Shindig! is an American musical variety series which aired on ABC from September 16, 1964 to January 8, 1966. The show was hosted by Jimmy O'Neill, a disc jockey in Los Angeles at the time who also created the show along with his wife Sharon Sheeley and production executive Art Stolnitz. The original pilot was rejected by ABC and David Sontag, then Executive Producer of ABC, redeveloped and completely redesigned the show. A new pilot with a new cast of artists was shot starring Sam Cooke. That pilot aired as the premiere episode.
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Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. ""(Up Above My Head) There's Music in the Air"" (performed by Jackie and Gayle) 2. ""Yes, Indeed"" (performed by the Wellingtons and the Blossoms) 3. ""Gonna Build a Mountain"" (performed by Jackie…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Alan Sues – ""Ain't She Sweet?"" 2. Jerry Cole – ""Ain't She Sweet?"" 3. The Cables and the Blossoms – ""Cannon Ball"" 4. The Righteous Brothers (with Jody Miller and Pamela Bennett) -…
Opening song: ""He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"" (performed by Jackie and Gayle, Newbeats, and the Walker Brothers). --The Walker Brothers – ""Slow Down"" --The Blossoms – ""Tell Him"" --Gale Garnett – ""We'll Sing in…
Show taped in London: --The Beatles – ""Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey"" (opening song) commercial: American Dairy Association Milk Council --Karl Denver Trio – ""Wimoweh"" --Lyn Cornell – ""Fever"" --Tommy Quickly –…
--Adam Faith – ""It's Alright"" (opening song) commercial: Stri-Dex ad with Jimmy O'Neill and Tim Matheson. --Manfred Mann – ""Do Wah Diddy"" --Bobby Sherman – ""Just for Me and My Girl"" (correct song title?) --Elkie Brooks…
--Donna Loren – ""Down the Line"" (opening song) --Willy Nelson – ""Jump Back"" (not Willie Nelson, the country singer) --Jackie Wilson – ""She's Alright"" --Bobby Sherman – ""Man Overboard"" --The Blossoms – ""Dancing…
--Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas – ""Da Doo Ron Ron"" (opening song) --Leon Russell – ""Hi Heeled Sneakers"" (sings & plays piano) --Dick and Dee Dee – ""Freight Train"" --The Blossoms – ""Baby Love"" --Chris Crosby –…
--Gerry and the Pacemakers – ""How Do You Do It?"" (opening song) --The Righteous Brothers – ""In That Great Getting' Up Mornin'"" --Glen Campbell – ""Summer, Winter, Spring, Fall"" --Ketty Lester (with the Blossoms and the…
--Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas – ""I Call Your Name"" (opening song, followed by Shindig logo) --Bobby Sherman – ""I'm Into Something Good"" --The Apollas – ""Swing Down, Sweet Chariot"" (""Rock Me Lord"") --Hank Williams,…
--Leon Russell (singing and playing piano) - ""Roll Over Beethoven"" (opening song) Commercial: Stri-Dex acne medication --Jackie and Gayle - ""You Should Have Seen the Way He Looked at Me"" --Bobby Doqui and Arnold Rollin -…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Carolyn Daye – ""Jump Back"" 2. Bobby Sherman – ""I'm Crying"" 3. Everly Brothers – ""Gone Gone Gone"" (end of medley) Commercial break – promo: Friday Night ABC lineup --Manfred Mann…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Righteous Brothers - ""She's Not There"" 2. Donna Loren - ""Ain't That Lovin' You Baby"" 3. Chad and Jeremy - ""Yesterday's Gone"" 4. Matt Monro - ""My Kind of Girl"" 5. Tina Turner - ""A Fool in…
