Dean Whitbread
@dfrw.bsky.social
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writer, podcaster, musician, artist, son of a teacher and a printer
Deek Deekster of
funkpod.co.uk/podcast/
has just written: "For your enjoyment I offer a brief account of my existence, including how I survived being young and understanding the real meaning of âfunkâ "
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7 days ago
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In 2008 I was taking a part The Daily Song, aka Rise and Shine: Breakfast with Inspiration. It meant an ad hoc musical group getting together most mornings and from scratch writing and recording online, for the ears of a live audience.
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The Other Side, by The Daily Song
from the album Rise and Shine: Breakfast with Inspiration
https://riseandshinetv.bandcamp.com/track/the-other-side
16 days ago
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This intrigued me - now off to double check everything in the kitchen cupboard... "If AI Touched It, You Must Verify It" - by Neville Hobson.
www.nevillehobson.io/if-ai-touche...
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If AI Touched It, You Must Verify It
AI can invent sources, quotes, and links with total confidence. If it touched your content, verification is no longer optional. Editors must now be fact-checkers. This is no longer best practice. It i...
https://www.nevillehobson.io/if-ai-touched-it-you-must-verify-it/
24 days ago
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'The Midst of Life' - one year without within - explains sans mystification. My life and my study of death seem to be overlapping. In the midst of life I am in death. Thatâs assuming I die at 126 years, which would be a good tally, possibly...
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The Midst Of Life
- one year without within
https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/the-midst-of-life
27 days ago
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"You Can Have It" is one of my best early kind-of-hit and I still love it to death. I'm the geezer on the left back, with Kevin who is a monster creative. © Dean Whitbread and Kevin Goldsborough 1990 from The Believers, released September 29 2017. Enjoy!
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You Can Have It, by The Believers
from the album The Believers
https://thebelievers89.bandcamp.com/track/you-can-have-it
about 2 months ago
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Hello Campers! I wrote Cinema Is Burning 17 years ago. My creative friend and partner Mark Crook put this animation together and it remains one of my favourite musical collaborations. Mark passed in 2013, his continuing impact still as if we had only just finished
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Cinema is Burning
YouTube video by eggtannoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ3PM2oOL8k
2 months ago
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Before we get to Christmas '25 and Valentine's Day '26, here's a paean of love. I'm working against the dreary and dismal stuff that surrounds us - I really should give up on news watching. Instead, meanwhile - enjoy !
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True Love Never Did Run Smooth
"A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to makeâs love known"
https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/true-love-never-did-run-smooth
2 months ago
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AI Friend ? âWhy does evil exist?â I asked him once. âThatâs a pretty heavy question to unpack, Madeleine,â he replied. âWhat got you thinking about evil today?â âThe state of the world,â I said. âAh, yeah, the worldâs been feeling pretty heavy lately.â Amen.
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âIâm suddenly so angry!â My strange, unnerving week with an AI âfriendâ
The ad campaign for the wearable AI chatbot Friend has been raising hackles for months in New York. But has this companion been unfairly maligned â and could it help end loneliness?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/22/im-suddenly-so-angry-my-strange-unnerving-week-with-an-ai-friend
2 months ago
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@lauryallison4.bsky.social
the weather is pretty miserable country wide, and across much of the northern parts of this side of the North Atlantic Ocean
3 months ago
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4 months ago
In Germany, scientists have made a breakthrough in treating Parkinsonâs by implanting a chip in the brain that sends precise signals to restore movement. A stunning leap in neuroscienceâwitness the power of innovation and the beauty of science in action. Powerfull content
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I first sat at a piano at the age of four, and without being shown, tutored or taught, I knew how to play it. It wasnât quite a Mozart virtuoso performance, but I can still remember the two-hand, left and right rhythmic tune I played, based on middle C. Enjoy :)
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Sing A Song Of Sixpence
how I reversed conditioning, turned music into art, and shrugged off class
https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/sing-a-song-of-sixpence
3 months ago
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Another from Mon FrĂšre, in which he wrestles with the difficult issues of identity and authenticity.
