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| | VH1.com : Bill Monroe : Biography |
 | | Monroe released his first album, Knee Deep in Bluegrass, in 1958, the same year he appeared on the country singles chart with "Scotland"; the number 27 single was his first hit in over a decade. | | | Monroe debuted on the Grand Ole Opry in October of 1939, singing "New Muleskinner Blues." It was a performance that made Monroe's career as well as established the new genre of bluegrass. | | | Bill assembled his own band with the intention of creating a new form of country that melded old-time string bands with blues and challenged the instrumental abilities of the musicians. |
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| | BILL MONROE |
| | Monroe was never one to compromise what he believed in and didn’t want to make his music into a form of pop. | | | In the 1960s, there was a big revival in country music and Monroe had a newfound popularity and saw his influence touch many artists from Flatt & Scruggs to Elvis Presley to Tom T. Hall. | | | Between 1936 and 1938, Charlie & Bill recorded as the Monroe Brothers and sang and played mainly gospel songs in vocal harmony. |
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| | Bluegrass: We ARE Bluegrass Music |
| | Then in 1940, Bill Monroe and The Bluegrass Boys recorded their first album on the Bluebird label, and bluegrass music was born. | | | Monroe didn't name his music "bluegrass." Actually, he initially referred to it as folk music. | | | Remastered Monroe songs are still being produced, with Silver Eagle and MCA releasing albums in 1999, and a new Monroe Brothers multi-release set being offered in 2000. |
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http://www.ibluegrass.com/bg_billmonroe.cfm
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| | Monroe’s late-1940s recordings for Columbia, made with Scruggs and Lester Flatt, his singer-guitarist at the time, are now widely regarded as definitive. | | | Through the 1950s and beyond, Monroe’s acoustic sound provided an alternative to honky-tonk, country-pop, and rockabilly. | | | By 1943 he was grossing some $200,000 a year from show dates, many of them staged as part of his own Opry tent show, which combined music and comedy in delighting rural and small-town audiences throughout the South. |
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http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/inductees/bill_monroe.html
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| | Monroe's music never stayed away from the themes of death and dying; he wrote many of his most powerful songs on these topics. | | | Monroe's musical legacy will be felt wherever the fiddle and banjo get together with the guitar and bass, wherever the mandolin beats out the stark, powerful outlines of Monroe's music. | | | Not just once through, but a tour of the tunes, Bill loosening up playing the classic tunes and making the mandolin sound like the old-time fiddling upon which his music is based. |
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| | BILL MONROE |
| | In a session that lasted just two and a quarter hours, Bill and his band recorded eight songs that reflected their leader's panoramic vision of what country string band music should be - a vision that deeply revered past traditions even as it hurtled eagerly in to the uncharted territories of the future. | | | Affable, gregarious Charlie, the lead singer with the ever-present grin, and shy reserved Bill, the harmony singer with the always serious look, made music that bristled with energy and verve, and throughout the mid-30s the Monroe Brothers were among the most popular of the many talented brother teams that dotted the Southeastern musical map. | | | Schultz regaled Bill with stories of music contests he'd won throughout Kentucky, and one Saturday night when he was asked to play fiddle for a dance, he took Bill along to play guitar behind him. |
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| | St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Bill Monroe |
| | Monroe was orphaned during his adolescence, and Vanderver functioned both as guardian and teacher, instructing his nephew in the intricacies of old-time fiddle music. | | | Although Monroe retained a contract with Decca Records and a permanent spot on the Grand Ole Opry&; during the 1950s and much of the 1960s his position as a performer was largely overshadowed by that of Flatt and Scruggs. | | | The music of Monroe and his associates was multifaceted and far more complex than a casual listen suggests. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200852
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| | Bill Monroe |
| | Traditional bluegrass music was the brainchild of one man: Bill Monroe. | | | A 45-minute trip to bluegrass heaven, these 17 songs combine the talents of two unparalleled musical forces: Bill Monroe, the inventor of bluegrass, master of the mandolin, and owner of a bone-chilling, mountain tenor voice; and Doc Watson, the flatpicking genius with a soulful, mellow vocal tone. | | | As Mark A. Humphrey's liner notes contend, "Bluegrass was teething at the same time as bebop and rhythm and blues." Indeed, the music created by Monroe and his crack sidemen reflected the same anxious innovation as, say, Charlie Parker's contemporaneous creations. |
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http://artistmusic.atticcreations.com/artists/m/bill_monroe.htm
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| | Bill Monroe |
| | In the years that followed, Monroe composed much of the core bluegrass repertoire, both vocal and instrumental, and defined the mandolin's role in the music. | | | Without a Monroe to grab the public by the collar and insist, "You-all have "got" to listen to this boy!", Scruggs might have been merely a brilliant footnote in country music history. | | | Monroe gave Scruggs more than just a 50,000-watt podium from which to address the world. |
