“Something” is a song released by The Beatles in 1969. It was featured on the album Abbey Road, and was also the first song written by George Harrison to appear on the A-side of a Beatles single.
It was one of the first Beatles singles to contain tracks already available on a long playing (LP) album, with both “Something” and “Come Together” having appeared on Abbey Road.
“Something” was the only Harrison composition to top the American charts while he was in The Beatles.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney—the two principal songwriting members of the band—both praised “Something” as among the best songs Harrison had written.
As well as critical acclaim, the single achieved commercial success, topping the Billboard charts in the United States, and entering the top 10 in the United Kingdom.
The song has been covered by over 150 artists including Elvis Presley, Shirley Bassey, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, James Brown, Julio Iglesias, Smokey Robinson, Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker, and is the second-most covered Beatles song after “Yesterday”.
During the 1968 recording sessions for The Beatles (also referred to as the White Album), Harrison began working on a song that eventually became known as “Something”. The song’s first lyrics were adapted from the title of an unrelated song by fellow Apple artist James Taylor called “Something In The Way She Moves” and used as filler while the melody was being developed.
The song’s second line, “Attracts me like no other lover,” was the last to be written; during early recording sessions for “Something”, Harrison alternated between two placeholder lyrics: “Attracts me like a cauliflower” and “Attracts me like a pomegranate.”
Harrison later said that “I had a break while Paul was doing some overdubbing so I went into an empty studio and began to write. That’s really all there is to it, except the middle took some time to sort out. It didn’t go on the White Album because we’d already finished all the tracks.”
A demo recording of the song by Harrison from this period appears on the Beatles Anthology 3 collection, released in 1996.
Many believe that Harrison’s inspiration for “Something” was his wife at the time, Pattie Boyd. Boyd also claimed that inspiration in her 2007 autobiography, Wonderful Tonight, where she wrote: “He told me, in a matter-of-fact way, that he had written it for me.”
However, Harrison has cited other sources of inspiration to the contrary. In a 1996 interview he responded to the question of whether the song was about Pattie: “Well no, I didn’t [write it about her]. I just wrote it, and then somebody put together a video. And what they did was they went out and got some footage of me and Pattie, Paul and Linda, Ringo and Maureen, it was at that time, and John and Yoko and they just made up a little video to go with it. So then, everybody presumed I wrote it about Pattie, but actually, when I wrote it, I was thinking of Ray Charles.”
The original intention had been for Harrison to offer the song to Jackie Lomax, as had been done with the previous Harrison composition, “Sour Milk Sea.” When this fell through, the song was given to Joe Cocker (who had previously covered The Beatles’ “With a Little Help from My Friends”); his version came out two months before that of The Beatles.
During the Get Back recording sessions for what eventually became Let It Be, Harrison considered using “Something,” but eventually decided against it due to his fear that insufficient care would be taken in its recording; his earlier suggestion of “Old Brown Shoe” had not gone down well with the band. It was only during the recording sessions for Abbey Road that The Beatles began seriously working on “Something.”
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Boz Scaggs – Miss Sun (ft. Lisa Dal Bello)
Lyrics by David Paich
From the album “Hits!”
