The Supremes hold down the #1 spot for the third straight week with their second chart-topper, "Baby Love." The #2 and #3 records also gain a two point advance this week as "Leader Of The Pack" by The Shangri-Las slides into the #2 position and Jay and the Americans' "Come A Little Bit Closer" slips up right behind it at #3.
Both of these records look to be future #1 contenders ... but don't rule out the unlikely hit by Bonanza's Lorne Greene, whose spoken word record "Ringo" climbs from #11 to #6. Right behind it is "She's Not There" by The Zombies, one of three Top Ten Records by British acts this week. (The others are "Have I The Right" by The Honeycombs, which slips down a spot to #5, and "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks, up six spots to #9.)
Talk about your unlikely Top Ten Hits, how are Dean Martin's "The Door Is Still Open To My Heart" and Bobby Vinton's "Mr. Lonely" able to compete during this age of British Rock and Motown?!?! Yet they currently sit at #8 and #10 respectively this week ... and Bobby Vinton's record is showing real momentum as it climbs from #18 to #10.
Other British rockers doing well this week include The Rolling Stones (up eight places to #11 with "Time Is On My Side), Manfred Mann, still in the Top 20 with their former #1 Hit "Do Wah Diddy Diddy," Herman's Hermits, who climb nine spots with their first US Hit, "I'm Into Something Good," Peter and Gordon with "I Don't Want To See You Again," The Nashville Teens with "Tobacco Road," The Searchers' hit "When You Walk In The Room," and Gerry and the Pacemakers with "I Like It," all of which are Top 40 Records this week in '64.
Speaking of Top 40 Hits, The Supremes' follow-up hit, "Come See About Me," makes a giant leap from #78 to #36 in its second week on the chart, even as they hold down the #1 spot for the third week in a row. (This one could easily follow it to the top of the chart ... that's a move of 42 places!!!)
The Dave Clark Five have the top debut this week as "Any Way You Want It," a real raucous rocker, premiers at #63. Marianne Faithfull (Mick Jagger's girlfriend) is up 19 places to #71 with a song Mick wrote for her (and a song that The Stones will eventually record as well), "As Tears Go By," reportedly the first song ever written by The Glimmer Twins, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
And Chad and Jeremy (now officially BILLED as Chad and Jeremy ... instead of Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde) are back on the chart this week with a remake of a real oldie ... it dates back to 1932 ... "Willow Weep For Me." It premiers at #84.
How's that for the two extremes of British Rock, circa November, 1964!!!
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
11/16/64 – Baseball Great Dwight Gooden is born
Also on 11/16, Jay and the Americans record “Let’s Lock The
Door”
Their current hit, "Come A Little Bit Closer," sits at #3 on this week's Super Chart
Also on 11/16, The Animals record “Don’t Let Me Be
Misunderstood”
11/15/64 – Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones is hospitalized
in Chicago with a 104-degree fever and misses three days of The Stones’ 1964
American Tour.
Also on 11/15, ABC television airs the British TV Special
“Around The Beatles”
(see our May 6th entry for more details)
Also on 11/15, Peter and Gordon appear on “The Ed Sullivan
Show”
(This ain't it ... but this clip was too beautiful not to share!!!) kk
A brand new public service announcement from our Forgotten Hits Safety Department Director, Chuck Buell ... who always just seems to know these things!!!
This Saturday, November 16th, is "International Check Your Wipers Day," an important reminder for drivers worldwide! ( True! )
If your Windshield Wipers are Streaking, Squeaking, Skipping or Splitting ... or if they're like many of us, simply Aging with Advanced Wear, it's time to get them replaced to ensure your wipers are in top condition for the colder months ahead. You certainly want to see clearly so you don't wipe out!
And with that thought in mind, here is one of the Best All Time Forgotten Hits to get you inspired to do just that!
Well, it's about TIME!!! (I swear, I've been checking it every day!!!)
Just in time ... to miss Halloween ... not quite sure I get that one ...
