Evolution Album DiscographyThe Evolution label was a subsidiary of Stereo Dimension Records, which in turn was a label run by
Longines Symphonette Society, based in New York. The Longines Symphonette Society was owned by
Longines, a Swiss watch company. Longines also sponsored the Longines Symphonette Orchestra,
also based in New York.
The Longines Symphonette Society started issuing records in the 1960s, usually multi-disc box sets of
old radio shows, as part of a subscription service much like Reader's Digest was doing. In the late
1960s, they bought the Capitol Record Club, and ran that until 1975. They started the Evolution label in
1969 to put some of their records in stores rather than be strictly mail order. Some of the early Evolution
offerings were reissues of the Longines Symphonette Society radio shows. Many of their non-radio
albums were leases from non-US labels like Quality of Canada or Fontana in Europe.
Evolution's biggest hitmakers were Lighthouse, a rock group from Toronto, Canada, whose "One Fine
Morning" [Evolution 1048] reached #24 on the pop charts in 1971. The single was a complex edit of the
longer track found on their LP. The next year, "Sunny Days" [Evolution 1069] reached #34, but three
other chart singles didn't even reach the top-50. Lighthouse switched to the Polydor label in late 1973.
Evolution also charted (just barely) with Larry Santos' "Now That I Have Found You" [Evolution 1029] in
early 1971, reaching #114. Santos, a singer-songwriter who had penned "Candy Girl" for the Four
Seasons back in 1963, put out two albums on Evolution before moving to Casablanca in 1976, where he
was somewhat more successful.
Michael Quatro, brother of the more famous Suzi Quatro, also had a couple of albums for Evolution, and
scraped the bottom of the charts with "Circus" [Evolution 1062], which reached #108 in the summer of
1972.
Originally, the 2000 series was to be the main pop series, while the 3000 series was to be a jazz series.
This did not last long, as after only three issues on the 3000 series, Evolution ran out of jazz material
and began issuing old radio shows on the 3000 series. In early 1971, Evolution discontinued the 2000
series (which had reached 2022), and continued the pop releases in the 3000 series, the pop releases
jumping from 2022 to 3006 and continuing from there. The 3000 series lasted until 1974. In 1975, the
parent Longines company pulled the plug on the Longines Symphonette Society, the Capitol Record
Club, and the Evolution label.
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Both the 45s (far left) and the albums (near left) for Evolution had the same label throughout the 1969-1974 period. It was a creme or light brown color with a horizontal rainbow bar with "a stereo dimension recording" just under the Evolution skyline logo. The Stereo Dimension "Sd" logo was in a blue oval near the bottom of the label. Promotional copies used the same label with a promotional overprint. |
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Number - Title - Artist - [Release Date] (Chart) Contents |
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Evolution 2000 (Pop) Series: | |
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2001 - Great Moments in Radio, Volume 1 - Documentary [1969] Narrators: Frank
Knight, Jack Benny. Day Time Radio Programs And Commercials Introduction To "Soap
Operas": Lorenzo Jones/The Romance Of Helen Trent/Just Plain Bill/Mary Noble, Backstage
Wife/"Ma" Perkins (The Last Broadcast)/Mary Margaret McBride With Mr. And Mrs. Alben Barkley;
Commercials: Interwoven Socks/Chesterfield Smoke
Dreams/Barbasol/Pepsi-Cola/Rinso/Lava/Crisco/The Longines-Wittnauer Watch Company//The
Great Radio Comedians: Fred Allen And "Allen's Ally", With Senator Claghorn And Mrs. Nusbaum;
Radio Adventure And Mystery Drama The Lone Ranger/The Shadow; The Classic Radio
News Broadcast: The Von Hindenburg Crashes In Flames
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2002 - Just A Man - Larry Santos [1969] Comin' Up In The World/Woman Child/You Got
Me Where You Want Me/If I Should Fall/Can I Come Back//Baby What Song (Do You Want To
Hear?)/Tomorrow Without Love/Subway Man/Paper Chase/Just A Man (Born Of A Woman Like You)
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2003
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2004
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2005 - Jungle Odyssey - Mike Simpson [1969] Jungle and animal sound effects with
exotic music.