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http://www.banjonews.com/BNlhtml/Ira_Monroe.html
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| | Bill Monroe |
| | Bill continued to play old-time dance music with his uncle; "We used to ride mule and play for square dances around the county." Bill picked up a range of influences during this time, learning to play the blues on the fiddle and guitar from Arnold Schultz and practicing Sacred Harp and sharp-note singing in churches. | | | Monroe is most famous for creating bluegrass music (although it was not labeled as such until many years later). | | | Despite the notion that bluegrass is a traditional style, Monroe mixed elements of old-time string bands with the blues, rural spiritual singing, and jazz solos. |
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/RADIO/c_w/monroe.html
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| | New foundation in Kentucky wins bidding for the worn mandolin that changed Bill Monroe's style and inspired him to ... |
| | Monroe has long been widely acknowledged as the father of bluegrass, perhaps the only American musician who can be clearly identified as the inventor of a specific popular musical genre. | | | Singer and mandolinist Ricky Skaggs says that is because Monroe was a seminal influence on early rock 'n' roll musicians, including Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley. | | | A Monroe band member once likened the F-5 to ''a fragment of the holy cross.'' It was built by Lloyd Loar, a classically trained musician who went to work for Gibson in Chicago in 1919. |
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http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/04/04478453.shtml
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| | CMT.com : Bill Monroe : Biography |
| | Bill Monroe was born on Sept. 13, 1911, in Rosine, Ky. Credited as "The Father of Bluegrass," the music he created evolved from the folk and country music he heard growing up in a musical family as the youngest of eight children. | | | In the 1940s, Monroe began adding lyrics to his melodies and wrote such classic hits as "Blue Moon of Kentucky" and "Uncle Pen." He hired banjo picker Earl Scruggs, singer-guitarist Lester Flatt and fiddler Chubby Wise on fiddle to create what is widely recognized as the most important bluegrass band ever. | | | A year later, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted him as an early influence of rock 'n' roll. |
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http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/monroe_bill/bio.jhtml
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| | Ewing / The Bill Monroe Reader |
| | Known as the Father of Bluegrass Music, Monroe pioneered a whole new category of music and inspired generations of musicians and fans. | | | Lively, heartfelt, and informative, The Bill Monroe Reader is a fitting tribute to the man and the musician who transformed the traditional music of western Kentucky into an international sensation. | | | By the mid-1940s other bands were copying his sound, and a new style, bluegrass music, was born. |
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http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f00/ewing.html
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| | Bill Monroe |
| | BILL MONROE'S INFLUENCE FELT BY MUSICIANS IN THE TRIAD; AREA BLUEGRASS FANS REMEMBER BILL MONROE, THE "FATHER OF BLUEGRASS MUSIC.".(LIFE) (The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)) | | | The father of bluegrass, Monroe created the genre with his mandolin playing, high, lonesome tenor and nostalgic songs. | | | Using only stringed instruments, with an emphasis on the previously overlooked mandolin, Monroe fused gospel, folk, and his own original sound to create a cornerstone of today's country music. |
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| | Bill Monroe |
| | The plaque given to Bill Monroe when he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970 reads: "The Father of Bluegrass Music. | | | Growing up in a musical family, young Bill wanted to learn to play the guitar but the instrument was already taken by a brother so he picked up the only thing left, a mandolin. | | | Monroe, himself once said of bluegrass music: "It’s got a hard drive to it. |
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| | Bill Monroe: The Father of Bluegrass Music |
| | Monroe`s signature song, "Blue Moon of Kentucky," was also named an official state song by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1988. | | | Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass Music, explained it this way: "To me bluegrass is really THE country music. | | | The band was made up of Cleo Davis (guitar and lead vocal), Art Wooten (fiddle), and Bill (mandolin). |
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| | CNN - 'Father of Bluegrass' dead at 84 - Sep. 9, 1996 |
| | Though considered a music pioneer, he maintained that his music was "nothing but the hillbilly version of jazz." To make it, Monroe created bluegrass by joining the fiddling style of his uncle -- later immortalized in the song "Uncle Pen" -- with yodeling vocals and a mastery of the mandolin. | | | In 1970, Monroe was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. | | | The musical style would become a staple of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, where Monroe performed regularly from 1939 through the end of his career. |
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http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9609/09/monroe.obit
