Milk Cow Blues - Kokomo Arnold (born February 15, 1901)
Photo: Kokomo Arnold in his home, 4413 South Calumet Avenue in Chicago, IL, September 1959
source: Les Génies du Blues, Volume 4.- Paris (Edition Atlas) 1993, p. 81; photographer: Jacques Demêtre
Other versions of "Milk Cow Bues "include:i Robert Johnson, Bob Wills, Elvis Presley & The Blue Moon Boys, Eddie Cochran, The Maddox Brothers & Rose, Ricky Nelson, The Kinks, Chocolate Watchband, We Five, Mungo Jerry, Commander Cody, Aerosmith, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dead Moon, George Strait, Willie Nelson, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Wayne "The Train" Hancock, Roscoe Holcomb, & Mississippi Fred McDowell, among many others...
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22 Days: Some Vacation [Story Podfic]
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by ThrivingSuccubus
As season 3 of Heartstopper approaches, and we wait ever so patiently, some of us look back at the previous seasons. One of the most memorable arcs of season 2, is the trip to Paris. However, as focused as we were on our group of Heartstopper teens throughout their trip, they weren’t the only people visiting Paris and staying in Hotel Mignon. The television show neglected to share the story of Greg and Shannon McDowell. That grave error gets remedied… right now.
Words: 4703, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Series: Part 80 of 99 Moments of Discovery: A Heartstopper Countdown
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi
Characters: Original Character(s) (Male), Original Character(s) (Female), Nicholas "Nick" Nelson, Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper), Nathan Ajayi, Youssef Farouk, Darcy Olsson, Tao Xu, Elle Argent
Relationships: Original Character(s) (Male)/Original Character(s) (Female), Nicholas "Nick" Nelson/Charles "Charlie" Spring, Nathan Ajayi/Youssef Farouk, Tara Jones/Darcy Olsson, Elle Argent/Tao Xu
Additional Tags: #CountdownToSeason3, #Outsider, #1stPersonPov, #MostlyAboutTheOCs, #SorryNotSorry, #podfic, #PartnerPlotBunny, #AuthorKnowsNothingAboutParis, #AuthorIsAmerican(derogatory), #family, #MentionOfFamily, #NoBetaWeDieLikeGregsPeace
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Highway 61
Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
God say, "No." Abe say, "What?"
God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but
The next time you see me comin' you better run"
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61 Highway Blues
· Mississippi Fred McDowell The Skeleton Key ℗ 2005 Varese Sarabande Records Released on: 2005-01-01 Composer Lyricist: F. McDowell Composer Lyricist: A. Lomax
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Sonny Boy Nelson: 61 Highway Blues Sonny Boy Nelson (Eugene Powell), vocal and guitar, shot by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long in…
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New Country 27e jaargang #T1222(S781) (C26)van 25 maart 2024 (wk 13) uitzending op Smelne fm & Crossroads Country Radio
Album van de week: The Secret Sisters Mind, Man, Medicine
Classic album: Freddy Fender – Before The Next Teardrop Falls 1975
Hits of the Year : 1985
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Maandartiest : Hal Ketchum
3 in 1: Collin Raye
Hal Ketchum - A Wave Of Your Hand *maandartiest
Kenny Chesney – How Forever Feels #1 25 jaar
Jimmie Allen and Brad Paisley - Freedom was a Highway # 1 2022
Willie Nelson – The Border
Kacey Musgraves - The Architect
Aaron Lewis - Over the Hill
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Thomas Rhett w/ Morgan Wallen - Mamaw's House #1.
The Secret Sisters - Same Water Album vd week
The Secret Sisters . All The Ways (feat. Ray LaMontagne) . *album
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Steve Wariner - Some Fools Never Learn- 1985
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Freddy Fender - Before The Next Teardrop Falls classic album
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Collin Raye – Love Remains
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Clint Black - The Shoes You're Wearing.
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Chris Ledoux - Whatcha Gonna Do With A Cowboy (With Garth Brooks)
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Hal Ketchum – (Tonight We Just Might) Fall In Love Again _ maandartiest
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Today on THE ESSENTIAL SOUNDTRACKS, Erik Woods, Robert Daniels, and Randy Andrews continue their journey through the STAR TREK films and their soundtracks as they discuss the seventh movie in the series, STAR TREK: GENERATIONS. You’ll hear them discuss the film in great detail including such topics as the new uniforms, deleted scenes, Kirk’s death, the destruction of The Enterprise D and more. Also covered in great length is Dennis McCarthy’s underappreciated score.
WARNING: We do talk about Star Trek: Picard Season 3 in this episode so if you haven’t seen the new series yet, you’ve been warned; there are SPOILERS in this episode.
STAR TREK: GENERATIONS was released on November 18, 1994. Malcolm McDowell joined cast members from the 1960s television show STAR TREK and the 1987 sequel series STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. In the film, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) of the USS Enterprise-D joins forces with Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) to stop the villain Tolian Soran (Malcolm McDowell) from destroying a planetary system in his attempt to return to an extra-dimensional realm known as the Nexus. The film was directed by TV veteran David Carson.
The original soundtrack album was released at the time of the film’s release on GNP Crescendo Records. It had a generous amount of music on the album, close to 45 minutes worth with 16 minutes of Star Trek sound effects from the film. In November of 2012, GNP Crescendo released an expanded version of the score featuring two full CDs of music expanding the run time to OVER two hours. The score was recorded by Robert Fernandez at Paramount Pictures Scoring Stage M, and McCarthy conducted the Hollywood Studio Orchestra. Mark McKenzie, William Ross, and Brad Warnaar provided orchestrations. The Executive Album Reissue Producer was Dennis McCarthy. The Executive Album Producers for GNP/Crescendo Records were Neil Norman and Melanie Clarkson. The Album Reissue Producers were Ford A. Thaxton, James Nelson and Mark Banning. The Project Consultant was Lukas Kendall, with liner notes by liner notes by Jeff Bond and Lukas Kendall.