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2006 - ...And Now We Come to Distances - Gloria Loring [1969] Leaving, On A Jet
Plane/Natural To Be Gone/Holly Would/I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself/Everybody's
Talking//Wichita Lineman/Words/The Windmills Of Your Mind/Darkness, Darkness/Hey, That's No Way
To Say Goodbye
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2007 - The Affection Collection - Affection Collection [1969] Girl/I Don't Mind/Watch Her
Walk/That's My Song/I'll Be There/Come On Home//I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time/Hey, Little
Man!/The Collector/Don't Live In The Past/Light In The Window/Time Rests Heavy On My Hands
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2008 - What's a Man Supposed to Do - Roy Glover [1970] I Feel Fine/By The Time I Get
To Phoenix/Baby, I Could Be So Good At Loving You/The Feeling's Mu-Tu-Oo-Al/What's A Man
Supposed To Do//Love, That's In My Heart/Somewhere/A Time For Us/Gonna Break It On Down/Back
To My Ole Home Town
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2009 - Great Moments in Radio, Volume 2 - Documentary [1970] Narrated by Jack
Benny. The Great Radio Comedians: Bing Crosby and The Philco Radio Show/Baron
Munchausen/Lum 'n' Abner; Radio Adventures And Drama: Terry and The Pirates/Sergeant
Preston/Gangbusters; On-The-Spot Coverage Of Sports: The Dempsey-Tunney Fight/Max
Schmeling Defeats Joe Louis/Max Baer, Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey Comment as Louis Defeats
Schmeling/Jesse Owens - 1936 Olympics/Babe Ruth's Final Message/Lou Gehrig Says
Goodbye//The Classic Radio News Casts: Station KDKA - First Election Returns/President
Coolidge Introduces Charles A. Lindbergh to Congress/Bill Sunday/FDR Inauguration; Prelude To
World Conflict: King George V Funeral/King Edward VIII Abdication/King George VI
Coronation/Chamberlain in Munich/Hitler Declares War On Poland/Chamberlain Declares War On
Germany/Winston Churchill "Give Us The Tools"; Radio Reports World War II: Pearl Harbor To
Corregidor/FDR "Day Of Infamy" Declaration of War/Radio Operator Reports On Corregidor/Eisenhower
Announces "D" Day/Churchill on VE Day/Truman - "A" Bomb Attack On Hiroshima/MacArthur At Signing
Of The Peace Treaty
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2010 - Six Days on the Road - Street Noise [1970] Run Or Die/Six Days On The
Road/I'm Gonna Leave You/Foggy Waterfall/That Ol Kentucky Sun//Why Can't I See The Light/If Jesus
Was Alive Today/Clancy, He's A Real Good Cop/I (Who Have Nothing)/Someone To Love You
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2011 - Instrumental Love Machine: Soulful - Night Strings featuring Homer Dennison
[1970] God Bless The Child/Black Sand And White Stars/Aquarius/The Road To The Blues/On Days
Like These/A Time For Us/Oh Happy Day/Sagittarius/Honey/Blue Stoned Eyes
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2012 - Life Is a Song - Gainsborough Gallery [1970] House On Soul Hill/I Need
Someone (The Painter)/Thank You, Girl/Light In The Window/Dreams In A Box Car/Turn Around And
Love Me//Life Is A Song/Hello L.A.-Bye Bye Birmingham/It's Growing/If She Don't Turn Your Head/I
Think I'll Catch A Bus (And Go Back Home)/Get Ready
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2013 - Electric Hair: Switched-On Hits from America's First Tribal Love Rock Musical -
Electric Hair [1970] Be In (Hare Krishna)/Frank Mills/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh
Failures)/Walking In Space/Hair//Aquarius/Easy To Be Hard/Good Morning Starshine/Three-Five-Zero-
Zero/Donna
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2014 - Nice Things - Mark & Sumley [1970] Mark Dutil and Ray Sumley. Nice
Things/Take Me To Tomorrow/Sincere Replies/Westward Bound/Take Your Time About It/Lay, Lady,