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| | Monroe, Bill on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Featuring Monroe's high tenor voice and virtuoso mandolin along with the fiddle, bass, guitar, and banjo, the band became known for its beautiful harmonies and driving rhythms. | | | (William Smith Monroe), 1911-96, country singer, musician, and songwriter, often called the “father of bluegrass,&; b. | | | He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. |
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| | Bill Monroe and Bluegrass |
| | Fans who value "traditionalism" in country music are attracted to it because of its use of accoustic instruments, "high-lonesome" singing, and down-to-earth songs. | | | Monroe moved from the Columbia label to Decca in 1949, and the following years produced some of Monroe's best compositions. | | | They played on KARK in Little Rock for a brief time. |
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Snowbird Mountain Band |
| | Bill and Wilma's musical instruments were handcrafted by Bill; his F-style mandolins in 1973 and 1978 and Wilma's herringbone guitar in 1996. | | | Bill & Wilma's son Stephen owns a music store in Robbinsville, NC. | | | They've devoted their lives to preserving and performing this kind of music. |
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| | Amazon.com: Music: Anthology [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] |
| | Distilling the four-disc Music of Bill Monroe down to 50 songs, this double-disc Anthology is a fine survey of the bluegrass pioneer's career. | | | Monroe redid for Decca some songs he'd done on Columbia before angrily leaving that label after it signed the rival Stanley Brothers. | | | Nice sound quality and great song selection: the 1940s and 1970s are both skipped in their entirety, but one disc covering the 'Fifties and a second one covering the 'Sixties is still pretty sweet. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008WI8K?v=glance
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| | BILL MONROE |
| | Bill Monroe was inarguably the single most important and influential figure in the history of bluegrass music. | | | Fusing the fiddle and madolin sounds of the Eastern Kentucky Hills with the guitars of rural blues and adding a streamlined speed and emotional passion to the music, Monroe was truly the father of bluegrass and a brilliant musician by any standards. | | | He and brother Charlie (1903 - 1975) recorded 60 songs for Bluebird Records between 1936 and 1938, including “Kentucky Waltz,” which he wrote. |
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| | Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass |
| | Bill Monroe is one of those rare stars of country music whose name transcends the genre. | | | He has enjoyed the spotlight of being elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame as well as being featured iwthin the pages of Rolling Stone,. |
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| | Amazon.com: DVD: Bill Monroe - The Father of Bluegrass Music (1993) |
| | And when Paul McCartney is heard performing a live version of Monroe's de facto anthem, "Blue Moon of Kentucky," the mandolinist's seminal impact on Elvis Presley is undeniable. | | | Rather, this is a video by people who know and love the music, Monroe, and the lifestyle the music comes out of. | | | I regret that I came to love bluegrass music after the death of Bill Monroe, I would have so loved to see him live in concert. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000IREE?v=glance
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| | Bill Monroe News |
| | The mandolin music and compositions of Bill Monroe and David Grisman will be the focus of a lunch-hour lecture and concert the first two Thursdays of January at the Concord Community Music School. | | | Bison Records This album seems to want to prove that mandolin music isn't just the bluegrass twangs of Bill Monroe. | | | But Gill said Scruggs' greatest gift was his open-minded approach that brought acoustic music to a wider, younger audience in the 1960s and '70s. |
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| | Re: Bill Monroe |
| | The 2-disc CD set contains 28 of Bill Monroe's best songs performed by some of the greatest artists in their field... | | | On February 11th, "The Legend Lives On: A Tribute to Bill Monroe", a star-studded 2-CD set will be released to a world of eager Bluegrass fans. | | | "The Legend Lives On: A Tribute to Bill Monroe", is filled with the talents of some of today's biggest stars as well as artists who are also "legendary" in the field of country and bluegrass music. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Can't You Hear Me Callin' : The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass |
| | The legendary mandolinist and bandleader Bill Monroe wove his personal vision through more than 60 tireless years of recording and performing, inventing almost single-handedly the music that is now known--in a nod to his first band, the Blue Grass Boys--as bluegrass. | | | Monroe refused to tell him because he'd never told band members where the tour was going before. | | | Monroe was a great, decisive, and innovative musician, singer, performer and arranger. |
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| | Bill Monroe's Bean Blossom - Festivals & Events From Bean Blossom, IN |
| | The hillbilly music tradition goes back hundreds of years, but it was Monroe, with his high-mountain tenor and unique mandolin playing, who made bluegrass what it is today. | | | On behalf of the staff and management at the Bill Monroe Memorial Music Park, I want to thank everyone for all the encouragement and support you've given us. | | | Back to Bean Blossom: The Life and Music of Bill Monroe. |
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| | Bill Monroe, father of bluegrass: A birthday anniversary remembrance |
| | Today would have been music and bluegrass legend Bill Monroe's 89th birthday. | | | What I remember most from that concert was how gracious and kind Mr. | | | Everybody kind of gasped in shock and stepped back a bit, but Bill just took it in stride. |
