Quentin Tarantino Soundtrack - Season 12 Finale

We love his movies and one of the main reasons is because of a music in the movies.  Quentin Tarantino is an amazing film maker and this episode is all about him.  The top songs from all the Tarantino movies is about to rock your ear holes.  

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to the season finale of Listento This. This is the podcast dedicated
to bringing you stories behind the artists, behind the songs, and hopefully we're
introducing you to old songs have influencedall that music that you hear today.
The goal is we want you tohear an artist that you might not normally
listen to and search out their musicon whatever streaming service you subscribe to,

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and of course we always encourage youto buy physical media. Please subscribe,
comment and recommend this podcast to afriend. This is the end of season
twelve and we want there to bea season thirteen. You need to recommend
it people. Every episode has atheme, and for the finale of season
twelve, we are going to bedoing Tarantino Soundtrack. Never in the history

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of the United States a monster ofsuch size and power. Welcome to Listen
to This, a podcast that bringsyou the stories behind the songs and artists
with a theme to tie it alltogether. Here's your host, Eric Lecky.
For today episode, which is thefinal episode of season twelve, we
are going to study the music fromTarantino Films, or as we are calling

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this episode, the Tarantino Soundtrack.The soundtrack itself is so important to Quentin
Tarantino that his name can be usedto define a music genre, not a
typical genre like a country or popor indie. It's a swaggering, amorphous
beast united by pure atmosphere. It'satmospheric movie music, as he wants,

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declared of his own process, quote, I just go through my record collection
and I start playing songs, tryingto find the personality of the movie and
finding the spirit of the movie.He's seen as the king of Indiewood cinema
following the release of his debut picture, Reservoir Dogs. Tarantino likes to gently
toy with the tropes of cinema andenhances them with his self referential style that

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ensured his audience knew that he wasa movie fan before becoming a director.
It's a style that has underpinned hiswork ever since, and can also be
heard in the soundtracks that are mentionedin this episode. I tried my best
to get at least one song onhere from every movie that he's done,
as well as a few clips fromthe movies scattered throughout. A couple of

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obvious song choices, ones that everyoneknows from his movies. Will be left
out of this episode, mainly justbecause I've played them before in previous seasons
and I wanted to get some newfresh blood on here. I would recommend
all of the soundtracks, by theway, as well as as well as
the movies, because I don't thinkhe's made a bad movie yet. As

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for the music, Let's get itstarted with the daughter of the most important
man of all time. I wasfive and he was sick. We rode

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on horses made of sticks. Hewore black and I were white. He
would always win the fight. Bangbang, he shut me down, Bang
bang, I hit the ground,bang bang. That awful sound bang bang,

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My baby shut me down. Seasonscame and changed the time. When
I grew up, I called himmine. He would always laugh and say,

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remember when we used to play bangbang, I shut you down,
Bang bang, you hit the ground, bang bang, that awful sound.
Bang. I used to shoot youdown. Music, play paper sid just

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for me. The Church Bell's raythe opening scene of the movie Kill Bill,
with the bride lying on the churchfloor dying bleeding, being asked by

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Bill if she thinks he's sadistic.It's truly harrowing, And then after you
hear the piercing sound of a gunshot, we go into the haunting tones of
Nancy Sinatra's Bang Bang My Baby ShutMe Down for the opening credits. The
song is quiet and contemplative enough thatit calms us down and keeps us on
the edge of our at the sametime. It was the most memorable way

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to see in the movie and alsoensure that Nancy Sinatra would be forever known
for more than just These boots aremade for Walkin', you know, of
course, besides being Frank's daughter.Originally recorded by Cher which that version sucked,
but then covered by Nancy and herversion was awesome. The singer has
recalling herself playing these childhood games witha boy which she would shoot her with

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his toy gun. Well, theygrow up together and get married, but
then he leaves her. She hasagain been shot down, but it's for
real this time, and she's devastated. Quentin Tarantino wanted to use Bang Bang
for a while and finally found away to do it. Quote why my
version, I'm not sure, Sinatrasaid in an interview. I guess it
was the guitar, the lonely soundof Billy Strange's guitar. It caused a

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resurgence for me. People were stunnedwhen they saw my name on the screen.
They didn't know it was me recordingit. But Quentin surely gave me
a new fresh start, said NancySophie, My Sophie, I'm so sorry,

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please please forgive my betrayal. Butstill that's still nothing except my aching
heart at what she stayed at,My beautiful and brilliant Sophie. I've kept
you alive for two reasons. Firstreason is information is to sell. But

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I am gonna ask you questions,and every time you don't give me answers,
I'm gonna cut something off and Ipromise you they will be things you
well miss. Hello Mars, Iheard kids re rithmatic sect to play the