Released November 1980
Album tracks are:
- Lowdown
- You Make It So Hard (To Say No)
- Miss Sun
- Lido Shuffle
- We’re All Alone
- Breakdown Dead Ahead
- Look What You’ve Done To Me
- Jojo
- Dinah Flo
- You Can Have Me Anytime
Musicians on the Hits! album: Boz Scaggs, Don Henley, Don Grolnick, David Lasley, Joe Sample, Pete Carr, Dennis Coffey, David Foster, Lisa Dal Bello, Don Felder, Muscle Shoals Horns, David T. Walker, Sharon Redd, Louie Shelton, H.B. Barnum, Barry Beckett, Paulette Brown, Lenny Castro, Charles Chalmers, Sandra Chalmers, Charlotte Crossley, Venetta Field, Glenn Frey, James Gadson, Jim Gilstrap, Roger Hawkins, Pat Henderson, Eddie Hinton, David Hood, David Hungate, Clayton Ivey, James Jamerson, Augie Johnson, Jimmy Johnson, Steve Lukather, Clarence McDonald, Rick Marotta, Myrna Matthews, Marty McCall, David Paich, Jeff Porcaro, Ray Parker, Jr., John Pierce, Steve Porcaro, Mike Porcaro, Donna Rhodes, Julia Tillman Waters, Timothy B. Schmit, Fred Tackett, Bill Thedford, Wah Wah Watson, Lorna Willard, Carolyn Willis, Adrian Tapia & Carlos Santana
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Boz Scaggs:
www.bozscaggs.com
http://www.bozscaggs.org
http://www.bozscaggs.info
Lisa Dal Bello (dalbello):
http://www.myspace.com/dalbellomusic
http://dalbello.4×2.net/
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Lyrics:
Been thinkin’ ’bout you all night
Guess you got me in a spell
But I think that I’ll be all right
Even if I don’t get well
Hey Miss Sun, what could I say
I tried to hold you but the moon got in the way
It won’t be long before the morning has you back in my arms
I can still remember
What you told me with your eyes
One kiss… now it’s down to this
Guess it’s time you realize
Hey Miss Sun, what could I say
I tried to hold you but the moon got in the way
It won’t be long before the morning has you back in my arms
Hey Miss Sun, what could I say
I tried to hold you but the moon got in the way
It won’t be long before the morning has you back in my arms
One kiss… That’s what I need
One kiss… Give it to me
It won’t be long until the morning’s has you
It won’t be long until the morning has you back in my arms
One kiss… I realize
One kiss… I can see it in your eyes
It won’t be long until the morning has you back in my arms
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http://www.amazon.com/Boz-Scaggs/e/B000APWQX4
http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1236111461/ref=sr_st?keywords=Boz+Scaggs&rs=&page=1&rh=i%3Adigital-music%2Ck%3ABoz+Scaggs&sort=salesrank
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weights the third with a new character!!!!
in this episode of weights the everyone becomes friends. that is until a mystery woman comes into the picture!
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The landmark signing of The Bleeding Edge anthology at Mystery & Imagination in Glendale, CA on Feb. 20th, 2010. Editors/contributors William F. Nolan and Jason V Brock sign along with authors Ray Bradbury, Norman Corwin, George Clayton Johnson, John Shirley, James Robert Smith, Cody Goodfellow, Lisa Morton, Earl Hamner, and John Tomerlin. Special guests Dennis Etchison, John Skipp, Paul J. Salamoff, Pete Atkins also make an appearance. Incidentally, this event had all of the surviving Twilight Zone writers under one roof, except for Richard Matheson who was unable to attend.
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presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. This was tons of fun to present. I decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to prepare over 40 minutes of video for the 55 minute presentation. This is the result.
more info: http://mediatedcultures.net
0:00 Introduction, YouTube’s Big Numbers
2:00 Numa Numa and the Celebration of Webcams
5:53 The Machine is Us/ing Us and the New Mediascape
12:16 Introducing our Research Team
12:56 Who is on YouTube?
13:25 What’s on Youtube? Charlie Bit My Finger, Soulja Boy, etc.
17:04 5% of vids are personal vlogs addressed to the YouTube community, Why?
17:30 YouTube in context. The loss of community and “networked individualism” (Wellman)
18:41 Cultural Inversion: individualism and community
19:15 Understanding new forms of community through Participant Observation
21:18 YouTube as a medium for community
23:00 Our first vlogs
25:00 The webcam: Everybody is watching where nobody is (”context collapse”)
26:05 Re-cognition and new forms of self-awareness (McLuhan)
27:58 The Anonymity of Watching YouTube: Haters and Lovers
29:53 Aesthetic Arrest
30:25 Connection without Constraint
32:35 Free Hugs: A hero for our mediated culture
34:02 YouTube Drama: Striving for popularity
34:55 An early star: emokid21ohio
36:55 YouTube’s Anthenticity Crisis: the story of LonelyGirl15
39:50 Reflections on Authenticity
41:54 Gaming the system / Exposing the System
43:37 Seriously Playful Participatory Media Culture (featuring Us by blimvisible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yxHKgQyGx0
47:32 Networked Production: The Collab. MadV’s “The Message” and the message of YouTube
49:29 Poem: The Little Glass Dot, The Eyes of the World
51:15 Conclusion by bnessel1973
52:50 Dedication and Credits (Our Numa Numa dance)
The Numa Numa quote is from *Douglas* Wolk (not Gary Wolk as I mistakenly said in the talk).