But here's our buddy Freddy Cannon, Rich Koz (and, so you don't have to bother to scroll back) a quick Me-TV "cheat sheet" as to some of the cameos you'll see in this video! (They're all recapped at the end, too!) kk
00:03 Freddy
"Boom Boom" Cannon
00:05 Svengoolie
00:10 Joe Mantegna
& Rick Baker
00:20 Doug Graves
& Anita X. Orcist
00:23 George
Thorogood
00:27 Dana Gould
00:52 The Sven
Squad: Gwengoolie, Nostalgiaferatoo and IMP
00:57 Joe Bob Briggs
& Darcy
01:02 Michael McKean
& Annette O'Toole
01:11 Bill Mumy
01:16 Daniel Roebuck
01:19 Frank Conniff
01:25 Frank Ferrante
01:34 Gena Schock
01:48 Billy Gardell
01:56 Trace Beaulieu
02:12 Lisa Marie
Varon
02:59 David
Dastmalchian
>>>Today's presentation is a Clark / Kent
Production!!!(kk)
And thanks to you for the wishes
on my 74th time around the sun. You’re the best. Hi to Frannie.
Rock on!!
Jimbo
For the record, “You Wouldn’t Listen” peaked at #42 in
Billboard and #41 in Record World.(It seems
nearly all of our Chicagoland groups performed a little better in Record World
than they did anywhere else … I think they gave more consideration to our two
AM powerhouse stations at the time, WLS and WCFL.)
The follow-up, “Roller Coaster,” peaked at #92 in Billboard
(it bubbled under in Cash Box and Record World) and then “Vehicle” made The Top
Ten in all three, rising highest in Billboard, where it peaked at #2.
Hope you had a Happy Birthday celebration!(kk)
Speaking of 1966, that's the year MOST of us discovered Nancy Sinatra for the very first time ...
And Nancy Sinatra fans now have a couple
of expanded reissues to look forward to …
(OK, now that just may be my SECOND favorite album cover from the '60's!!!) kk
I had a front row balcony seat
for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Farewell Tour at the Ryman Auditorium in
Nashville last night.
The band now includes Jeff Hanna
and Jimmy Fadden who founded the group in 1966, and Bob Carpenter on keyboards,
who joined in 1980, as well as Jeff’s son Jaime Hanna (Mavericks) on guitar,
Ross Holmes (Mumford and Sons) fiddle and songwriter Jim Photoglo (Dan
Fogelberg) bass.
The trio of Nashville’s premier
female songwriters, known as Wine Women and Song, composed of Jeff’s wife
Matraca Berg, Gretchen Peters and Suzy Bogguss opened the show. Duo Larkin Poe,
who appear with the band and the trio on the group’s most recent album “Dirt
Does Dylan,” were also part of the show. Emmylou Harris made a guest
appearance.
Highlights included the band’s
biggest hits, “Mr. Bojangles,” “Fishin’ In The Dark” (written by Jim Photoglo)
and “American Dream,” as well as Bob Carpenter singing the Rascal Flatts
hit “Bless The Broken Road,” which was originally recorded by the Dirt
Band and Emmylou Harris’ singing her hit “Two Moe Bottles Of Wine.”
Ed Salamon
The NGDB with Emmylou Harris and
Wine, Women and Song
NGDB founder Jimmy Fadden and
Jeff Hanna /
Emmylou Harris with the NGDB at the Ryman “Two More Bottles Of Wine”
NGDB’s Jimmy Fadden, Jeff Hanna
and Bob Carpenter “Bless The Broken Road”
While it seems that Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend may
team up again for a 2025 Who tour, Roger is first going to take his idea of a
stripped down, much more acoustic set on a solo run through Great Britain in
the spring.
Announced dates thus far include:
April 20th – Brighton – Brighton Dome
April 21st – London – London Palladium
April 23rd – Southend-on-Sea – Cliffs Pavilion
April 24th – Wolverhampton – Univ. of Wolverhampton at the Halls
April 26th – Dundee – Caird Hall
April 28th – Glasgow – SEC Armadillo
April 30th – Edinburgh – The Usher Hall
May 1st – Gateshead – The Glasshouse
May 4th – Manchester – The Bridgewater Hall
Neil Young turns 79 today! 79!!! Hard to think of him that old. Odd fellow
often, but hope he is doing well. Love lots of his music. Hope he
keeps on "Rockin in the FREE world! "
Clark Besch
Old man ... take a look at his life!
Harvey Kubernik sent us a nice piece commemorating Neil's 79th birthday ...
