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TIL the Cheech and Chong's "Basketball Jones" included George Harrison on guitar, Carol King on electric piano, Ronnie Specter and Darleen Love on backing vocals and a supergroup of session musicians who had worked with the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Earth Wind and Fire, Blues Brothers and others.

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