Show begins with audience members yelling ""Shindig! Shindig! Shindig! Rah! Rah! Shindig!"" --Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Bobby Sherman – ""Hot Dog"" 2. Donna Loren – ""Just Because"" 3. Freddy Canon – ""Abigail…
--Tommy Quickly – ""The Dog"" (opening song) Shindig! logo (logo shaped like a dog, exclamation point as wagging tail) --Manfred Mann – ""Do Wah Diddy Diddy"" --Kelly Garrett – ""Mellow Fellows"" --Chubby Checker – ""She…
--Opening medley: Dave Clark Five - ""Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"" (abridged) and ""Can't You See That She's Mine?"" (end of medley) Commercial: Orange juice --Mickey Rooney Jr. - ""I Feel Fine"" --The Newbeats - ""Everything's All Right""…
--The Beach Boys – ""Dance, Dance, Dance"" (opening song) Jimmy O'Neill intro (begins with O'Neill kissing Carole Shelyne) --Bobby Sherman and Donna Loren – ""Keep on Searching"" --Righteous Brothers – ""The Jerk""…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Donna Loren, the Wellingtons – ""At the Hop"" 2. Willy Nelson/Blossoms – ""Rip It Up"" 3. Jerry Lee Lewis – ""Jenny Jenny"" (end of medley) commercial: Beechnut Gum --Mary Wells - ""My…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Jackie & Gayle, Righteous Brothers - ""Let the Good Times Roll"" 2. Donna Loren, Blossoms - ""Too Many Fish in the Sea"" 3. Bobby Sherman - ""Hound Dog"" (end of medley) --Adam Faith - ""Dig That…
--Dick and Dee Dee – ""Thou Shalt Not Steal"" (opening song) --Herman's Hermits – ""I'm Into Something Good"" (clip probably taped in England) --Paul Peterson – ""Little Dreamer"" --Johnny Cash – ""Amen"" (with the…
Opening medley: 1. Bobby Sherman - ""I Can't Stop"" 2. Jackie and Gayle - ""Give Him A Great Big Kiss"" 3. The Walker Brothers - ""I'm A Loser"" 4. Donna Loren - ""Rock ‘n' Roll Music"" 5. Glen Campbell - ""Mean Woman…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Glen Campbell – ""Dixieland Rock"" 2. Little Anthony and the Imperials – ""Way Down Yonder in New Orleans"" 3. Bobby Sherman – ""New Orleans"" 4. Serendipity Singers - ""Battle of New Orleans""…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Donna Loren - ""Keep A Knockin'"" 2. Hondells - ""Little Honda"" 3. Blossoms - ""(I Do the) Shimmy Shimmy"" 4. Glen Campbell - ""Shake, Rattle & Roll"" (end of medley, Shindig! logo) Other songs…
--Opening song: ""It's Alright"" (performed by Willy Nelson, Pat and Lolly Vegas, Coasters, Ventures, Bobby Sherman & Donna Loren, Temptations, Eligibles, and Bobby Hatfield). Other songs (not in broadcast order): --Del Shannon -…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Steve Alaimo - ""Jail House Rock"" 2. Dee Dee Sharp - ""Ride"" 3. Sonny and Cher - ""Can't Buy Me Love"" 4. The Blossoms - ""Name Game"" 5. Jerry Lee Lewis - ""Breathless"" (end of medley) Other…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Glen Campbell – ""Um Um Um Um"" 2. Donna Loren – ""Blue Suede Shoes"" 3. The Gauchos – ""Down the Road Apiece"" 4. Bobby Sherman – ""Milk Cow Blues"" (correct title?) (end of medley)…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Bobby Sherman – ""All Day and All of the Night"" (The Shindogs perform an excerpt from ""Eight Days a Week"" between each song.) 2. Suzy Kaye – ""Really Saying Something"" 3. Roy Clark –…