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| | ABC News: Settlement in Bill Monroe Mandolin Fight |
| | The elder Monroe played his prized mandolin for more than 50 years, the last time on March 15, 1996, at the Grand Ole Opry. | | | NASHVILLE, Tenn. Jan 7, 2005 — The son of bluegrass music pioneer Bill Monroe and a Kentucky foundation fighting over ownership of the legend's prized mandolin reached a settlement Friday, just days before a trial was to have opened in the dispute. | | | But relations between the industrial foundation and Mercer turned sour, and he sued the group separately for breach of contract. |
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http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=394793&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
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| | Bill Monroe |
| | When Monroe auditioned for the Grand Ole Opry for manager George D. Hay, director at WSM, Hay told him he and the Bluegrass Boys could start playing at the Opry or could go play somewhere else, but if he performed on the Opry the only way he'd leave the show would be to fire himself. | | | Artists: Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, Eddy Arnold, Ernest Tubb and Red Foley, Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, Paul McCartney | | | 1934--decided to become a full-time musician; formed "The Monroe Brothers" with his brother Charlie; performed on radio show in Shenandoah, IA 1936--The Monroe Brothers' first recording made for RCA Victor's Bluebird label on February 17 |
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| | Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys |
| | This site is intended as a tribute to all the musicians who contributed to the creation of Bill Monroe's music, as well as an information resource for research. | | | Regular: Musicians who were hired as regular members of the band on an ongoing basis. | | | For more than half a century, being a Blue Grass Boy was the crowning achievement of many musicians' careers; for others, a stepping stone to establishing their own bands. |
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| | News-Star OnlineSale of Bill Monroe's mandolin falls through 11/02/02 |
| | Foundation attorneys said a search of the singer's estate probate records would take several days. | | | They didn't show up with the money," said Diane McCall. | | | A foundation's plan to buy bluegrass founder Bill Monroe's mandolin has fallen through, and the instrument will be sold on the open market, says an agency representing Monroe's son. |
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http://www.news-star.com/stories/110202/ent_6.shtml
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| | Les Paul, John Lennon, B. King, Ace Frehley, Dickey Betts, Earl Scruggs, Sam Bush and Bill Monroe... | | | American Musical Supply is not responsible for typographical errors in pricing or product specification inaccuracies in our catalog or web site. | | | For the discriminating player who wants the legendary Bill Monroe feel and sound. |
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http://www.americanmusical.com/item--i-GIB-ABMS.html
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| | Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Bill Monroe: MAIN |
| | The story of Monroe and the birth of bluegrass music. | | | The undisputed father of bluegrass music, Bill Monroe did not appear as an actor in films. | | | We pick the top 11 movies for every mood, including 'The Squid and the Whale' for those who like witty, funny films about deeply dysfunctional families. |
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| | Jim Peva on Bill Monroe |
| | aware of Bill Monroe and his music as a Grand Ole Opry listener since | | | I talked with Bill after the show and we agreed he would play the Wednesday- | | | and I attended both Birch's and Bill's funerals |
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http://www.mossware.com/music02b.html
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| | Bill Monroe |
| | Bill learned to play the guitar, the mandolin, and the fiddle from his Uncle Pen. | | | In 1946 Bill's band featured bluegrass legends such as Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt, and Chubby Wise. | | | At the Bean Blossom Festival in 1967, Bill let people come on stage and jam with him. |
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| | Bill Monroe Stamp Campaign |
| | Because Bill Monroe's music is appreciated worldwide, nominations from outside the USA would be very appropriate. | | | Would you like to see Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass Music, honored by a commemorative United States Postage Stamp? | | | The 95th anniversary of his birth, September 13, 2006, which is only 4 days later, would be a logical date for the issuance of the stamp. |
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http://www.billmonroestamp.org
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| | Bill Monroe - Mandolin |
| | Yes, folks, as James Monroe told me just moments later, that is the first time that THE LOAR has been seen by the public since Bill's final appearance on the Opry, which I believe was March 15, 1996. | | | I felt like if I turned around Bill would be standing there with that little mischievous grin on his face, looking away quickly when he saw me turn around, just the corner of the smile visible. | | | The many times I photographed him backstage at the Opry, or at the Bell Cove, or at the farm, he'd always play with me by sticking out his tongue, or pulling his hat down over his eyes, or some such thing. |
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http://www.songsofbillmonroe.com/bm0.html
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| | Tell the world what you think of Bill Monroe. |
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