Duration : 0:55:34
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15/15 Twilight Zone & Great
Stories
Date: 02-19-10
Host: George Noory
Guests: Marc Zicree, Open Lines
In the first half of the program, George
was joined by sci fi writer Marc Zicree
for a discussion on the 1960s
anthology series, The Twilight Zone.
According to Zicree, creator Rod
Serling originally wanted to call the
show “Odd Street.” Serling eventually
settled upon — and coined the term –
“Twilight Zone,” he added. Zicree said
Twilight Zone endures to this day
because it was done “superlatively
well” and presented “great truths”
over the course of its 156-episode
run.
Serling, who wrote ninety-two
episodes himself, often focused on the
nature of identity, Zicree continued.
Serling believed the greatest fear of all
was “fear of the unknown working on
you, which you cannot share with
others,” he explained. Zicree also
shared the story of finding un-filmed
Twilight Zone scripts in Serling’s attic,
as well as talked about his work
recording commentaries for the
upcoming Blu-ray release of the series.
Throughout the interview, George
played audio clips from various
episodes ( A Kind of a Stopwatch, The
After Hours, And When the Sky Was
Opened, and Eye of the Beholder) to
test Zicree’s knowledge of the series.
Zicree passed with flying colors.
—————————————
The latter half of the show was
devoted to Open Lines. George offered
a special hotline for callers to share the
greatest stories they’ve ever heard or
experienced. Star in California
recounted a creepy Ouija Board
experience. Star said she and her
friends made their own board from
instructions contained within a spell
book. Using a coin as their planchette,
which Star maintained “moved on its
own,” the board revealed letter-by-
letter the entity with whom they were
communicating: D-E-V-I-L. Star
admitted to playing the board by
herself with similar eerie results.
Mike in Livermore, California, recalled a
time from his “misspent youth” when
he jumped a Honda 175 motorcycle
off the steep incline leading up to a
railroad crossing. As he soared fifteen
feet into the air, Mike discovered a line
of traffic was stopped immediately on
the other side of the tracks, where he
needed to land. Mike said he narrowly
avoided crashing, maneuvered
around some cars, and came to a
sudden stop next to a sheriff’s car.
Astonished onlookers cheered his Evel
Knievel like stunt, Mike added, noting
that he quickly took off and got into
an accident just two blocks down the
road.
Brook from Newport, Rhode Island,
told George he used to live around the
corner from the house of the late Ozzie
Nelson, star of The Adventures of
Ozzie and Harriet and father of singer-
actor Ricky Nelson. “The whole area
seemed extremely haunted,” Brook
disclosed, pointing out some of the
weird goings-on that have occurred in
the neighborhood. According to
Brook, Ozzie Nelson’s ghost has been
seen in his old home by family
members. A mansion that once
housed legendary film actor Errol
Flynn and the notorious Charles
Manson Family, but which now lies in
ruin, reappears on some summer
nights, he said. In addition, Brook
claimed that on certain full moon
nights several hundred people would
be engaged in Satanic rites in the park.
Website(s):
zicree.com
Book(s):
The Twilight Zone Companion
Magic Time: Ghostlands
Magic Time: Angelfire
Magic Time
Duration : 0:9:36
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14/15 Twilight Zone & Great
Stories
Date: 02-19-10
Host: George Noory
Guests: Marc Zicree, Open Lines
In the first half of the program, George
was joined by sci fi writer Marc Zicree
for a discussion on the 1960s
anthology series, The Twilight Zone.