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to u root of burning rain againstthe sas a sh raps and waterfalls run
super in the garden, as withpurple Shapa best what bird his bilers because
existing gas that's pretty music. Beginso have because the flowers that come from

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myself feel sunsins A play if sad? Is it cool? Is it?
If you babe dulci beat, I'mgonna be with Baba Sad. The scene

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speak he speaks because of the camera. The Brothers Johnson's Strawberry Letter twenty three
features heavily in a scene in themovie Jackie Brown, and it's soothing sounds
set the tone for the scene perfectly. It lulls us into a relaxed state,
and that's the whole purpose of thescene. It's one of those great,

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lengthy, unwieldy conversations written by Tarantinothat keeps you hooked despite not seemingly
going anywhere. However, Tarantino won'ttake credit for the terrific use of Strawberry
Letter twenty three on his Blaxploitation homagesoundtrack quote, that's one of the few
cues not chosen by me that wasactually chosen by Elmore Leonard in the original

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novel. Rum Punch. Guitar prodigyShuggy Otis real name Johnny Otis Junior,
wrote this song at the age ofseventeen. Otis wrote it for his girlfriend,
describing the feelings evoked by Strawberry Lettertwenty two, a title indicating hopes
of another letter. It's commonly believedthat she wrote to him on strawberry scented
paper, but Otis said in aninterview that the song has nothing to do

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with the smell of strawberries. Quote. What I pictured when I was writing
that song was a girl handing aguy a pink envelope, he explained,
a love letter. The guy andthe girl had written each other twenty two
letters so far. In the twentythird one he writes as a song,
but it has no scent attached toit. He added. I think the
way this whole it was based offof a strawberry scent rumor started was because

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and the brothers Johnson put out thesingle of the song. It was on
a colored red vinyl, and itsmelled like strawberries. It actually had a
scent to it, And I thinkthat's how the whole thing got started.
But it had nothing to do witha scent when I wrote it. Oh,
well, maybe a fedg got it. See if that wasn't nothing in
that bag but them towels, andmaybe she didn't get a chance to take

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the money out of a suitcase andatf got it. But she put them
books in there the trick. Iasked, Well, that's why I didn't
check it, because the bag feltright, that's right. And then she
puts forty grand or so in thereto rubbed that shit in my face.
You know what I'm saying. Shewants me to know she ripped me off.
You know, I don't know.I don't know unless you know either
she's got it or the Fed's gotit or or now check this out,

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what if she gave the money tosomebody else first before mel Needven went into
dress. Now looking back on thetrack, a little green back fancis the

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kind moments Sack and the mad sadbad on the track wanted to were married.
I sat in the lad kind ofsid back on the track to mother

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some fast so lords job to theLight. That was the George Baker selection

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with the song Little Green Bag.It's the opening credits of the movie Reservoir
Dogs, and it has a bunchof gangsters and black suits. They walk
in slow motion on their way torob a jewelry store and it ushered in
a whole new wave of coolness inHollywood. Quentin Tarantino was here, and
he'd come shake a few things upand ruffle some feathers. It's what this

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is announcing. The George Baker selectionof Little Green Bag sets that up beautifully.
We're looking ahead into the future bylooking back into the past and recontextualizing
some stuff. Comedian Stephen Wright's drollvoice as the radio DJ lead us into
the Little Green Bag song perfectly,as it forces us to listen to the
song as we would in our ownlives, riding around in our car hearing

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it on the radio. Names arethe theme that haunt this song. It
was supposed to be called Little greenBack like in Money, but the seven
inch single debut was misprinted by publisherlabel Negram Records. Wouldn't you know it,
It became their top hit and soit became known by the wrong name.
Worse yet, they had to changethe name of the album to reflect

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that if you listen to the words, greenback is actually the word that is
sung. George Baker, meanwhile,was actually born Johannes Broens. He's from
the Netherlands. Starts out with ajazzy bass and trombone, with a bouncy
bassline and drum thrown in. Thenthe vocal slide in in an almost whisper,
and then suddenly the song opens upand it's now become a Spanish romance

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ballads. My father up pulling TVdogs my dog because I pulled the Kitty
dogs and lock down the Tedi Dogsand lock down the Kiti dogs and lock
down. Remember me the way youdied and my facus up pulling gey dogs

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and lockdown, and my flaw causeup pull mcghini dogs and lock down the
Geie dogs and lock down the KenyDogs and lockdown. Call them me only
was to breed. I falled toa million seats the Alga to dery lifting
Tony leader medium pieces because they seethe pre incordination, screaming pieces, because
they see when my squad face them, take them the places, take the