Too long to run here ...
But if anybody wants a copy, shoot me an email and I'll be happy to send it along!) (kk)
From Timmy …
Linda LaFlamme, a songwriter and keyboardist who helped
found the San Francisco folk-rock band It’s a Beautiful Day in 1967 and
co-wrote the band’s soaring “White Bird,” an enduring anthem of the psychedelic
era, died on October 23rd in Harrisonburg, Va. She was 85.
“White Bird” is one of those timeless Classic Rock songs
that deserves a better legacy than it’s gotten.
True connoisseurs of the genre
seem to agree …
In our TOP 3333 MOST-ESSENTIAL
CLASSIC ROCK SONGS Poll taken a few years ago, it finished at #763,
ahead of classic rock radio staples like “Breakfast In America” by Supertramp,
Neil Young’s “Old Man,” “My Old School” by Steely Dan, “I’m Just A Singer In A
Rock And Roll Band” by The Moody Blues and “The Living Years” by Mike and the
Mechanics … and that’s just thru #800.
This is a GREAT track that radio programmers may need to be
reminded of from time to time in order to keep it on the airplay radar.Her husband at the time, singer and violinist
David LaFlamme (who cowrote the song and also cut a solo version a few years
later) died last year.(kk)
The Songwriters Hall Of Fame just announced their candidates
for 2025 … and it is QUITE a list!!! (The very idea that some of these names
have never been recognized before is just staggering!)
The Songwriters Hall of Fame has revealed a full slate of
nominees for induction to its Class of 2025. And as so often happens, many of
the names on the list—revealed on November 12, 2024—elicit a “how is s/he not
already in?” response. Steve Winwood, Janet Jackson, David Gates (best known
for his years with Bread), Tommy James, and the Doobie Brothers’ Tom Johnston,
Michael McDonald and Patrick Simmons are among those nominated.
Want more? Sheryl Crow, Bryan Adams, George Alan O’Dowd
(p/k/a) Boy George, funk legend George Clinton, Mike Love, Alanis Morissette,
are also on the nominees list, among many more.
Performing songwriters include Bryan Adams (“Heaven,”
“Summer of ’69”), George O’Dowd (Boy George), “Karma Chameleon,” George Clinton
(“Atomic Dog”), Sheryl Crow (“All I Wanna Do,” “Every Day Is A Winding Road”), Doobie
Brothers Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald and Patrick Simmons (“Listen to the
Music,” “What a Fool Believes”), Marshall Mathers (Eminem), “Lose Yourself,”
David Gates of Bread (“Make It With You”), Janet Jackson (“Black Cat”), Tommy James
(“Crimson and Clover,” “Mony Mony”), Mike Love (“California Girls”), Alanis Morissette
(“You Oughta Know,” “Hand in My Pocket”), N.W.A.’s Dr. Dre, Easy E, Ice Cube,
Mc Ren and DJ Yella (“Straight Outta Compton”) and Steve Winwood (“Gimme Some
Lovin’,” “Higher Love”).
In addition, the non-performing songwriters list includes
Walter Afanasieff (“All I Want For Christmas Is You”), Steve Barri and P.F.
Sloan (“Eve of Destruction,” “Secret Agent Man”), Mike Chapman (“Love Is A
Battlefield,” “Stumblin’ In”), Sonny Curtis (“I Fought the Law”), Tom Douglas
(“I Run to You”), Franne Golde (“Nightshift”), Ashley Gorley, Rodney
“Darkchild” Jenkins (“Say My Name”), Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter (“One Tin
Soldier [Theme From Billy Jack]”, “Don’t Pull Your Love”), Tony Macaulay
(“Build Me Up Buttercup,” “Love Grows [Where My Rosemary Goes]”), Roger Nichols
(“We’ve Only Just Begun,” “Rainy Days and Mondays”), Dan Penn and Spooner
Oldham (“Cry Like a Baby,” “I’m Your Puppet”) and Narada Michael Walden (“How
Will I Know,” “Freeway of Love”).