The GNP Crescendo album is currently out of stock!
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Vincitori degli Oscar 2023: trionfo per The Daniels e Edward Berger
Scopri i vincitori della cerimonia degli Oscar 2023, tra cui i The Daniels e Edward Berger che si portano a casa diversi premi. Leggi l’articolo per tutti i dettagli sulla cerimonia e i vincitori.
Miglior film: trionfo per The Daniels e Edward Berger
Gli Oscar 2023 sono stati assegnati e, come ogni anno, i vincitori e le sorprese della serata non sono mancati. Tra i grandi vincitori della serata ci sono i film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” e “Niente di nuovo sul fronte occidentale“.
Sono stati entrambi premiati in numerose categorie: rispettivamente 7 su 11 e 4 su 9. Il film dei The Daniels, “Everything Everywhere All at Once“, è risultato vincitore nei seguenti ambiti: film, regia, sceneggiatura, montaggio, attrice protagonista, attore e attrice non protagonista. Il film tedesco di Edward Berger, “Niente di nuovo sul fronte occidentale“, tratto dal romanzo di Erich Maria Remarque, ha vinto i premi Oscar 2023 per il miglior film internazionale, fotografia, colonna sonora e scenografia.
Vincitori degli Oscar 2023: miglior attore
La serata ha visto anche una sorpresa per il pubblico: Brendan Fraser vincitore dell’Oscar 2023 come miglior attore per il film “The Whale“, che ha anche vinto il premio per il trucco. La vittoria di Fraser ha suscitato grande emozione, soprattutto perché l’attore ha fatto un ritorno straordinario sulla scena di Hollywood dopo essere stato messo da parte dall’industria del cinema.
Gli altri vincitori degli Oscar 2023
Altri film che hanno ottenuto riconoscimenti sono stati “The Whale”, vincitore di due premi agli Oscar 2023 (miglior attore e trucco), “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever“, “Avatar: Le vie dell’acqua” e “Top Gun: Maverick“, tutti con un premio ciascuno.
La premiazione dei vincitori è stata anche contraddistinta da alcune sorprese, come l’inaspettata esibizione di Lady Gaga agli Oscar 2023. La popstar si è messa in mostra con una versione unplugged di “Hold My Hand” da “Top Gun: Maverick“.
Da notare anche la battuta di Hugh Grant sull’età della collega Andy McDowell:
“Siamo qui per fare due cose. La prima è sensibilizzare sull’importanza vitale di usare una buona crema idratante. Andie ne usa una ogni giorno, da 29 anni. Io non l’ho mai usata in vita mia. Quindi lei è stupenda e io sembro praticamente uno scroto“.
Ecco tutti i vincitori degli Oscar 2023
Miglior film: Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Miglior attrice protagonista: Michelle Yeoh per Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Miglior attore protagonista: Brendan Fraser, per The Whale.
Miglior regista: Daniel Kwan e Daniel Scheinert, con il film Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Miglior montaggio: Paul Rogers, per il film Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Migliore canzone originale: Naatu Naatu, musiche di M. M. Keeravani; testo di Chandrabose, per il film RRR.
Miglior sonoro: Top Gun: Maverick. I premiati sono Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon e Mark Taylor.
Migliore sceneggiatura non originale: Sarah Polley per il film Women Talking.
Miglior sceneggiatura originale: Daniel Kwan e Daniel Scheinert per il film Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Migliori effetti speciali: Avatar – La via dell’acqua. I premiati sono: Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon e Daniel Barrett.
Migliore colonna sonora originale: Volker Bertelmann, per il film Niente di nuovo sul fronte occidentale.
Miglior scenografia: Christian M. Goldbeck ed Ernestine Hipper, per Niente di nuovo sul fronte occidentale.
Miglior cortometraggio d’animazione: Il bambino, la talpa, la volpe e il cavallo, regia di Charlie Mackesy e Matthew Freud.
Miglior cortometraggio documentario: Raghu, il piccolo elefante, per la regia di Kartiki Gonsalves e Guneet Monga.
Miglior film internazionale: Niente di nuovo sul fronte occidentale, di Edward Berger.
Migliori costumi: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, ossia alla costumista Ruth E. Carter.
Miglior trucco e acconciatura: The Whale , ossia i makeup artist Adrien Morot, Judy Chin e Anne Marie Bradley.
Miglior fotografia: James Friend, per il film Niente di nuovo sul fronte occidentale.
Miglior cortometraggio: An Irish Goodbye, regia di Tom Berkely e Ross White.
Miglior documentario: Navalny, regia di Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller e Shane Boris.
Miglior attrice non protagonista: Jamie Lee Curtis, per il film Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Miglior attore non protagonista: Ke Huy Quan, per il film Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Miglior film d’animazione: Pinocchio di Guillermo del Toro, regia di Guillermo del Toro e Mark Gustafson.
La cerimonia è stata una vetrina per le case di produzione indipendenti. A24 e Netflix, hanno fatto un balzo in avanti rispetto alle grandi major del cinema.
La serata si è conclusa con la carrellata dei defunti “In Memoriam”. Tra questi spiccava il nome di Olivia Newton John (la compagna di John Travolta nel film “Grease”), che ha commosso l’attore.
