Best Charlie Price and Robert Price Podcasts (2024)

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The Laryngeal Switch 41:32

11d ago41:32

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"Spasmodic dysphonia is a voice disorder. It causes involuntary spasms in the muscles of the voice box or larynx. This causes the voice to break and have a tight, strained or strangled sound." Spasmodic Dysphonia, definition, courtesy of Johns Hopkins Medicine "...I'm trembling because of you." Translations, Brian Friel Content Warning: Strong sexu…

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5 Monologues (The Month Monologues) 58:10

25d ago58:10

58:10

5 Monologues by Charlie Price. Take them or leave them; take two and leave three; leave or take them all...your choice. Happy listening... Content Warning: Strong language, strong sex references, horrorBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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Ice Cream Van 12:00

28d ago12:00

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"The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream" The Emperor of Ice Cream, Wallace Stevens Content Warning: Disturbing scenes, some of which listeners may find offensive. One use of racist language.By Charlie Price and Robert Price

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Episode 20: The Creative Community of Rare Bird Farm 10:55

20d ago10:55

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Rare Bird Farm in the mountains of Madison County is an agricultural arts center that hosts performing arts, classes, workshops, and community events, all centered around the ideas of creativity, connection, and collaboration. While not a commercial farm, Rare Bird also raises animals, medicinal plants, and food. We spent some time with Mitchell Da…

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Tenant 10:15

1M ago10:15

10:15

"Last human tenant of these ruined walls" The Ruined Cottage, William Wordsworth Content Warning: Rape referenceBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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Bonus Episode: The Song of the Physician 14:21

1M ago14:21

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“Who hath dared to wound thee?” cried the Giant; “tell me, that I may take my big sword and slay him.” “Nay!” answered the child; “but these are the wounds of Love.” The Selfish Giant, Oscar WildeBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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Sam, the Small Breeze 15:06

1M ago15:06

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O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red; Pestilence-stricken multitudes... Ode to the West Wind, Percy Byhsse ShellyBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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The Therapy Pony 39:43

1M ago39:43

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Inspired by true events... Content Warning: Disturbing Scenes, Language, AssaultBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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Episode 19: The Ridgetop Riches of Red Spruce 12:18

1M ago12:18

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An intersection of the natural and musical heritage of WNC can be found in the high mountains. Red Spruce (picea rubens) is prominent at altitudes above 5,000 feet in the Southern Appalachians. It’s also one of the primary tonewoods used in traditional construction of mandolins and guitars. For this episode, we spent time with conservationist Marqu…

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Episode 18: Claire Armbruster and Planning Stages 10:06

2M ago10:06

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Traditional music in WNC is a cultural practice that expands into many ways to make a living. We most often think of performers, but for every live music event that takes place, there are folks behind the scenes crossing “I’s” and dotting “T’s” to make sure everything goes off without a hitch. One of the leaders in the event promotion industry is C…

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True Minds 48:44

2M ago48:44

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"Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out, e'en to the edge of doom". Shakespeare Content Warning: Strong sex references, paedophilia references, infrequent gory detail, depictions of transphobia…

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The Fish 18:10

3M ago18:10

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"All external marks of abuse are present on this defiant edifice—" The Fish, Marianne Moore Content Warning: Infrequent Sex ReferencesBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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Kite Flying 53:40

3M ago53:40

53:40

"Let's go fly a kite, up to the highest height... and send it so-ar-ing, Up! through the atmosphere, Up where the air is clear" Mary Poppins Content Warning: Strong language, sex references, threatBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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Bonus Episode: The Ovipositor 25:58

3M ago25:58

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A Radio Play. Content Warning: Strong Language, MenaceBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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Judgement 35:42

3M ago35:42

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GEORGE GALLOWAY: You're not my judge, you're not fit to be my judge... JO COBURN: Well thank you very much... BBC, 2016 Content Warning: Brief violence references, humour of a religious nature which some may find offensiveBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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Episode 17: Rhonda Gouge and the Joy of Musical Connection 16:29

3M ago16:29

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Rhonda Gouge has done a lot. She’s been a fixture in the Mitchell County music scene since the 1970s, she can play at least a dozen instruments, she’s recorded multiple albums under her own name as well as with others, she’s performed with legendary musicians such as Red Wilson, she’s taught traditional music to more than 1,000 students, and in 202…

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Episode 16: A Reading of Louise Wright Price's Charlie & His Banjo: The Story of Charlie Pool 8:30

3M ago8:30

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In Season One of Down the Road on the Blue Ridge Music Trails of NC, we introduced you to banjo stylist Charlie Poole. In Season 5, we're excited to bring you a reading of Louise Wright Price's children's book, Charlie & His Banjo: The Story of Charlie Pool.