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face then and place them and playingthem up down, waiting, quitting the
basic blastom putting that for ass youdelivered up my ball because up will McGhee
dogs. That is James Brown andTupac Shakur with the song Unchained, also
known as the Payback. It's thefrom the final shootout in Calvin Candy's plantation
in the movie Django Unchained, andit was the best way to build the

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movie into a thrilling conclusion. Togive the scene a really awesome soundtrack,
Tarantino to decide to combine one trackeach by two of the greatest black artists
in the last fifty years of music, James Brown, The Payback and Tupac
Shakors Untouchable to create one impeccable mashup. Let's call it called Unchained. This
mash up brings the magic and soulof funk and hip hop to the bloody

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spaghetti Western vibe of the movie ina weird way. The track has an
inspirational sound that has us really rootingfor Zango in what the teenage's wedding,
And they all volts wished well,you could see that Pierre did truly loved
the Mademaselle. And now they're youngthis year and Madame have rung the chapel

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votes. It goes to show younever can't tell. They furnished off an
apartment where the Doo robots, TheCooler Rider was scrammed with chiev Dinners and
Ginger Hall. But when Pierre foundwork, the little money come and worked

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out well, Silavee said the oldfolks. He goes to show you never
can't tell. They had a highfive phone on a cord and the letter
his glass, seven hundred little records, all rock, rhythm and jazz.

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But when the sun went down,the rappid table of the music fell,
Silavee said, the old folks togo to show You Never Can't Tell.
They bought a soup up Chidney wasa cherry red fifty stree and drove it
down New Orleans to celebrate the anniversary. It was there where Pierre was wading

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to the lovely Litte hold the showYou Never Can Tell. I absolutely love
that song, and it might bemy favorite song of this episode. That

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was Chuck Berry with you Never CanTell. It's from pulp fiction. The
John Travolta and Uma Thurman's palpable chemistryis part of what makes pulp fiction work
as well as it does. Tarantinohas explained the use of Chuck Berry's You
Never Can Tell in pulp fiction withquote now and this scene is funny because
it's a situation that's happening in thefilm where John Travolta and Uma Thurman are

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at this fifties restaurant and then allof a sudden they have a twist contest.
And the thing is, everybody thinksI wrote this scene to have John
Travolta dancing, but the scene existedbefore John Travolta was even cast. But
once he was cast. It waslike, okay, great, we get
to see John dance. There's verylittle guitar on this, considering it's a
Chuck Berry song. It's driven moreby piano and saxophone. The song tells

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a story of a teenage couple gettingmarried and staying together, which was a
surprise. Many of Barry's songs arewritten from the perspective of young people,
but this one even takes a digat an older generation. Say Love,
say the old folks. Berry singssy LOVEE is French, for that's life.
You read the Bible grit, Yes, well there's this passage. I

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got memory's pification. You think you'retwenty five seventeen. The path of the
righteous man is beset on all sidesby the inequities of the selfish and the
tyranny of evil men. Blessed ishe who, in the name of charity
and good will, shepherds the weakthrough the valley of darkness, For he

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is truly his brother's keeper and thefinder of life. And I will spike
down upon thee with rape, vengeance, and furious anger those who attempt to
poison and destroy my brothers, Andyou will know my name is the law

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when I lay my vengeance upon becauseno, no, no, no,
no, no, no no,nobody can do the same kind due nobody

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can do the same kind. Candy, don't you know I'm gont escape down,
dude, and nobody do it leave? That was The Human Beans with

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Nobody but Me from Kill Bill Volumeone. This is from the House of
Blue Leaves sequence in the movie,in which the bride fights her way through
the crazy eighty eights and a prettybloody spectacle. It might actually be the
greatest action scene that Quentin Tarantino hasever filmed. It keeps the audience on
their toes by constantly switching up theformat. In the middle of the scene,

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he cuts from slick color to grainyblack and white film stock. The
soundtrack also changes to the Human BeingsNobody but Me, upbeat rock and roll
track from the late sixties. Thesong doesn't fit the scene at all,
which is the point, because somehow it works better better than if it
did fit the scene. It's supposedto be shocking and out of place.