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The result was the remixing and re-recording of an album of Elvis Presley songs called ‘Guitar Man’. In 1980 he created the practice of overdubbing new rhythm tracks on top of previously recorded vocals, a process that is commonplace in music production today. His strong work ethic and being able to bring the best out of any artist, he worked over the years with such renowned artists as Willie Nelson, Jim Ed Brown, Floyd Cramer, Lloyd Price, Fats Domino, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Carl Perkins and Ronnie McDowell. The bonds between him and the performer were so close that when Felton Jarvis’s kidney failed in 1971, Elvis paid for his dialysis and an eventual kidney transplant. Employed by RCA, he branched out on his own in 1970 to work exclusively for Elvis. He is best known as Elvis Presley’s record producer from 1966 to 1977. A museum erected outside of the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee, tells the story of one of America’s most beloved and remembered entertainers. A breast cancer survivor and spokeswoman since 1985, her cancer later returned, claiming her life on March 4, 1996, at her Nashville Home.
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In the early 1990s a series of strokes forced her to retire from the stage, but the industry and its fans did not forget their beloved Minnie Pearl. In 1975, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Married to Henry Cannon for over 50 years, she went on to continue her performances on the Opry, her home base, but also entertained throughout the world for charitable causes and won numerous awards for her numerous contributions to humanity. In reality, she was known as a gracious lady of refinement, hospitality and down to earth charm, living down the street from the Tennessee Governors Mansion and known as a competitive tennis player at the local country club. For over 50 years, she entertained the music world with Minnie’s tales of her fictional hometown, Grinders Switch, Tennessee, stepping onstage proclaiming “Howdeee! I’m just so proud to be here” in her straw hat adorned with flowers and a $1.98 price tag. Her first performance onstage as Minnie Pearl was in 1939 in Aiken, South Carolina, but it was her introduction to the audience of the world famous Grand Ole Opry in 1940 at age 28 that catapulted her to stardom through live performances, radio and eventually television. around 1936, she met a young mountain woman from whom she based her famed and beloved character, Miss. While producing an amateur musical comedy in Baileyton, Alabama. While she was indeed a college graduate, that didn’t stop her from sneaking into tent shows, which was against her parents wishes. Born in Centerville, Tennessee, her had debutante balls and college in mind for their daughter, who’d been stage-struck with a love for vaudeville and drama since an early age. Minnie Pearl ORIGINAL NAME Sara Ophelia Colley CannonĬountry Music Commedienne.
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'The Black Hole' – Captain Nemo in space on Disney+
‘The Black Hole’ – Captain Nemo in space on Disney+
The Black Hole (1979), Disney’s first foray into the Star Wars-inspired big-budget sci-fi sweepstakes, is an odd sort of landmark for the company. It was the company’s first live action feature aimed at breaking out of family movie ghetto to claim an adult mainstream audience, their first PG film, and an expensive flop.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER
A list with black artists who have a song in the Unknown Songs That Should Be Known-playlist
(Can be a black artist in a band or just solo-artist) (no specific genre)
Bull’s Eye - Blacknuss, Prince Prime - Funk
Aftershow - Joe Fox - Alternative Hip-hop
Strangers in the Night - Ben L’Oncle Soul - Soul
Explore - Mack Wilds - R&B
Something To Do - IGBO - Funk
Down With The Trumpets - Rizzle Kicks - Pop
Dans ta ville - Dub Inc. - Reggae
Dance or Die - Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Funk
FACELESS - The PLAYlist, Glenn Lewis - R&B
Tell Me Father - Jeangu Macrooy - Soul
Southern Boy - John The Conquerer - Blues Hard Rock
Savannah Grass - Kes - Dancehall
Dr. Funk - The Main Squeeze - Funk
Seems I’m Never Tired of Loving You - Lizz Wright - Jazz
Out of My Hands - TheColorGrey, Oddisee - Hip-Hop/Pop
Raised Up in Arkansas - Michael Burks - Blues
Black Times - Sean Kuti, Egypt 80, Carlos Santana - Afrobeat
Cornerstone - Benjamin Clementine - Indie
Shine On - R.I.O., Madcon - Electronic Pop
Bass On The Line - Bernie Worrell - Funk
When We Love - Jhené Aiko - R&B
Need Your Love - Curtis Harding - Soul
Too Dry to Cry - Willis Earl Beal - Folk
Your House - Steel Pulse - Reggae
Power - Moon Boots, Black Gatsby - Deep House
Vinyl Is My Bible - Brother Strut - Funk
Diamond - Izzy Biu - R&B
Elusive - blackwave., David Ngyah - Hip-hop
Don’t Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down - Heritage Blues Orchestra - Blues
Sastanàqqàm - Tinariwen - Psychedelic Rock
Disco To Go - Brides of Funkenstein - Funk/Soul