How do you narrow it down to less than 25 deserving
nominees?!?!(kk)
In other Hall of Fame news, David Salidor tells us that The
Monkees have just been nominated for The New England Music Hall Of Fame …
And, speaking of The Monkees, Andrew Sandoval wanted us to
let you know that the brand new, highly-anticipated Monkees coffee table book, “Smoke-Filled
Dreams,” has just come in and is starting to ship.If you preordered your copy, it should be
arriving shortly.(kk)
We’re getting closer …
The Day After Thanksgiving, Disney+ will premier a new
Beatles documentary that examines the year 1964 … and the impact it had when
America discovered The Beatles.
Harvey Kubernik sent us this new interview to share …
Beatles ’64
Documentary
By Harvey Kubernik Copyright 2024
Interview
with Documentarian Albert Maysles
Scheduled for late November is a new documentary on
the Beatles. Disney+ announced that Beatles ’64, an all-new documentary from producer Martin
Scorsese and director David Tedeschi, will stream exclusively on Disney+
beginning November 29, 2024. The film captures the electrifying moment of The
Beatles’ first visit to America. Featuring never-before-seen footage of the
band and the legions of young fans who helped fuel their ascendance, the film
gives a rare glimpse into when The Beatles became the most influential and
beloved band of all time.
On February 7,
1964, The Beatles arrived in New York City to unprecedented excitement and
hysteria. From the instant they landed at Kennedy Airport, met by thousands of
fans, Beatlemania swept New York and the entire country. Their thrilling
performance on The Ed Sullivan Show captivated more than 73
million viewers, the most watched television event of its time. Beatles ’64 presents
the spectacle, but also tells a more intimate behind the scenes story,
capturing the camaraderie of John, Paul, George, and Ringo as they experienced
unimaginable fame.
The film
includes rare footage filmed by pioneering documentarians Albert and David
Maysles, beautifully restored in 4K by Park Road Post in New Zealand. The live
performances from The Beatles first American concert at the Washington, DC
Coliseum and their Ed Sullivan appearances were demixed by WingNut Films and
remixed by Giles Martin. Spotlighting this singular cultural moment and its
continued resonance today, the music and footage are augmented by newly filmed
interviews with Paul and Ringo, as well as fans whose lives were transformed by
The Beatles.
Beatles ’64 is directed by David
Tedeschi and produced by Martin Scorsese, Margaret Bodde, Paul McCartney, Ringo
Starr, Olivia Harrison, Sean Ono Lennon, Jonathan Clyde, Mikaela Beardsley,
with Jeff Jones and Rick Yorn serving as executive producers.
Portions of the
Maysles brothers seminal 1964 Beatles' undertaking Here’s What’s Happening, Baby
- The Beatles!, will be incorporated into the upcoming Beatles '64
film coming in November.
They earned
their distinguished reputations by being the first to make non-fiction feature
films- films in which the drama of human life unfolds as is, without scripts,
sets, or narration.
The Maysles
team were the first to capture the Beatles first U.S. visit, chronicling the
remarkable two weeks in February, 1964, that began America's still-enduring
love affair with the group in their Here’s What’s Happening, Baby - The
Beatles!
The celluloid
document caught the two-week hysterical reaction to the Beatles that was the
real-life inspiration for the subsequent Beatles movie A Hard Day’s
Night.
David and
Albert were granted all-area access to the lads from Liverpool who had just
conquered America with “I Want To Hold Your Hand” sitting at No. 1 in the U.S.
charts. Manic moments as the Beatles arrived to America on Pan Am Flight
101 to New York are woven around frenzied fans
In this seminal
film, the Maysles Brothers shadow the band in dressing rooms, hotels, press
conferences, outdoor photo sessions, as they travel from New York to
Washington, D.C., and Miami.
This is an
intimate portrait of a musical band pulling America through the despair of a
slain President a few months earlier in November, 1963, that in the process
established the benchmark for rock ‘n’ roll cinematography.
The Maysles
1964 footage is now incorporated into a more recent retail DVD, The Beatles
The First U.S. Visit.
In 1960, Albert
was co-filmmaker of Primary, a film about the Democratic primary
election campaigns of Kennedy and Humphrey. The use of hand-held cameras and
synchronous sound allowed the story to tell itself.
With their
fine-tuned sense of the scene-behind-the-scene, the Maysles brothers made Meet
Marlon Brando (1965) and With Love From Truman (1966).