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In literal terms, this is amost negative song ever recorded because the word
no appears one hundred times in thesong, and nobody gets sung forty six
times. This originally was recorded innineteen sixty two by the Isley Brothers,
who wrote it in the studio.The Human Beings were a bar band from
Youngstown, Ohio, who originally spelledtheir name Human Beings be Ei n g

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Z. The name was spelled wrongin their record contracts, and so it
stayed spelled differently. Nobody but Mewas their only hit, and it was
a song the band loved to playlive before they recorded it. According to
the band's guitarist, ting Markolin greatName, their live version would last about
seven to eight minutes, but thestudio version was chopped down to only two
minutes to try and attract airplay.It took two days to complete the song,

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which is recorded on a simple eighttrack tape machine. See these Eyes
so green. I can't stand forthousand years, cold dime. It's been

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so long and I've been pulled in. Now fine with the castle, sez

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these eyes of red red like JohnGon' bullie rid go so filed in there,
ol lies and change the mine.Let's pace all alone still the fasting

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night, A playing a call thehardy. Just be still by your woman,
believe but a bed fo you bealone. Well let space Hollo loving

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Buddy out the file was Cassle booningout the file, Well, Cassle.
That was David Bowie with the awesomesong not Heard Enough on the radio Cat
People from Inglorious Bastards. And whenQuentin first announced his World War Two epic

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Inglorious Bastards, he established that hewould be playing around with the rules of
a historical movie soundtrack quote, Iwon't be just playing period specific songs in
the movie. I'm not gonna justplay edif Poff and the Andrew Sisters,
I'll have rap in there. Ican do whatever I want. It's about
filling the scene and having the rightmood. In the end, he decided

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to fill in the viscera with DavidBowie's Cat People putting out the Fire.
David Bowie wrote this song as thetitle track to Paul Schrader's erotic horror movie
called Cat People, and for whateverreason, it works really well with the
imagery of burning Nazis to death.This was originally recorded as a theme song

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the remake for Cat People, Ishould say, because the original one was
from nineteen forty two. The Italianproducer Giorgio Moroder had already recorded most of
the music, and Paul Schrader askedBowie to write the words and record the
main theme. The remake movie isabout a family with a tendency to turn
into panthers. It's really weird andalso really good. A weird classic movie

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that I actually saw at the TCMFilm Festival many years back. This single
from Bowie became his biggest solo hitin America since the song Golden Years six
years previously in nineteen seventy six.Bowied by its success, Bowie re recorded
the song for his Let's Dance albumthe following year. The second verse,
which begins feel my Blood Enraged,was left off his updated version. Most

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people prefer his stronger, more atmosphericoriginal version, which was included on the
nineteen ninety three Greatest Hits release.Bowie the singles I know this is a
city question before I ask it,but can you Americans speak? And he
has a language than English. Weboth speak a little Italian. It's an

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atrocious, Excellentian. That's a dozenGermans don't have a good ear for Italian.
So you remember the Italian and brazenthrough it is. That's what I'm
saying that's about it. That soundsgood, sounds like what else we gonna

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do? Go home? No,that sounds good. You don't blow it,
just that that can get you intobuilding. Who does what? Well?
I speak most Italian, so I'llbe your at school. Donovan speaks
second most who he'll be your Italiancamera man Omar, Third most, he'll
be Donnie assistant. I don't speakItalian like I said, third best,

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Just keep your mouth shut back.Why don't you start practicing right now?
Get down, Get down, Getdown, Get down, Get down,

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John Bogy tongue boy, get it, John Boga Jong Dona boat, I
get it, Tom Don Bay JohnDon b the can down Tom help JOm
Don Boga Shigen around. Well.That is another song from Pulp Fiction by

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Cool in the Gang called Jungle Boogie. Before Pulp Fiction, no movie really
had the foresight or frankly, theballs to stop the soundtrack dead halfway through
the opening title and segue into themiddle of a different song with the sound
of a radio being tuned. However, it sets up brilliantly for the next

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scene, the song miser Loo byDick Dale, which I've played for you
before, which is why it's notbeing played here establishes that this is way
cooler and more inventive than your averagemovie. But after the opening credits were
no longer in the diner, werein the car with Jules and Vincent.
Well, how do you keep thatflowing if you're directing the scene. Well,
if you're Tarantino, you put acar radio on the soundtrack and have

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it switched to Cool in the Gang'sJungle Boogie. The song Jungle Boogie was
first released on the Cool in theGang album Wild and Peaceful in October of
seventy three. A month later andNomber of seventy three, the track was
released as a single with a littlerecognized North South East West as the B
side. With a million selling successof Jungle Boogie and the success of other

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singles like Funky Stuff and Hollywood Swinging, the album was quickly certified gold.
The band's first gold album. JungleBoogie hit number four on the Billboard Charts
after receiving pretty extensive play in danceclubs and discos, leading to the single
being certified gold as well. Innineteen seventy four, the album Wild and
Peaceful peaked at number six on theBillboard charts and number three on the Pop

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charts. The main spoken vocals onJungle Burgie Boogie were performed by then Roady
Donald Boyce, who became better knownas the Boogie Man. Boyce's vocals on
the hit were so popular he wasinvited to sing back up and perform vocal
effects on a number of Cool inthe Gang singles, including Spirit of the
Boogie, Open Sesame, and Slick. Super Chick Boys performed with the band

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from seventy three to seventy seven.You'll be a woman soon to love is
so much can't come. All theways of God bore you go, and
all I can figure he's not yourcat. You'll never get tried to put

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it down, and I never knowwhen I come around what I'm gonna find.
You. Don't let the lincome yourmind. Don't you soon get my

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head? You s s not themissing itself on amout happen with anything?