Circles - Durand Jones & The Indications - Retro Pop
Cheesin’ - Cautious Clay, Remi Wolf, sophie meiers - R&B
Changes - Charles Bradley - Soul
The Sweetest Sin - RAEVE - House
Gyae Su - Pat Thomas, Kwashibu Area Band - Funk
What Am I to Do - Ezra Collective, Loyle Carner - Hip-hop
Get Your Groove On - Cedric Burnside - Blues
Old Enough To Know Better - Steffen Morrisson - Soul
Wassiye - Habib Koité - Khassonke musique
Dance Floor - Zapp - Funk
Wake Up - Brass Against, Sophia Urista - Brass Hard-Rock
BIG LOVE - Black Eyed Peas - Pop
The Greatest - Raleigh Ritchie - R&B
DYSFUNCTIONAL - KAYTRANADA, VanJess - Soul
See You Leave - RJD2, STS, Khari Mateen - Hip-hop
Sing A Simple Song - Maceo Parker - Jazz/Funk
Have Mercy - Eryn Allen Kane - Soul
Homenage - Brownout - Latin Funk
Can’t Sleep - Gary Clark Jr. - Blues Rock
Toast - Koffee - Dancehall
Freedom - Ester Dean - R&B
Iskaba - Wande Coal, DJ Tunez - Afropop
High Road - Anthony Riley - Alternative Christian
Sunny Days - Sabrina Starke - Soul
The Talking Fish - Ibibio Sound Machine - Funk
Paralyzed - KWAYE - Indie
Purple Heart Blvd - Sebastian Kole - Pop
WORSHIP - The Knocks, MNEK - Deep House
BMO - Ari Lennox - R&B
Promises - Myles Sanko - Soul
.img - Brother Theodore - Funk
Singing the Blues - Ruthie Foster, Meshell Ndegeocello - Blues
Nobody Like You - Amartey, SBMG, The Livingtons - Hip-hop
Starship - Afriquoi, Shabaka Hutchings, Moussa Dembele - Deep House
Lay My Troubles Down - Aaron Taylor - Funk
Bloodstream - Tokio Myers - Classic
Sticky - Ravyn Lenae - R&B
Why I Try - Jalen N’Gonda - Soul
Motivation - Benjamin Booker - Folk
quand c’est - Stromae - Pop
Let Me Down (Shy FX Remix) - Jorja Smith, Stormzy, SHY FX - Reggae
Funny - Gerald Levert - R&B
Salt in my Wounds - Shemekia Copeland - Blues
Our Love - Samm Henshaw - Soul
Make You Feel That Way - Blackalicious - Jazz Hip-hop
Knock Me Out - Vintage Trouble - Funk
Take the Time - Ronald Bruner, Jr., Thundercat - Alternative
Thru The Night - Phonte, Eric Roberson - R&B
Keep Marchin’ - Raphael Saadiq - Soul
Shake Me In Your Arms - Taj Mahal, Keb’ Mo’ - Blues
Meet Me In The Middle - Jodie Abascus - Pop
Raise Hell - Sir the Baptist, ChurchPpl - Gospel Pop
Mogoya - Oumou Sangaré - Wassoulou
Where’s Yesterday - Slakah The Beatchild - Hip-hop
Lose My Cool - Amber Mark - R&B
New Funk - Big Sam’s Funky Nation - Funk
I Got Love - Nate Dogg - Hip-hop
Nothing’s Real But Love - Rebecca Ferguson - Soul
Crazy Race - The RH Factor - Jazz
Spies Are Watching Me - Voilaaa, Sir Jean - Funk
The Leaders - Boka de Banjul - Afrobeat
Fast Lane - Rationale - House
Conundrum - Hak Baker - Folk
Don’t Make It Harder On Me - Chloe x Halle - R&B
Plastic Hamburgers - Fantastic Negrito - Hardrock
Beyond - Leon Bridges - Pop
God Knows - Dornik - Soul
Soleil de volt - Baloji - Afrofunk
Do You Remember - Darryl Williams, Michael Lington - Jazz
Get Back - McClenney - Alternative
Three Words - Aaron Marcellus - Soul
Spotify playlist
In memory of:
Aaron Bailey
Adam
Addie Mae Collins
Ahmaud Arbery
Aiyana Stanley Jones
Akai Gurley
Alberta Odell Jones
Alexia Christian
Alfonso Ferguson
Alteria Woods
Alton Sterling
Amadou Diallo
Amos Miller
Anarcha Westcott
Anton de Kom
Anthony Hill
Antonio Martin
Antronie Scott
Antwon Rose Jr.
Arthur St. Clair
Atatiana Jefferson
Aubrey Pollard
Aura Rosser
Bennie Simons
Berry Washington
Bert Dennis
Bettie Jones
Betsey
Billy Ray Davis
Bobby Russ
Botham Jean
Brandon Jones
Breffu
Brendon Glenn
Breonna Taylor
Bud Johnson
Bussa
Calin Roquemore
Calvin McDowell
Calvin Mike and his family
Carl Cooper
Carlos Carson
Carlotta Lucumi
Carol Denise McNair
Carol Jenkins
Carole Robertson
Charles Curry
Charles Ferguson
Charles Lewis
Charles Wright
Charly Leundeu Keunang
Chime Riley
Christian Taylor
Christopher Sheels
Claude Neal
Clementa Pickney
Clifford Glover
Clifton Walker
Clinton Briggs
Clinton R. Allen
Cordella Stevenson
Corey Carter
Corey Jones
Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd
Cynthia Wesley
Daniel L. Simmons
Danny Bryant
Darius Randell Robinson
Darius Tarver
Darrien Hunt
Darrius Stewart
David Felix
David Joseph
David McAtee
David Walker and his family
Deandre Brunston
Deborah Danner
Delano Herman Middleton
Demarcus Semer
Demetrius DuBose
Depayne Middleton-Doctor
Dion Johnson
Dominique Clayton
Dontre Hamilton
Dred Scott
Edmund Scott
Ejaz Choudry
Elbert Williams
Eleanor Bumpurs
Elias Clayton
Elijah McClain
Eliza Woods
Elizabeth Lawrence
Elliot Brooks
Ellis Hudson
Elmer Jackson
Elmore Bolling
Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr.
Emmett Till
Eric Garner
Eric Harris
Eric Reason
Ernest Lacy
Ernest Thomas
Ervin Jones
Eugene Rice
Eugene Williams
Ethel Lee Lance
Ezell Ford
Felix Kumi
Frank Livingston
Frank Morris
Frank Smart
Frazier B. Baker
Fred Hampton
Fred Rochelle
Fred Temple
Freddie Carlos Gray Jr.
George Floyd
George Grant
George Junius Stinney Jr.
George Meadows
George Waddell
George Washington Lee
Gregory Gunn
Harriette Vyda Simms Moore
Harry Tyson Moore
Hazel “Hayes” Turner
Henry Ezekial Smith
Henry Lowery
Henry Ruffin
Henry Scott
Hosea W. Allen
India Kager
Isaac McGhie
Isadore Banks
Italia Marie Kelly
Jack Turner
Jamar Clark
Jamel Floyd
James Byrd Jr.