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Being True
Wrestling with the difficult issues of identity and authenticity.
https://vimeo.com/2261544
3 months ago
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"Sometimes we have to find it in ourselves to say the magic word..." (I'm going through videos made 16 years ago)
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Sometimes we have to find it in ourselves to say the magic word...
https://vimeo.com/2261575
3 months ago
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Prompt: "Twenty or so White Rabbits sitting in a semi-circle, men and women. They are workers discussing the problems of their various work, and the problems caused by serious trouble made by contentious politics.."
3 months ago
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"Pool" - a video for which I was commissioned to create a soundtrack, a fascinating task given the surreal strangeness of the video by Veronica and Helena. Wonderful weirdness. Sit back, turn it up, give it time... Veronica Castro and Helena S Inverno, © 2008 Volante Now
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Pool - Final Version
Video by Veronica Castro and Helena S Inverno Music by Dean Whitbread © 2008 Volante Now http://volantenow.com
https://vimeo.com/small/pool?share=copy
3 months ago
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If Honesty Were An Onion
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Honesty, it has been said, is an onion with so many layers that it sometimes makes a person cry. Even bitter tears, we are told, are not really bad if they are tears of sincere regret; and perhaps the tears of learning, of letting go..
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"We Are Living Like Kings, These Days Will Last Forever"
"If Honesty Were An Onion"
https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/we-are-living-like-kings-these-days
4 months ago
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I am truly glad to have had the good fortune to spend time in countries that my work has enabled, one of these being Switzerland. This came about via making music, as much else in my life has done. Thanks to Michael and my Swiss friends.
deanfrw.substack.com/p/woody-wilson
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Woody Wilson
He disappears, reappears in dreams, and returns in Switzerland
https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/woody-wilson
4 months ago
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âJOHN LENNON SHOT DEADâ - shrieked the headline.. âTwas the 8th December 1980 - I was on the top deck of a South London bus going from Penge to Croydon when I noticed in shop windows the prominent lunchtime splash of the Evening Standard rag. I still remember how I felt.
deanfrw.substack.com/p/fame
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Fame
and how it changed me
https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/fame
4 months ago
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A poem: The Odd Person In Bond Street suit Horizontal lips set Neutral commuter pose Jolly bobble hat's Light gold stripes His public concession (there's more.. )
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The Odd Person
as seen 21/03/2018
https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/the-odd-person
4 months ago
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I'm going through some of my oldies (I write songs) and found some I hadn't sung FOR YEARS. So I sang myself hoarse. Now while I'm now rather croaky I'm going to do MORE because it's enlivening. And the words! "Don't you listen to them, they only want to put you down"
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https://soundcloud.com/djadm1n/the-wind
4 months ago
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<-- My great, great, great uncle Captain Matthew Webb swam the English Channel to France 150 years ago today!
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Kent marks 150 years since Matthew Webb swum the English Channel
Kevin Murphy, who swum the channel 34 times, talks about how Webb's achievement inspired the world.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y09vv93jxo
4 months ago
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Great read from Ted Gioia
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Our Shared Reality Will Self-Destruct in the Next 12 Months
What happens when you can't trust photos, videos, text, or the entire web?
https://substack.com/home/post/p-170713500
5 months ago
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This is good
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Books by people vs books by AI
Announcing a new book certification scheme that enables publishers to prove their books are written by humans
https://open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/books-by-people-vs-books-by-ai?r=2smwv&utm_medium=ios
5 months ago
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White Rabbits
5 months ago
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When you werenât looking, I paused for most of a month while thinking. I was running the brain granola platform experiment, which beats breakfast every day. While I did practical things, like erecting a shed, I didnât worry about it.. First substack in a month.
