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Greetings once again from a snowy kingdom of Fife and welcome once more to Where The Action Is, brought to you by Paul “The Cat” Johnston via K-Town FM and Mixcloud.  We had our regular diet of mod, soul, girl groups, freakbeat, sunshine pop and other genres from the late 50s through to the early 70s. We had two rounds of Connect 3 (did you get the link between the three tracks?), a Foreign Language track from Germany (sung by a Dane) and Two of a Kind from The Bee Gees. We headed off to the Death Disco and celebrated animals in our Double Rubble feature. We did the Jerk in the Land of 1000 Dances, and we heard from Dunfermline’s wonderful new band Middleton Hall in our Under The Influence slot and, as ever, we had our half-time instrumental in the form of our Wordless Wonder.

The Lemon Tree - William Chalker's Time Machine
Orange Bicycle – Last Cloud Home (Parlophone 1969)
The Beatstalkers – Base Line (Decca 1966) (Show Theme)
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood – Lady Bird (Reprise 1967)
Julie Grant – Don’t Ever Let Me Down (Pye 1963)
David John & The Mood – Diggin’ For Gold (Parlophone 1965)
The Tremeloes – Gentlemen of Pleasure (CBS 1967)
Tomorrow – Real Life Permanent Dream (Parlophone 1968) (Connect 3)
The Harbinger Complex – Tomorrow’s Soul Sound (Amber 1966) (Connect 3)
The Iveys/Badfinger – Maybe Tomorrow (Apple 1969) (Connect 3)
Gentry – Sing Me a Sad Song (Dolphin 1969)
The Ivy League – Rain, Rain Go Away (Piccadilly 1966)
The Honeys – In The Still of the Night (Unreleased 1963) (Birthday: 26/3/36 Fred Parris)
Diana Ross & The Supremes – Reflections (Motown 1967) (Birthday: 26/3/44 Diana Ross)
Billie Davis – Just Walk In My Shoes (Piccadilly 1966)
The Shillings – Not The Least Bit True (Fantasy 1966)
Bamboo Shoot – The Fox Has Gone to Ground (Columbia 1968) (Double Rubble)
Erky Grant & The Earwigs – I’m a Hog For You (Pye 1963) (Double Rubble)
Mike Proctor – Mr Commuter (Columbia 1967)
The Fireballs – Foot-Patter (Top Rank 1960) (Wordless Wonder)
The Baytovens – Luv Look Away (Unreleased 1966)
The Larks – The Jerk (Money 1964) (Land of 1000 Dances)
Alexander Bell – Alexander Bell Believes (RCA 1967)
Dorthe – Darauf Fall Ich Nicht Rein (Philips 1967) (Foreign Language)
The Donnybrookes – You’re Gonna Cry (Golden State 1966)
Robert Horton – Sail Ho! (Pye 1960) (Death Disco)
Gary Usher & The Usherettes – Three Surfer Boys (Dot 1963)
Sanford Clark – Houston (Warner Bros 1965)
Middleton Hall – Middleton Hall (Twin City 2013) (Under The Influence)
K G Young – Spider (CBS 1969) (Connect 3)
The Spyders – Gotta Find Me a New Love (Unreleased 1966) (Connect 3)
Heinz & The Wild Boys – Big Fat Spider (Columbia 1965) (Connect 3)
The Lemon Tree – William Chalker Time Machine (Parlophone 1968)
The Bee Gees – Sir Geoffrey Saved The World (Polydor 1967) (Two of a Kind)
The Bee Gees – Spicks and Specks (Polydor 1966) (Two of a Kind)
Dino, Desi & Billy – Not The Lovin’ Kind (Reprise 1965)
Helen Shapiro – Silly Boy (I Love You) (Pye 1968)
The Honeycombs – That’s The Way (Pye 1965)

Thanks to everyone for tuning in live on K-Town FM or via Mixcloud. Your support is always welcome and very much appreciated, as is your feedback and if there’s something you’d like to hear on the show then by all means get in touch via jocknroll [at] gmail [dot] com. Today’s show featured tracks for Duglas T Stewart, Philip Stout, Steven Birrell, Sheila Godfrey, Eve Griffin, Simon Goddard, Evan Davies, Sue McGookin, Kevin Rowan-Drewett, Joe Haining, Doug Shanley, David Paul, Ally Gourlay, Lynn Elliott and John Cavanagh. 

