{{short description|1954 song by Bart Howard}} {{other uses}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox song | name = {{not a typo|In Other Words}} | cover = Kaye Ballard In Other Words Decca Records Inc. Catalog Number 9 29114 Photographed 15 April 2014.JPG | caption = First recording, titled "In Other Words" | type = song | artist = Kaye Ballard | released = April 1954 | recorded = 1954 | genre = Jazz | length = 2:14 | label = Decca | writer = Bart Howard }} "'''Fly Me to the Moon'''", originally titled "'''In Other Words'''", is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard. The first recording of the song was made in 1954 by Kaye Ballard. Frank Sinatra's 1964 version was closely associated with the Apollo missions to the Moon.
In 1999, the Songwriters Hall of Fame honored "Fly Me to the Moon" by inducting it as a "Towering Song".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/ceremony/C3111 |title=1999 Award and Induction Ceremony |publisher=Songwriters Hall of Fame |date=1999-06-09 |access-date=2013-12-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207000556/http://songwritershalloffame.org/ceremony/C3111 |archive-date=2013-12-07 }}</ref> In 2026, Ballard's version was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for its "cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation's recorded sound heritage."<ref>{{cite web |title=National Recording Registry Inducts Sounds of Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, The Go-Go’s, Vince Gill, Weezer, Reba McEntire and More |url=https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/national-recording-registry-inducts-sounds-of-taylor-swift--beyonc---the-go-go-s--vince-gill--weezer/s/bc258688-e655-4ffb-9f91-f32b94956f36 |website=Library of Congress |access-date=14 May 2026}}</ref>
==Background and composition== In 1954, when "Fly Me to the Moon" was first presented to the public, Bart Howard had been pursuing a career in music for over 20 years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://data.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/famous-iowans/bart-howard |title=Famous Iowans - Bart Howard | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.com |publisher=Data.desmoinesregister.com |access-date=2013-12-07 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131207062000/http://data.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/famous-iowans/bart-howard |archive-date=2013-12-07 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He played piano to accompany cabaret singers, but also wrote songs with Cole Porter, his idol, in mind.<ref name="nytimes2004">{{cite news |author=STEPHEN HOLDEN |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/23/arts/bart-howard-88-songwriter-known-for-fly-me-to-the-moon.html |title=Bart Howard, 88, Songwriter Known for 'Fly Me to the Moon' - New York Times |work=The New York Times |date=2004-02-23 |access-date=2013-12-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219204841/http://www.nytimes.com//2004/02/23/arts/bart-howard-88-songwriter-known-for-fly-me-to-the-moon.html |archive-date=2013-12-19 |url-status=live }}</ref> In the book ''Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret'' James Gavin noted that Howard wrote the song "in response to his publisher's plea for a simpler song: why did he have to write such grandiloquent lyrics? 'In Other Words' talked about the verbosity of poets who 'use many words to say a simple thing'; 'hold my hand,' 'Kiss me.{{'"}}<ref name="greatamericansongbook1">{{cite web |url=http://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/f/fly_me_to_the_moon.html |title="Fly Me to the Moon": Song History, Commentary, Discography, Performances on Video |website=Greatamericansongbook.net |date=2004-02-23 |access-date=2016-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818092042/http://greatamericansongbook.net/pages/songs/f/fly_me_to_the_moon.html |archive-date=2016-08-18 |url-status=live }} Quote from Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret, New York: Back Stage Books 2006. Retrieved December 16, 2024.</ref> In response, Howard wrote a cabaret ballad.<ref name="autogenerated411">Will Friedwald, ''Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art'', Scribner, New York, 1995, page 411</ref> A publisher tried to make him change some words from "fly me to the Moon" to "take me to the Moon," but Howard refused.<ref name="nytimes1988">{{cite news|author=Stephen Holden|title=Product of 20 Minutes: A Million Dollar Song|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 19, 1988|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/19/arts/product-of-20-minutes-a-million-dollar-song.html|access-date=26 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219212335/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/19/arts/product-of-20-minutes-a-million-dollar-song.html|archive-date=2013-12-19|url-status=live}}</ref> Many years later Howard commented that "... it took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes."<ref name="nytimes1988"/>