James Craig Anderson
James Earl Chaney
James Powell
James Ramseur
James Tolliver
James T. Scott
Janet Wilson
Jason Harrison
Javier Ambler
J.C. Farmer
Jemel Roberson
Jerame Reid
Jesse Thornton
Jessie Jefferson
Jim Eastman
Joe Nathan Roberts
John Cecil Jones
John Crawford III
John J. Gilbert
John Ruffin
John Taylor
Johnny Robinson
Jonathan Ferrell
Jonathan Sanders
Jordan Edwards
Joseph Mann
Julia Baker
Julius Jones
July Perry
Junior Prosper
Kalief Browder
Karvas Gamble Jr.
Keith Childress, Jr.
Kelly Gist
Kelso Benjamin Cochrane
Kendrick Johnson
Kenneth Chamberlain Sr.
Kenny Long
Kevin Hicks
Kevin Matthews
Kiwane Albert Carrington
Lacy Mitchell
Lamar Smith
Laquan McDonald
Laura Nelson
Laura Wood
L.B. Reed
L.D. Nelson
Lemuel Penn
Lemuel Walters
Leonard Deadwyler
Leroy Foley
Levi Harrington
Lila Bella Carter
Lloyd Clay
Louis Allen
Lucy
M.A. Santa Cruz
Maceo Snipes
Malcom X
Malice Green
Malissa Williams
Manuel Ellis
Marcus Deon Smith
Marcus Foster
Marielle Franco
Mark Clark
Maria
Martin Lee Anderson
Martin Luther King Jr.
Matthew Avery
Mary Dennis
Mary Turner
Matthew Ajibade
May Noyes
Mckenzie Adams
Medgar Wiley Evers
Michael Brown
Michael Donald
Michael Griffith
Michael Lee Marshall
Michael Lorenzo Dean
Michael Noel
Michael Sabbie
Michael Stewart
Michelle Cusseaux
Miles Hall
Moses Green
Mya Hall
Myra Thompson
Nathaniel Harris Pickett Jr.
Natasha McKenna
Nicey Brown
Nicholas Heyward Jr.
O’Day Short family
Orion Anderson
Oscar Grant III
Otis Newsom
Pamela Turner
Paterson Brown Jr.
Patrick Dorismond
Philando Castile
Phillip Pannell
Phillip White
Phinizee Summerour
Quaco
Ramarley Graham
Randy Nelson
Raymond Couser
Raymond Gunn
Regis Korchinski-Paquet
Rekia Boyd
Renisha McBride
Riah Milton
Robert Hicks
Robert Mallard
Robert Truett
Rodney King
Roe Nathan Roberts
Roger Malcolm and his wife
Roger Owensby Jr.
Ronell Foster
Roy Cyril Brooks
Rumain Brisbon
Ryan Matthew Smith
Sam Carter
Sam McFadden
Samuel DuBose
Samuel Ephesians Hammond Jr.
Samuel Hammond Jr.
Samuel Leamon Younge Jr.
Sandra Bland
Sean Bell
Shali Tilson
Sharonda Coleman-Singleton
Shukri Abdi
Simon Schuman
Slab Pitts
Stella Young
Stephon Clark
Susie Jackson
T.A. Allen
Tamir Rice
Tamla Horsford
Tanisha Anderson
Timothy Caughman
Timothy Hood
Timothy Russell
Timothy Stansbury Jr.
Timothy Thomas
Terrence Crutcher
Terrill Thomas
Tom Jones
Tom Moss
Tony McDade
Tony Terrell Robinson Jr.
Trayvon Martin
Troy Hodge
Troy Robinson
Tula
Tyler Gerth
Tyre King
Tywanza Sanders
Victor Duffy Jr.
Victor White III
Walter Lamar Scott
Wayne Arnold Jones
Wesley Thomas
Wilbert Cohen
Wilbur Bundley
Will Brown
Will Head
Will Stanley
Will Stewart
Will Thompson
Willie James Howard
Willie Johnson
Willie McCoy
Willie Palmer
Willie Turks
William Brooks
William Butler
William Daniels
William Fambro
William Green
William L. Chapman II
William Miller
William Pittman
Wyatt Outlaw
Yusef Kirriem Hawkins
The victims of LaLaurie (1830s)
The black victims of the Opelousas massacre (1868)
The black victims of the Thibodaux massacre (1887)
The black victims of the Wilmington insurrection (1898)
The black victims of the Johnson-Jeffries riots (1910)
The black victims of the Red summer (1919)
The black victims of the Elaine massacre (1919)
The black victims of the Ocoee massacre (1920)
The victims of the MOVE bombing (1985)
All the people who died during the Atlantic slave trade, be it due to abuse or disease.
All the unnamed victims of mass-incarceration, who were put into jail without the committing of a crime and died while in jail or died after due to mental illness.
All the unnamed victims of racial violence and discrimination.
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My apologies for all the people missing on this list. Feel free to add more names and stories.
Listen, learn and read about discrimination, racism and black history: (feel free to add more)
Documentaries:
13th (Netflix)
The Innocence Files (Netflix)
Who Killed Malcolm X? (Netflix)
Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix)
I Am Not Your Negro
YouTube videos:
We Cannot Stay Silent about George Floyd
Waarom ook Nederlanders de straat op gaan tegen racisme (Dutch)
Wit is ook een kleur (Dutch) (documentaire)
Books:
Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt
Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
White Fragility by Robin Deangelo
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Woman, Race and Class by Angela Davis
Websites:
https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/
https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/
https://archive.org/details/thirtyyearsoflyn00nati/page/n11/mode/2up
https://lab.nos.nl/projects/slavernij/index-english.html
https://blacklivesmatter.com/
https://www.zinnedproject.org/
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A Large Object Landed on His Sheep Farm. It Came From Space.
https://sciencespies.com/space/a-large-object-landed-on-his-sheep-farm-it-came-from-space/
A Large Object Landed on His Sheep Farm. It Came From Space.