You can tune in LIVE every Tuesday between 2pm and 4pm on K-Town FM via http://ktownfm.digitalfife.com.You can also join in the chat during the show on the “Where The Action Is (Radio Show)” Facebook page. If you’re listening in the USA the show starts at approximately 0600 (PST), 0700 (MST), 0800 (CST) and 0900 (EST). The show will also be made available on Mixcloud within a couple of days of each show (although it’s usually the same day) and today’s is already available HERE.

Requests are always welcome for the show, including the features, and I’ll try and accommodate them all, although it may take a couple of weeks to slot them all in. Please note that due to the Easter break the next show won’t be until 16 April.

That’s it for this week, see you again next week. Until then, it’s good day/night and good health.

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Yes, despite popular demand it’s back! Welcome to Where The Action Is. We return to the airwaves with our usual mix of mod, soul, freakbeat, baroque pop, psychedelia, girl groups and much, much more from the late 50s through to the early 1970s. We have all our regular features such as two rounds of Connect 3 (can you guess the link?), a Foreign Language track (which country will we visit this week?) and this week’s Two of a Kind. There’s also a Death Disco track, a trip to the Land of 1000 Dances, Double Rubble, Under The Influence and the Half-Time Instrumental track. I’ve missed you all!

The Tremeloes – Hello World (CBS 1969)
The Beatstalkers – Base Line (Decca 1966) (Show Theme)
Jan and Dean – (Here They Come) From All Over The World (Liberty 1965)
Kenny Lynch with Laurie Jay Combo – Harlem Library (HMV 1964)
Gemini – Sunshine River (Clarion 1969)
The Kinks – I’m Not Like Everybody Else (Pye 1966)
The Orchids – That Boy Is Messin’ Up My Mind (Demo 63-64) (Connect 3)
Dee King – Sally Go Round The Roses (Piccadilly 1966) (Connect 3)
Emitt Rhodes – Fresh as a Daisy (ABC/Dunhill 1970) (Connect 3)
Glenda Collins – I Lost My Heart at the Fairground (1963 HMV)
Them – I Can Only Give You Everything (Decca 1966)
Booker T and the MGs – It’s Your Thing (Stax 1972) (Birthday: 27/11/35 Al Jackson Jr)
Mama Cass – Make Your Own Kind of Music (Dunhill 1969)
The Fleur de Lys – Circles (Immediate 1966)
Barbara Ruskin – Pawnbroker Pawnbroker (President 1968)
The Factotums – Cloudy (Pye 1967) (Double Rubble)
Velvet Fogg – Lady Caroline (Pye 1969) (Double Rubble)
The Left Banke – She May Call You Up Tonight (Smash 1967)
The John Barry Seven – Big Shield (Ember/Starlite 1961) (Half-Time Instrumental)
The Bittersweet – The Hurtin Kind (Toma 1967)
Jimmy Justice – Limbo Rock (Pye 1963) (Land of 1000 Dances)
Jackie Lee – The Town I Live In (Columbia 1966)
The Searchers – C’est et Notre Age (Vogue 1965) (Foreign Language)
The Pozo-Seco Singers – I Can Make It With You (Columbia 1966)
The Cheers – Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots (Capitol 1965) (Death Disco)
Ten Feet – Factory Worker (RCA 1966)
The Yardbirds – Evil-Hearted You (Columbia 1965)
The Store Keys – Daddy Was a Mod in the RAF (Barne Society 2011) (Under The Influence)
The Beatstalkers – Silver Treetop School for Boys (CBS 1967) (Connect 3)
Lorraine Silver – Lost Summer Love (Pye 1965) (Connect 3)
The Good Ship Lollipop – Maxwell’s Silver Hammer  (Ember 1969) (Connect 3)
The Cookies – I Want a Boy For My Birthday (Dimension 1963)
Petula Clark – I Know a Place (Pye 1965) (Two of a Kind)
Petula Clark – Gotta Tell The World (Pye 1965) (Two of a Kind)
The Love Affair – Rainbow Valley (CBS 1968)
Diane Renay – The Company You Keep (New Voice 1965)
Billie Davis – Wasn’t It You? (Challenge 1966)