He used his position as a piano accompanist and presenter at the Blue Angel cabaret venue to promote the song,<ref name="greatamericansongbook1"/> and it was soon introduced in cabaret performances by Felicia Sanders.<ref name="nytimes2004"/>
The song was composed in {{music|time|3|4}} time signature but was changed to {{music|time|4|4}} by Quincy Jones in his arrangement for Frank Sinatra.<ref>Interview with Quincy Jones. Appeared in the cover of Frank Sinatra & Count Basie 1964 album ''It Might As Well Be''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080422000651/http://www.mymusicbase.ru/PPS1/sd_304.htm Transcript]</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lawrence |first1=Andrew |title=Quincy Jones and Frank Sinatra: the audacious partnership that rocketed them to another planet |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/05/quincy-jones-frank-sinatra |website=The Guardian |date=5 November 2024}}</ref>
==Early recordings== [[File:Kaye Ballard publicity photo taken by Maurice Seymour NY in late 1950s for MCA.jpg|thumb|Kaye Ballard circa late 1950s]]
Kaye Ballard made the song's first<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Barnes|first1=Mike|last2=Byrge|first2=Duane|date=2019-01-22|title=Kaye Ballard Dead: 'Mothers-in-Law' Star Was 93|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/kaye-ballard-dead-mothers-law-star-was-93-931227|access-date=2021-01-28|website=Hollywood Reporter|language=en}}</ref> commercial recording, released by Decca in April 1954.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/929114 |title=Kaye Ballard - In Other Words / Lazy Afternoon - Decca - USA - 9-29114 |website=45cat.com |date=2012-11-25 |access-date=2016-09-26}}</ref> A brief review published on May 8, 1954, in ''Billboard'' said that "In Other Words" was "...a love song sung with feeling by Miss Ballard."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YB8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA24 |title=Billboard |page=24 |date=1954-05-08 |access-date=2016-09-26}}</ref> This recording was released as the flipside of "Lazy Afternoon", which Kaye Ballard was currently performing as star of the stage show ''The Golden Apple''.<ref name="autogenerated1995">Liz Smith, Liner Notes for the CD Portia Nelson, ''Let Me Love You: Portia Nelson Sings the Songs of Bart Howard'', DRG 91442, 1995</ref>
Over the next few years, jazz and cabaret singers released cover versions of "In Other Words" on EP or LP record albums, including Chris Connor,<ref>{{AllMusic|id=chris-mw0000175050|title=''Chris''. Chris Connor|access-date=2021-01-28}}</ref> Johnny Mathis,<ref>{{AllMusic|id=in-other-words-mw0001902499|title=''In Other Words''. Johnny Mathis|access-date=2021-01-28}}</ref> Portia Nelson,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cross|first=Lucy E.|date=|title=Portia Nelson|url=https://masterworksbroadway.com/artist/portia-nelson-0/|access-date=2021-01-28|website=The Official Masterworks Broadway Site|language=en-US}}</ref> and Nancy Wilson.<ref>{{AllMusic|id=like-in-love-something-wonderful-mw0000461255|title=''Like in Love/Something Wonderful''. Nancy Wilson|access-date=2021-01-28}}</ref> Eydie Gormé sang the song on her 1958 album ''Eydie In Love'' (under the title "In Other Words"),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bsnpubs.com/abc/abc200.html |title=ABC-Paramount Album Discography, Part 2 |website=Bsnpubs.com |date=2005-09-01 |access-date=2016-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161016193822/http://www.bsnpubs.com/abc/abc200.html |archive-date=2016-10-16 |url-status=live }}</ref> which reached No. 20 in the ''Cashbox'' Album Charts.<ref>{{cite web |author=Carolyn Hope |url=http://hitsofalldecades.com/chart_hits/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1887&Itemid=52 |title=Barry's Hits of All Decades Pop rock n roll Music Chart Hits |publisher=Hitsofalldecades.com |date=2007-09-11 |access-date=2016-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919161424/http://hitsofalldecades.com/chart_hits/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1887&Itemid=52 |archive-date=2018-09-19 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Subsequent recordings and uses== In 1960, Peggy Lee released the song on the album ''Pretty Eyes'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/pretty-eyes-mw0000849915 |title=Pretty Eyes - Peggy Lee |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=February 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180218153520/https://www.allmusic.com/album/pretty-eyes-mw0000849915 |archive-date=2018-02-18 |url-status=live }}</ref> then made it more popular when she performed it in front of a large television audience on ''The Ed Sullivan Show''.