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Clean-up.

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Spider of Destiny at 19:30, 14 December 2010

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Emdebe at 21:51, 24 September 2005

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Emdebe at 18:20, 9 May 2005

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[[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)]]

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-[[The Paragons]] were an American doowop group, best known for their songs ''"Florence" (1957), "Let's Start All Over Again" (1957)'' and ''"Twilight" (1958)''.
+[[File:The Paragons.jpg|350px|thumb|right|The Paragons.]]
-''"The Paragons Meet The Jesters" (1959)'', with its street gang cover and vocal duels inspired by doo-wop's street corner singing battles and live show group competitions, was "one of the first rock and roll compilation LPs" (Warner: 231) and the most commercially successful doo wop compilation ever released. (Warner: 270)
+'''The Paragons''' were an American doo-wop group, best known for their songs ''"Florence" (1957), "Let's Start All Over Again" (1957)'' and ''"Twilight" (1958)''.
-Zappa played ''"Twilight"'' and ''"Florence"'' on [[KSAN, San Francisco]] and ''"Let's Start All Over Again"'' in [[WLIR, Long Island]] and [[WSTM, Chicago]].
+''"The Paragons Meet The Jesters" (1959)'', with its street gang cover and vocal duels inspired by doo-wop's street corner singing battles and live show group competitions, was "one of the first rock and roll compilation LPs" (Warner: 231) and the most commercially successful doo-wop compilation ever released. (Warner: 270).
-In [[Stern Words In Knightsbridge]] Zappa called ''"Let's Start All Over Again"'' one of his favorite songs. And in [[Faves, Raves And Composers In Their Graves]] he said about the song: ''"Also prototypical and it has the unmitigated audacity to have the most moronic piano section I ever heard on any record – and it repeats it often enough to convince me that it's deliberate."''
+==Frank Zappa and The Paragons==
-[[Wikipedia:Winley Records|Wikipedia article about Winley Records, where some information about The Paragons can be found]]
+Zappa played ''"Twilight"'' and ''"Florence"'' by The Paragons on [[KSAN, San Francisco]] (10 November 1968) and ''"Let's Start All Over Again"'' on [[WSTM, Chicago]] (21 November 1974).  and [[WLIR, Long Island]] (20 December 1979).
 [[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)|Paragons, The]]
 [[Category:Doo-wop and R&B Artists|Paragons, The]]
 [[Category:Favorite Artists|Paragons, The]]

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 In [[Stern Words In Knightsbridge]] Zappa called ''"Let's Start All Over Again"'' one of his favorite songs. And in [[Faves, Raves And Composers In Their Graves]] he said about the song: ''"Also prototypical and it has the unmitigated audacity to have the most moronic piano section I ever heard on any record – and it repeats it often enough to convince me that it's deliberate."''
-[[Wikipedia:Winley Records|Wikipedia article about Winley Records were some information about The Paragons can be found]]
+[[Wikipedia:Winley Records|Wikipedia article about Winley Records, where some information about The Paragons can be found]]
 [[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)|Paragons, The]]
 [[Category:Doo-wop and R&B Artists|Paragons, The]]
 [[Category:Favorite Artists|Paragons, The]]

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 Zappa played ''"Twilight"'' and ''"Florence"'' on [[KSAN, San Francisco]] and ''"Let's Start All Over Again"'' in [[WLIR, Long Island]] and [[WSTM, Chicago]].
-In [[Stern Words In Knightsbridge]] Zappa called ''"Let's Start All Over Again"'' one of his favorite songs in [[Faves, Raves And Composers In Their Graves]] he said about the song: ''"Also prototypical and it has the unmitigated audacity to have the most moronic piano section I ever heard on any record – and it repeats it often enough to convince me that it's deliberate."''
+In [[Stern Words In Knightsbridge]] Zappa called ''"Let's Start All Over Again"'' one of his favorite songs. And in [[Faves, Raves And Composers In Their Graves]] he said about the song: ''"Also prototypical and it has the unmitigated audacity to have the most moronic piano section I ever heard on any record – and it repeats it often enough to convince me that it's deliberate."''
 [[Wikipedia:Winley Records|Wikipedia article about Winley Records were some information about The Paragons can be found]]

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-American doowop group.
+[[The Paragons]] were an American doowop group, best known for their songs ''"Florence" (1957), "Let's Start All Over Again" (1957)'' and ''"Twilight" (1958)''.
-Zappa played "Twilight" and "Florence" on [[KSAN, San Francisco]].
+''"The Paragons Meet The Jesters" (1959)'', with its street gang cover and vocal duels inspired by doo-wop's street corner singing battles and live show group competitions, was "one of the first rock and roll compilation LPs" (Warner: 231) and the most commercially successful doo wop compilation ever released. (Warner: 270)
 [[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)|Paragons, The]]
 [[Category:Doo-wop and R&B Artists|Paragons, The]]

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