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The cutback, the mad, theboy is not good. What if I
have found a looking bob and thinkinga sense and then it put go shut?
Anyone baby have gotten? Let's seeanother song from Pulp Fiction. It's

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hard not to just play the wholesoundtrack because the whole soundtrack is just magnificent.
That was the band Urge Overkill withGirls You'll Be a Woman Soon.
So the scene is this. Vincentand Mia return to her place. They
establish boundaries with awkward banter. Vegagoes into the washroom to calm his senses

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and remind himself of the repercussions ifsomething were to happen between the two of
them. Mia sways to the songgirl You'll Be a Woman Soon by Neil
Diamond, except a Tarantino doesn't playyou the Neil Diamond version, which he
goes instead with a cover version byUrge Overkill. She finds heroin in vegas
coat pocket and overdoses with blood oozingout of her nose. The song establishes

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MIA's sensuality, her innocence, andplayfulness, which charms Vega and the audience.
However, it takes a dark turnafter she overdoses, adding a twisted
connotation to the song's title. Thesong originally was released in the nineteen sixties
and received a pretty big boost insales after Pulp Fiction's release. Neil Diamond
wrote this for one of the ladies, which made up most of his fan

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base, David Wilde wrote in hisbook How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love Neil Diamond quote. When Diamondfirst recorded the slow, Seductive, Sensitive
Song in nineteen sixty seven, itsolidified his growing connection with his female fan
base, many of whom are apparentlystill following him all these years later,
even if they are no longer properlyaddressed as girl. Diamond had said,
the song was written for all ofthose teenage girls who would show up at

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his earliest tour dates and vocally expressedtheir tremendous support. Diamond, who was
very protective of his songs, initiallyrefused to let Tarantino use it because he
hated the violent script. He wasprobably glad though, that he relented.
The movie was an absolute, huge, smashing hit, and the soundtrack itself
sold close to four million copies.It put Diamond back on the cultural radar

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after a period when his hits hadreally dried up, and certainly boosted his
cool factor. Their Urge Overkill band'sversion of this reach number fifty nine in
America purely on the back of thesales of this album Again, I take

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it back. I think this songmight be my favorite song on today's episode
that was the Lively Ones with thesong surf Writer Ones again from Pulp Fiction.
I love the song surf Writer becauseI guess I'm biased. Surf music
is my favorite subgenre of music,but I thought you'd like it as much
as I do. The song concludesPulp Fiction, where Jeules, played by
Samuel L. Jackson, calmly persuadesPumpkin to take the money from his wallet

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and flee from the diner after expressinghis biblical beliefs. He is successful in
doing so, after which Jules andVincent leave the diner with the song playing
in the background. The instrumentals alsoheard in scenes were vegas, snorts,
heroin, making the song central tothe overall pathos of the film. Pulp
Fiction's musical curation by Tarantino attracted ayounger audience, as surf music was always

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associated with young surfers, but thefilm reintroduced the genre of surf rock to
the mainstream, and several songs fromthe genre were used in commercials shortly after
the film's released. The diversity ofthe soundtrack also helped establish Tarantino as a
face in postmodern filmmaking. I wasthe fourth brother of a fight doing whatever

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I had to do to some bat. I'm not saying what I did was
all right, trying to break outof the get over the data base fight
being down so long, did nothing? Did it? Cross for mind?
But I mean there wasn't a betterway of life, and I was just
trying to find You don't know whatyou're doing until you put under pressure.

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Cross one hundred and tenth streets ofa Hell Tester, the crowns up one
hundred and tes Street, them tryingto catch your woman left me the crowns
a hundred of test steed pushing woman, the chunk your fl things? What

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a all? A hundred and dstreet woman trying to catch a Tracklis That
was the band Bobby Womack and peacewith the song Across one hundred and tenth

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Street. Tarantino's third film, JackieBrown, is an ode to blaxploitation films
like Coffee and Foxy Brown Hell.It has Pam Greer in the movie as
the lead character. However, thedirector stresses that this film does not fall
into that genre. The film isadapted from the novel Rum Punch and stars
Pam Greer in the titular role ofa flight attendant who tries to smuggle money

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from her boss and is interrogated byofficials. Brown tries to outsmart everyone in
attempts to run away with the money. The director's diversion from the blaxploitation genre
is seen in the introduction sequence ofthe film. It shows Jackie in a
profile shot as the scene shows hermoving forward. The song Across one hundred
and tenth Street by Bobby Womack inPiece plays as the opening credits role.