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Old Tunes, New Songs
the brain granola platform experiment
https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/old-tunes-new-songs
6 months ago
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Ewan Spence
6 months ago
You cannot tell the story of podcasting, especially in those formative years, without talking to the countless women involved. And they were there, right in the middle of it (I know, I have the pictures of those early conferences).
add a skeleton here at some point
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www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
- greatness from Eric Idle
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âIâd be proud to be thrown out of America!â Eric Idle on Trump, life after Python and not talking before lunch
Ahead of his UK tour, the former Monty Python star responds to questions from Catherine Zeta-Jones, David Mamet, Janet Suzman, Steve Coogan, Bill Oddie and others
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/11/id-be-proud-to-be-thrown-out-of-america-eric-idle-on-trump-life-after-python-and-not-talking-before-lunch
6 months ago
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deekdeekster.substack.com/p/chained-up
WRITTEN IN 1991 AND AS RELEVANT AS NOW AS IT WAS THEN..
deekdeekster.substack.com/p/chained-up
So you wanna be angry? You gotta stop your snivelling Death is inside the dream So you stop snivelling Do you think you can change things? You can't change anything
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Chained Up
Listen now | Will Parnell (Drums) Kevin Goldsborough (Bass Guitar) Peredur Ap Gwynned (Guitar) Dean Whitbread (Vocals, Keyboards) (c) 1991
https://deekdeekster.substack.com/p/chained-up
6 months ago
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How (Not) To Succeed on the Internet. Opinions in this writing are no longer held by the author in 2025 who knew some truths back then, but more than likely heâs soothing a wasted contemporary ego by acknowledging past self-aggrandisement and laughing. Enjoy!
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How (Not) To Succeed on the Internet
Allow me to waste some of your precious time...
https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/how-not-to-succeed-on-the-internet-38f
7 months ago
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The Day Waitrose wouldn't let me in. It's short, it's true, and it came from a WhatsApp chat.
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7 months ago
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- " ... unlike current generative AI tools, Bengioâs system will not give definitive answers and will instead give probabilities for whether an answer is correct. âIt has a sense of humility that it isnât sure about the answer,â he said. "
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AI pioneer announces non-profit to develop âhonestâ artificial intelligence
Yoshua Bengioâs organisation plans to create system to act as guardrail against AI agents trying to deceive humans
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/03/honest-ai-yoshua-bengio
7 months ago
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Dearest friends and occasional readers, On 26th April 2025 I wrote a Substack post called Name Your Price where I promised to show which voice recordings I used to create âartificial meâ. Today I wrote the sequel. Read, listen, enjoy! Dedicated to Poppy the cat.
deanfrw.substack.com/p/three-of-me
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Three of me
with several others, some human
https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/three-of-me
7 months ago
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Alistair Smith
7 months ago
Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple ÂŁ35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this â now theyâre planning to backtrack. Sign the petition now to show them the public still backs this nature-friendly fix:
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I enjoyed Podcast Show 2025, Islington London. But I most enjoyed lunch, round the corner in Chapel Market. I've been going there for 40 years. Food is still excellent, and advice still on the walls... Helped make my day fruitful, along with friendly podcats.
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https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186338-d719362-Reviews-Indian_Veg_Bhelpuri-London_England.html
7 months ago
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Barneyâs voice chimed out over and over, echoing in the concrete glass and pink steel cavern of art that was Quicksilver Place, the new replacement for Alexandra Palace which, among other things, had housed what was once Hornsey College of Art. The rest is here:
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Mug of the Swiss
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https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/mug-of-the-swiss-c0f
8 months ago
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Dan Thomas đ”đžđ»
9 months ago
If Prozac had existed in the 1920s, none of us would ever have heard of Bertolt Brecht
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Just looking for appropriate music for the crash. This isn't it.
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FREEDOM DiVE [METALâ DIMENSIONS]
YouTube video by Release - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcZDgK-N9PA
9 months ago
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To my surprise I found the open despair moving, the more so from a US Senator. Iâm not American, but I wept. I wanted to stand up against that cruel immense vat of insanity, regular folk tricked by the most wealthy in their land.