Opening song: ""Rock ‘n' Roll Music"" (performed by the Beau Brummels, Donna Loren, Bobby Sherman, Mickey Rooney, Jr. and Dobie Gray). Other songs (not in broadcast order): --Aretha Franklin and Ray Johnson - ""Mockingbird"" duet…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Dick and Dee Dee – ""Do You Wanna Dance?"" 2. Shirley Ellis – ""Name Game"" 3. Bobby Sherman - ""King Creole"" (end of medley) --The Shindogs, the Ray Pohlman Band - ""Shotgun"" --Shirley…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. The Wellingtons - ""It's A Big Wonderful World"" (Jimmy O'Neill quickly stops the song) 2. Adam Faith & the Wellingtons – ""Roll Over Beethoven"" 3. The Blossoms – ""Johnny B. Goode"" 4.…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Glen Campbell – ""Hot Dog"" 2. Wellingtons, Blossoms, John Andrea – ""Rock Island Line"" 3. Tina Turner, Marvin Gaye, Righteous Brothers – ""Willie and the Hand Jive"" (end of medley) Other…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Shindogs – ""Shakin' All Over"" 2. Donna Loren – ""Talk About Love"" (with the Wellingtons) 3. The Blossoms – ""Peaches and Cream"" 4. Millie Small – ""Be My Baby"" (Dick and Dee song) 5.…
Guests (songs are not in broadcast order): --The Beach Boys - ""Do You Wanna Dance"" (opening song), ""Fun Fun Fun,"" ""Long Tall Texan,"" ""Please Let Me Wonder,"" ""Help Me Rhonda"" and ""Their Hearts Were Full of Spring"" --The…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Donna Loren, The Wellingtons, and The Blossoms – ""Tootie Fruity"" 2. Dick and Dee Dee – ""(The Bees Are for the Birds) the Birds Are for the Bees"" 3. Shindogs – ""Dear Dad"" (end of medley,…
Guests: --Chambers Brothers - ""Jailhouse Rock"" --Sonny and Cher - ""I Got Stung,"" ""Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear,"" ""All Shook Up"" and ""Treat Me Nice"" --Cher - ""Wooden Heart"" --Isley Brothers - ""Hard Headed Woman"" &…
Opening medley: 1. Russ Titleman, Righteous Brothers – ""Don't Bring Me Down"" 2. Two drummers (Charles Blackwell of the Shindogs and the drummer from Ray Pohlman band) – drum ""solo"" 3. Dick and Dee Dee – ""Baby, Please Don't…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Righteous Brothers – ""This Little Girl of Mine"" 2. Donna Loren and Bobby Sherman – ""Sticks and Stones"" 3. Blossoms – ""Guess Who"" 4. Wellingtons – ""Hit the Road Jack"" 5. Ray Charles…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Bobby Sherman – ""Reelin' and Rockin'"" -Len and Glenn, Brady and Grady – ""Reelin' and Rockin'"" 2. Sonny and Cher – ""Whole Lotta Shaking Going On"" 3. Blossoms and Wellingtons –…
Opening medley (at beginning of show, song excerpts): 1. Bobby Sherman & Diane Renay – ""Peggy Sue"" 2. Blossoms, Wellingtons – ""Keep A Knockin'"" 3. Righteous Brothers – ""Be Bop A Lula"" Other songs (not in broadcast…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Jackie and Gayle - ""Iko Iko"" 2. The Blossoms - ""Don't Hang Up"" 3. Wellingtons, Bobby Sherman - ""The Bristol Stomp"" 4. Billy Preston - ""Baby Face"" 5. Everly Brothers - ""Gone Gone Gone""…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Everly Brothers – ""Wake Up Little Suzie"" 2. Dick and Dee Dee – ""Should We Tell Him?"" (Everly Brothers song) 3. Gary Brento Weis – ""What'd I Say"" 4. Gerry and the Pacemakers – ""Slow…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Willy Nelson – ""Long Tall Sally"" 2. David Crosby and Roger McGuinn (of the Byrds) – ""Long Tall Sally"" 3. Righteous Brothers – ""Sticks and Stones"" 4. Kingsmen, Billy Preston – ""Good…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Bobby Sherman, Wellingtons – ""At the Hop"" 2. The Blossoms, Donna Loren – ""I Do the Shimmy Shimmy"" 3. Jackie Wilson – ""Shake Shake"" 4. Jerry Lee Lewis – ""Jenny, Jenny"" (end of medley)…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Bobby Sherman, Donna Loren, Eligibles, Blossoms – ""You Really Got Me"" 2. Rick Lancelot – ""All Day and All of the Night"" 3. Kinks – ""I'm A Lover Not A Fighter"" (end of medley) Other…
