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Playlist: Where’s the Wheat?

Melissa Kaplan Aug 3, 2010

Marketplace Music

Playlist: Where’s the Wheat?

Melissa Kaplan Aug 3, 2010

Posted by Melissa Kaplan

For Marketplace Morning Report, Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Listen close enough to today’s musical bridges and you can almost hear the sounds of swaying wheat sizzling in the Russian sun, and the gentle rise of wheat prices as the global harvest diminishes. Oh well; at least wheat bread’s becoming more popular.

True Affection — The Blow Buy
Love & Liberte — Gipsy Kings Buy
Hey Mister President — Wild Willy Barrett DeadfischBuy
Bang! Bang! — The Knux Buy
Sex On Fire — Kings Of Leon Buy

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