• Joy of a Toy is the debut solo album of Kevin Ayers, a founding member of Soft Machine. He is accompanied on the LP by pianist and arranger David Bedford...
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  • "Joy of a Toy" was the first USA single by the psychedelic rock band Soft Machine. It was released in 1968 to promote the group's debut album The Soft...
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    Joy of a Toy. The album was one of the first released on the new Harvest label, alongside Pink Floyd's Ummagumma. Joy of a Toy established Ayers as a...
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    contains layers of cocoa and milk cream topped with two wafer balls, and the other half contains a toy and a spoon on top of the wrapper. Kinder Joy was first...
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  • they recorded this self-titled debut album in New York City during a spring 1968 tour of the USA with The Jimi Hendrix Experience, produced by Chas Chandler...
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    Nintendo Labo (redirect from Toy-Con)
    display and Joy-Con controllers to create a "Toy-Con" that can interact with the included game software and vice versa. Nintendo designed Labo as a way to...
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  • grape. In early 1970, Ayers assembled a band he called The Whole World to tour his debut LP Joy of a Toy that included a young Mike Oldfield, David Bedford...
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  • Australia A-2358) "Dangerous" (7-inch version) – 3:46 "Dangerous" (Waste of Vinyl 12-inch mix) – 6:26 "Surrender" (live) – 3:12 "Joy of a Toy" (live) –...
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  • is composed by Gessle, except "Joy of a Toy" by Gessle and Mats "MP" Persson Credits adapted from the liner notes of Dance Passion. Roxette are Per Gessle...
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    a list of characters from Disney/Pixar's Toy Story franchise which consists of the animated feature films Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3 and Toy...
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  • either "Toy Skateboards" or "Machine Skateboards" for a company name—friend and fellow professional skateboarder Ethan Fowler suggested a combination of the...
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  • "When the City Sleeps" – Bombadil "Lady Rachel" – Kevin Ayers (from Joy of a Toy 1969) "10538 Overture" – Electric Light Orchestra "The City (Part Three)"...
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  • Toy Story is a 1995 American animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The first installment in the Toy Story...
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    label between 1972 and 1974. The focus of the label changed slightly as the 1970s drew to a close, with the signing of post-punk groups Wire, Australian band...
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  • throughout a piece". The outer sleeve featured an abstract collage of a girl with electronic wires and reels in place of a torso. The US version of the album...
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  • Machine, released in 1975. By the time of Bundles, most of Soft Machine's members had previously been part of the jazz-rock band Nucleus, the exception...
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    founder Kevin Ayers' debut LP Joy of a Toy, although his performance on "Religious Experience", later titled "Singing a Song in the Morning", was not...
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    Erika Moen (redirect from Oh Joy Sex Toy)
    for her autobiographical comic DAR, the sex educational webcomic Oh Joy, Sex Toy, and the graphic novel Let's Talk About It. Moen was born in 1983 and...
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  • recorded after the departure of original drummer Robert Wyatt and continued the band's progression away from their original blend of psychedelic and progressive...
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  • It was remastered and re-released again in 2009. Roxette are a Swedish duo consisting of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle, who were both established artists...
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    Mike Ratledge (category Alumni of University College, Oxford)
    Roland Ratledge (born 6 May 1943) is a British musician. A part of the Canterbury scene, he was a founding member of Soft Machine. He was the last founding...
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    Michael Hiltzik, "No Joy in the Toy Trade as Price Cutting Persists," Los Angeles Times, December 25, 2003, page C-1 Gale Holland, "L.A. Business Improvement...
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  • Soft Machine discography (category Discographies of British artists)
    Zealand, both the A- and B-side were later included on Triple Echo in 1977, the first time either appeared on an album) 1968: "Joy of a Toy"/"Why Are We Sleeping...
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  • make a lot of difference, to tell you the truth, by then, which is a shame... But Karl Jenkins had sort of taken over and he was writing most of the music...
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  • The Toy is a 1982 American comedy film directed by Richard Donner. The film stars Richard Pryor as a janitor at a department store owned by Jackie Gleason...
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  • Soft Machine. It was issued three months after Ayers' debut solo LP Joy of a Toy, and the artist was credited on the record label as Kevin Ayers and the...
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  • 1973 as a double LP, the first disc is a live album and the second disc is a studio album. This is the first album to feature Karl Jenkins as a member...
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  • double album with a single composition on each of the four sides, and was the first of two albums recorded with a four-piece line-up of keyboardist Mike...
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  • Syd Barrett discography (category Discographies of British artists)
    Gear, and three songs from a then-newly discovered tape of Bob Harris show, were released as The Radio One Sessions. Joy of a Toy by Kevin Ayers (November...
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  • jazz, and a complete abandonment of their original self-presentation as a psychedelic and progressive rock group. It was also the last of their albums...
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