The bonus tracks on the Japanese CD version of the Association's "Birthday"
(as well as on all the others) are simply the single mixes of the singles on
the album. Not a revelation, but nice to have nonetheless. The only
exception is "Live" (2 LPS on one CD) which has no bonus tracks. The sound
on these CDs is stunning.
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 15:24:10 -0500
From: Al Hoff <naturboy@telerama.lm.com>
Subject: (exotica) spud truckers
> >I'd have to look it up for the exact specs, somewhere I have a Canadian
> >trucking record about a guy hauling potatoes. Not as exciting cargo as
> >Coors beer or dynamite or even a Jimmy haulin' hogs.
>
> You're not by any chance referring to Canadian icon/hero Stompin Tom
> Connors and his song "Bud the Spud" are ye?
> You guys familiar with Tom? You should be.
> He's a national treasure.
>
> Nat
Yes, that's it, thanks. Reckoned someone would step forward. I meant no
disrespect to Canadian truckers, after all they got a longer stretch of
highway.
Al
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Al Hoff
Email: al@girlreporter.com
Web: http://www.girlreporter.com
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 16:19:59 -0500
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiger Lillies
exotica@munich.netsurf.de wrote:
> Saw a wonderful concert last night, actually more of a variety show. The Tiger Lillies, an English Trio who have been existing for 9 years and have 7 albums out so far.
Yes, I'm jealous, I'll admit it!
I tried to get tix during their NY City run with Shockheaded Peter( aka The Struwwelpeter), but the run was completely sold out. I really wanted to subject my 9 year old daughter to their unique vileness! Instead we had to settle for the inferior Sleepy Hollow...
This is a site for the show:
http://www.shockheadedpeter.com/
SHOCKHEADED PETER - A Junk Opera
Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann, a Frankfurt 'medical man of the lunatic asylum', wrote and illustrated The Struwwelpeter (ShockHeaded Peter) more than 150 years ago because he couldn't find anything on the shelves to fire the imagination of his children.
Tiger Lilly Martyn Jacques, a Waterloo falsetto, began to sing it last year because it sounded good within his curious repertoire of modern city ballads. Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott, rough mountebanks of improbable theatre, dreamt up a way of making the songs work in the midst of a series of trapdoors, hidden passages and unexpected events.
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If you haven't discovered the Tiger Lillies yet, you can get a good sense of them at their site:
http://www.tigerlillies.com/system/index.html
- -Lou
lousmith@pipeline.com
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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 17:06:04 EST
From: JayMan282@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) exotica grammys
In a message dated 12/2/99 8:10:10 AM Pacific Standard Time,
bcleve@pop.tiac.net writes:
<<
Esquivel was nominated about a half dozen times in the late 50's, for best
big band arrangements and for best engineered albums. I've got the details
around here somewhere, or check out all the Esquivel info I posted years
ago on the Space Age Bachelor Pad site. >>
Vastly underated as an artist in my opinion. He was/is a genius and should
have been awarded one at least once in his life.
Jason
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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 17:09:07 EST
From: JayMan282@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) exotica grammys
In a message dated 12/2/99 8:55:35 AM Pacific Standard Time,
Rcbrooksod@aol.com writes:
<< Mr. Denny has been diss-ed. That's all I gotta say! >>
That Quiet Village was a #1 song if I remember correctly and its beautiful as
well. I too think he should have received a grammy award at least once.
Jason
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 17:15:53 -0500
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) exotica grammys
JayMan282@aol.com wrote re. Esquivel!:
> In a message dated 12/2/99 8:10:10 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>Vastly underated as an artist in my opinion. He was/is a genius and should have been awarded one at least once in his life.
It's still not too late, Jason. He's got another shot at it when the bio-pic is released and when (I won't say "if") the stuff he's been working on for the last few years gets recorded and released. Perhaps Br. Cleve can give us an update on how those projects are progressing.
Anyone know how to stuff a wild grammy vote box?
- -Lou
lousmith@pipeline.com
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 23:39:01 +0100
From: "moritzR.de" <exotica@munich.netsurf.de>
Subject: Re: (exotica) a young person's guide to The TJB
Thanks, Mike, a great summary.
Mo
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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 16:59:17 -0500
From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: (exotica) Indie musicians' experiences with MP3.com, IUMA?
Hi y'all. This is followup to my request that indie musicians repond to my
pal Emily Vander Veer's assignment for Salon. She wrote a POV feature about
musicians' adventures with MP3 sites and sold two different versions of the
story to Salon and the Dallas Observer. Both were published today:
Emily asked me to thank anyone from the list who contacted hor or forwarded
her request to other lists or musician friends.
