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Chanteur
et guitariste Bluegrass US né Harley Allen, le 12 Février 1930 à Perry County
(Kentucky). Red Allen est décédé le 3 Avril 1993.
With a high
lonesome sound heavily influenced by Bill
and Charlie Monroe, Red Allen quietly took his place as one of the most talented
and underrated bluegrass artists of the post-World War II era. Born in Perry
County, KY, he later made his mark not far from there, first landing in Dayton,
OH, at the age of 19 in 1949 after a two-year stint in the Marines. In Ohio, he
became acquainted with several other musicians whom he would later collaborate
with, including Frank Wakefield, the Osborne
Brothers and Noah Crase. In 1954, he made his recording debut on an
independent Kentucky label. In March 1956, he began an incredibly fruitful
partnership with the Osborne Brothers,
shortly after they had signed on with the Wheeling Jamboree, a popular radio
show broadcast from the Virginia Theater in Wheeling, WV. Four months after he
joined the group, they made their first recording with MGM Records, and built
their audience over the next year by a steady program of touring and recording.
In the spring of 1958, their song, "Once More," hit number 13 on the country
charts and helped earn the band a steady following. Allen left
the Osborne Brothers at the end of 1958
and took a brief break from recording before moving to Washington, D.C., in 1959
and forming the Kentuckians with Wakefield. Their relationship was extremely
fruitful creatively, but ultimately too tumultuous to sustain for long, and
after producing a classic album in 1964 for Smithsonian Folkways simply titled
Bluegrass, they parted ways.
In 1967, Allen moved to Nashville to relieve a temporarily ailing
Lester Flatt in Flatt & Scruggs. The next
year he and J.D. Crowe founded the Kentucky Mountain Boys. In 1969, Allen went
back to Dayton and formed a band with his sons known as Red Allen & the Allen
Brothers. With his boys, he found himself again on the Wheeling Jamboree, also
recording for King Bluegrass and Lemco. The '70s brought international touring
for Allen but little recording. In 1979, he issued another album for Smithsonian
Folkways with the Kentuckians entitled Live and Let Live. In 1980, he issued a
tribute to Lester Flatt titled In Memory
of the Man, and followed that album with two more recordings for Folkways,
1981's Red Allen Family & Friends and 1983's The Red Allen Tradition. Throughout
the rest of the '80s and early '90s, Allen typically stayed a little closer to
home, playing clubs and festivals near Dayton until his death from cancer in
1993. In 2001, Folkways issued The Folkways Years: 1964-1983, which was
essentially a reissue of the 1964 Bluegrass album, plus six previously
unreleased songs and a number of tracks from Allen's four other Folkways albums.
The collection helped highlight some of the high points in Allen's long career,
and showcased his remarkable talent as a bluegrass vocalist and guitarist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Allen_(bluegrass)
Talents : Vocals, Guitar, Songwriter
Style musical : Bluegrass
https://youtu.be/wXjn_sgjfp0?si=rv03NXj_5v0TRQ-B
Paul AND Silas
(1953)
Bouquet In Heaven
(1953)
I'M JUST HERE TO GET MY BABY OUT OF JAIL (1964)
FROGGY
WENT A-COURTIN' (1965)
MILK COW
BLUES (1967)
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Years in activity :
| 1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 | 10 | 20 |
DISCOGRAPHY
78t., Singles & EP
| 1949 ? | 78 t. ACE 005 (US) | . |
Truck Driver Blues / Old Rocky Trail |
| 1953 | SP ALCAR 591 (US) | . | Preachin',
Prayin', Singin' /
Paul And Silas
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| 1953 | 78 t. KENTUCKY 591 (US) | . | Preachin',
Prayin', Singin' /
Paul And Silas
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| 1953 | SP KENTUCKY 4-591 (US) | . | Preachin',
Prayin', Singin' /
Paul And Silas
