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Alphabet soup

 
Artist: Alphabet Soup
 

Group Members:

Wilbur Krebs, Sammy Biggers, CB, Blake, Kenny Brooks, Dred Scott, Jay Lane

Formal Connection With:

Jacquire King
  • Genres: Rap

Biography

Hailing from the free-form jazz and improvised hip-hop roots of San Francisco, Alphabet Soup came a long way before having a chance to play at the Monterey Jazz Festival. Fronted by the duo MCs of CB and Blake, their politically charged rantings flow to the background of Wilbur Krebs (lead bass), Sammy Biggers (bass), Kenny Brooks (saxophone), Dred Scott (keyboards), and Jay Lane (drums and formerly of the Charlie Hunter Trio and Sausage). With their album collection including Davis, Coltrane, KRS-One, and Public Enemy, Mammoth Records took notice and released their 1998 debut "Layin' Low in the Cut." ~ Mike DaRonco, All Music Guide
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Games: Alphabet Soup
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  • Platform: IBM PC Compatible
  • Release Date: 1994
  • Genre: Educational
  • Style: Spelling

Game Description

Alphabet Soup encourages children aged five to ten to learn spelling by participating in interactive mini-games. Players must match three words by selecting letters from a bowl of soup before it turns cold. Children are also challenged to form words by viewing pictures of bees, monkeys, frogs, and trees. A two-player option is available, and high scores can be viewed from the main menu.
~ Chris Cavanaugh, All Game Guide
 
Wikipedia: Alphabet soup (linguistics)
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Alphabet pasta in soup

Alphabet soup is a metaphor for an abundance of abbreviations or acronyms, named for a common dish made from alphabet pasta. Use dates at least as far back as Franklin D. Roosevelt's alphabet agencies of the New Deal.[citation needed] In the United States, the Federal Government is described as an alphabet soup on account of the multitude of agencies that it has spawned, including the NSA, CIA, FBI, USSS, BATF, DEA, NCIS and INS. This phrase is especially used to described the alphabet agencies of the New Deal during the Great Depression. In 1938, a US barbershop harmony organization was founded, aptly named SPEBSQSA or The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. as a humorous lampoon to these numerous "alphabet soup" agencies.


 
 

 

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