Thanks, as always, to everyone who tuned in and to those who also joined in on the Facebook page. Your contributions and feedback are always welcomed and if there’s something you want to hear on the show then by all means let me know. Tonight’s show included requests for Kevin Rowan-Drewett, John Turnbull, Eve Griffin, Sue McGookin, Roy Moller, Cally-Marie Baldwin, Scott Hastie, June Taylor, Caroline Perkins, John Cavanagh, Andy Akhtar, Ally Gourlay, Simon Goddard, Joe Haining, Sheila Godfrey, Phil Jordan, Virginia Mills, Duglas T Stewart, Lynn Elliott and Sandi Moore.

You can now tune in LIVE every Tuesday between 2pm and 4pm on K-Town FM via http://ktownfm.digitalfife.com.You can also join in the chat during the show on the “Where The Action Is (Radio Show)” Facebook page. If you’re listening in the USA the show starts at approximately 0600 (PST), 0700 (MST), 0800 (CST) and 0900 (EST). The show will also be made available on Mixcloud within a couple of days of each show but today’s is already available HERE.

Requests are welcome for the show, including the features, and I’ll try and accommodate them all, although it may take a couple of weeks to slot them all in.

That’s it for this week. Until next time, it’s good day/night and good health.

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Here’s the playlist for today’s edition of Planet Pop, which went out on K-Town FM between 2 and 4 pm.

For those who don’t know, Planet Pop is a multi-decade, multi-genre show based around a specific theme each week. On each edition of the show we take a track from the previous episode of the show, play it again and build a brand new theme around it. Previous themes have included Planets, Eurovision, Literature, Long Songs, 80s Electronica, Countries, Transport, Hand Claps, Days of the Weeks, the Weather and, last time, Occupations.

The show doesn’t have as many regular features as Where The Action Is but I do play a Jocknroll triumverate, no matter the theme, as well as three tracks throughout the show on a related theme to the main theme, which I now call Theme within a Theme, and sometimes Two of a Kind. Here’s is today’s playlist for those who missed it:

The Challengers – Kicks (GNP Crescendo 1966)
Coldplay – The Scientist (Parlophone 2002) (Brought forward from last show)
Savage Garden – Affirmation (Columbia 1999)
The Cure – Lovesong (Fiction 1989)
The Smiths – Rusholm Ruffians (Rough Trade 1985)
The Toys – A Lover’s Concerto (Dynovoice 1965)
Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights (EMI 1978) – played in error!!
The Who – Baby O’Riley (Polydor 1971)
I Am Kloot – Untitled #1 (Echo 2003) UNTITLED 1
Green Day – Basket Case (Reprise 1994)
All Saints – Pure Shores (London 2000)
Supergrass – Richard III (Parlophone 1997)
The Mamas and the Papas – Creeque Alley (Dunhill 1967)
Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth (Atco 1967)
The Bodines – Untitled (Magnet 1987) UNTITLED 2
The Beatles – The Ballad of John and Yoko (Apple 1969)
New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle (Factory 1986)
Paul Anka – Smells Like Teen Spirit (Verve 2005)
BMX Bandits – Come Clean (Vinyl Japan 1991) JOCKNROLL
Roddy Frame – Big Ben (Redemption 2002) JOCKNROLL
Marmalade – Kaleidoscope (Decca 1970) JOCKNROLL
Superstar – Superstar (Camp Fabulous 1998)
American Spring – Superstar (United Artists 1972)
Keane – Untitled 1 (Island 2004) UNTITLED 3
The Monkees – Randy Scouse Git (Alternate Title) (Colgems 1967) TWO OF A KIND
The Monkees – Tapioca Tundra (Colgems 1968) TWO OF A KIND
Morrissey – Suedehead (HMV 1988)
James – Laid (Fontana 1993)
The Orchids – It’s Only Obvious (Sarah 1989)
OMD – Pandora’s Box (Virgin 1991)

So the theme of today’s show was SONGS WHERE THE TITLE ISN’T IN THE LYRICS and the THEME WITHIN A THEME tracks were all called “Untitled”.