Lay//I Was Just About To Ask The Same Of You/Your Reason Why/Affair On Eight Avenue/Just One
Step From Yesterday/She Gonna Fly
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2015 - Mornin' Sun - Larry Santos [1970] Mornin' Sun/Bridge Over Troubled Water/Both
Sides Now/What You Gonna Do/Dreamseekers//Now That I Have Found You/Get Together/Wandering
Man/Sweet Caroline/I Keep It Hid
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2016 - Sing a Song for the Mountain - Gloria Loring [1970] And The Grass Won't Pay No
Mind/Honey Wind Blows/Try A Little Kindness/The Dolphins/Sing A Song For The Mountain//The
Dove/Wherefore And Why/Song To A Seagull/New World In The Morning/Abraham, Martin And John
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2017 - Beast - Beast [1970] Inlook/Communication/The Man Outside/Migration/Whistle//I
Am/Don't You Think It's Time?/Move Mountain (You Got It)/It's So Hard/Legal Machines
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2018 - Weighin' Heavy - Steel River [1970] Dream Is Country/Walk By The River/What
Have I To Lose?/Losing Friends/What It Feels Like (To Sing A Song)//Ten Pound Note/When You're
Down, Out, In (She's A Friend)/Seems They're Out To Get You/Song With A Chorus (For Mary)/If You
Let Her Know
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2019 - That's-A-Nice - Enzo Stuarti [1970] If Ever You're Lonely/Mala Femmena/Love Is
Stronger Far Than We/Here, There And Everywhere/That's-A-Nice/That Wonderful Girl Of Mine/If She
Walked Into My Life/Keep Smiling/How Small We Are/Have You Ever Been In Love In Rome?
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2020 - Helen O' - Helen O'Connell [1970] Just One Smile/Don't Leave Me/My Way/He'll
Be Comin' By/Watch What Happens/Tangerine/Goin' Out of My Head/Crazy Annie/Didn't We/Sunshine
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2021 - Game - Game [1970] Entrance/What's Goin' Through My Head/Discovering
You/Fat Mama/Make Some Music//Stop, Look And Listen/Disturbance-We Turn To You/Sermon/Girl
Next Door/Exit
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2022 - Another Day Passes By - Richard Sarstedt [1970] Go Back In Time/Rain/Another
Day/Open A Tin/Charlie/Elizabeth Bay//Time,Love, Hope, Life/I Am No Longer/Fast Women And Slow
Horses/Found My Love Today/Jack And Jill
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3001 - Evolution! - Gene Bertoncini [1969] Elenore/Gia's Theme/Little Green Apples/You
Are A Story/The Heather On The Hill/Chuva//One, Two, Three/I Say A Little Prayer/Mrs. Robinson/Soon
It's Gonna Rain/Here, There And Everywhere/Hey Jude
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3002 - Night Love - Homer Dennison & The "Night Strings" [1969] The Impossible
Dream/Inagua/The Music Box Serenade/The Endless Tide/Swiss Holiday/September In Maine//This
Guy's In Love With You/Love Is Blue/The Minor Bossa Nova/With A Little Help From My Friends/The
Winds Of April/Piano Tiger
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3003 - Shades of Brass - Bobby Byrne [1969] Gold foil cover. Respect/Help
Yourself/The Pendulum Swings Both Ways/Delilah/The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)/Hurry
Love//A Shade Of Brass/Can't Take My Eyes Off You/Who Is Gonna Love Me/Barbarella/Windy
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3004 - Man on the Moon: Flight of the Apollo 11 - Documentary [1969] Narrator: Roy
Neal. A Man On The Moon: The Flight Of Apollo 11 (Side I)//A Man On The Moon: The Flight Of Apollo
11 (Side II)
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3005 - The Years to Remember: Those Great Moments in Radio - Documentary [1970]
(2-LP set) Reissue of Evolution 2001 and 2009 as a 2-record set. Disc 1: Day Time Radio