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| 1953? | SP ALCAR 591 (US) | . | Preachin',
Prayin', Singin' /
Paul And Silas
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| 1953 | SP ALCAR 592 (US) | . |
Bouquet In Heaven
/ Boat Of
Love |
| 1953 | 78 t. KENTUCKY 592 (US) | . |
Bouquet In Heaven
/ Boat Of
Love |
| 1953 | SP KENTUCKY 4-592 (US) | . |
Bouquet In Heaven
/ Boat Of
Love |
| 1953? | SP ALCAR 592 (US) | . |
Bouquet In Heaven
/ Boat Of
Love |
| 1953 | 78 t. KENTUCKY 597 (US) | . | White Dove / Mansions For Me |
| 1953 | SP KENTUCKY 4-597 (US) | . | White Dove / Mansions For Me |
| 1953 | SP ALCAR 597 (US) | . | White Dove / Mansions For Me |
| 1954 | EP BIG 4 HITS 76 (US) | . | I Have Found The Way (Red ALLEN) / When God Comes To Gather His Jewels (Delbert Barker) / That Lonesome Valley (Al Runyon) / Where He Leads I Will Follow (Al Runyon) |
| 08/1956 | SP MGM K-12308 (US) | . | OSBORNE BROTHERS & Red ALLEN - Ruby Are You Mad? / My Aching Heart |
| 12/1956 | SP MGM K-12383 (US) | . | OSBORNE BROTHERS & Red ALLEN - Who Done It / Teardrops In My Eyes |
| 02/1957 | SP MGM K-12420 (US) | . | OSBORNE BROTHERS & Red ALLEN - Down In The Willow Garden / No Honey No |
| 08/1957 | SP MGM K-12527 (US) | . | OSBORNE BROTHERS & Red ALLEN - Wild Mountain Honey / Della Mae |
| 11/1957 | SP MGM K-12583 (US) | . | OSBORNE BROTHERS & Red ALLEN - Once More / She's No Angel |
| 04/1958 | SP MGM K-12633 (US) | . | OSBORNE BROTHERS & Red ALLEN - Is This My Destiny / If You Don't Somebody Else Will |
| 07/1958 | SP MGM K-12689 (US) | . | OSBORNE BROTHERS & Red ALLEN - Love Pains / It Hurts To Know |
| 06/1959 | SP MGM K-12805 (US) | . | OSBORNE BROTHERS & Red ALLEN - Lost Highway / You'll Never Know (How Much It Hurts) |
| 1959 | SP BMC 45-1002 (US) | . | The RED HEADS - Red ALLEN - Frank WAKEFIELD - Red SPURLOCK - You’ll Always Be Untrue / Love And Wealth |
| 1959 | EP MGM X1645 (US) | . | OSBORNE BROTHERS & Red ALLEN - COUNTRY PICKIN' AND HILLSIDE SINGIN', VOLUME 1 - Ruby, Are You Mad? / She's No Angel / Is This My Destiny / If You Don't, Somebody Else Will |
| 1959 | EP MGM X1646 (US) | . | OSBORNE BROTHERS & Red ALLEN - COUNTRY PICKIN' AND HILLSIDE SINGIN', VOLUME 2 - Ho, Honey, Ho / Della Mae / Once More / Two Lonely Hearts |
| 1959 | EP MGM X1647 (US) | . | OSBORNE BROTHERS & Red ALLEN - COUNTRY PICKIN' AND HILLSIDE SINGIN', VOLUME 3 - Down In The Willow Garden / Lost Highway / Love Pains / It Hurts To Know |
| 1959 | EP MGM MGM-EP-691 (UK) |
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OSBORNE BROTHERS & Red ALLEN - Country Pickin' And Hillside Singin' - She's No Angel / If You Don't Somebody Else Will / Two Lonely Hearts / Lost Highway |
| 12/1961 | SP STARDAY 572 (US) | . | Red ALLEN & Frank WAKEFIELD - Trouble 'Round My Door / Beautiful Blue Eyes |
| 1963 | SP REBEL F-242-45 (US) | . | Red ALLEN & Frank WAKEFIELD - Little Birdie / Faded Memory |
| 12/1965 | SP REBEL F-253 (US) | . | Keep On Going /
Froggy Went
A-Courtin'
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| 1966 | SP COUNTY C45-7001 (US) | . | Red ALLEN & The KENTUCKIANS - Purple Heart / Who's Shoulder Will You Cry On |
| 1969 | SP KING BLUEGRASS 405 (US) | . | Don't Wake Me / Baby Rocked Her Dolly |
| 196? | EP BIG 6 504 | . | Paul And Silas / Bouquet In Heaven / Preaching And Praying / Boat Of Love / Mansions Of Love / White Dove |
| 1973 | SP KING BLUEGRASS 740408 (US) | . | The Singer / Roust-A-Bout |
| 1980 | SP FOLKWAYS F1451 (US) | . |
Going Back To Harlan / My Darlin's Last Goodbye |
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Albums
| 195? | LP 10" VEGA VR-24 (US) |
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Echoes From The Hills - Red ALLEN & His Guitar - Double Worried Mind / Cool Water / Mule Skinners Blues / Cut The Knot, Turn Me Loose, Set Me Free / You're A Long Way From Being Happy / Talking Blues |
| 01/1959 | LP 12" MGM (mono) / SE 3734 (stereo) (US) |
