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Sep 2012
34m 47s

Banana Music

BRICE FUQUA
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Songs about America's favorite fruit, Iincluding; Yes, We Have No Bananas, Banana Oil, Banana In Your Fruit Basket and I Like Bananas.  Performers include: Billy Jones, Vaughn  de Leuth, Louis Prima, Bo Carter and Xavier Cugat.

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