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Music

Hallway Rug and a bit of Watering Plants by Omni Gardens
Dripping Icicles from Lalo Schiffrin's great score to The Fox.
Girl Talk by the Howard Roberts Quartet
Jules et Therese from the score to Jules et Jim
Franz Waxman's main title theme to Woman of the Year
Your Love from the legend, Frankie Knuckles
Then we go back and forth between Joe Morello's Timeless and Lara Downes playing Leonard Bernstein's Big Stuff.

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