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Tarantino added the film's opening credit sequenceat the rhythm for Jackie Brown. Unlike
blaxploitation films that inspired the film itself, it does not have any psychedelic effects
seen in the intros of Coffee orFoxy Brown, but instead establishes a strong
female protagonist as an ambitious character,reinforced further by the song. By the

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mid nineteen fifties, ten year oldBobby Womack was touring with his brothers on
the Midwest gospel circuit known as theWomack Brothers. Back then. Sam Cook,
the lead singer of the Soul Stirsat the time, first saw the
group performing in the mid nineteen fifties, He kind of became their mentor and
helped them get out on tour.They went on national tours with the Staple

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Singers as the opening act. Duringthe performances, Bobby would sometimes imitate the
role of a preacher, which laterbecame his nickname the Preacher Womack Well,
Pam, which way you going?Laughter? Breck right? Too bad?
Hy Well, because it was afifty to fifty shot on whether you'd be

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going left or right. You see, we're both going left. You could
have just as easily been going lefttoo, and if that was the case,
it would have been a while beforeyou started getting scared. Since you're
going the other way, I'm afraidyou're gonna have to start getting scared immediately.

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And students, I've mentioned how muchI love me some surf rock music,

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and that deep, bass filled,twangy, spooky sounding song was courtesy
of mister Jack Nichke, whose albumI actually played all the way back on
Season one for our episode on Carsthe reprise singles I'd highly recommend all fourteen
instrumentals are pretty damn good. Thatwas called the Last Race and it was

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from the movie death Proof. Bestknown as the right hand Man and a
arranger of producer Phil Spector and forhis work with The Rolling Stones or Neil
Young, among many others. BernardAlfred jack Nichki also worked extensively in film
scores, notable for films such asThe Performance Exorcist, One Flu of the
Cuckoo's Nest, and in nineteen eightythree he actually won the Academy Award for

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Best Original Song for co writing upWhere We Belong. And by the early
sixties, jack Nishki was already makinga name for himself on the West Coast
music scene, especially because of hisphenomenal successes and scoring those big hits for
Phil Spector. His studio Prowess wassuch a in heavy demand that it ultimately
led to Niscki wanting to branch outon his own. A recording deal as

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a solo artist with Reprise Records wassoon following, and he signed and Niski
scored one of the label's first pophits with his first single, The Lonely
Surfer, which spent eight weeks onthe Hot one hundred charts, speaking at
number thirty nine in nineteen sixty three. Seems This World Cut, Damn Computing,

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Bad Bad, basil drawn Girl,the Mean Look, I'm Gonna show
you a cut fee. We're goingahead, good thing, such a good
face. And when your world don'tthink you're red. I can't las getting

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you look check. You can't changethat role to red, rubles us to
lastness good some good face. Idon't have no one there, no one
around the red. When it's agood girl, let not too good good

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good him? You get me thebone, shoot you trash. They don't
care if you neibor check what ashame show dozia no no no? When

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out do you real first? Itseems the band Paul Revere and the Raiders
were used a lot in Quentin Tarantino'sOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood movie.

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It even played a role in thefilm script that was their song the Good
Thing. The band is one ofthe only famous bands I know of from
the state of Idaho, as theyformed in Boise back in nineteen fifty eight.
They saw considerable US mainstream success inthe second half of the sixties and
early seventies. The band was knownfor kind of wearing these ridiculous Revolutionary War

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style close in their attire, whichI think made them look kind of stupid.
The song was from the album TheSpirit of seventy six, which Margot
Robbie reads the back liner notes andgets teased about for liking this band in
the middle half of the movie.The song was also used in the trailer
for the movie Let Them Go Right, All right, I did, let

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me do it. I will tellyou you stolen ever man. I don't
know if you won't a little loveman, You've gotta start really so,

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she's gonna love you tonight. Now. If you just treat her right now,
I'll squeeze a little chump. Godwill make her feel good. Tell
her about your love her like youknow you should, because if you don't
treat her right time, she won'tlove you tonight. If you practice my

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nothod just as hard as you can, you're gonna get a reputation as a
love and a man. And you'llbe glad of at that. Let you
cheat her. Another song from themovie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood that

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was roy Head with treat her Right. You gotta look up the video for
that. The guy's dancing just cracksme up. It's worth looking at the
video for his dancing alone. RoyHead was a pretty popular band in the
nineteen fifties. It was called thetraits. They're from San Marcos, Texas.
He eventually left that band and struckout on his own. But unlike
Beyonce who broke away from Destiny's Childand hit it big, roy Head became