Mimi
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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 00:03:58 +0100
From: "moritzR.de" <exotica@munich.netsurf.de>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiger Lillies
Lou wrote:
> This is a site for the show:
> http://www.shockheadedpeter.com/
> SHOCKHEADED PETER - A Junk Opera
I really want to see that show too. I grew up with this "Struwwelpeter"-book, it was one of the 3 most poular children's books in Germany and my mom keeps telling me how much I cried from the cruel stories of cut-off fingers and burnt children when she was reading it to me. This kind of "If you don't behave the bad black man comes and gets
you"-"education" is called "black education" today and I can easily understand why a group like the Tigerlillies, with a strong fascination for the dark things, chooses a book like that to inspire a show from, although I'm surprised, that English blokes pick something from Germany at all. But "Struwwelpeter" was a worldwide success, at least then,
in the 19th century.
On that homepage is a link to the on-line version of the entire book with illustrations and German AND English lyrics... (rhymes, Mimi!)
Mo
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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 10:30:45 +1100
From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <keith@lobue-art.com>
Subject: (exotica) Truckin
All y'all who haven't heard Stompin' Tom Conners croak 'Bud the Spud' better
get yer ears on.
Most Sexist Truckin' tune: 'How Fast Them Trucks Can Go' by Claude Grey
(sample lyric: "...reckless eyeballin' this waitress they got called Flo;
Next thing ya know ya get ta fidgetin' an' fussin' an' a-nudgin' one another
insteada discussin' how she wiggles when she walks n'stuff like that n how
fast them trucks can go..."
Most Heartbraking (sic) Truckin' tune: 'Phantom 309' by Red Sovine
Most Faux Patriotic Truckin' Tune: 'Cowboy, You're America' by Dave Dudley
Actually, anything by Mr. Dudley is a special thing...he had the most
consistantly off-key delivery of any singer I know.
I was turned on to the genre by a four-LP set they sold on TV in the late
80's...I think it was called 'Trucker's Gold'...set me on a long search for
more!
Keith
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 19:46:44 -0500
From: "m.ace" <ecam@voicenet.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiger Lillies
>Yes, I'm jealous, I'll admit it!
>I tried to get tix during their NY City run with Shockheaded Peter( aka
The Struwwelpeter)
Yow! No wonder Mo's post rang a bell for me. A couple of weeks ago, I saw a
CD (maybe a 2 cd box) of this show in the god-awful mainstream cd section
of a department store! On the classical shelf no less. Right next to the
Three Tenors Christmas, or some such schlock. No, I didn't buy it. I'm
allergic to stores that charge list price.
Funny the places that recordings can infiltrate their way into.
m.ace ecam@voicenet.com
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 19:51:24 -0500
From: "m.ace" <ecam@voicenet.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Indie musicians' experiences with MP3.com, IUMA?
>sold two different versions of the
>story to Salon and the Dallas Observer. Both were published today:
NEW YORK ûû Joey Adams, the veteran funnyman and syndicated comedy columnist whose prolific career covered everything from vaudeville to the Catskills to television, died Thursday. He was 88.
Adams' column of jokes appeared daily in the New York Post.
His legacy includes, according to his "Who's Who" entry, 23 books û everything from his 1946 "From Gags to Riches" through his 1987 "The Roast of the Town."
In addition to his books and his newspaper column (dubbed "Just For
Laughs"), he appeared in motion pictures ("Ringside" in 1945), on stage ("Guys and Dolls" in 1960), and hosted various radio and TV programs. He was a frequent guest on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and "The Jackie Gleason Show."
Adams also worked extensively with the March of Dimes, and received a variety of humanitarian awards.
Dorothy Allison
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) û Dorothy Allison, a renowned police psychic who helped locate the hideouts of Patty Hearst's kidnappers and later gave an accurate description of "Son of Sam" killer David Berkowitz, died Wednesday of heart failure. She was 74.
Ms. Allison located two hideouts where the Hearst kidnappers stayed in 1974, and correctly predicted that Ms. Hearst would rob a bank with her kidnappers.
She also correctly said Berkowitz would be captured with a traffic ticket.
In 1980, when she went to Atlanta to consult on the mass killings of children, she guaranteed the killer wouldn't hurt any more children, bared her throat to TV cameras and dared the killer to strangle her.