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COUNTRY PICKIN' AND HILLSIDE SINGIN' - OSBORNE BROTHERS & RED ALLEN - Ruby, Are You Mad / She's No Angel / If You Don't, Somebody Else Will / My Destiny / No Honey, Ho/Two Lonely Hearts / Once More/Della Mae / It Hurts To Know / Down In The Willow Garden / Lost Highway / Love Pains |
| 1964 | LP 12" FOLKWAYS FA 2408 (US) |
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RED ALLEN, FRANK WAKEFIELD & THE KENTUCKIANS - BLUEGRASS - Little Maggie / Somebody Loves You Darling / New Camptown Races / Are You Afraid To Die? / Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / Are You Washed In The Blood? / Deep Elem Blues / Ground Hog / The Little Girl And The Dreadful Snake / Catnip / I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail / Shake Hands With Mother Again |
| 1965 | LP 12" MELODEON MLP 7325 (US) |
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SOLID BLUEGRASS SOUND OF THE KENTUCKIANS- Froggie Went A Courtin' / Sad And Lonesome Day / Journey's End / Those Gone And Left Me Blues / No Blind Ones There / Family Who Prays / Worry My Life Away / Down Where The River Bends / Hello City Limits / Out On The Ocean / I Don't Know Why / Flowers By My Graveside |
| 03/1966 | LP 12" COUNTY 704 (US) |
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BLUEGRASS COUNTRY - Red ALLEN & The KENTUCKIANS - Summertime Is Past And Gone / Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On / Purple Heart / Are You Waiting Just For Me / Heaven / That's How I Can Count On You / My Baby's Gone / I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer / I'm On My Way / What About You / Out On The Ocean |
| 10/1967 | LP 12" COUNTY 710 (US) |
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BLUEGRASS COUNTRY - Red ALLEN & The KENTUCKIANS - We Live In Two Different Worlds / There Must Be Another Way / Maiden's Prayer / Send Me Your Address / Milk Cow Blues / Love Gone Cold / Lonesome And Blue / Have You Come To Say Goodbye / Bluegrass Blues / If That's The Way / I Wonder Where / No Mother And Dad |
| 19?? | LP 12" COUNTY 710 (US) (reissue) |
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Red ALLEN & The KENTUCKIANS - We Live In Two Different Worlds / There Must Be Another Way / Maiden's Prayer / Send Me Your Address / Milk Cow Blues / Love Gone Cold / Lonesome And Blue / Have You Come To Say Goodbye / Bluegrass Blues / If That's The Way / I Wonder Where / No Mother And Dad |
| 07/1973 | LP 12" LEMCO 612 (US) |
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ALLENGRASS - Red ALLEN & The ALLEN BROTHERS - Evil Hearted Woman / Hobo Joe / House Of The Rising Sun / O'Childish Love / Of The World We Live In / Proud Mary / Reason To Believe / Roust-A-Bout / Singer / Story Of Two / Walking And Humming / Willie Boy |
| 08/1973 | LP 12" KING BLUEGRASS KB 523 (US) |
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MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME - Red ALLEN & The ALLEN BROTHERS - Dark As A Dungeon / The Mountain Songs / Man Of Constant Sorrow / The Old Home / Lonesome Ruben / Rose Of Old Kentucky / My Valley Home / Molly And Tenbrooks / Kentucky / Beautiful Blue Eyes |
| 1973 | LP12" Fundamental Music SAVE 29 (UK) |
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Bluegrass Country - Red ALLEN & The KENTUCKIANS - Summer Time Is Past And Gone / Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On / Purple Heart / Are You Waiting Just For Me / Heaven / That's How I Can Count On You / My Baby's Gone / I Heard My Mother Call My Name In Prayer / I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home / What About You / Out On The Ocean |
| 1975 | LP 12" KING BLUEGRASS KB 542 (US) |
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RED ALLEN FAVORITES - Red ALLEN & The ALLEN BROTHERS - Branded / My Destiny / You're Not That Easy To Forget / After Dark / Where Will I Shelter My Sheep / Parting / Devil's Little Angel / With These Teardrops In My Eyes / I Made Up My Mind / Two Lonely Heart |
