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Jono Manson and his first band "The Magic Requests", when all the members were 7 years old! The super 8 movie was filmed in Andy Witten's living room, sometime in the fall of 1968. There are three scenes in this video. First, the band performs "I've Gotta Show" (an original tune): from left to right - Matt Kaufman, Andy Witten, Jono Manson (playing "bass"), then they listen to "playback" (note that Andy's little sister, Betsy, disappears during this scene!), then they sing at the piano (another original song, "Bottle of Love". This band played ALL ORIGINAL MUSIC (they couldn't copy the songs off of the radio, so they had no choice but to make up their own). Unfortuately the audio was recorded on a separate cassette tape (you can see the recorder in Andy's left hand!), which was lost decades ago. This footage was transferred fro the original super 8 film. The music used here is "Wonder Wheel" from Jono Manson's 2008 CD, "November"....recorded forty years later.