Then they came
out with the landmark non-fiction feature film Salesman (1968), a
portrait of four door-to-door Bible salesmen from Boston. It won an award from
the National Society of Film Critics and is regarded as the classic American
documentary. In 1992, the Library of Congress saluted the film for its
historical, cultural and aesthetic significance.
Albert was made
a Guggenheim Fellow in 1965. His next three films became cult classics. Salesman
(1968), Gimme Shelter (1970) is the dazzling portrait of the Rolling
Stones on their 1969 American tour.
Albert
Maysles and Harvey Kubernik - 2014 Interview on the Beatles in America,
1964
Q: Your Here’s
What’s Happening, Baby - The Beatles! 1964 documentary movie captured the
inside story of the band’s first two frenzied weeks in America during February,
’64. It chronicled the hysterical reaction to the Beatles’ United States debut,
glimpsed on television by a The Ed Sullivan Show booking. You and your
brother were granted all-area access. Hotel rooms, a trek to a discotheque
together. It obviously serves as the real-life inspiration for the movie A
Hard Day’s Night. This century your original documentary was
integrated into a new retail DVD from Apple / Capitol, The Beatles The First
U.S. Visit.
A: On February
7, 1964, I got a telephone call from Granada Television, whom I never had
worked with, but I think they had seen my first film Showman about
Joseph E. Levine. And they said, “The Beatles are arriving in two hours at JFK
Airport. Would you like to film them?” So, I put my hand over the phone and
immediately turned to my brother David and asked him: “Who are the Beatles? Are
they any good?” Fortunately, David knew. “Oh. They’re great.” And he had a big
smile on his face.
“We both got on
the phone and made a deal for TV and rushed out to the airport just in time to
see the plane coming in to land. David had his sound recorder and I had my
camera. We jumped in the limo with them and off we were running, so to speak.
We drove with them into New York City and spent the next four or five days with
them.
“When the
Beatles actually went to The Ed Sullivan Show, I didn’t go inside and
watch the performances. Better than that, when they walked into CBS to do
‘Sullivan,’ we realized there was no point in going with them. Because to film
them we would have to go through the whole union process. And by the time we started
on that, they would be out of there. So instead, we just walked down the
street, got into an ordinary tenement building, we’re on the 3rd
floor, heard music from a household, knocked on the door, and filmed a family
watching the Sullivan’ Show. So that was much better.
“It’s always
trying to get behind the scenes to get close towards what is going on. We did
go to the Beatles’ Washington, D. C. show. There were two versions of the film.
That wasn’t the Beatles. That was their management, “Make it more commercial.”
That was broadcast in 1964 on CBS-TV as The Beatles In America.
Q: What was
going through your mind during your time with the Beatles? Did you have any
clue you’d be talking about them 50 years later?
A: (laughs). I
was as mystified as the public was. People have said when they arrived at the
airport maybe 10 or 20 people would show up. But instead, 5,000 were there when
they got off the plane.
Q: You and
David captured so many aspects of their initial U.S. landing. Footage of their
manager Brian Epstein in action, the very popular New York DJ Murray The K
conducting and broadcasting a live hotel room interview with the lads, and then
over to the discotheque. Plus, you got things like fans at the hotel corridor
and the fascination of the Beatles by the print and
photographers.
A: Yes. We had
access but we had confidence that no matter what, no matter whom, if I should
film, I’ll get the OK and to film it. But we weren’t aware at the time we were
a witness to history.
Q: You and your
brother were a filmmaking team and collaborators. You had an almost
telepathic relationship with him.
A: Well, I
think we had it and always will have it. It’s sort of a special talent I guess
for access. Everything seemed to be a natural process for us of becoming
friends simultaneously with the filming. But more than that, I think we really
like people and they see it right away in our eyes. There’s a constant empathy,
an empathizing process that goes on.
“He was very
important. He would sometimes come across the subject matter and get the deals
made. He was very good on the phone. When people saw me, I was behind the
camera they could hardly make me out. So that David was sort of the intervening
force. I never had to worry about him being an extra person and some kind of
distraction. Because we saw eye to eye. And there were some occasions where I
was so locked behind the camera that I might not notice something.