“It’s not something you see every day on a sheep farm,” a farmer said of the pieces of debris that wound up in rural Australia. They are thought to be from a SpaceX spacecraft.
Mick Miners was herding sheep on a four-wheeler last week when he stumbled upon a pointy black object that looked more than nine feet tall. It reminded him of either a burned tree or a piece of farm machinery.
“Pretty frightening, actually,” Mr. Miners, 48, said by phone on Thursday from his roughly 5,000-acre property in a remote corner of southeastern Australia.
“I was quite surprised,” he added. “It’s not something you see every day on a sheep farm.”
Mr. Miners took a picture and sent it to a neighboring farmer, Jock Wallace, who happened to have discovered a similarly mysterious object on his farm a few days earlier.
It was space debris.
The U.S. space agency, NASA, said in a statement that SpaceX confirmed that the object was likely the remaining part of the jettisoned trunk segment from a Dragon spacecraft used during the Crew-1 mission’s return from the International Space Station in May last year. “If you believe you have identified a piece of debris, please do not attempt to handle or retrieve the debris,” NASA said.
Space debris refers to equipment in space that no longer works. Most space debris burns up while re-entering the atmosphere, and much of what’s left over often falls in the ocean. However, with more spaceships entering orbit — such as those from private companies like SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk — impacts on land may happen more frequently. SpaceX did not respond to a request for comment.
Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., said that it’s not unusual for space debris to be found on land after an uncontrolled re-entry.
“It was a bit surprising to me that so much of the trunk survived the heating process of re-entry,” Dr. McDowell said, but he added that there was no indication that there was anything particularly risky about the trunk. He said that in the new commercial era for space exploration, it has been much harder to get technical information from private companies to assess risk. With more information, “we could have a better assessment of, ‘Did we just get really unlucky, or should we expect this from all the trunk re-entries if they happen over land?’”
The trunk segment, which is used to carry cargo and also includes the spacecraft’s solar arrays and radiators, is jettisoned from the body of the capsule shortly after the burn is completed when it goes out of orbit. “It typically burns up in the atmosphere over the open ocean, posing minimal risk to public safety,” the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.
NASA said that SpaceX confirmed that the object that landed in Dalgety, Australia, was likely Dragon hardware from the jettisoned trunk segment of its Crew-1 spacecraft.Brad Tucker via Reuters
Last week, after debris from a large Chinese rocket re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean, the administrator of NASA, Bill Nelson, issued a rebuke, saying that China “did not share specific trajectory information as their Long March 5B rocket fell back to Earth.” He added that all countries should “share this type of information in advance to allow reliable predictions of potential debris impact risk, especially for heavy-lift vehicles, like the Long March 5B, which carry a significant risk of loss of life and property.”
The possibility that debris from the rocket could have struck a populated area led people around the world to track its trajectory for days. This was the third flight of Long March 5B, China’s largest rocket, which made what is called “uncontrolled re-entry” back to Earth.
Last year, a malfunction caused a SpaceX rocket stage to complete an uncontrolled re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere near Seattle in what looked like bright objects lighting up the night’s sky. Pieces of the burning rocket debris landed on a farmer’s property in Washington State. The debris had re-entered the atmosphere after 22 days in orbit.
The rural area of Australia where Mr. Miners discovered the space debris on July 25 lies about 100 miles south of the capital, Canberra.
Ron Lane, who owns a restaurant in the town of Dalgety, said that most people in the area — with the notable exception of himself — were not especially worried about additional space debris potentially landing on them or their homes.
“If there’s three we know about, there could be another 10 we don’t know about,” Mr. Lane said by phone from his restaurant, Tuscany In Dalgety.
Mr. Miners, who was born on the farm where he discovered the unidentified debris, said that his neighbor, Mr. Wallace, had called the authorities to report the other debris that he had found on his own property earlier in July. Public interest grew, Mr. Miners said, after Mr. Wallace called the Australian national broadcaster, which later reported on the farmers’ discoveries and said that three pieces of debris had been found.
“Then everybody found out, and I’ve had about 300 calls,” said Mr. Miners, who has about 5,500 sheep, 100 cattle and 30 horses on his farm in the district of Numbla Vale.
His own piece of debris is almost 10 feet tall by 1.3 feet, he said, and an official from the Australian Space Agency called on Thursday to say that its experts planned to visit his property next week to “have a look at it.”
Mr. Miners said he had so far enjoyed learning the preliminary details about how the debris had landed and that he was not sure what would happen next.
He said he would be “happy to keep it” but was also interested in “a bit of compensation,” if the space agencies or company wanted it back.
Sa’id Mosteshar, a professor of international space law and the director of the London Institute of Space Policy and Law, said that a person would be able to claim compensation only if the debris harmed him or her or caused any damage to his or her property.
“My guess is they’ll want it back,” Mr. Miner added. “I don’t know. I don’t know anything about it. As I said, I’m a sheep farmer.”
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Today we remember the passing of Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton who Died: July 25, 1984 in Los Angeles, California
Willie Mae Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984), better known as Big Mama Thornton, was an American rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter. She was the first to record Leiber and Stoller's "Hound Dog", in 1952,which became her biggest hit, staying seven weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B chart in 1953 and selling almost two million copies. Thornton's other recordings included the original version of "Ball and Chain", which she wrote.
Her recording of Hound Dog, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1952, and later recorded by Elvis Presley, reached Number 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. According to Maureen Mahon, a music professor at New York University, "the song is seen as an important beginning of rock-and-roll, especially in its use of the guitar as the key instrument".