Opening medley (song excerpts): (1) Bobby Sherman - ""Rave On"" (2) Beau Brummels, Kelly Garrett and Sammy Jackson – ""Do You Wanna Dance?"" (3) The Shindogs - ""Fun, Fun, Fun"" Other songs (not in broadcast order) --The…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Gene Pitney – ""Carol"" 2. Sir Douglas Quintet – ""Roll Over Beethoven"" 3. Bruce Scott – ""Maybelline"" 4. Sonny and Cher – ""Ride On Josephine"" (end of medley) Additional songs (not in…
Guests (songs are not in broadcast order - some may be abridged): --Dave Clark Five - ""Reelin' & Rockin',"" ""Glad All Over,"" ""Bits and Pieces,"" ""Can't You See That She's Mine"" and ""I Like It Like That"" --Jay and the Americans…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Jerry Naylor – ""You Turn Me On"" 2. Billy Preston – ""Seventh Son"" 3. Jackie & Gayle, Bobby Sherman – ""It Happened Just that Way"" 4. Righteous Brothers – ""Burn on Love"" (end of medley,…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Bobby Goldsboro & Donna Loren – ""I Go Ape"" 2. Joey Paige – ""Move It"" 3. Shindogs – ""Rock ‘n' Roll Music"" 4. Glen Campbell – ""Way Down Yonder in New Orleans"" 5. Blossoms,…
Opening medley - Bo Diddley songs (song excerpts): 1. The Shindogs - ""Ride On Josephine"" 2. Bobby Sherman - ""Pretty Thing"" 3. Jay P. Mobey - ""Bo Diddley"" 4. Eddie Hodges, Glen Campbell, Bo Diddley - ""Mama Don't Allow No…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Bobby Sherman – ""Susie Q"" 2. Shindogs – ""I'm A Fool"" 3. Glen Campbell – ""Hard Headed Woman"" 4. Kathy Kersh – ""Evil"" (end of medley) Other songs (not in broadcast order): --James…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Bruce Scott - ""Baby Work Out"" 2. Barbara Lewis – ""He's a Real Gone Guy"" 3. Gene Chandler – ""I Got A Woman"" 4. Blossoms, Elgibles – ""Rider"" 5. Collins Kids, Bruce Scott, and John Andrea…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. The McCoys, the Byrds – ""California Sun"" 2. Jerry Naylor – ""I Got A Feeling"" 3. the Everly Brothers – ""Rip It Up"" 4. Chad & Jill – ""Ready Teddy"" (end of medley) commercial:…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Righteous Brothers – ""Money Honey"" 2. Shindogs and the Wellingtons – ""Two Hound Dogs"" (Bill Haley & the Comets song) 3. Bobby Sherman – ""Out of Sight"" 4. James Burton (Shindig guitarist)…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Jerry Lee Lewis - ""Breathless"" 2. Blossoms - ""Johnny B. Goode"" 3. Wellingtons - ""Whole Lotta Lovin'"" (Raquel Welch cameo) 4. Billy Preston - ""Baby, Please Don't Go"" (end of medley)…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Dick and Dee Dee – ""Sha La La"" 2. Jimmie Rodgers – ""Early in the Morning"" 3. Donna Loren – ""I Only Want to be With You"" 4. Little Anthony and the Imperials – ""Can I Get A Witness?""…