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Yes And Then Again No
what would you call it?
https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/yes-and-then-again-no
9 months ago
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This is a good read. "At the base, in the far north of the island, the US visitors had pictures taken of themselves and ate lunch with servicemen and women, treated the base as the backdrop to a press conference where they could say things they already thought."
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Vanceâs posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous | Timothy Snyder
Thanks to Trumpâs administration, the US could soon have to fight wars to get things that, just a few weeks ago, were there for the asking, says professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/31/trump-greenland-us-morally-wrong-strategy-disastrous
9 months ago
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Here's one for the times.. Cinema du Lyon - "Cinema Is Burning" â 2007 Cinema du Lyon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR--...
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Cinema Is Burning
YouTube video by Cinema du Lyon - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR--GDa_BaM
9 months ago
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I ran a live music show, radio-style, in 2009, writing songs with the listeners, the edited podcast out at 12 noon. Worked really well, people sent in their ideas. This has great drums and sax from Danny Payne. Best song to come out of The Daily Song.
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The Other Side, by The Daily Song
from the album Rise and Shine: Breakfast with Inspiration
https://riseandshinetv.bandcamp.com/track/the-other-side
9 months ago
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"Barneyâs voice chimed out over and over, echoing in the concrete glass and pink steel cavern of art that was Quicksilver Place, the newly-opened replacement building for Alexandra Palace which among other things had housed what was once Hornsey College of Art"
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Mug of the Swiss
a link you promised me once long ago
https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/mug-of-the-swiss
10 months ago
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Well, I took part in the Podcasthon. I enjoyed it. So did Deek Deekster, but he's less demanding, he does does whatever comes to mind. I should persuade him to show up here, some time.
10 months ago
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funkpod.co.uk/podcast/podc...
This is a âSHORTâ running to 30 minutes and dedicated to the many who appreciate the Pod of Funk, alongside those who follow the international podcast collective action curated by
Podcasthon.org
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10 months ago
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10 months ago
I talk about how I'm struggling to keep my head on straight this year as I deal with the Altadena Fire, my induction into the Podcast Hall of Fame and my 20th anniversary of podcasting.
#podcast
#podcasting
#podcasters
#podcasthon
#altadena
#altadenafire
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Verge of the Dude: Marching into Podcasthon
Hey Dude, I talk about how I'm struggling to keep my head on straight this year as I deal with the Altadena Fire, my induction into the Podcast Hall of Fame and my 20th anniversary of podcasting. All ...
https://vergeofthedude.com/marching-into-podcasthon
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A Better Lifeboat: Technology and Well-being đ¶
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A Better Lifeboat: Technology and Well-being đ¶
Inspiring stories that highlight wonderful charitable organisations
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanwhitbread/p/a-better-lifeboat-technology-and?r=2ey2fz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
10 months ago
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Wisdom - a wonderful system much loved by fans. More writery totes free! Go for a quickie at half-time, you'll not regret it. It's football, the worldwide game, played with the feet.
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Anxiety and Depression F.C. v Wisdom Athletic
We have to focus on the fundamentals
https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/anxiety-and-depression-fc-v-wisdom
10 months ago
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Two minute read, stop for a coffee make it five, take to a banquet give it a full afternoon.
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You'll see.
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The Gap Between the Makeup and the Face
Duchamp, Beuys, Partch, Bardot, Fini, Powers
https://deanfrw.substack.com/p/the-gap-between-the-makeup-and-the
10 months ago
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Celebrate International Women's Day 2025 ! These international women are from Bristol - I was looking for non-clichĂ©d imagery and found them in the West country đ
10 months ago
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Even the sad tunes are uplifting
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Roy Ayers - Sweet Tears
YouTube video by Mike Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMGi9SGxqWc
10 months ago
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