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a one hit wonder as a soloartist. But it was a pretty fun
song and is now immortalized in aTarantino soundtrack. All right, what's matter,
partner, Well, it's official,old buddy. Who has him?
What are you talking about? Whatdid I guy tell you? Told him
that? The goddamn truth is whathe told me. WHOA, Hey,

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I'm sorry about that. I'm abouthere put these on. I'm crying in
front of the next That was GianniFerrio with one Silver Dollar from the movie

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in Glorious Bastards. Ferrio studied atthe Conservatories of Vincenza and Venice. Starting
in the late nineteen fifties, hewas super active as a composer of film
scores. In fact, he's composedover one hundred and twenty soundtracks, mostly
for spaghetti westerns and what are knownin Italy as Comedia sexy Alatta yah film

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better known as sexy R rated typecomedies. His piece that I played for
you one silver Dollar was the maintheme to Giorgio Feroni's Blood for silver Dollar
movie, which came out in nineteensixty five. It's a spaghetti western that
Tarantino was a big fan of andused it in this movie as a nod
to the genre he loved. Comeon throwing a book. Uh, I

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don't tip, You don't tip.I don't believe in it. You don't
believe in tipping. Do you knowwhat these chicks make? They make shit.
Don't give me that. She don'tmake enough money. She can quit

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as counter big bad as they goose. Second, shout batter rauzen me for
forget me over. Guys, You'llnever fall be time you don't oh die

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out, die out die Hi HiHi, that's make me biel. What
you say is for real? Yes, got callous Old Carl Snr. And
my blan dot table cap. Second, that's my younger Hi. We're going

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mas. Guys, You'll never fallbe time you go oh time out out
Si Hi Hi him. That wasDave d Dozy Beekiy, Mitch and Titch

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with the song hold Tied, apretty righteous rock and song from the movie
Death Proof. This song is playedin a really awesome scene in Quentin's movie
Death Proof when Jungle Julia, paidby Sidney Tamila Portier, requests this song,
calling it to a radio station forwhich she works to ask them to
play the song. Two of theirsingle releases sold in excess of one million

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copies each, and they reached numberone in the UK Singles Church with the
second of them, the Legend ofXanadu. Unlike many other British bands of
the sixties who were associated with theBritish invasion of the United States in the
US, though, the group failedto break out nationally, although they had
regional successes, particularly in the Northeasterncities like Cleveland, Buffalo, Syrahcuse,

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Albany, and Boston, where boththe song Bend It and the song I
Played for You Hold Tight gained considerableairplay and charted in the top ten in
local radio stations at the time.As for the name, Ken Howard of
the band and said, we changedtheir name to Dave d Dozy, Beagie,
Mintioned Titch because those are our actualnicknames, and because we wanted to

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stress that there were very distinctive personalitiesin a climate which were regarded bands as
merely collectives. Brought up the cookingdirty dimonsister hugging. She paid it for

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the lime. She put the limein the cooking nus. She drank and
pulled up. She put the limein the cooking nus. She drank and
food up. She put the limein nic cookingness. She drank and food
up. She put the lime inthe cookingness. She called the doctor,
woke them up and said, nothingI can take us to believe us belly

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n Nothing I can take us it. Eight now let me get this fake
put lime lime. Dan called up, nothing that can take us it.

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That was Harry Nilsen with Coca nutfrom the movie Reservoir Dogs. Coconut is
a novelty song written and first recordedby Harry Nelson, released as the third
single from his nineteen seventy one albumNilsen Schmilsen which don't let the novelty sound
of the song fully. The albumis actually really quite good overall. He
reached the peak of his success inthe early nineteen seventies. His work is

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characterized by pioneering vocal overdub experiments ina return to the Great American Songbook,
and of course, fusions of Caribbeansounds like you heard there. Nilsen was
one of the few major pop rockrecording artists to achieve significant commercial s without
ever performing major public concerts or evengoing on tour. Born with a congenital

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heart problem, Nielsen suffered a heartattack on February fourteenth, nineteen ninety three.
After surviving that, he began pressinghis former label RCA Records to release
a box set of retrospectives of hiscareer and resumed recording, attempting to complete
one final album well. He finishedthe vocal tracks for the album with producer
Mark Hudson, a record he wouldnever get to finish. On a side

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note, the Muppets performed their versionin The Muppet Show episode four hundred and
ten of this song with Kenny Rogers. But you know what a funny scene
about Europeans. What it's a littledifference. I mean, they got the
same shit over there that they gothere, but it's just it's just there,
it's a little different. Example,all right, Well, you can
walk into a movie theater in Amsterdamand buy a beer, and I don't