The next edition of Planet Pop will be on Thursday 23 August 2012 so do tune in to find out what the new theme will be. Maybe it’ll be be puddings/desserts after “Tapioca Tundra” or films after “Pandora’s Box”. Remember, it relates to a track I played in today’s show.

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When I used to present Where The Action Is I would put the playlists up on the Jocknroll blog, as well as on the “Where The Action Is” Facebook page. I also present, on an irregular basis, a show called Planet Pop. During term-time  – I’m currently a radio student – I broadcast the show from Adam Smith College’s own radio station, which goes out to the world via K-Town FM. This summer I’ve agreed to broadcast three episodes of Planet Pop live from the K-Town studios in Kinglassie while Where The Action Is, currently broadcasting vix Mixcloud,  takes a much needed summer vacation.

While Where The Action Is tends to focus on the less well-known tracks from the late 50s through to the early 70s, Planet Pop is a multi-decade show based around a specific theme each week. On each edition of the show we take a track from the previous episode of the show, play it again and build a brand new theme around it. Previous themes have included Planets, Eurovision, Literature, Long Songs, 80s Electronica, Countries, Transport, Hand Claps and, last week, Days of the Weeks.

The show doesn’t have as many regualr features as Where The Action Is but I do play a Jocknroll triumverate, no matter the theme, as well as three tracks throughout the show on a related theme to the main theme. Here’s is the playlist for today’s show, which went out between 2 and 4 pm:

The Frantics – Fog Cutter (Dolton 1959)
Stamford Bridge – Happiness and Rainy Days (Monument 1970) (Brought forward from last show)
Sergeant – Sunshine (Shy Recordings 2008)
London Phogg – The Times To Come (A&M 1969)
BMX Bandits – Foggy (Rev-ola 2007)
Jonny – Circling The Sun (Alsatian/Turnstile 2011)
Billie Davis – Billy Sunshine (Decca 1969)
Lesley Gore – Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows (Mercury 1965)
10,000 Maniacs – Like The Weather (Elektra 1987) WEATHER 1
Rainbow – I Surrender (Polydor 1981)
My Bloody Valentine – Paint a Rainbow (Lazy 1987)
Close Lobsters – I’m Going To Heaven To See If It Rains (Fire 1986)
The Factotums – Cloudy (Pye 1967)
The Rolling Stones – Get Off Of My Cloud (Decca 1965)
Mark Wirtz – (He’s Our Dear Old) Weatherman (Parlophone 1968) WEATHER 2
John Leyton -Thunder and Lightning (HMV 1961)
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers – Born To Lose (Track 1977)
Silver Sun – Golden Skin (Polydor 1997)
Camera Obscura – Honey In The Sun (4AD 2009) JOCKNROLL
The Wake – English Rain (Sarah 1991) JOCKNROLL
Marmalade – Bad Weather (CBS 1971) JOCKNROLL
I Am Kloot – Morning Rain (We Love You 2001) TWO OF A KIND
I Am Kloot – Sunlight Hits The Snow (We Love You 2001) TWO OF A KIND
The Weather Prophets – Almost Prayed (Creation 1986) WEATHER 3
Big Country – The Storm (Mercury 1983)
Stormy Petrel – Hello Hello Hello (CBS 1971)
Andy Williams – Windy (Columbia 1968)
Clodagh Rodgers – Wind of Change (RCA 1971)
Fountains of Wayne – Traffic and Weather (S-Curve 2007)
The Popguns – Lightning (Midnight Music 1991)
Violent Femmes – Blister in the Sun (Slash 1983)
The Love Affair – Rainbow Valley (CBS 1968)
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas – Love is Like a Heat Wave (Gordy 1983)
The Tornados – Globetrotter (Decca 1963)

I was ably assisted on today’s show by my daughter, who also did a couple of links for me.

The next edition of Planet Pop will be on Thursday 26 July 2012. So do tune in to find out what the new theme will be. Remember, it relates to a track I played in today’s show.