Programs And Commercials - Introduction To "Soap Operas": Lorenzo Jones-The Romance Of
Helen Trent-Just Plain Bill-Mary Noble, Backstage Wife- "Ma" Perkins (The Last Broadcast)-Mary
Margaret McBride With Mr. And Mrs. Alben Barkley; Commercials: Interwoven
Socks-Chesterfield "Smoke Dreams"-Barbasol-Pepsi-Cola-Rinso- Lava-Crisco-The Longines-Wittnauer
Watch Company//The Great Radio Comedians: Fred Allen And "Allen's Alley", With Senator
Claghorn, Titus Moody, And Mrs. Nusbaum; Radio Adventure And Mystery Drama: The Lone
Ranger/The Shadow; The Classic Radio News Broadcast: The Von Hindenburg Crashes In
Flames/The March Toward World War II; Disc 2: The King George V Funeral/King Edward VIII
Abdication/King George VI Coronation/The Munich Conference/Prime Minister Chamberlain Reports To
The World/Hitler Declares War On Poland/Chamberlain Announces War With Germany/FDR "America
Hates War"/Winston Churchill: "Give Us The Tools"; Radio's On-The-Spot Coverage Of Sports:
The Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney Fight/Schmeling Defeats Joe Louis/Max Baer, Gene Tunney, Jack
Dempsey Comment As Louis Defeats Schmeling In The Re-Match/Jesse Owens In 1936 Olympics/Ted
Husing Reports/1937 Davis Cup Tennis Match; Budge Vs. Kramm/Whirlaway Wins The Kentucky Derby
With Clem McCarthy//Radio Reports World War II: Pearl Harbor To Corregidor/Pearl Harbor
Bulletin/Eyewitness Report Manila Bombing/FDR "Day Of Infamy"/The Last Broadcast From
Corregidor/"D" Day To Final Victory/Dwight D. Eisenhower Announces "D" Day Landing/FDR Prays On
"D" Day/"Live" Report From Landing Ship/Iwo Jima Invaded; Eyewitness Account/President Truman's
Congressional Tribute/Winston Churchill On VE Day/President Truman Announces Hiroshima "A" Bomb
Attack/General MacArthur At Signing Of Peace Treaty With Japan; Radio's Great Moments Of
Pathos: Babe Ruth's Final Message/Lou Gehrig Says "Goodbye" At Yankee Stadium
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3006 - A Better Road - Steel River [1971] Do You Know Where You're Going?/Take It
Slowly/What You Are/They've Been Waiting/Southbound Train//Don't Tell Me/No One Will Hear
You/Take You Away/Joyful Judy/Love Can't Be Made Of Gold-Let's Think Ahead
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3007 - One Fine Morning - Lighthouse [1971] (7-71; #80) Love Of A Woman/Little Kind
Words/Old Man/Sing, Sing, Sing/1849//One Fine Morning (long LP version)/Hats Off (To The
Stranger)/Show Me The Way/Step Out On The Sea/Sweet Lullabye
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3008 - Long Hot Summer - Game [1971] The Rock And Roll Medley (We're On The
Road This Weekend-Rock And Roll Me Baby)/Man In Black/Sunshine 79/Two Songs For The
Senorita//I'll Be Back Someday/Laying Back/Animal Friends/Feeling Good/Changes/The Same Mountain
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3009 - ...The Beginning - Nanette Natal [1971] Laughing Off The Rain/People Coming
Together/Annie's Magical Brew/500 Pieces Fully Interlocking/Iron Butterfly//Ten Plus Five Year Old
Blues/A Happy Man/Picking Up The Pieces/Finding The Sunshine/The Beginning
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3010 - Thoughts of Movin' On - Lighthouse [1971] (1-72; #157) Take It Slow (Out In The
Country)/What Gives You The Right/You And Me/Fly My Airplane/I'd Be So Happy//I Just Wanna Be
Your Friend/I'm Gonna Try To Make It/Rockin' Chair/Walk Me Down/Insane
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3011 - Paintings - Mike Quatro Jam Band [1972] Paintings/Time Spent In
Dreams/Circus (What I Am)/Each Day I Want You More//Life/Rachmaninoff's Prelude/Detroit City
Blues/Court Of The Crimson King
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3012 - Bill Staines - Bill Staines [1972] On The Road Again/Bethlehem Pa./January
