Play-along 45 - Latin American Style"
by Rolf Harris)
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September 2007 | ||
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"IT HAD TO BE YOU"
by Rolf Harris
(From "Stylophone Play-along 45 - Latin American Style"
by Rolf Harris)
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September 2007 | ||
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"OVER THE RAINBOW"
by Rolf Harris
(From "Stylophone Play-along 45 - Latin American Style"
by Rolf Harris)
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September 2007 | ||
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"LAURA"
by Rolf Harris
(From "Stylophone Play-along 45 - Latin American Style"
by Rolf Harris)
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September 2007 | ||
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"CHINATOWN"
by Rolf Harris
(From "Stylophone Play-along 45 - Latin American Style"
by Rolf Harris)
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September 2007 | ||
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"WHA!"
by Rolf Harris
(From "Stylophone Play-along 45 - Latin American Style"
by Rolf Harris)
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