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There have now been 12 weekly episodes of Where The Action Is posted at its new home at Mixcloud. While I still enjoy putting these radio shows together and the positive feedback it generates I’m finding that the work involved in putting the shows together is taking up vital family time and there comes a time when you have to look at what’s important. On that basis, I’m taking a break from the show over the summer and when the show returns in August it’ll be a more compact one-hour show. Sadly some of the old features will be lost – Death Disco, one of the Connect 3s, Two of a Kind – but when needs must the devil drives.

There will be a couple of two-hour specials coming up. Around about 26 July I’m going to do an Olympic-themed show, which will be two hours, and at a date to be decided I’m going to a show of songs featuring hand claps. This will also be a two-hour special. I recently did a multi-decade version of the show on Adam Smith College Radio, in association with K-Town FM, and it was well received. That version was done under my Planet Pop title but this time it’ll be a 60s only version for Where The Action Is.

While Where The Action Is is taking a break I’m doing three live versions of my other show, Planet Pop, on K-Town FM, which is a community station based in Kinglassie. Like previous editions of Planet Pop it will be a themed show. What happens is that I take one song from the previous week’s themed show, play it again and build a brand new theme around it. For example, the very first edition of Planet Pop, which was broadcast on the launch day of Adam Smith College Radio back on 30 January, had a theme of Planets. During that show I played “Hello From Mars” by F.L.Y., the Latvian Eurovision entry from 2003. I took that song from the Planets show and played it in the next show and did a show of Eurovision tracks. Then I played Alexander Rybak’s “Fairytale” and used that for a Literature-themed show. The full list of themes used so far is Planets, Eurovision, Literature, Long songs (over 6 minutes), 80s Electronica, Countries, Transport and the most recent one, songs containing hand claps. I’ve already planned the next three so tune in to find out what they are.

I’ll be on K-Town FM on Thursday 5 July, 12 July and 26 July between 2 and 4 pm. Sadly there’s no Listen Again facility.

Finally, while Mixcloud, with its unlimited storage, hosts the longer Where The Action Is shows I’ve put some of my shorter works from my HNC Radio course up on Soundcloud, which offers limited space.

There are currently six pieces of work up on Soundcloud:

1. Local Heroes – My Creative Project from Semester 1. This was a 25-minute feature on different levels of fame within Dunfermline and features interviews with Michaela Tabb (international snooker and pool referee), Big Country guitarist Bruce Watson and Gillian Lee-Ireland, who won £11,000 on Deal or No Deal. Looking back I may have edited it a bit differently or indeed replaced one of the interviews with an interview I did with Dunfermline Athletic FC footballer John Potter but it was good enough to be shortlisted for the Creative Loop Radio Awards so I’m not going to be too critical on myself.

2. Doll By Doll – A Good Yarn- My Feature from Semester 2. We had to make a radio feature of up to 15 minutes in length and I decided to utilise what was around me so I interviewed my wife on knitting, specifically a number of dolls she’s made over the past 12 months! I also interviewed a number of ladies from the knitting group she attends but time constraints meant I went with a shortened feature. I intend to make a longer version of this piece including those extras interviews. A Director’s Cut, if you will! I can’t imagine there are many features out there that feature Horrible Histories, Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe and the singing of Bill Oddie.

3. 76 with a Bullet – The Rebirth of the Record Shop – My Graded Unit from Semester 2. Of all the work I did in the HNC year this is the piece of work I’m most proud of. It went through a number of changes in the process of making but ultimately I’m very happy with how it ended up. A big thanks to those who gave their time to be interviewed in the studio, on the phone or in person – Ally Gourlay, Ron Doo Ron (The Spooks), John Cavanagh, Graham Jones (Last Shop Standing), Duglas T Stewart (BMX Bandits) and Kevin Buckle (Avalanche Records). For the record, I got an A for it.

4. Advert for www.edinburgh247.com (20 seconds) – One of those pieces of work I was just happy to get a ‘pass’ on. Adverts aren’t my strong point and I decided on a very simple idea. Thanks for Darren Moore at Edinburgh 247 for agreeing to be my client.