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mean just like an little paper cup. I'm talking about a glassy beer.
And in Paris you can buy abeer in McDonald And you know what they
call a quarter pound of a cheese, sus ten pod. They don't call
it a quarter pound of a cheese. They get the metric system. They
don't know what the fuck a quarterpound is. What do they call it?
They call it royal which you're sosweet, You're so I want to

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know everything. Look at the twobe in line as you're my baby,
because you're my uh oh good,just cheese to your you s less so

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good with robes of fare. You'vegot the universe reclining in your hair,
your my bed. It's your mylove. Oh God, I just jeeps
to go your love, just likea come you're pleasing to behold. I'll

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call you Jack go f Mayby,so your moby. It's your my love,
Oh God, I just jeeves foryour love. The music to the

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song Jeepster by t Rex is basedon a Hollan Wolf blues song called You'll
Be Mine, which was written byWillie Dixon as his typical of many blue
songs. There are many sexual referencesin the lyrics, which are made in
the form of car metaphors and interviews. T Rex leader Mark Bolan acknowledged that
he lifted it straight from Holland Wolf'ssong. Mark had left the band's label,

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Fly Records and signed with EMI shortlybefore the song was released. This
caused some controversy because Fly Records didn'thave Bolan's permission to release the song.
Mark Bolan explained, I didn't singthe old rock and roll songs myself.
I prefer to change the words andmake new songs out of them. That's
all Jeepsters is well. As thescreen fades to black and we have the

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end scene in this Tarantino movie tribute, I'm gonna play for you one more
song, and it won't be themost famous song from a Tarantino movie.
That would be stuff in the Middlewith You by Stealers Wheel. But dear
friends, I have played that foryou in our one hit Wonders episode,
so I won't do it again.Instead, I'm gonna play for you a
really beautiful song from Rick Nelson calledLonesome Town from the movie Pulp Fiction.

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This is a song by Rick Nelson. Don't call him Ricky. He was
trying to grow up at this pointand not use ricky, and it was
used in the scene in Pulp Fiction. At Vincent and MIA's date at Jack
Rabbit Slims when they order the disputedfive dollars shake in the scene, the
song continues to go along with themood as Uma Thurman pulls out her conversation

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skills and tries to get John travoltto open up and puts a point on
John Travolza's grumpiness by asking him,could you roll me one of those cowboy
begging for one of his hand rolledcigarettes. The song Lonesome Town was written
by Baker nightdi behind the scenes kindof genius who wrote many hit songs throughout
the fifties and sixties for the likesof Perry Cuomo, Elvis, Dean Martin,

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and others. Knight wrote the songis a cynical look on Hollywood,
a place Nelson knew well since hegrew up a TV star on the series
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet aspart of an entertainment legacy. Nelson fared
well in Hollywood, but he alsoknew it could be a town of broken
dreams. You could imagine Heartbreak Hotelbeing somewhere in Lonesome Town, and the

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nineteen fifty six Elvis Presley It wascertainly an influence on this song. Presley
and Nelson were both the most popularAmerican singers at the time, with Nelson
getting a big boost from his exposurein the Ozzy and Harriet TV show.
The song was a big change ofpace for Nelson, who had been doing
lots of upbeat pop songs. LonesomeTown is just his voice, his acoustic

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guitar, and backing vocal by theJordan Ayres, who also sang on most
of Elvis Presley's recordings. By recordingsuch a dark and earnest song, Nelson
showed another side of his personality,one that a lot of people didn't know
about. So as we close,I guess I'll have to give you my
Tarantino movie soundtrack rankings. Now,this is not not my ranking of my

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favorite Tarantino movies. This is justranking the soundtrack. So my ranking would
be something like this. In theten spot, kill Bill two, he
really should have let the original composerdo that instead of his friend. I
think that's really the only weak spotin this number nine Jango Unchained eight,
Inglorious Bastards seven, The Hateful eight, six, Grindhouse Slash death Proof five,

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Jackie Brown, four Kill Bill,Volume one, three, Once upon
a Time in Hollywood, two ReservoirDogs, and of course number one Pulp
Fiction. I could have played youjust that soundtrack and it would have been
a pretty entertaining episode. So thatis it, and that wraps it up
for season twelve. We will seeyou again for season thirteen. Please recommend
this podcast to a friend, getthe word out there, and as always,

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turned this song up. We'll seenext season. There's a place where
lovers go to cry their troubles always, and they call him lonesome town where

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the broken heart stayss You can buya dream or two to last you all
through thes and they all the prizeyou been is a high fo tea Going

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down too Long sometown where they're brokenheart stays going down too long, some
town to cry my troubles away.In the town of broken dreams, the

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streets are filled with regress. Maybedown in long some town I can learn
to forget. For Maybe down inlong some town I can to forget.

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