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The Manhattans

Index The Manhattans

The Manhattans are an American popular R&B vocal group. [1]

94 relations: A cappella, Adult Contemporary (chart), After Midnight (The Manhattans album), Arizona, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, Bernards Township, New Jersey, Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, Black Tie (album), Brain tumor, Brazil, Brazilians, British Phonographic Industry, Carnival Records, Collectables Records, Columbia Records, Compact disc, Crazy (The Manhattans song), De Luxe Records, Doctor of Philosophy, Doo-wop, Forever by Your Side (album), Forever by Your Side (song), Georgia (U.S. state), Gerald Alston, Grammy Award, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hurt (Roy Hamilton song), Islam, It Feels So Good (album), Jersey City, New Jersey, Kent Music Report, King Records (United States), Kiss and Say Goodbye, Lead vocalist, Legacy Recordings, Leroy Burgess, Lincoln High School (New Jersey), List of vocal groups, Love Talk (album), Macon, Georgia, MegaCharts, Memories (1915 song), MFSB, Military, Motown, Music Canada, Music recording certification, Musical ensemble, ..., North Carolina, Official Charts Company, PBS, Portuguese language, Record chart, Record label, Record producer, Recorded Music NZ, Recording contract, Recording Industry Association of America, Regina Belle, Rhythm and blues, RPM (magazine), Sam Dees, Session musician, Shining Star (The Manhattans song), Shirley Owens, Shout! Factory, Singing, Single (music), Soap opera, Song, Songwriter, Soul music, Sound recording and reproduction, Soundtrack, That's How Much I Love You, The Manhattans (album), The Shirelles, The Stylistics, The Temptations, The Way We Were (song), There's No Good in Goodbye, There's No Me Without You, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart, United States, Valley Vue Records, Whitney (album), Whitney Houston, Wu-Tang Clan, You Send Me, 8 Diagrams. Expand index (44 more) »

A cappella

A cappella (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.

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Adult Contemporary (chart)

The Adult Contemporary chart is published weekly by Billboard magazine and lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary radio stations in the United States.

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After Midnight (The Manhattans album)

After Midnight is the eleventh studio album by American vocal group, The Manhattans, released in 1980 through Columbia Records.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.

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Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Basking Ridge is an unincorporated community located within Bernards Township in the Somerset Hills region of Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.

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Bernards Township, New Jersey

Bernards Township is a township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Black Tie (album)

Black Tie is the twelfth studio album by American vocal group, The Manhattans, released in 1981 through Columbia Records.

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Brain tumor

A brain tumor occurs when abnormal cells form within the brain.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Brazilians

Brazilians (brasileiros in Portuguese) are citizens of Brazil.

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British Phonographic Industry

The BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) Limited, commonly known as the British Phonographic Industry or BPI, is the British recorded music industry's trade association.

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Carnival Records

Carnival Records was the name given to at least three record labels.

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Collectables Records

Collectables is a reissue record label founded in 1980 by Jerry Greene.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Compact disc

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.

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Crazy (The Manhattans song)

"Crazy" is a song written and produced by the Americans songwriters and music producers John V. Anderson, Steve Williams and Steve Horton.

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De Luxe Records

De Luxe Records (later DeLuxe Records) was a record company and label formed in 1944 by brothers David Braun (1908–1985) and Julius "Jules" Braun (1911–2002), the sons of Hungarian Jewish immigrants, in Linden, New Jersey.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.

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Doo-wop

Doo-wop is a genre of rhythm and blues music that was developed in African-American communities in the East Coast of the United States in the 1940s, achieving mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Forever by Your Side (album)

Forever by Your Side is the 13th studio album of American popular R&B vocal group the Manhattans, originally released in 1983 by Columbia Records.

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Forever by Your Side (song)

"Forever by Your Side" is a romantic song written and produced by the American songwriters and music producers Marc Blatte and Larry Gottlieb.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Gerald Alston

Gerald Alston (born November 8, 1951) is an American R&B singer, and the lead singer with the Manhattans.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap Songs is a record chart that ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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Hurt (Roy Hamilton song)

"Hurt" is a 1954 song by Jimmie Crane and Al Jacobs.

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Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

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It Feels So Good (album)

It Feels So Good is the eighth studio album by American vocal group, The Manhattans, released in 1977 through Columbia Records.

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Jersey City, New Jersey

Jersey City is the second-most-populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1988.

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King Records (United States)

King Records was an American leading independent record company and label founded in 1943 by Syd Nathan in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Kiss and Say Goodbye

"Kiss and Say Goodbye" is a 1976 hit song worldwide, by popular American R&B vocal group The Manhattans.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Legacy Recordings

Legacy Recordings is an American record label that is a division of Sony Music.

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Leroy Burgess

Leroy Burgess (born August 20, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, keyboard player, recording artist, and record producer.