| 1976 | LP 12" RED CLAY RC 104 (JAP) |
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RED ALLEN AND FRANK WAKEFIELD - If I Should Wander Back Tonight / Don't Wake Me Till It's Over / Nobody Loves Me, Nobody Cares / I Don't Care If Tomorrow Never Comes / If That's The Way You Feel / We Can't Be Darlings Anymore / East Bound Train / Sweet Love Ain't Around / Weeping Willow / Still Got Life To Go / Roustabout / It's Me Again Lord / Letter To Tom / Searching For A Soldier's Grave |
| 1976 | LP 12" COLLECTOR'S CLASSIC CC LP 8 (GER) |
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THE OSBORNE BROTHERS & RED ALLEN - Wild Mountain Honey / Ho, Honey, Ho / Is This My Destiny / Two Lonely Hearts / Ruby / Teardrops In My Eyes / Down In The Willow Garden / She's No Angel / My Aching Heart / Della Mae / Who Done It? / Once More / It Hurts To Know / Lost Highway |
| 1977 | LP 12" ROUNDER 31259 (US) |
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THE OSBORNE BROTHERS & RED ALLEN - Teardrops In My Eyes / Ruby / Who Done It? / My Aching Heart / Della Mae / Wild Mountain Honey / Down In The Willow Garden / Ho, Honey, Ho / Once More / She's No Angel / Is This My Destiny / Two Lonely Hearts / It Hurts To Know / If You Don't, Somebody Else Will / Lost Highway / Love Pains |
| 11/1979 | LP 12" FOLKWAYS FTS 31065 (US) |
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LIVE AND LET LIVE - Red ALLEN & The KENTUCKIANS - Doin' My Time / It's Only The Wind / Are You Teasing Me / Angel Band / Trouble Around My Door / Billie In The Low Ground / Live And Let Live / BJ The DJ / I'm Confessin' / Christian Life / Home Sweet Home / I Don't Love Nobody |
| 10/1980 | LP 12" FOLKWAYS FTS 31073 (US) |
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IN MEMORY OF THE MAN - DEDICATED TO LESTER FLATT - I'll Take The Blame / What's Good For You / Over The Hill To The Poor House / Somehow Tonight / I'll Never Shed Another Tear / Give Mother My Crown / Shady Grove (Goin' Back To Harlan) / I'm Waiting To Hear You Call Me Darling / Why Don't You Tell Me So / My Darling's Last Goodbye / Your Love Is Like A Flower / Gone Home |
| 03/1982 | LP 12" FOLKWAYS FTS 31088 (US) |
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FAMILY AND FRIENDS - She's Country / Dig A Hole In The Meadow / Stone Wall / Bill Cheatum / Troubles 'round My Door / Hello City Lights / Sweet Love Ain't Around / Gold Watch And Chain / Bad News / Fire On The Mountain |
| 1983 | LP 12" FOLKWAYS FTS 31097 (US) |
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THE RED ALLEN TRADITION - Last Train To Clarksville / Victim To The Tomb / It's Never Too Late / Worry My Life Away / Wait A Little Longer Please Jesus / Lonesome Without You / Hippy Dippy Dan / Dreaming Just The Same / Down The Road / Nashville Skyline Rag |
| 1984 | LP 12" COLLECTOR'S CLASSIC CC 21 (GER) |
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CLASSIC RECORDINGS 1954-1969 - Don't Wake Me / Beautiful Blue Eyes / Paul And Silas / Bouquet In Heaven / Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes / Boat Of Love / We'll Meet Again Sweetheart / Little Birdie / Trouble Around My Door / Mansions For Me / Preachin' Prayin' Singin' / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / White Dove / Made Up My Mind |
| 05/1991 | CD ACOUSTIC DISC ACD 4 (US) |
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BLUEGRASS REUNION - Back Up And Push (theme) / She's No Angel / I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail / The Fields Have Turned Brown / To Love And Live Together / I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome / Pigeon Roost / Down Where The River Bends / Love Please Come Home / Letter From My Darlin / Is This My Destiny? / Ashes Of Love / Is It Too Late Now? / Little Maggie / Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? / Back Up And Push (theme) |
