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The Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop

Now-Again Records

Jazz, Funk/Soul

LP NA5237-LP£36.00
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1. Merry Go Round
2. Junkman's Song
3. Thirty Days Hath September
4. The Whale
5. The Old Prospector
6. Grandfather Clock
7. Cooking
8. Shooting Stars
9. Rocket Ship
10. Dreams
11. Blue Pillow
12. Swing High
13. Clouds
14. Traveling
15. Bustin' Out Of Doors
16. Comrades
17. All You Need To Make Music

Stark Reality was an American jazz-rock band which recorded the 1970 album The Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop, a heavily-improvised reinvention of a 1958 children's album by songwriter Hoagy Carmichael to be used for the show Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop which aired on PBS.

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