Ms. Allison never took money for the more than 5,000 cases she worked on, although she was paid to make appearances on some TV shows.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) û Charlie Byrd, who fused Latin, classical, and jazz styles and was considered one of the world's most versatile guitarists, died Thursday of cancer. He was 74.
During a career that spanned five decades, Byrd recorded more than 100 albums, one as recently as September. Many of those recordings were with his Charlie Byrd Trio, which included his brother, Joe Byrd, on bass.
Byrd might be best known for his influence on Brazilian jazz.
He was impressed with Brazilian music during a State Department-sponsored South American concert tour in 1961 and saw the potential for using the samba rhythm in conjunction with jazz improvisation.
His 1963 collaboration with Stan Getz, "Jazz Samba," is credited with launching a bossa nova craze in the United States.
Byrd grew up in Virginia and learned guitar from his father, a mandolin player. He was inspired to study jazz while stationed in Paris in 1945, and returned to New York to study jazz theory and composition.
He added classical guitar to his repertoire after moving to Washington, D.C., in 1950, and he traveled to Italy in 1954 to study by invitation with the great Spanish classical guitarist Andres Segovia.
see http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=10:04:31|AM&p=amg&sql=B6220
Mike Ockrent
NEW YORK (AP) û Mike Ockrent, director of the long-running musicals "Me and My Girl" and "Crazy for You," died Thursday of acute leukemia. He was 53.
He first directed "Me and My Girl," in London in 1985. "Me and My Girl" opened a year later on Broadway where it won Tonys for its stars Robert Lindsay and Maryann Plunkett and ran for more than three years.
Among his other London successes were the comedy "Once a Catholic" and the London production of Stephen Sondheim's "Follies."
In New York, Ockrent also directed "Rowan Atkinson at the Atkinson," "Big," a concert version of "King David" by Elton John and Tim Rice, and a musical adaptation of "A Christmas Carol," which is an annual production at Madison Square Garden.
At the time of his death, Ockrent was preparing a musical version of the movie "The Night They Raided Minsky's," which is scheduled to open in Los Angeles next summer.
Gene Rayburn
GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) û Gene Rayburn, the jocular host who winked at double entendres during TV's popular "Match Game," died Monday of congestive heart failure. He was 81.
The "Match Game" was the top game show during much of the 1970s. Contestants would try to match answers to nonsense questions with a panel of celebrities; the references were often vaguely naughty for daytime TV.
Rayburn was nominated for five Daytime Emmy awards. He also invented the long thin microphone that he carried on the show.
Born Dec. 22, 1917, in Christopher, Ill., Rayburn initially came to New York City to become an opera singer. After World War II, he became a disc jockey instead, and the "Rayburn & Finch" show with partner Dee Finch on WNEW helped popularize the idea of morning drive time.
Moving into TV, he was the sidekick to Steve Allen on NBC's "Tonight" show.
He acted in live dramas on "Kraft Theatre" and "Robert Montgomery Presents" and worked for many years in summer stock theater.
His wife, Helen, who appeared with Rayburn on the game show "Tattletales," died in 1996.
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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 10:14:02 -0500
From: Nat Kone <bruno@yhammer.com>
Subject: (exotica) 150 years of Gas
Excerpts from the liner notes to "Music from Bach to Rock, a salute to the
150th anniversary of gas" by Harry Fields, his piano and quartet. A
beautifully illustrated gatefold with booklet.
"Seldom has an artist been so intimately identified with an entire industry
as Harry Fields is with the natural gas industry. Any time there is a
large gathering of men and women representing various sectors of the gas
energy field, chances are very good that Harry Fields will be there. It
seems most fitting therefore that Harry Fields offer his own personal
salute to the industry which holds him in such high regard. As gas enters
its second 150 years, Harry captures some of the enthusiasm and optimism
which are so easy to find in the gas industry these days"
They actually do a pretty nice, jazzy version of "Ritual Fire Dance" and
without mentioning whether the fire was started with gas. All in all, it's
actually not a bad little record, in the Ramsey Lewis mode. Barney Kessel,
Shelly Manne, Gene Estes are on it. And somewhere else, we're informed
that Mr.Gas studied piano with Art Tatum.
ssssss.....
Nat
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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 09:09:28 -0600
From: kingkini@tamboo.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Cartoon Q
>I know this is off topic but does any helpful list member know the name of
>a cartoon about a country wolf that comes to stay with a city wolf? The two
>hit the town, where the naive country wolf goes crazy over the girls and
>embarrasses his host, the city wolf. Late 40s/early 50s Looney Tunes type
>production. I would love to find this cartoon again on video.