According to Zicree, creator Rod
Serling originally wanted to call the
show “Odd Street.” Serling eventually
settled upon — and coined the term –
“Twilight Zone,” he added. Zicree said
Twilight Zone endures to this day
because it was done “superlatively
well” and presented “great truths”
over the course of its 156-episode
run.
Serling, who wrote ninety-two
episodes himself, often focused on the
nature of identity, Zicree continued.
Serling believed the greatest fear of all
was “fear of the unknown working on
you, which you cannot share with
others,” he explained. Zicree also
shared the story of finding un-filmed
Twilight Zone scripts in Serling’s attic,
as well as talked about his work
recording commentaries for the
upcoming Blu-ray release of the series.
Throughout the interview, George
played audio clips from various
episodes ( A Kind of a Stopwatch, The
After Hours, And When the Sky Was
Opened, and Eye of the Beholder) to
test Zicree’s knowledge of the series.
Zicree passed with flying colors.
—————————————
The latter half of the show was
devoted to Open Lines. George offered
a special hotline for callers to share the
greatest stories they’ve ever heard or
experienced. Star in California
recounted a creepy Ouija Board
experience. Star said she and her
friends made their own board from
instructions contained within a spell
book. Using a coin as their planchette,
which Star maintained “moved on its
own,” the board revealed letter-by-
letter the entity with whom they were
communicating: D-E-V-I-L. Star
admitted to playing the board by
herself with similar eerie results.
Mike in Livermore, California, recalled a
time from his “misspent youth” when
he jumped a Honda 175 motorcycle
off the steep incline leading up to a
railroad crossing. As he soared fifteen
feet into the air, Mike discovered a line
of traffic was stopped immediately on
the other side of the tracks, where he
needed to land. Mike said he narrowly
avoided crashing, maneuvered
around some cars, and came to a
sudden stop next to a sheriff’s car.
Astonished onlookers cheered his Evel
Knievel like stunt, Mike added, noting
that he quickly took off and got into
an accident just two blocks down the
road.
Brook from Newport, Rhode Island,
told George he used to live around the
corner from the house of the late Ozzie
Nelson, star of The Adventures of
Ozzie and Harriet and father of singer-
actor Ricky Nelson. “The whole area
seemed extremely haunted,” Brook
disclosed, pointing out some of the
weird goings-on that have occurred in
the neighborhood. According to
Brook, Ozzie Nelson’s ghost has been
seen in his old home by family
members. A mansion that once
housed legendary film actor Errol
Flynn and the notorious Charles
Manson Family, but which now lies in
ruin, reappears on some summer
nights, he said. In addition, Brook
claimed that on certain full moon
nights several hundred people would
be engaged in Satanic rites in the park.
Website(s):
zicree.com
Book(s):
The Twilight Zone Companion
Magic Time: Ghostlands
Magic Time: Angelfire
Magic Time
Duration : 0:9:36
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13/15 Twilight Zone & Great
Stories
Date: 02-19-10
Host: George Noory
Guests: Marc Zicree, Open Lines
In the first half of the program, George
was joined by sci fi writer Marc Zicree
for a discussion on the 1960s
anthology series, The Twilight Zone.
According to Zicree, creator Rod
Serling originally wanted to call the
show “Odd Street.” Serling eventually
settled upon — and coined the term –
“Twilight Zone,” he added. Zicree said
Twilight Zone endures to this day
because it was done “superlatively
well” and presented “great truths”
over the course of its 156-episode
run.
Serling, who wrote ninety-two
episodes himself, often focused on the
nature of identity, Zicree continued.
Serling believed the greatest fear of all
was “fear of the unknown working on
you, which you cannot share with
others,” he explained. Zicree also
shared the story of finding un-filmed
Twilight Zone scripts in Serling’s attic,
as well as talked about his work
recording commentaries for the
upcoming Blu-ray release of the series.
Throughout the interview, George
played audio clips from various
episodes ( A Kind of a Stopwatch, The
After Hours, And When the Sky Was
Opened, and Eye of the Beholder) to
test Zicree’s knowledge of the series.
Zicree passed with flying colors.