5. Advert for www.edinburgh247.com (40 seconds) – The vox pops for both adverts were provided by fellow students and I got some children from my daughter’s Kids’ Club to help out at the end. Unfortunately their best take was done as I still preparing the Zoom to record! Still, their enthusiasm and contribution was greatly appreciated.

6. Planet Pop – John Carter special – This show was put together especially for the Creative Loop awards. While it was put forward by the College it didn’t make the final three. It showcases the work of singer-songwriter-producer John Carter who probably isn’t as well-known as he should be. As well as songs he wrote, performed and produced the show features a number of famous jingles he wrote and sang for products such as Rowntrees Tots, Vauxhall Chevette, British Caledonian and Birds Dream Topping.

Onwards and upwards to the HND year beginning in August.

“The Cat”
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Monday 30 January 2012 saw the launch of Adam Smith College Radio in association with K-Town FM, a community radio station based in Kinglassie, near Glenrothes. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, between 1pm and 5pm, first and second year students from the HND Radio courses will be broadcasting a wide variety of shows to the world via the internet. You can tune in via http://ktownfm.digitalfife.com.

I shall be broadcasting my shows under the Planet Pop banner and will endeavour to do a different themed-show every time, as opposed my usual “Where The Action Is” shows on Leith FM. The first show, presented in partnership with Jamie Wells, had a theme of Planets to celebrate the launch of the station (do you see what I did there?). This week’s second show enabled me to celebrate a very guilty pleasure in the shape of the Eurovision Song Contest. Here are the playlists for both shows:

Monday 30 January 2012 – Space

The B-52s – Planet Claire (Island 1979)
Mercury Rev – Goddess on a Hiway (V2 1998)
Wings – Venus and Mars/Rock Show (Capitol 1975)
Duran Duran – Planet Earth (EMI 1981)
UB40 – The Earth Dies Screaming (Graduate 1980) 
The Undertones – Mars Bar (Sire 1979)
F.L.Y. – Hello From Mars (Unknown 2003)
Train – Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) (Columbia 2001)
Inspiral Carpets – Saturn V (Mute 1994)
Gustav Holst – Uranus, The Magician (Unknown 1915?)
Jimi Hendrix – Valleys of Neptune (Legacy 69/70)
Babylon Zoo – Spaceman (EMI 1996)
The Tornados – Telstar (Decca 1962)

Wednesday 8 February 2012 – Eurovision

Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Eurovision Theme (Te Deum in D Major)
Len Meyer-Landrut – Satellite (Germany 2010)
Massiel – He Gives Me Love (La La La) (Spain 1968)
Secret Garden – Nocturne (Norway 1995)
Alexander Rybak – Fairytale (Norway 2009) 
Brainstorm – My Star (Latvia 2000)
F.L.Y. – Hello From Mars (Latvia 2003)
Teach-In – Ding a Dong (Dutch version) (Holland 1975)
Vicky Leandros – Apres Toi (Philips 1972)
France Gall – Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son (Luxembourg 1965)
Dana International – Diva (Hebrew Radio version) (Israel 1998)
Severine – Un Banc Une Arbre Une Rue (Philips 1971)
Marta Roure – Jugarem A Estimar-Nos (Andorra 2004)
Gina G – Ooh Aah…Just a Little Bit (UK 1996)
The New Seekers – Beg, Steal or Borrow (Polydor 1972)
Beth – Dime (Spain 2003)
Anne-Marie David – Tu Tu Reconnaitras (Luxembourg 1973)
The Divine Comedy – My Lovely Horse (Setanta 1999)

It occurred to me that my first two shows featured F.L.Y.’s “Hello from Mars” so I thought I might have a chain of shows, with one track from each show determining the theme for the next. On that basis the next show may have a literature theme (Fairytale) or perhaps animals (My Lovely Horse). Feel free to make your own suggestion.

Thanks, as always, to everyone who tuned in and to those who also joined in on the Adam Smith College Radio Facebook page. Your contributions and feedback are always welcomed and if there’s something you want to hear on the show then by all means let me know.

Special thanks to Scott Basham for producing the Planet Pop intro ident, which opens every show.

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