Version #1 (without Mickey Rooney) Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. The Turtles - ""We'll Meet Again (Some Sunny Day)"" 2. Lesley Gore - ""It's My Party"" 3. Major Lance - ""Don't Set Me Free"" 4. The Blossoms & the…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Ray Peterson – ""Let's Have A Party"" 2. Linda Gayle – ""Do You Wanna Dance?"" 3. Four Tops – ""Down the Road Apiece"" (end of medley) Shindig logo, Jimmy O'Neill intro --Billy Joe Royal…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Evie Sands - ""Live It Up"" 2. Bobby Sherman - ""You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby"" 3. Dee Dee Sharp - ""Rock Me in the Cradle of Love"" 4. The Shindogs - ""Come On Let's Go"" (end of…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Dick and Dee Dee - ""Thou Shalt Not Steal"" 2. Jr. Walker - ""You're A Wonderful One"" 3. Jackie DeShannon - ""It's Love Baby"" 4. Roy Head - ""You Can't Sit Down"" (end of medley) Commercial:…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Millie Small – ""I'm in Love Again"" 2. Willy Nelson – ""Jailer, Bring Me Water"" 3. The M.F.Q. – ""One Track Mind"" 4. Donna Loren – ""When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through…
--Opening song: ""Let the Good Times Roll"" (performed by Ray Peterson, Kelly Garrett, the Lovin' Spoonful, Glen Campbell and the Shindogs) Other songs/guests (not in broadcast order): --Jimmy Witherspoon - ""Love Me Right""…
Opening medley: (1) The Shindig Band, the Blossoms, the Kingsmen, Eddie Rambeau and Joe Tex – ""Treat Her Right"" (2) The Kingsmen – ""Too Much Monkey Business"" Other songs/guests (not in broadcast order): --Eddie Rambeau –…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Dobie Gray – ""See You at the Go-Go"" 2. Shangri-Las – ""Thirty Days"" 3. The Byrds – ""I'm A Loser"" 4. Bobby Sherman and Glen Campbell – ""Ready Teddy"" (end of medley) Jimmy O'Neill…
Opening medley: 1. The Newbeats - ""Everything's All Right"" 2. Dinah Lee - ""What Kind of Love Is This"" 3. The Toys, Jerry Naylor - ""Why Do Fools Fall in Love?"" 4. The Shindogs – ""Reelin' & Rockin'"" (end of medley)…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Billy Preston (playing organ) – instrumental song 2. Bobby Sherman – ""Help"" 3. Bobby Sherman with the Wellingtons – ""I'm Down"" 4. Jackie and Gayle, Ted Cassidy (as Lurch), the Blossoms, and…
Jimmy O'Neill intro --Louis Armstrong – ""Sleepy Time Down South"" Commercial break --Louis Armstrong and band play instrumental song. --Louis Armstrong & band – ""Indiana"" (instrumental) & ""The Bucket's Got A Hole in It""…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Billy Joe Royal - ""Down in the Boondocks"" 2. Fontella Bass - ""Jim Dandy"" 3. The Strangeloves - ""Roll On Mississippi"" 4. Jackie Wilson - ""The Way I Am"" (end of medley) Other…
--Louis Armstrong and band - ""Sleepy Time Down South"" --Louis Armstrong - ""Struttin' With (Some) Barbeque"" (including Band's Intro) --Louis Armstrong and band - ""I've Got A Lot Of Living To Do"" --Taree Glenn and band -…
Guests: --Rick Nelson - ""Live and Learn"" and ""I Catch Myself Crying"" --Barbara Lewis - ""Make Me Your Baby"" and ""Baby I'm Yours"" --The Turtles - ""Your Ma Said You Cried"" and ""Let Me Be"" --Davy Jones - ""What Are We…
Dr. Goldfoot is planning to kidnap a teenager named Malcolm Andrews. The evil doctor wants the classified government information that has been stored in Malcom's brain. Hugo (Harvey Lembeck) and Diane (Susan Hart) help Goldfoot abduct the…