—————————————
The latter half of the show was
devoted to Open Lines. George offered
a special hotline for callers to share the
greatest stories they’ve ever heard or
experienced. Star in California
recounted a creepy Ouija Board
experience. Star said she and her
friends made their own board from
instructions contained within a spell
book. Using a coin as their planchette,
which Star maintained “moved on its
own,” the board revealed letter-by-
letter the entity with whom they were
communicating: D-E-V-I-L. Star
admitted to playing the board by
herself with similar eerie results.
Mike in Livermore, California, recalled a
time from his “misspent youth” when
he jumped a Honda 175 motorcycle
off the steep incline leading up to a
railroad crossing. As he soared fifteen
feet into the air, Mike discovered a line
of traffic was stopped immediately on
the other side of the tracks, where he
needed to land. Mike said he narrowly
avoided crashing, maneuvered
around some cars, and came to a
sudden stop next to a sheriff’s car.
Astonished onlookers cheered his Evel
Knievel like stunt, Mike added, noting
that he quickly took off and got into
an accident just two blocks down the
road.
Brook from Newport, Rhode Island,
told George he used to live around the
corner from the house of the late Ozzie
Nelson, star of The Adventures of
Ozzie and Harriet and father of singer-
actor Ricky Nelson. “The whole area
seemed extremely haunted,” Brook
disclosed, pointing out some of the
weird goings-on that have occurred in
the neighborhood. According to
Brook, Ozzie Nelson’s ghost has been
seen in his old home by family
members. A mansion that once
housed legendary film actor Errol
Flynn and the notorious Charles
Manson Family, but which now lies in
ruin, reappears on some summer
nights, he said. In addition, Brook
claimed that on certain full moon
nights several hundred people would
be engaged in Satanic rites in the park.
Website(s):
zicree.com
Book(s):
The Twilight Zone Companion
Magic Time: Ghostlands
Magic Time: Angelfire
Magic Time
Duration : 0:9:36
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12/15 Twilight Zone & Great
Stories
Date: 02-19-10
Host: George Noory
Guests: Marc Zicree, Open Lines
In the first half of the program, George
was joined by sci fi writer Marc Zicree
for a discussion on the 1960s
anthology series, The Twilight Zone.
According to Zicree, creator Rod
Serling originally wanted to call the
show “Odd Street.” Serling eventually
settled upon — and coined the term –
“Twilight Zone,” he added. Zicree said
Twilight Zone endures to this day
because it was done “superlatively
well” and presented “great truths”
over the course of its 156-episode
run.
Serling, who wrote ninety-two
episodes himself, often focused on the
nature of identity, Zicree continued.
Serling believed the greatest fear of all
was “fear of the unknown working on
you, which you cannot share with
others,” he explained. Zicree also
shared the story of finding un-filmed
Twilight Zone scripts in Serling’s attic,
as well as talked about his work
recording commentaries for the
upcoming Blu-ray release of the series.
Throughout the interview, George
played audio clips from various
episodes ( A Kind of a Stopwatch, The
After Hours, And When the Sky Was
Opened, and Eye of the Beholder) to
test Zicree’s knowledge of the series.
Zicree passed with flying colors.
—————————————
The latter half of the show was
devoted to Open Lines. George offered
a special hotline for callers to share the
greatest stories they’ve ever heard or
experienced. Star in California
recounted a creepy Ouija Board
experience. Star said she and her
friends made their own board from
instructions contained within a spell
book. Using a coin as their planchette,
which Star maintained “moved on its
own,” the board revealed letter-by-
letter the entity with whom they were
communicating: D-E-V-I-L. Star
admitted to playing the board by
herself with similar eerie results.
Mike in Livermore, California, recalled a
time from his “misspent youth” when
he jumped a Honda 175 motorcycle
off the steep incline leading up to a
railroad crossing. As he soared fifteen
feet into the air, Mike discovered a line
of traffic was stopped immediately on
the other side of the tracks, where he
needed to land. Mike said he narrowly
avoided crashing, maneuvered
around some cars, and came to a
sudden stop next to a sheriff’s car.
Astonished onlookers cheered his Evel
Knievel like stunt, Mike added, noting
that he quickly took off and got into
an accident just two blocks down the
road.