| 02/1995 | CD ACOUSTIC DISC ACD 11 (US) |
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THE KITCHEN TAPES - Red ALLEN & Frank WAKEFIELD - I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail / Turkey In The Straw / Down In The Willow Garden / New Camptown Races / Summertime Is Past And Gone / Bluegrass Breakdown / Muskrat Song / Catnip / Crying Heart Blues / I Can't Forget Old What's Her Name / Are You Afraid To Die / Billy In The Lowground / Over The Hills To The Poorhouse / Bluegrass Stomp / I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome / Roanoke / Nine Pound Hammer / Well Enough Alone / Paddy On The Turnpike / Tis Sweet To Be Remembered / Swing Low Sweet Chariot / Hey Mr. Mando / Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / Talk To Your Heart / Raw Hide |
| 04/2002 | CD FOLKWAYS SFW CD 40127 (US) |
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FOLKWAYS YEARS 1964-1983 - Red ALLEN, Frank WAKEFIELD - Little Maggie / Somebody Loves You Darling / New Camptown Races / Are You Afraid To Die / Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong / Are You Washed In The Blood / Deep Elem Blues / Ground Hog / Catnip / Little Girl And The Dreadful Snake / I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail / Shake Hands With Mother Again / All The Good Times Are Passed And Gone / When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again / Can You Forgive / Old Joe Clark / Knocking At Your Door / Green Apples / Hello City Limits / Victim To The Tomb / Are You Teasing Me / My Sweet Love Ain't Around / Dig A Hole In The Meadow / I'm Waiting To Hear You Call Me Darling / Stone Wall / Troubles Around My Door / I Guess I'll Go On Dreaming / Christian Life |
| 05/2004 | CD REBEL REB 1127 (US) |
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KEEP ON GOING - Don't Lie To Me / Lonesome Weary Heart / Sad And Lonesome Day / I Don't Believe You'de Do Me Wrong / Little Birdie / Faded Memory / Froggy Went A Courtin' / Sad And Lonesome Day / Journey's End / Those Gone And Left Me Blues / No Blind Ones There / Family Who Prays / If That's The Way You Feel / Worry My Life Away / Down Where The River Bends / Hello City Limits / Out On The Ocean / I Don't Know Why / Plant Some Flowers By My Graveside / Close By, Froggy Went A Courtin' / Purple Heart / Keep On Going |
| 06/2004 | CD REBEL REB 1128 (US) |
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LONESOME AND BLUE - THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS - Are You Waiting Just For Me / Whose Shoulder Will You Cry On / My Baby's Gone / Heaven / Summertime Is Past And Gone / That's How I Can Count On You / Purple Heart / I Heard My Mother Call My Name / Seven Year Blues / I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home / What About You / Out On The Ocean / We Live In Two Different Worlds / There Must Be Another Way To Live / Have You Come To Say Goodbye / Bluegrass Blues / Send Me Your Address From Heaven / Milk Cow Blues / Branded Whereever I Go / I'm Lonesome And Blue / If That's The Way They Feel / Maiden's Prayer / Love Gone Cold / I Wonder Where You Are Tonight / No Mother Or Dad |
| 08/2014 | CD PATUXENT MUSIC CD-258 (US) |
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The WDON Recordings, 1963 - Frank WAKEFIELD - Red ALLEN - Deep Elem Blues / Somebody Loves You Darling / You'll Always Be My Blue Eyed Darling / Pistol Packin' Mama / Will You Be Satisfied That Way / Old Joe Clark / Give Me The Flowers While I'm Living / I Guess I'll Go On Dreaming / I'm Blue And I'm Lonesome Too / All I Want Is You / Poor Ellen Smith / Alone And Forgotten / I Wonder Why You Said Goodbye / I Thought I'd Never Fall In Love Again / Sweet Sunny South / I Wonder If You Feel The Way I Do / Wayfaring Stranger / Little Rosewood Casket / Don't Laugh / Red Apple Rag / I Wouldn't Change You If I Could / Sing, Sing, Sing |
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