<ref name="nytimes2004"/> As the song's popularity increased, it became better known as "Fly Me to the Moon",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jazzhouse.org/gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=1078245748 |title=Bart Howard: 1915-2004 |website=Jazzhouse.org |access-date=2016-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301220253/http://www.jazzhouse.org/gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=1078245748 |archive-date=2017-03-01 |url-status=live }}</ref> and in 1963 Peggy Lee convinced Bart Howard to make the name change official.<ref name="nytimes1988"/> Connie Francis released two non-English versions of the song in 1963: in Italian as "{{lang|it|Portami Con Te}}"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/k2078 |title=Connie Francis - Mala Femmena / Portami Con Te (Fly Me To The Moon) - MGM - Italy - K 2078 |website=45cat.com |access-date=2016-09-26}}</ref> and in Spanish as "{{lang|es|Llévame a la Luna}}".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/ht05778 |title=Connie Francis—Connie Francis Canta en Español—MGM, Spain |website=45cat.com |date=2015-02-15 |access-date=2016-09-26}}</ref>
thumb|left|''Fly Me to the Moon Bossa Nova'' 1963 album by Joe Harnell
In 1962, Joe Harnell arranged and recorded an instrumental version in a bossa nova style. It was released as a single in late 1962.<ref>"[https://books.google.com/books?id=SRgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52 Reviews of New Singles]", ''Billboard'', November 10, 1962. p. 52. Retrieved February 17, 2018.</ref><ref>Thompson, Dave (2016). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=cWmSCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA567 Standard Catalog of American Records]{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}'', F+W Media, Inc. p. 567. Retrieved February 17, 2018.</ref> Harnell's version spent 13 weeks on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, reaching No. 14 on February 23, 1963,<ref>[https://www.billboard.com/music/joe-harnell-and-his-orchestra/chart-history/hot-100/song/580021 Hot 100 - Joe Harnell and His Orchestra Fly Me to the Moon - Bossa Nova Chart History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180512122105/https://www.billboard.com/music/joe-harnell-and-his-orchestra/chart-history/hot-100/song/580021 |date=2018-05-12 }}, ''Billboard.com''. Retrieved February 17, 2018.</ref> while reaching No. 4 on ''Billboard''{{'}}s Middle-Road Singles chart.<ref>"[https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1963/Billboard%201963-02-23.pdf Middle-Road Singles]", ''Billboard'', February 23, 1963. p. 42. Retrieved February 17, 2018.</ref><ref>[https://www.billboard.com/music/joe-harnell-and-his-orchestra/chart-history/adult-contemporary/song/580021 Adult Contemporary - Joe Harnell and His Orchestra Fly Me to the Moon - Bossa Nova Chart History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180512122254/https://www.billboard.com/music/joe-harnell-and-his-orchestra/chart-history/adult-contemporary/song/580021 |date=2018-05-12 }}, ''Billboard.com''. Retrieved February 17, 2018.</ref> It reached No. 30 in Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chumtribute.com/63-02-04-chart.jpg| title=CHUM Hit Parade - February 4, 1963}}</ref> Harnell's version was ranked No. 89 on ''Billboard''{{'}}s end of year ranking "Top Records of 1963".<ref>"[https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1963/Billboard-1963-12-28-II-Whos-Who.pdf Top Records of 1963]", ''Billboard'', Section II, December 28, 1963. p. 30. Retrieved February 17, 2018.</ref> Harnell's recording won him a Grammy Award at the 5th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Performance by an Orchestra – for Dancing.