Brook from Newport, Rhode Island,
told George he used to live around the
corner from the house of the late Ozzie
Nelson, star of The Adventures of
Ozzie and Harriet and father of singer-
actor Ricky Nelson. “The whole area
seemed extremely haunted,” Brook
disclosed, pointing out some of the
weird goings-on that have occurred in
the neighborhood. According to
Brook, Ozzie Nelson’s ghost has been
seen in his old home by family
members. A mansion that once
housed legendary film actor Errol
Flynn and the notorious Charles
Manson Family, but which now lies in
ruin, reappears on some summer
nights, he said. In addition, Brook
claimed that on certain full moon
nights several hundred people would
be engaged in Satanic rites in the park.
Website(s):
zicree.com
Book(s):
The Twilight Zone Companion
Magic Time: Ghostlands
Magic Time: Angelfire
Magic Time
Duration : 0:9:41
Read the rest of this entry »
11/15 Twilight Zone & Great
Stories
Date: 02-19-10
Host: George Noory
Guests: Marc Zicree, Open Lines
In the first half of the program, George
was joined by sci fi writer Marc Zicree
for a discussion on the 1960s
anthology series, The Twilight Zone.
According to Zicree, creator Rod
Serling originally wanted to call the
show “Odd Street.” Serling eventually
settled upon — and coined the term –
“Twilight Zone,” he added. Zicree said
Twilight Zone endures to this day
because it was done “superlatively
well” and presented “great truths”
over the course of its 156-episode
run.
Serling, who wrote ninety-two
episodes himself, often focused on the
nature of identity, Zicree continued.
Serling believed the greatest fear of all
was “fear of the unknown working on
you, which you cannot share with
others,” he explained. Zicree also
shared the story of finding un-filmed
Twilight Zone scripts in Serling’s attic,
as well as talked about his work
recording commentaries for the
upcoming Blu-ray release of the series.
Throughout the interview, George
played audio clips from various
episodes ( A Kind of a Stopwatch, The
After Hours, And When the Sky Was
Opened, and Eye of the Beholder) to
test Zicree’s knowledge of the series.
Zicree passed with flying colors.
—————————————
The latter half of the show was
devoted to Open Lines. George offered
a special hotline for callers to share the
greatest stories they’ve ever heard or
experienced. Star in California
recounted a creepy Ouija Board
experience. Star said she and her
friends made their own board from
instructions contained within a spell
book. Using a coin as their planchette,
which Star maintained “moved on its
own,” the board revealed letter-by-
letter the entity with whom they were
communicating: D-E-V-I-L. Star
admitted to playing the board by
herself with similar eerie results.
Mike in Livermore, California, recalled a
time from his “misspent youth” when
he jumped a Honda 175 motorcycle
off the steep incline leading up to a
railroad crossing. As he soared fifteen
feet into the air, Mike discovered a line
of traffic was stopped immediately on
the other side of the tracks, where he
needed to land. Mike said he narrowly
avoided crashing, maneuvered
around some cars, and came to a
sudden stop next to a sheriff’s car.
Astonished onlookers cheered his Evel
Knievel like stunt, Mike added, noting
that he quickly took off and got into
an accident just two blocks down the
road.
Brook from Newport, Rhode Island,
told George he used to live around the
corner from the house of the late Ozzie
Nelson, star of The Adventures of
Ozzie and Harriet and father of singer-
actor Ricky Nelson. “The whole area
seemed extremely haunted,” Brook
disclosed, pointing out some of the
weird goings-on that have occurred in
the neighborhood. According to
Brook, Ozzie Nelson’s ghost has been
seen in his old home by family
members. A mansion that once
housed legendary film actor Errol
Flynn and the notorious Charles
Manson Family, but which now lies in
ruin, reappears on some summer
nights, he said. In addition, Brook
claimed that on certain full moon
nights several hundred people would
be engaged in Satanic rites in the park.
Website(s):
zicree.com
Book(s):
The Twilight Zone Companion
Magic Time: Ghostlands
Magic Time: Angelfire
Magic Time
Duration : 0:9:36
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