Thornton's birth certificate states that she was born in Ariton, Alabama, but in an interview with Chris Strachwitz, she claimed Montgomery, Alabama, as her birthplace, probably because Montgomery was better known than Ariton. She was introduced to music in a Baptist church, where her father was a minister and her mother a singer. She and her six siblings began to sing at early ages. Her mother died young, and Willie Mae left school and got a job washing and cleaning spittoons in a local tavern. In 1940 she left home and, with the help of Diamond Teeth Mary, joined Sammy Green's Hot Harlem Revue and was soon billed as the "New Bessie Smith". Her musical education started in the church but continued through her observation of the rhythm-and-blues singers Bessie Smith and Memphis Minnie, whom she deeply admired.
Thornton's career began to take off when she moved to Houston in 1948. "A new kind of popular blues was coming out of the clubs in Texas and Los Angeles, full of brass horns, jumpy rhythms, and wisecracking lyrics." In 1951 she signed a recording contract with Peacock Records and performed at the Apollo Theater in 1952. Also in 1952, while working with another Peacock artist Johnny Otis, she recorded "Hound Dog", the first record produced by its writers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The pair were present at the recording, with Leiber demonstrating the song in the vocal style they had envisioned; "We wanted her to growl it," Stoller said, which she did. Otis played drums, after the original drummer was unable to play an adequate part. The record sold more than half a million copies, and went to number one on the R&B chart, helping to bring in the dawn of rock 'n' roll. Although the record made Thornton a star, she saw little of the profits.
On Christmas Day 1954 in a theatre in Houston, Texas, she witnessed fellow performer Johnny Ace, also signed to Duke and Peacock record labels, accidentally shoot and kill himself while playing with a .22 pistol. Thornton continued to record for Peacock until 1957 and performed in R&B package tours with Junior Parker and Esther Phillips.
Thornton's success with "Hound Dog" was followed three years later by Elvis Presley recording his hit version of the song. His recording at first annoyed Leiber who wrote, "I have no idea what that rabbit business is all about. The song is not about a dog, it's about a man, a freeloading gigolo." But Elvis' version sold ten million copies, so today few fans know that "Hound Dog" began as "an anthem of black female power." Similarly, Thornton originally recorded her song "Ball 'n' Chain" for Bay-Tone Records in the early 1960s, "and though the label chose not to release the song... they did hold on to the copyright"—which meant that Thornton missed out on the publishing royalties when Janis Joplin recorded the song later in the decade. However, in a 1972 interview, Thornton acknowledged giving Joplin permission to record the song and receiving royalty payments from its sales.
As her career began to fade in the late 1950s and early 1960s, she left Houston and relocated to the San Francisco Bay area, "playing clubs in San Francisco and L.A. and recording for a succession of labels", notably the Berkeley-based Arhoolie Records. In 1965, she toured with the American Folk Blues Festival in Europe, where her success was notable "because very few female blues singers at that time had ever enjoyed success across the Atlantic." While in England that year, she recorded her first album for Arhoolie, Big Mama Thornton – In Europe. It featured backing by blues veterans Buddy Guy (guitar), Fred Below (drums), Eddie Boyd (keyboards), Jimmy Lee Robinson (bass), and Walter "Shakey" Horton (harmonica), except for three songs on which Fred McDowell provided acoustic slide guitar.
In 1966, Thornton recorded her second album for Arhoolie, Big Mama Thornton with the Muddy Waters Blues Band – 1966, with Muddy Waters (guitar), Sammy Lawhorn (guitar), James Cotton (harmonica), Otis Spann (piano), Luther Johnson (bass guitar), and Francis Clay (drums). She performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1966 and 1968. Her last album for Arhoolie, Ball n' Chain, was released in 1968. It was made up of tracks from her two previous albums, plus her composition "Ball and Chain" and the standard "Wade in the Water". A small combo, including her frequent guitarist Edward "Bee" Houston, provided backup for the two songs. Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company's performance of "Ball 'n' Chain" at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and the release of the song on their number one album Cheap Thrills renewed interest in Thornton's career.
By 1969, Thornton had signed with Mercury Records, which released her most successful album, Stronger Than Dirt, which reached number 198 in the Billboard Top 200 record chart. Thornton had now signed a contract with Pentagram Records and could finally fulfill one of her biggest dreams. A blues woman and the daughter of a preacher, Thornton loved the blues and what she called the "good singing" of gospel artists like the Dixie Hummingbirds and Mahalia Jackson. She had always wanted to record a gospel record, and with the album Saved (PE 10005), she achieved that longtime goal. The album includes the gospel classics "Oh, Happy Day," "Down By The Riverside," "Glory, Glory Hallelujah," "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands," "Lord Save Me," "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," "One More River" and "Go Down Moses".
By then, the American blues revival had come to an end. While the original blues acts like Thornton mostly played smaller venues, younger people played their versions of blues in massive arenas for big money. Since the blues had seeped into other genres of music, the blues musician no longer needed impoverishment or geography for substantiation; the style was enough. While at home the offers became fewer and smaller, things changed for good in 1972, when Thornton was asked to rejoin the American Folk Blues Festival tour. She thought of Europe as a good place for herself, and, with the lack of engagements in the United States, she agreed happily. The tour, beginning on March 2, took Thornton to Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Sweden, where it ended on March 27 in Stockholm. With her on the bill were Eddie Boyd, Big Joe Williams, Robert Pete Williams, T- Bone Walker, Paul Lenart, Hartley Severns, Edward Taylor and Vinton Johnson. As in 1965, they garnered recognition and respect from other musicians who wanted to see them.
