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Quiet, Please for today is called The Smell of High Wine.
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church bells on a summer Sunday morning when you come back to your hometown after a long, long time.
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Quiet, please. Quiet, please. The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet, Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper and the features Ernest Chapel. Quiet, Please for today is called The Smell of High Wine.
You can talk about nostalgic sounds all you want to. church bells on a summer Sunday morning when you come back to your hometown after a long, long time. A long, homesick cry of a train whistle when you wake up in the middle of the night. Somebody's voice you haven't heard for a long time.
You can talk about nostalgic sights too. From cows, the end ring over a green hillside. And a funny Y-shaped fence post out on the Santa Rosa Valley Road that you saw the men putting up 20 years ago. But for my money there isn't anything like a smell to bring things back. The smell of hurt core sound as the train passes a small town in Ponder somewhere in Indiana.
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