“He was a
visual sound guy. And when people looked at me, they often times couldn’t see
me because I’ve got the camera hiding my face and it was very important when
they looked at my brother that they looked at somebody who was as loving as I
was. And he was always a positive thing that emanated from both of us. He also
supervised the editing."
In other Beatles news, we told you the other day about “Now
And Then” earning a couple of Grammy nomination nods …
Well, the New York Fest For Beatles Fans has started its
7-day presale for their 51st Annual convention.(Next year, it’ll run March 28th –
March 30th)
And, as always, more events will be added as we move closer
to the date.(kk)
Meanwhile, how about a trip to Liverpool in 2025 to visit
all of the old Beatle-haunts?!?!Charles
Rosenay is now accepting reservations for THEIR 42nd trek thru Liverpool and
London, August 18th thru August 27th!Reservations
now being accepted for the 2025 Magical History Tour to Liverpool & London!
Roll Up Roll Up for
the Mystery Tour, step right this way …
Join fellow fans on the
one and only Magical History Tour, our 42nd year bringing U.S.
travelers to Liverpool and London in conjunction with Cavern City
Tours, the Cavern Club and BEATLEWEEK!
Reservations are now
being taken for August 18 - August 27, 2025, where we visit every
numerous Beatles site in Liverpool and London, with a stop in Henley.
Note that you could also come for less days, or join us in Liverpool
only.
The annual Magical
Mystery Tour to LIVERPOOL & LONDON is the definitive travel
adventure for fans of all ages. Couples, singles, families & groups
take the tour that’s been bringing Beatles fans to the homes, clubs,
and all the locations since 1983. You are in great hands with the
original presenters of the annual tour for Beatles Fans, the only
company in the world that has brought thousands upon thousands of
satisfied fans and travelers to the Beatles land on a regular basis for
so long. We can supply endless references, all satisfied travelers.
We’ve been officially recognized by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool for our
efforts in bringing fans to the Beatles’ city! And every year gets
better~!
Join us and be part of
the most fun-filled, fab-filled vacation in history, presented BY fans
FOR fans. It’s guaranteed to raise a smile -- you'll have the time of
your life! Book early and lock in your space for 2025.
Cheers, Charles F.
Rosenay!!!, Liverpool Productions
Email
LiverpoolProductions@gmail.com or phone (203) 795-4737 for complete
details + an application form for the 2025 "Magical History
Tour"
Towards the end of today's FH,
the song IF YOU WANT THIS LOVE by Sonny Knight was mentioned.In my opinion, this was a big record here in
OKC. I checked and it was on the local survey some seven weeks, peaking at #11
for the week of December 31, 1964. I can't remember why, but for some reason, I
have two copies of the record.
I would tell you more about the
record but what I know is purely CONFIDENTIAL.
Larry Neal
It charted here in Chicago, too, but only reached #31.Still, I had never heard it before … but was
immediately hooked!Downloaded it right
away.
Sammy is ALWAYS full of surprises … you should check out his
shows on MixCloud!(kk)
Jim Roup just sent us this …
Wishing Booker T. Jones a happy 80th birthday! 🎉 Seen here at The
Rhythm and Blues Awards at The Palace Theater in Hollywood.
I am very happy to report that rocker Dave Mason is doing well
after having heart valve replacement surgery this past week.(Mason was sidelined mid-tour for some
surgery that required “immediate attention” a few weeks ago.)
In a statement, Mason said “I am so lucky to have caught
this, as I was unknowingly on the brink of heart failure.” When first diagnosed,
Dave said “I’m heartbroken to have to cancel these dates, but it’s doctor’s
orders.I’ll be back, and better than
ever, in 2025.”
Wishing him a continued speedy recovery.(kk)
And from the For God’s Sake, Get Over It Department, comes
this news from Tom Cuddy that Engelbert Humperdinck and Tom Jones STILL can’t
seem to get along, even some 40 years later!!!
11/13/64 – Bob Pettit of The St. Louis Hawks became the
first player in NBA history to score 20,000 points.(It happened during his 11th
season in a game against The Cincinnati Royals.)Today, he ranks 43rd on the
all-time list. (Players with over 30,000 points include Wilt Chamberlain, Dirk
Nowitzki, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Karl Malone, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and
LeBron James, who has 38,799 points … or nearly twice as many as Pettit.)
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