In the 1970s, years of heavy drinking began to damage Thornton's health. She was in a serious auto accident but recovered to perform at the 1973 Newport Jazz Festival with Muddy Waters, B.B. King, and Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (a recording of this performance, The Blues—A Real Summit Meeting, was released by Buddha Records). Thornton's last albums were Jail and Sassy Mama for Vanguard Records in 1975. Other songs from the recording session were released in 2000 on Big Mama Swings. Jail captured her performances during mid-1970s concerts at two prisons in the northwestern United States. She was backed by a blues ensemble that featured sustained jams by George "Harmonica" Smith and included the guitarists Doug MacLeod, Bee Houston and Steve Wachsman; the drummer Todd Nelson; the saxophonist Bill Potter; the bassist Bruce Sieverson; and the pianist J. D. Nicholson. She toured extensively through the United States and Canada, played at the Juneteenth Blues Fest in Houston and shared the bill with John Lee Hooker. She performed at the San Francisco Blues Festival in 1979 and the Newport Jazz Festival in 1980. In the early 1970s, Thornton's sexual proclivities became a question among blues fans. Big Mama also performed in the "Blues Is a Woman" concert that year, alongside classic blues legend Sippie Wallace, sporting a man's three-piece suit, straw hat, and gold watch. She sat at center stage and played pieces she wanted to play, which were not on the program. Thornton took part in the Tribal Stomp at Monterey Fairgrounds, the Third Annual Sacramento Blues Festival, and the Los Angeles Bicentennial Blues with BB King and Muddy Waters. She was a guest on an ABC-TV special hosted by actor Hal Holbrook and was joined by Aretha Franklin and toured through the club scene. She was also part of the award-winning PBS television special Three Generations of the blues with Sippie Wallace and Jeannie Cheatham.
Thornton was found dead at age 57 by medical personnel in a Los Angeles boarding house on July 25, 1984. She died of heart and liver disorders due to her longstanding alcohol abuse.
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Recently watched: Shock Treatment (1964). Tagline: “The Nightmare World of the Mad ...” “You won’t be the same … when you come out of Shock Treatment!” I’m using this period of enforced social isolation to explore the weirder corners of YouTube for long forgotten and obscure movies. (My boyfriend is accompanying me only semi-willingly).
An overlooked black-and-white psychological-exploitation film, Shock Treatment starts on a wonderfully lurid note even before the opening credits roll. A homicidal maniac gardener (played by a bug-eyed Roddy McDowall) sneaks up behind the elderly Beverly Hills millionairess he works for – and in a moment worthy of William Castle’s Strait-Jacket, abruptly decapitates her with his gardening shears!
McDowell is Martin Ashley, a freshly released psychiatric patient. His ill-fated employer was Mrs Townsend. At the subsequent trial, it’s revealed that Martin - convinced that money is “the root of all evil” - burned one million dollars of Townsend’s fortune after killing her. At least two people doubt Martin’s account. Harley Manning - the executor of Mrs Townsend’s estate - is convinced he’s faking and has hidden the money somewhere. And the icily efficient and untrustworthy Dr Edwina Beighley (Lauren Bacall), who oversees the high security mental institution where Martin is a patient, has her own nefarious designs on the $1 million.
Manning’s solution is to hire a struggling actor Dale Nelson (Stuart Whitman) to feign insanity, go undercover as a patient in the asylum to befriend Martin and learn where the $1 million is hidden. There’s an unintentionally campy moment when Dale asks Manning why he picked him for the job. “You’re a convincing actor,” Manning replies. (This is ironic because in terms of acting ability, hunky Whitman mostly coasts on his rugged square-jawed good looks). Anyway, it proves remarkably easy for Dale to get committed. He plays “mad” by smashing a store window in broad daylight, tearing off his shirt, donning a pair of sunglasses and berating the cops in beatnik lingo about conformity (“Why must you gentlemen conform?” he implores, “Why not turn to these peasants, look them in the eye and say, “To hell with conformity?” The disciples of conformity are bleeding from the narrowness of your mind!”). For this little outburst, the judge determines, “His antisocial behavior indicates a disturbed state of mind” and sentences Dale to ninety days.
Shock Treatment follows the same narrative as Samuel Fuller’s far more highly-regarded and famous Shock Corridor (1963): someone is hired to infiltrate and investigate what’s happening in a sanitarium – and then they can’t get out! Rest assured Shock Treatment won’t win any awards for sensitivity for its sensational representation of mental illness. McDowell plays psycho killer Martin with such sexual ambiguity that his scenes with Dale throb with a homoerotic tension the director probably never intended. Meanwhile, Carol Lynley is a female patient who serves as Dale’s love interest. Her psychiatric condition seems to consist of whiplash mood swings between frigidity and nymphomania. “I just dislike being touched!” she exclaims. “Kissing and touching are sins!” but then moments later, she pleads, “I want you to touch me, Dale! To hold me and touch me – now! Love me, Dale! Love me!” Luckily, Lynley’s problems are easily cured: as the script hints, all she needed was the love of a good man. (Watch also for a fleeting but vivid appearance by eccentric character actor Timothy Carey).
Shock Treatment may be low-grade schlock, but it’s compelling schlock suffused with genuine tension and paranoia, tightly constructed, wreathed in menacing film noir shadows and genuinely suspenseful. And it features a magnificent turn by Lauren Bacall as the manipulative Dr Beighley, scheming to test her experimental drugs on a human guinea pig. Bacall made her film debut in 1944. It’s a sign of how far the Hollywood diva’s stock had fallen that twenty years later she was reduced to acting in b-movie fare like Shock Treatment. But the husky-voiced Bacall is utterly mesmeric in a rare villainous role, playing it with a malevolent, steely composure and poised elegance (she makes her white lab coat look like haute-couture). Call me perverse, and I’m probably in a minority of one, but it’s one of my favourite performances by Bacall.
Watch Shock Treatment here.
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