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/joe-harnell/3676 | title=Joe Harnell | website=Recording Academy Grammy Awards | access-date=December 5, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jul-17-me-harnell17-story.html |title=Joe Harnell, 80; Pianist, Conductor, Composer, Arranger - Los Angeles Times |publisher=Articles.latimes.com |date=1994-09-29 |access-date=2013-12-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218082414/http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jul/17/local/me-harnell17 |archive-date=2013-12-18 |url-status=live }}</ref> His version was included on his album ''Fly Me to the Moon and the Bossa Nova Pops''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/fly-me-to-the-moon-and-the-bossa-nova-pops-mw0000313920 |title=Fly Me to the Moon and the Bossa Nova Pops - Joe Harnell & His Orchestra, Joe Harnell |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=February 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180218091529/https://www.allmusic.com/album/fly-me-to-the-moon-and-the-bossa-nova-pops-mw0000313920 |archive-date=2018-02-18 |url-status=live }}</ref> released in early 1963, which reached No. 3 stereo album on the ''Billboard'' Top LPs chart.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eQsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA66 |title=Billboard Top LP's for Week Ending March 16 |page=66 |magazine=Billboard|date=1963-03-16 |access-date=2018-02-17}}</ref>
Frank Sinatra included the song on his 1964 album ''It Might as Well Be Swing'', accompanied by Count Basie.<ref name="Swing">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/it-might-as-well-be-swing-mw0000191736 |title=It Might as Well Be Swing - Count Basie, Frank Sinatra |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=February 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180218091436/https://www.allmusic.com/album/it-might-as-well-be-swing-mw0000191736 |archive-date=2018-02-18 |url-status=live }}</ref> The music for this album was arranged by Quincy Jones,<ref name="Swing" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/it-might-as-well-be-swing-mw0000191736/credits |title=It Might as Well Be Swing - Count Basie, Frank Sinatra - Credits |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=February 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180218091616/https://www.allmusic.com/album/it-might-as-well-be-swing-mw0000191736/credits |archive-date=2018-02-18 |url-status=live }}</ref> who had worked with Count Basie a year earlier on the album ''This Time by Basie'', which also included a version of "Fly Me to the Moon".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/this-time-by-basie-hits-of-the-50s-mw0000620131 |title=This Time by Basie: Hits of the 50s - Count Basie |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=February 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180218091029/https://www.allmusic.com/album/this-time-by-basie-hits-of-the-50s-mw0000620131 |archive-date=2018-02-18 |url-status=live }}</ref> Will Friedwald commented that "Jones boosted the tempo and put it into an even four/four" for Basie's version, but "when Sinatra decided to address it with the Basie/Jones combination they recharged it into a straight swinger... [which]...all but explodes with energy". Bart Howard estimated that by the time Frank Sinatra covered the song in 1964, more than 100 other versions had been recorded.<ref name="autogenerated411" />
Bobby Womack recorded a version that was released in 1968 on Minit Records, from his album ''Fly Me to the Moon''. His rendition reached No. 52 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and No. 16 on the R&B chart.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicvf.com/Bobby+Womack.art|title=Bobby Womack Songs ••• Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography ••• Music VF, US & UK hits charts|website=www.musicvf.com}}</ref> Occasionally on the CBS series ''WKRP in Cincinnati'', an instrumental sampling of "Fly Me To The Moon" was used as a doorbell melody during scenes taking place in the apartment of character Jennifer Marlowe.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-04-01|title=WKRP and Stupid Copyright Laws|url=https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/wkrp-and-stupid-copyright-laws/|access-date=2021-01-27|website=Outside the Beltway}}</ref>
By 1995, the song had been recorded more than 300 times.<ref name="autogenerated1995" /> According to a poll conducted by Japanese music magazine ''CD&DL Data'' in 2016, the cover versions by Claire Littley and Yoko Takahashi – which were used alternately for the end credits of ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'', were rated highly within the country,<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000002696.000007006.html|title= 「月（ＭＯＯＮ）からイメージする曲」ランキング。～音楽情報マガジン『ＣＤ＆ＤＬでーた』～|date=September 26, 2016|work=PRTIMES|archiveurl= https://archive.today/20210626070403/https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000002696.000007006.html|archivedate=26 June 2021|language=ja}}</ref> with Littley's version also winning an award at the 2019 Heisei Anisong Grand Prix as one of the best anime theme songs of the 1990s.<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-03-04/evangelion-cruel-angel-thesis-theme-song-takes-heisei-anisong-grand-prize/.144165|title= Evangelion's "Cruel Angel's Thesis" Theme Song Takes Heisei Anisong Grand Prize|date= 2019-03-05|work=Anime News Network}}</ref>