Snow/Has Anyone Seen Alice/Gypsy's Song/Music Box/Rye Whiskey Joe/I Just Can't Sleep Without
You/I Must Be Going Home/Mexico Way/Kentucky Moonshiner
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3013 - The Golden Age of Comedy, Volume One - Various Artists [1972] (2-LP set)
Reissued on Murray Hill 900009. Eddie Cantor (With Bert Gordon) "The Mad Russian"/Fibber McGee
And Molly (Jim And Marian Jordan)/Bud Abbot & Lou Costello/Fred Allen-Jack Benny "Feud"/Jackie
Gleason/Sid Caesar-Imogene Coca/George Burns & Gracie Allen/Groucho Marx/Ernie Kovacs/Milton
Berle/Red Skelton/Oscar Levant (With Fred Allen)/Baron Munchausen/Bob & Ray/Fred Allen (With
Tallulah Bankhead)/George Jessel/Ed Wynn/Jack Benny/Smith & Dale/Laurel & Hardy
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3014 - Lighthouse Live! - Lighthouse [1972] (7-72; #178) (2-LP set) Disc 1: I
Just Wanna Be Your Friend/Old Man/Rockin' Chair//Sweet Lullabye/Eight Miles High; Disc 2:
1849/You And Me//Take It Slow/One Fine Morning/Insane
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3015 - Enlightenment - Dorothea Joyce [1972] Enlightenment/Love's Lines, Angles And
Rhymes/You're A Gift To Me/Soul Vibration/Living Step By Step/Core (Feel The Soul Of
Humanity)/There's A Thin Thread Running Through Us/Energy/Reborn
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3016 - Sunny Days - Lighthouse [1972] (1-73; #190) Silver Bird/Sunny Days/You
Girl/Beneath My Woman/Merlin//Broken Guitar Blues/Letter Home/You Give To Me/Lonely Places
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3018 - Harbus - [Neil] Harbus [1973] Gonna' Make It This Time/While The Daylight
Shines/Memphis To Nashville/Hudson Harbor/Country Song//Songs For Singing/Bushes And
Brambles/Arizona/Open The Door/Brother Daniel
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3019 - Butterfly Days - [Bob] McBride [1973] Butterfly Days/My Beautiful Lady/Pretty City
Lady/Strange Things/Straight Ahead//Back In My Time/Moonlight Lady/Far Away/Treasure
Song/Happiness
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3020 - Bloontz - Bloontz [1973] The Joke's On You/Jason Blue/You Ain't Your
Body/Arena/Long Way Down/Prodigal/Sunshine's Masquerade/Ramon/Light Up The World
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3021 - Look Deeply Into The Mirror - Michael Quatro Jam Band [1973] We'll Be
Together/Prelude In A Flat Crazy (Classical Variations)/Natural Way/Tomorrow//Gypsy Caravan (Ode To
Blumpy) (Part 1)/Won't You Come Away/Gypsy Caravan (Part 2)/Lullaby (Sleep Well Sweet Children)
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3022 - Steve Feldman - Steve Feldman [1973] A Child Is Born/Someway To Stop Lovin'
You/Jenny, You're A Lady/You Are The Sunshine Of My Life/My Half Of The Bed//Are You Ready To
Believe/Crystal Dawn/I Need Music/Waitin' For The Day To Come/Let Me Be Forever
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3023 - Stu Nunnery - Stu Nunnery [1973] The Isle Of Debris/And That's Fine With
Me/Sally From Syracuse/Madelaine//Lady It's Time To Go/Your Rise/Diminished Love/The Lady In
Waiting/Roads
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3024 - Waterloo - Waterloo [1974] Uncle Tom/Ask Me/Joe Barrow/Winter
Rose/Strangers From The Sky//Come And Have A Good Time/In The Heat Of The Afternoon/I've Been
Thinking/Wandering/Sunny Old Days/People Of The World
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4001 - War of the Worlds - Orson Welles [1970] (2-LP set) The famous 1938 radio
broadcast in its entirety, where Orson Welles' reading of the H.G. Wells story frightened many listeners
who didn't catch the disclaimer at the beginning. Disc 1: War Of The Worlds (Side A)//War Of
The Worlds (Side B); Disc 2: War Of The Worlds (Side C)//War Of The Worlds (Side D)
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