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Test yourself! See if you can identify all of these extraneous sounds from music recordings...

Brace for bongos! Bongo breaks, bongo solos, Mr. Bongo, and Buddy doing a bongo tune...

Melodic and hypnotic - this song is by a New Zealand artist who has won a Rolling Stone icon award...

Named after a type of free-floating green algae, here's a track off this group's 31st album - great musicians and fun funk for ya...

Not originally intended for release - yep, it got released. I think most people are happy about it...wouldn't you agree?

He is a Montreal-based singer songwriter who pulled me in with his live performance of an original song on our television morning show a few years ago. Do you dig it?

In case any cosmic citizens are tuning in, thank-you to you. Members of this band were in high school when they started out and, another tidbit, the lead singer's father was a former Marlboro man...

Childhood memories - and so far beyond!

A Montreal group sings about "bed"...

From an underrated album by a much-acclaimed musician and artist...