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Lincoln High School (New Jersey)

Lincoln High School Academy of Governance and Social Sciences is a four-year public high school located in Jersey City, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, operated as part of the Jersey City Public Schools, serving students in ninth through twelfth grade.

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List of vocal groups

A vocal group is a group of singers who sing and harmonize together with a backup band.

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Love Talk (album)

Love Talk is the tenth studio album by American vocal group, The Manhattans, released in 1979 through Columbia Records.

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Macon, Georgia

Macon, officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county located in the state of Georgia, United States.

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MegaCharts

MegaCharts, since 2008 called GfK Dutch Charts, is a chart company responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Single Top 100 and the Album Top 100 are the most known ones.

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Memories (1915 song)

"Memories" is a popular song with music by Egbert Van Alstyne and lyrics by Gus Kahn, published in 1915.

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MFSB

MFSB, officially standing for "Mother Father Sister Brother", was a pool of more than thirty studio musicians based at Philadelphia’s famed Sigma Sound Studios.

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Military

A military or armed force is a professional organization formally authorized by a sovereign state to use lethal or deadly force and weapons to support the interests of the state.

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Motown

Motown is an American record company.

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Music Canada

Music Canada (formerly Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA)) is a Toronto-based, non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 to represent the interests of companies that record, manufacture, produce, promote and distribute music in Canada.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company, also referred to as Official Charts (previously known as the Chart Information Network (CIN) and The Official UK Charts Company) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the UK Singles Downloads Chart and the UK Album Downloads Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video charts.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.

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Record chart

A record chart, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period of time.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Recorded Music NZ

Recorded Music NZ (formerly Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ)) is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand.

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Recording contract

A recording contract (commonly called a record contract or record deal) is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist (or group), where the artist makes a record (or series of records) for the label to sell and promote.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Regina Belle

Regina Belle (born July 17, 1963) is an American singer–songwriter and actress who first started her career in the mid–1980s.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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RPM (magazine)

RPM (and later) was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada.

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Sam Dees

Sam Dees (born December 17, 1945) is an American soul singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.

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Shining Star (The Manhattans song)

"Shining Star" is a popular song written by the American songwriters and music producers Leo Graham and Paul Richmond.

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Shirley Owens

Shirley Alston Reeves (born June 10, 1941, Henderson, North Carolina), better known professionally as Shirley Owens, is an American soul singer who was the main lead singer of the hit female singing group the Shirelles.

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Shout! Factory

Shout! Factory is an American home video and music company founded in 2003.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Soap opera

A soap opera or soaper is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction presented in serial format on television, radio and in novels, featuring the lives of many characters and focusing on emotional relationships to the point of melodrama.

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Song

A song, most broadly, is a single (and often standalone) work of music that is typically intended to be sung by the human voice with distinct and fixed pitches and patterns using sound and silence and a variety of forms that often include the repetition of sections.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack, also written sound track, can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.

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That's How Much I Love You

That's How Much I Love You is the sixth studio album by American vocal group, The Manhattans, released in 1974 through Columbia Records.

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The Manhattans (album)

The Manhattans is the seventh studio album by American vocal group, The Manhattans, released in 1976 through Columbia Records.

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The Shirelles

The Shirelles were an American girl group notable for their rhythm and blues, doo-wop and soul music and gaining popularity in the early 1960s.

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The Stylistics

The Stylistics are a Philadelphia soul group that achieved its greatest chart success in the 1970s.

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The Temptations

The Temptations are an American vocal group who released a series of successful singles and albums with Motown Records during the 1960s and 1970s.

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The Way We Were (song)

"The Way We Were" is a song recorded by American vocalist Barbra Streisand for her fifteenth studio album, The Way We Were (1974).

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There's No Good in Goodbye

There's No Good in Goodbye is the ninth studio album by American vocal group, The Manhattans, released in 1978 through Columbia Records.

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There's No Me Without You

There's No Me Without You is the fifth studio album by American vocal group, The Manhattans, released in 1973 through Columbia Records.

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Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Valley Vue Records

Valley Vue Records was a record label in California founded by Hillery Johnson.

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Whitney (album)

Whitney is the second studio album by American singer Whitney Houston, released on June 2, 1987 by Arista Records as the follow-up to her best selling debut album, Whitney Houston.

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Whitney Houston

Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer and actress.

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Wu-Tang Clan

Wu-Tang Clan is an American hip hop group from Staten Island, New York City, originally composed of East Coast rappers RZA, GZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God and Masta Killa.

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You Send Me

"You Send Me" is a song written and originally recorded by American singer Sam Cooke, released as a single in 1957 by Keen Records.

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8 Diagrams

8 Diagrams is the fifth studio album by American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan, released December 11, 2007 on SRC/Universal Motown Records.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manhattans

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