Richard Simmons's last words were a loose paraphrase of the song's lyrics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2024/07/richard-simmons-team-shares-final-prepared-social-media-post-1236016764/|title=Richard Simmons' Team Shares His Final Prepared Social Media Post 1 Week After Death|first=Glenn|last=Garner|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=July 21, 2024|accessdate=July 22, 2024}}</ref>
==NASA association== [[Image:Quincy Jones, John Glenn, and Neil Armstrong during NASA's 50th anniversary gala.jpg|right|thumb|Quincy Jones presents platinum copies of Frank Sinatra's album to Senator John Glenn and Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong]]
Frank Sinatra's 1964 recording of "Fly Me to the Moon" became closely associated with NASA's Apollo space program. A copy of the song was played on a Sony TC-50 portable cassette player on the Apollo 10 mission which orbited the Moon,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://apollotribute2.blogspot.com.au/2006_04_01_archive.html |title=Lunar Collections: April 2006 |website=Apollotribute2.blogspot.com.au |date=2006-04-13 |access-date=2016-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807133829/http://apollotribute2.blogspot.com.au/2006_04_01_archive.html |archive-date=2016-08-07 |url-status=live }}</ref> and also on Apollo 11 before the first landing on the Moon.<ref>[https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/12/mickey-kapp-apollo-11-astro-mixtapes Music on the Moon: Meet Mickey Kapp, Master of Apollo 11's Astro-Mixtapes]</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Diane K. Shah|title=On Q|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 18, 1990|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/18/magazine/on-q.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|access-date=1 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220224931/http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/18/magazine/on-q.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|archive-date=2013-12-20|url-status=live}}</ref> The song's association with Apollo 11 was reprised many years later when Diana Krall sang it at the mission's 40th anniversary commemoration ceremony,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/twan_07_24_09.html |title=NASA - NASA TV's This Week @NASA, July 24 |website=Nasa.gov |date=2009-07-24 |access-date=2016-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809182616/http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/twan_07_24_09.html |archive-date=2016-08-09 |url-status=live }}</ref> and also for mission commander Neil Armstrong's memorial service in 2012.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19592669 |title=Neil Armstrong remembered at public memorial |work=BBC News |date=September 13, 2012 |access-date=2016-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729205902/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19592669 |archive-date=2016-07-29 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Certifications== ===Frank Sinatra's version=== {{Certification Table Top}} {{Certification Table Entry|region=Denmark|award=Gold|type=single|artist=Frank Sinatra|title=Fly Me to the Moon|certyear=2021|id=10122|access-date=September 25, 2021}} {{Certification Table Entry|region=Italy|award=Gold|type=single|artist=Frank Sinatra|title=Fly Me to the Moon|certyear=2021|id=8122|access-date=February 17, 2021}} {{Certification Table Entry|region=New Zealand|award=Platinum|type=single|artist=Frank Sinatra|title=Fly Me to the Moon|certyear=2022|source=radioscope|access-date=January 13, 2025}} {{Certification Table Entry|region=Spain|award=Platinum|type=single|artist=Frank Sinatra|title=Fly Me to the Moon|certyear=2024|id=frank-sinatra-fly-me-to-the-moon|access-date=April 13, 2025}} {{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|award=Platinum|type=single|artist=Frank Sinatra|title=Fly Me to the Moon|relyear=2004|certyear=2023|id=2321-823-1|access-date=August 25, 2023}} {{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true|noshipments=true|streaming=true}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.ascapfoundation.org/playback/2011/06/foundation/bart_howard.aspx?presentation=foundation ASCAP Foundation: Bart Howard Provides A Musical Gift] * [https://www.jazzguitar.be/blog/fly-me-to-the-moon-chords/ Fly Me to the Moon Chord Study for Guitar] * {{YouTube|5zMvsW4Fn3M|"Westlife - Fly Me To The Moon (Official Video)"}}
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