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Bonus Episode: A Natural Accident 22:23

3M ago22:23

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A Radio Play by Yours Truly. Written, performed, edited by Charlie Price Content Warning: Strong Language, Sexual References, Threat. N.B. References also to war, violence, misogyny, and racism. I would also counsel, don't listen with volume too loud.By Charlie Price and Robert Price

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Boo, the Unwell Baboon 29:57

3M ago29:57

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"...we’re just monkeys… living in our own little monkey pods, driven by base instincts to create these hierarchies and hump each other. I thought I knew my father, you know? I only knew the part that he wanted me to see. He hid the monkey, and that screwed me up, Quinn." Mark Mossbacher, The White Lotus Content Warning: Strong Sex References, Crude…

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Episode 15: William Allsbrook Jr.’s Making Music: The Banjo in a Southern Appalachian County 7:22

3M ago7:22

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What do you get when an MD and Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Surgery takes up the banjo? An expertly conducted survey of 32 WNC banjo players! Dr. William Allsbrook, Jr. turned his skills and attention to such a project when he noticed just how many great banjo players lived in Haywood County. His study resulted in a book, Making Music: The B…

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An Adventure (Part II) 32:56

4M ago32:56

32:56

Part II Music: People Are Strange, The Doors, Jim Morrison, 1967By Charlie Price and Robert Price

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An Adventure (Part I) 40:26

4M ago40:26

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A novella, released in two parts "Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart Could have recover'd greennesse?" George HerbertBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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Fat Priest, A Passion 7:47

4M ago7:47

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"We hold in memory his blessed passion, his resurrection from the dead and his glorious ascension into heaven. And from your gifts bestowed on us we offer to your glory and majesty the pure victim, the holy victim, the perfect victim: the holy bread of eternal life and the chalice of everlasting salvation." From Eucharistic Prayer I, The Roman Cano…

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Sidelong 20:23

4M ago20:23

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"That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes Like New Orleans reflected on the water, And in all ears appropriate falsehood wakes..." For Sidney Bechet, Phillip Larkin Content Warning: Threat, Violence ReferencesBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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Episode 14: Remembering Betty Smith 7:32

4M ago7:32

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Western North Carolina musical icon Betty Smith passed away on December 1, 2023. Betty was a performer of ballads and traditional songs for decades, but to say only this would be falling short of her large and living legacy. Throughout the course of her life, Betty also took on roles as an educator, an activist, an author, a playwright, and honorar…

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The Frame 44:34

4M ago44:34

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First Clown Who is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter? Second Clown The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a thousand tenants. Act V, Scene I, Hamlet, Shakespeare Content Warning: Some Adult Content, Sex ReferencesBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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Bonus Christmas Episode: Snowman 12:03

5M ago12:03

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"One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow..." The Snowman, Wallace StevensBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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The Child Among The Pipes 35:44

5M ago35:44

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If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way your Father in heaven is not willin…

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The Toys We Made Our Joys 28:42

5M ago28:42

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"How weakly understood Thy great commanded good, Then, fatherly not less Than I whom Thou hast moulded from the clay, Thou'lt leave Thy wrath, and say, "I will be sorry for their childishness."" Toys, Coventry Patmore Content Warning: Infrequent Explicit Language and Scenes of an Adult NatureBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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A Change of Life 12:06

6M ago12:06

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"Ch-ch-ch-changes, face the changes [...] Time may change me, but I can't change time" David Bowie N.B. I am proud to say that absolutely no content warning is necessary in the case of this, my first published story. I must apologise for some odd background noise, produced from a neighbouring room in the Exeter University apartment I take up my res…

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The Radio 13:52

6M ago13:52

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"All we hear is radio ga ga Radio blah blah Radio, what's new? Radio, someone still loves you" Queen Content Warning: Disturbing Scenes and Infrequent Uses of Language N.B. Apologies for quality this week. This is more of a bonus pre-release than the main item of the week. I don't have access to studio silence but wanted to release something as it'…

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An After-dinner's Sleep, As It Were 23:28

6M ago23:28

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"Thou hast not youth nor age- but as it were- an afterdinner's sleep, dreaming on both" Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare Content Warning: Infrequent Use of Language, Sex References, References to the OccultBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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The Last Cockney Accent 13:49

6M ago13:49

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"The old order changeth, yielding place to new" from Morte d'Arthur, Alfred Lord Tennyson Content Warning: Tongue-in-cheek, satirical humour relating to class. Contains, also, references to conspiracy theories, and disturbing scenes.By Charlie Price and Robert Price

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Wivenhoe 4:23

6M ago4:23

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A Poem by Charlie PriceBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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Angela 25:26

6M ago25:26

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"Lean on me when you're not strong And I'll be you're friend..." Bill Withers Content Warning: Strong Language and References to Sexual Violence N.B. Author and reader are in different locations during academic term time...due to limited contact between us, a very small number of errors have crept into the spoken text. Apologies.…

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EPISODE #194 Examining Medical Cannabis in Practice with Franjo Grotenhermen, M.D., Chairperson at IACM 33:48