>
Sounds like a Tex Avery MGM job. couldnt tell you the name of that
particular cartoon, but there were a few that featured that
girl-crazy wolf and friends. they are (or were at one time)
Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place.
Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 11:27:49 -0500
From: cheryl <cheryls@dsuper.net>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, December 5
Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can
be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal,
Canada, and on RealAudio (real time only, for now) at:
http://www.ckut.ca
As usual, all comments, questions, and feedback welcome.
Space Bop #74 Latin Love-In
Laurent Lombard: Latino Rigolo "Hi Fi Stereo Remixes"
Ursula 1000: Mambo 1000 "The Now Sound Of..."
Perez Prado: Patricia "Big Hits By Prado"
Take Rodriguez: Mambotimbarumba "Pasion de Ritmo"
Pascal Comelade: Comiendo la Banana d'Ayer "Swing Slang Song"
Liberace: El Bimbo "Lounging With Lee"
Lalo Schifrin: Caravan "Piano Espanol"
Edmundo Ros: Tequila "Dig It!"
James Last: Happy Brasilia "Espresso Espresso"
Under A Blue Sky: Melancholic Bossa "Kidnap International"
Gary McFarland: I Want To Hold Your Hand "A Trip To Brazil"
Quintetto X: Ceu azul "Novo esquema da bossa"
Chris Waxman: Mas Que Nada "Dig It!"
Walter Wanderley: Girl From Ipanema "Samba Swing!"
Os Namorados: Es Quero Um Samba "A Trip To Brazil"
Gotz Alsmann: Goza Guapa Cha "Zuckersuss"
Thanks for reading.
cheryls@dsuper.net
brian@phyres.lan.mcgill.ca
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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 13:04:42 -0500
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Don "Sugarcane" Harris,Charlie Byrd
From today's L.A. Times:
Don 'Sugarcane' Harris; Pioneering Rock Violinist
By RICHARD CROMELIN, Times Staff Writer
Don "Sugarcane" Harris, a pioneering rock violinist who played with
artists ranging from Little Richard to Frank Zappa to John Mayall, died last week. He was 61.
Harris' body was discovered Tuesday night in the room he rented in
South-Central Los Angeles. His longtime musical partner Dewey Terry said he died of natural causes after a long struggle with pulmonary disease. The Pasadena native's career began with doo-wop and rhythm and blues groups and went on to encompass early rock 'n' roll, jazz and underground rock.
"He really put rock 'n' roll violin on the map, and I think he's still
probably the best rock 'n' roll violinist there's ever been, Papa John
Creach notwithstanding," musicologist Barry Hansen, a.k.a. radio
personality Dr. Demento, said Thursday.
Harris, who was given his nickname by bandleader Johnny Otis, started
out in the doo-wop group the Squires, which included his childhood
friend Terry. The two began playing rock 'n' roll in 1956 as Don &
Dewey. Signed to the Los Angeles label Specialty Records, home of Little Richard and Lloyd Price, they wrote and recorded a series of singles that included "Justine," "Farmer John," "Big Boy Pete" and "I'm Leaving It All Up to You."
None were nationally successful, but versions of the songs recorded
later by the Olympics, the Premiers, Dale & Grace and the Righteous
Brothers became hits. In addition, Harris and Terry played in Little
Richard's backing band on tour in Europe, along with a young guitarist
named Jimi Hendrix.
The Beatles-led British invasion dried things up for groups such as Don & Dewey, who went their separate ways in the mid-1960s. Later in the decade, Harris found an unlikely niche, contributing to four albums by rock renegade Zappa and then joining English rock-blues founding father Mayall. He also recorded his own albums of jazz-influenced improvisation, and in the early 1970s with another Mayall sideman, guitarist Harvey Mandel, in the blues-rock group Pure Food and Drug Act. "As a violin player, he really was in a category all of his own," Mayall said this week.
"He played with an aggressive, electronic [style], the same sort of
vitality that an electric guitar would have."
Harris also contended with a drug habit for much of his career.
"He had a wonderful sense of humor, a very gentle sort of person," said Mayall, who had sought Harris out after being impressed by his playing on the Don & Dewey single "Stretchin' Out."
"The only thing that stood in his way was his unreliability with the
drug thing, which was sort of his downfall," Mayall added. "Occasionally he would disappear. You just had to take that as it came. . . . He never had a phone number. You usually had to leave a message for Dewey's mother or something like that and somehow the word would get back and he'd call in."
