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Take a 200MPH Ride – Studebaker Powered Avanti

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1963 Studebaker Avanti “Bonneville Record Breaker”

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Britain's Got Reggae have organised the live music performances at this year's Leicester Caribbean Carnival.

Leicester is one of my family hubs with my Mum living there in her later years until passing and my Brother and Cousins still living there.

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Good question - Why do we have to pay the price for a rich man's paradise.

🎶 IJ Chris - Rich Man's Paradise

From the album 'Life's Messages'. Recorded in 2010.

• Backing Vocals: Gideon • Lyricist: CA Smith • Composer: J Nunes • Production: J Nunes, Flo Factory, Jamaica

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This new blog (Koffe an Kreem Music) is slowly building, but it will, eventually, record all my music history via our own label and associates I have worked with. Many things that are missing from our website.

🎶 Jon Ben Berger - The World Gets Hurt

Jon Ben's original song.

Lyricist: JB Berger

Composers: JB Berger; Martin Sörbom

Production: JB Berger, Rhythmman Records, Uppsala, Sweden

Jon and I became close friends during our Haiti project, with him suffering from ever advancing cancer, until his death. At the start of his career he was NYC based performing under the name of Toby Ben and discovered by Pete Seeger going on to support Richie Havens at Woodstock. He relocated to Sweden in the early 1970's.

In his last period, we had brought Kim Weston to the UK for her to perform some organised one-woman shows. Kim and I were eating dinner and sharing stories one evening when the phone rang and it was Jon. I mentioned it to Kim who asked to speak with him. It appears that Jon had lived with Kim and her then husband for a year and lost contact when he moved from the US. It became emotional, and I left them to chat (and sing) together and Jon called me the following day to say it had energised him. Jon passed early in the following year.

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1959 Studebaker Silver Hawk

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The Godmother of rock ‘n’ roll, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, delivered a mind-blowing performance in 1964, which was filmed for Granada TV’s “Blues and Gospel Train” at the disused Whalley Range's Wilbraham Road station in Manchester. Among the excited fans in attendance who traveled all the way from London to see her perform were musicians Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Keith Richards and Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones.

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He, with John Mayall and Fleetwood Mac, was such a big part of my teenage music scene. I saw him so many times and he was unsurpassed. RIP...

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🎶 Music Transfer to New Blog

I have created a new blog for our historic record label and music management: @koffe-an-kreem-music

Our music company posts on here will be re-blogged gradually over there and then deleted here.

Would love you to pop over and follow if you enjoy good music.

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🎶 Etta James - Cigarettes & Coffee

🤎 Reminds me of sitting on the back balcony of our London home with Chris 💕

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▲ Ledisi - Ain't No Way (Live)

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Faye Dunaway och Warren Beatty as Bonnie and Clyde for the film with the same name directed by Arthur Penn, 1967.

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Ford Corsair 2000E, 1967. This was Ford of Britain's executive class car of the late 1960s slotting above the Cortina but below the Zephyr/Zodiac, Ford's largest UK model. The 2000E was powered by a 1,996cc "Essex" V4 engine. When the Mk 3 Cortina arrived in 1970 it was significantly larger than its Mk 2 predecessor, replacing both it and the Corsair. The colour photograph of the car show it parked on London's Embankment with Waterloo Bridge in the background, I cycle along there most days.

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Studebaker Factory & Proving Ground

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1962-66 Jensen CV8

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1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900

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1956 Oldsmobile Super 88 4-Door Holiday Hardtop Sedan