Lubbock, Texas, 1956: Rock & Roll is found in the minds of people

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Fight song of a bunch of scary, bigoted religious fanatics

Ramadan hymn; with autotranslation to English

The anarchist string section rebelled against the petty-bourgeois first violin, and, oh well...

Ballad of the Soviet Zone probably sounds better in the original Russian

"Ashraf" is a march used by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran & the National Liberation Army of Iran, dedicated to bringing down the Khomeini regime & rising up their capital city, Ashraf, currently in-exile in Albania. [Why Albania? Wouldn't be my first choice for an exile headquarters.]

One of the few cities in the world were you could hire an artist to paint a picture on the back of your couch, if memory serves. Opera, too.

Anthem dedicated to Crusader nemesis Saladin, a fearsome warrior and a famously honorable man. He was a Kurd, who founded of the Ayyubid dynasty and became the first sultan of both Egypt & Syria.

Pass the qat; better yet, give the qat a pass.

So far from God, so close to the United States

Foxtrot Foxtrot Sierra

It seemed like a good idea at the time, apparently.

"Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!" -- our motto for the past 250 years

When a clown seizes power, he does not become caliph; the palace becomes a circus.

Buy some Swedish government bonds already, or they'll play this song until you do.

"Hit the Road Jack" is a song written by the rhythm and blues artist Percy Mayfield and first recorded in 1960 as an a cappella demo sent to Art Rupe. It became famous after it was recorded by the singer-songwriter-pianist Ray Charles with The Raelettes vocalist Margie Hendrix.

[Excerpt:] The memo states that the closure of labor and delivery is due to the hospital’s “primary objective”... the hospital’s primary role in critical combat care is to treat patients that are injured during training or combat operations throughout Europe, Africa & the Middle East.