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pressed and distributed 1,000 copies (catalog number Apple 08) in 1969. After the initial Apple pressing (and no radio play), Friedland teamed up with Jeff Cheen and issued the tune on his own Brute Force
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with bonus tracks not contained on the original 1967 vinyl edition. Brute Force's single "The King of Fuh" was also included among songs by James Taylor, Badfinger, Mary Hopkin and others on
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radio show). In 2005, the Revola label issued both "King of Fuh" and its original B side ("Nobody Knows") as bonus tracks on the CD reissue of the BT Puppy
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