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1) While waiting on Needle Mythology's compact disc version of "Finn", pulled out my Parlophone original booklet and answered part of my question "Who is the choir at the beginning of 'Paradise'?"  i see thanks to the Avarua Presbyterian choir.  Does anyone know any further details about this?  Is the sample available on its' own somewhere?

2) In "Four Seasons In One Day" at roughly 1:10 what sounds like a choir of children begin singing in the background.  i've reviewed my deluxe edition and find no credit for this.  Does anyone know any further details, and again, was this recorded particularly for the album or borrowed from another source?

3) i'm very fortunate to have the "Woodface-(the story behind the album) dvd so i'm familiar with the choir assembled for "Together Alone"... but can you think of any other Finn-relative songs which have mysterious background singing like the 3 examples i've mentioned and are the singers identified?

(Very sorry if this is a duplicate of a question previously posted.)

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Mr. A, it's an honor and you are so kind to take a moment and point me to the audio document which answers my question.
Of the many musics i've enjoyed that Mr. Blake has had a hand in, i will send good thoughts his way each time "Four Seasons" plays in my mind from now on.

There's a video i found on YouTube titled "Traditional Gospel Singing of Rarotonga-Cook Islands Music" which reminds me of the intro to "Paradise".  And i realized while watching and listening that it's very much cousin to the shape-note singing associated with Appalachia where i live in the U.S.

Thank you so much for all you've done and all you continue to do, Sir.  As i began as a kid standing in a record store staring at shrink-wrapped lps and wishing i didn't have to guess what they sounded like, Fangradio is a treat beyond dreams.  It's led me to explore Mr. Donnelly and Ms. Runga's releases additionally.

Very grateful!

The ultimate thing to find is what the Finns are playing at the start of Kiss the Road Of Rarotonga. Also, slightly unrelated but I’ve always loved the bit in haul away when a section of ‘Split Ends’ plays in the background of the section where Tim says he’s lost friends along the way (not in a death sense, more, no longer friends) and always think this is a direct reference to Phil

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