Guests (songs are not in broadcast order & some songs may be abridged): --Don Ho and Allis - ""I'll Remember You"" --Len Barry - ""1-2-3"" --Tommy Sands - ""The Statue"" & ""Just a Little Bit Better"" --Ian Whitcomb - ""You Turn…
Opening medley (song excerpts): 1. Glen Campbell - ""Hidden Island"" 2. The Wellingtons - ""Ride the Wild Surf"" 3. James Burton - ""Yakety Sax"" 4. Glen Campbell - ""Twelfth Street Rag"" (instrumental song, probably the…
Guests: --George Maharis – medley: ""King of the Road"" and ""Route 66"" Commercial break Jimmy O'Neill intro. --George Maharis – medley: ""Witchcraft,"" ""My Kind of Girl,"" and ""I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me""…
Opening medley: (1) Leroy Van Dyke – ""The Auctioneer"" (2) Gloria Jones - ""Puppy Love"" (3) Bobby Sherman - ""Wake Up Little Suzie"" (4) We Five - ""Green Green"" (end of medley, Shindig logo) Commercials: Listerine &…
Filmed at the Richmond-On-Thames Jazz Festival (August 6 – 8, 1965): --The Animals - ""Rosie"" and ""We Gotta Get Outta This Place"" --The Moody Blues - ""I'll Go Crazy"" --Brian Auger Trinity (with Long John Baldry, Rod Stewart…
Filmed at the Richmond-On-Thames Jazz Festival (August 6 – 8, 1965): --The Who - ""Anyhow, Anyway, Anywhere"" and ""Shout & Shimmy"" --The Yardbirds - ""For Your Love"" and ""Hang On Sloopy"" --Manfred Mann - ""If You Gotta Go,…
Guests: --Barry McGuire and the Grassroots - ""Out Of Sight"" Jimmy O'Neill intro --Barry McGuire – ""She Belongs To Me"" (a.k.a. ""She's An Artist"") --The Grass Roots – ""Ain't That Lovin You Baby"" Commercial break…
--Opening song: The Yardbirds - ""Heart Full of Soul"" (longer version, with dancers) Commercial break --Jimmy O'Neill intro --Jackie Lee (with the Blossoms) - ""The Duck"" --Vashti Bunyan - ""I Want to Be Alone"" --The Pretty…
From various sources: --George Chakiris (guest host) - sings ""Witchcraft"" --Orson Welles - ""Making Up the Rules As You Go"" (another source lists the song as ""So Many Things to Remember"") --Dizzy Gillespie - ""Bavarian Beer…
--Opening medley: Dave Clark 5 - ""Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"" (excerpt) and ""Can't You See That She's Mine?"" (This medley is taken from the 16Dec64 Shindig!) --Gerry & The Pacemakers - ""Jambalaya"" --Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas - ""Trains…
1965 Christmas show: --Johnny Mathis - ""On A Wonderful Day Like Today"" Commercial: Listerine Jimmy O'Neill intro --Johnny Mathis - ""Misty"" --Johnny Mathis - ""Maria"" & ""Tonight Tonight"" (both songs from ""West Side…
--The Hollies – ""Too Much Monkey Business"" (opening song) Commercial: Listerine Jimmy O'Neill intro --Manfred Mann – ""Watermelon Man"" --The Blossoms – ""That's When the Tears Start"" --Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames…
--Jimmy O'Neill appears at beginning. (His only appearance on this episode.) --Opening credits: George Chakiris (guest host) and woman dance to ""Never Trust in Time"" (correct song title?) --Molin Rogue Dancers shown --Françoise…
Guests: --Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas - ""My Babe"" (opening song, Shindig logo) Commercial break: ""Donna Reed Show"" promo Jimmy O'Neill intro --The Who - ""I Can't Explain"" (clip originally aired Oct. 2, 1965) --Dave…
Opening medley (song excerpts): (1) Jackie DeShannon – ""C. C. Rider"" (2) Bobby Sherman, Dick and Dee Dee - ""Reelin' & Rockin'"" (3) Billy Preston, the Knickerbockers - ""Jenny, Jenny"" (end of medley) Jimmy O'Neill into. He…
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