Harris and Terry got back together in 1975 and played together until a
year ago, when Harris' health declined. Terry had made new recordings of the duo in recent years in his home studio, but none have been released.
Harris, who is divorced, is survived by a daughter and two sons.
LOS ANGELES, Dec 2 (AFP) - Don "Sugarcane" Harris, a pioneering
jazz, blues and rock violinist, has died, a longtime collaborator
and friend said. He was 61.
Harris, who played with John Lee Hooker, Sam Cooke and Frank
Zappa, among others, was found dead in his apartment by his landlord
on Wednesday night, Dewey Terry said.
He had been ill with a pulmonary disease for the last couple of
years, said Terry, who wrote most of the hits they had together.
In 1956 the two formed the Don and Dewey duo, writing and
performing songs such as "Coco Joe," "Justine," "Farmer John," "Big
Boy Pete" and "I'm Leaving You." Donny Osmond, Neil Young and the
Premieres covered some of their songs.
Harris was trained as a classical violinist. His talent for
improvisation attracted the attention of rock promoters, and he soon
found himself playing alongside Hooker, Zappa and Johnny Otis.
"The original American music was created by us way back, along
with Little Richard and Elvis Presley," Terry said. "I've been doing
a lot of crying."
In the 1970s, Harris enjoyed a resurgence in popularity when he
performed with the late Zappa at the old Ash Grove club in Los
Angeles. Zappa also used him on his records.
"He had classical technique, but blues and jazz sensibilities
underlying it all," said Nigey Lennon, who wrote a book about
Zappa.
"He seemed to have the best of all worlds, playing in his own
unique style. I've never heard anything like him before or since."
Terry said he and Harris performed together until Harris became
too ill to work. They played mostly in England and France, where
they were better known in recent years than in the United States.
ANNAPOLIS, Md., Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Legendary jazz guitarist and composer Charlie Byrd died Thursday of cancer at his home in Annapolis, Md., at the age of 74.
Byrd died with family members at his side, including his wife Becky, a registered nurse, and his brother Joe, who played bass in the Charlie Byrd Trio for some 40 years.
Joe Byrd's wife, Elena, who was also Charlie Byrd's attorney, told United Press International that Byrd played his last professional date on Sept. 18 at the King of France Tavern in Annapolis, where he played frequently since he headlined the club's opening night in 1973.
Elena Byrd also said Byrd recently completed work on a new CD, a tribute to legendary jazz trumpeter-singer Louis Armstrong that is
scheduled to be released in January.
Charlie Byrd was born in Suffolk, Va., on Sept. 16, 1925. At 10, he started taking guitar lessons from his father.
He played at high school dances and went on to study at what is now Virginia Tech University.
Byrd was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1943 and saw combat in Europe. After the war, he performed for troops in a Special Services band.
While stationed in Paris, Byrd met and played with guitarist Django Reinhardt. The experience inspired him to study jazz theory and
composition at Harnett National Music School in New York City.
Byrd was already an established figure on the East Coast jazz scene when he went to Italy in 1954 to study with one of the guitar's all-time masters, Andres Segovia.
He operated his own club, the Showboat, in Washington, D.C. from 1957-66, and was named Downbeat magazine's new artist of the year in 1959.
Byrd achieved major stardom in the early '60s when -- by himself and with saxophonist Stan Getz -- he introduced American audiences to the bossa nova beat of Brazilian jazz, with such hits as ``One Note Samba,''``Desafinado'' and ``Meditation.''
Byrd appeared often with symphony orchestras, including the National, Baltimore and Minnesota Symphonies. In 1973 he published a book, ``Charlie Byrd's Melodic Method for Guitar.''
Byrd recorded more than 100 albums, including ``Latin Byrd'' and ``Byrd at the Gate,'' a mainstream jazz session with trumpeter Clark Terry.
He was first diagnosed with bladder cancer 20 years ago. Elena Byrd says he recovered from the disease, but was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1990 and had part of a lung removed.
She said Byrd knew in late September that his condition was terminal and described the last three weeks as a time of ``intense family togetherness'' -- with Joe and another brother, Jack, playing music at his bedside.
``I think he would have liked to stay a lot longer,'' she said. ``He was only 74, but that's not to say that he wasn't brave and accepting.''
A musical memorial service is scheduled for Dec. 11 at the First Unitarian Church in Annapolis.
A family memorial service is planned for a later date in Chuckatuck, Va., where Byrd's ashes will be interred at Oakland Christian Church cemetery.
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