6M ago33:48

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On the latest episode of The Cannabis Conversation, we speak with Dr. Franjo Grotenhermen, Chairperson at the International Association of Cannabinoid Medicines (IACM). We explore his journey into cannabis medicine, its diverse uses, and the challenges of its regulation. Together, we look at the importance of patient experiences and the need for a …

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Bonus: Ritual Humiliation 8:46

6M ago8:46

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Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope, to thee, most gracious advocate, do we send up our sighs, mourning, and weeping from this vale of tears... Salve Regina Content Warning: Contains Strong Language (including Homophobic Language) and Risqué Humour of a Religious NatureBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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The Still Sad Music of Humanity 15:09

6M ago15:09

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"...of ample power to chasten and subdue..." from Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth Content Warning: Infrequent Use of Language, Scenes of Emotional DistressBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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Episode 13: Thomm Jutz and Nothing But Green Willow: The Songs of Mary Sands and Jane Gentry 7:58

6M ago7:58

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Madison County is home to a centuries old ballad singing tradition which has attracted interest for over a century. In 1916, Englishman, Cecil Sharp traveled to Western North Carolina to hear the old ballads that were no longer being freely sung in England. A new album revives this Transatlantic connection. We sat down with Thomm Jutz, singer-songw…

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Episode 12: Terry Roberts Talks Writing, Music, and Storytelling in the Mountains 10:49

7M ago10:49

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Terry Roberts was born and raised in Asheville, NC. An award-winning author of five novels, much of Terry’s writing takes place in and around the mountains of WNC. Music finds its way into much of Terry’s work, including novels entitled A Short Time to Stay Here and That Bright Land. In our conversation with Terry, he shared his thoughts on particu…

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Mantis 14:05

7M ago14:05

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"So take a look at me now Oh, there's just an empty space And there's nothin' left here to remind me Just the memory of your face Ooh, take a look at me now" Phil Collins Content Warning: Disturbing ScenesBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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Tinder Folk 18:14

7M ago18:14

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"She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes And she can ruin your faith with her casual lies And she only reveals what she wants you to see She hides like a child But she's always a woman to me" Billy Joel Content Warning: Infrequent Strong Language, Moderate Sex RefrencesBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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Cascando by Samuel Beckett (Bonus Episode) 21:36

7M ago21:36

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Bonus Episode: This is not an original story but a one man performance of a beautiful radioplay for words and music by Samuel Beckett (1961). Words are by Samuel Beckett with original music by Charlie Price. Performed and edited by Charlie Price Clarinet played by Charlie Price EPISODE CONTENT: Cascando, a play for words and music by Samuel Beckett…

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Graveside Music 25:35

7M ago25:35

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"I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all" Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett Content Warning: Infrequent Strong Language, Disturbing Scenes COPYRIGHT NOTICES, some content on this episode is not mine: Song excerpts Mr. Bojangles, Nine Simone- SME (on behalf of RCA Records Label); LatinAutorPerf, SOLAR Music Rights Management, Sony Music Publish…

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Episode 11: Fine Tuned: Volume One, The Album 8:24

7M ago8:24

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In Seasons 4 and 5, we’ve had the honor and privilege to bring you stories of the Blue Ridge Music Trails’ Fine Tuned project. This mentorship and collaboration-based professional development project has sought to foster development in WNC’s traditional music ecosystem. This episode explores the musical partnerships and the music they created with …

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Disaster 10:32

7M ago10:32

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"The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster." Elizabeth Bishop Content Warning: Graphic injury references and one very strong use of languageBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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EPISODE #193: Investment in the European Cannabis Industry with William Muecke & Daniel Grözinger 55:30

7M ago55:30

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On the latest episode of The Cannabis Conversation, we speak with William Muecke of Artemis Growth Partners & Daniel Grözinger of Park Lane Capital. We look at the European Cannabis Industry from an investment perspective, including the benefits of the legal cannabis market in Germany and France, the potential for mergers and acquisitions in Europe…

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Gift 25:08

8M ago25:08

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"Run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, run Don't give the farmer his fun, fun, fun He'll get by without his rabbit pie So run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, run" Noel Gay, Ralph Butler "Funny, how what makes you move is so simple and the field you must move in is so crowded." Rabbit Run, John Updike Content Warning: Strong Language and Disturbing Sc…

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Episode 10: Plott-Tober Fest Celebrates the Plott Hound and German Heritage 8:53

8M ago8:53

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Plott-Tober fest is a new festival set to take place in Canton in 2023. This festival celebrates North Carolina's State Dog, the Plott Hound, as well as the German heritage of Haywood County. We spoke with festival organizer Bob Plott to learn more about the Plott Hound, German influence in Haywood County, and the festival itself, which will featur…

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The Animator 29:33

8M ago29:33

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"If I take you by the hand And tell you I'm you're lover man And if I smile You know you're moving' me...." Clyde McPhatterBy Charlie Price and Robert Price

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