Randy Twizzle

I was once browsing in the jazz section of the Upper West Side NYC Tower Records when I looked up and saw Dr Lonnie Smith in the next aisle. Not a big deal, but 2 days before I had purchased a used copy of one of his CDs, and it was a nice coincidence to see him in the flesh. [End of anecdote]

You've been acquitted of murder.... but your agent still won't return your calls...

My best memory of UPS was when the Hank Mobley Mosaic box was delivered.

According to newspaper listings from the 1965-66 season, Lost in Space was up against The Virginian and Ozzie and Harriet

I have an Nomad Jukebox which quite frankly is not as smart as an iPod. On Lester Young's birthday I hit shuffle and it played a Paul Quinichette selection.

No it's a guy who openly traded CDRs on organissimo.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho Mar 9, 2005 — A teenager has agreed to admit to three counts of disturbing the peace after anonymously sending semen-frosted brownies to a fellow student. The recipient shared the treat with two other teens, police said. They said the 17-year-old Coeur d'Alene High School student was upset after a prank in which the other student put peanut butter in his cheese sandwich days before. He told a school resource officer that "he hated peanut butter and it made him more mad than he could explain," according to the police report. The teen later told School Resource Officer Jeff Walther that he got the idea of putting his semen on the brownies from the movie "National Lampoon's Van Wilder," in which characters send pastries filled with dog semen to a fraternity house. The student was arrested and booked into a juvenile detention center. He has since been released on a judge's order that he has no contact with the students who ate the brownies. The youth is to be sentenced on April 4 on the three misdemeanor counts, which are each punishable by up to 90 days in detention, prosecutors said. The victims' parents were notified and the children were tested for anything that could have been transmitted through the body fluid, although Panhandle Health spokeswoman Susan Cuff said the chance of the students' health being affected would be "extremely remote." School Superintendent Harry Amend declined comment on any school discipline against the teenager.

That was more like a nightmare. This is the beautiful dream...

Here's a Jan. 6, 1925 radio listing from New York's WHN showing Wooding's band playing at 11:30 pm. Also a helpful announcement for radio listeners.

I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on.

He didn't say any more, but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

"You'll Find Out" pops up occasionally on TCM. I've seen it there twice. It's pretty much standard comedy haunted house fare, the kind of stuff Abbott and Costello did in their sleep.

From the Honolulu Advertiser. A service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Waikiki Elks Club for Martin Denny, the 93-year-old composer, recording artist and Waikiki musician who died Wednesday night at his Hawai'i Kai apartment. Scattering of ashes will follow. Aloha attire is preferred. Denny was born in New York and moved to Honolulu in 1954. He was perhaps best known for developing and defining his own sound, which became the pop-music genre called "exotica," combining bird calls, jungle chimes and croaking frogs with Asian, Latin and Pacific rhythms, jazz and pop music. Denny is survived by a daughter, Christina Denny, and sister, Judith Kane. Contributions may be made to the Live Music Awareness Martin Denny Fund for Aspiring Musicians, 949 Kapi'olani Blvd., Honolulu, HI 96814.

There was a politics forum here?

Lane never played Mr Dithers, however as allmovie.com says "Lane has been a familiar figure in movies (and, subsequently, on television) for 60 years, portraying crotchety, usually miserly, bad-tempered bankers and bureaucrats." He was on numerous sitcoms and had recurring roles in The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction (as Homer Bedlow) among others. Allmovie gives his birth date as Jan 26, 1905.

How about...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police said on Thursday they had recovered boxes of original recordings of soul music legend Ray Charles from the home of an audio engineer accused of taking advantage of the singer's blindness to steal the tapes in the final months of his life. Terry Howard, 48, who shared in three Grammy Awards last month for his work on Charles' final album, "Genius Loves Company," was arrested Feb. 17 during a search of his home. He was formally charged on Tuesday with grand theft by embezzlement and receiving stolen property, authorities said. As noted in the recent film biography "Ray," Charles, who died on June 10, 2004, at age 73, was one of the few recording stars who owned the original master tapes of his own music. Howard has since pleaded innocent, and he was released from jail on Thursday after his bail was reduced to $100,000 from $1 million, according to his lawyer, Steve Cron. Cron described Howard as "a loyal friend and associate of Ray Charles" who was completely trusted by the singer and "did nothing to betray that trust," adding all the tapes seized from his apartment had been in his possession legitimately. "He did not have original master recordings. He had copies, and he had every right to have them," Cron told Reuters. "Sound engineers routinely take home material and work in their home studios, and that's what Terry did." Cron suggested Howard was the victim of false accusations by individuals from the singer's estate, Ray Charles Enterprises, who were jealous of Howard's relationship with Charles, "which was long-standing and very close." Police said a collection of Charles' master tapes were reported stolen from the singer's famed RPM studio in Los Angles, and detectives searched Howard's home in suburban Burbank on the basis of a tip Ray Charles Enterprises received from an associate of the engineer. Inside, they found shelves filled with boxes containing old reel-to-reel tapes, some labeled as the property of Ray Charles Entertainment or RPM International, said police Lt. Donald Hooper. Many of the cartons appeared to have been water-damaged, moldy or caked with dirt, he added. Among the items reported stolen, Hooper said, was a master recording of Charles' classic hit single "Georgia On My Mind." "That was one of the things we went there to find, but I don't know if we found it," he told Reuters, explaining that many of the tapes were unmarked. Police believe Howard took some material unbeknownst to Charles on occasions when the two worked together alone at RPM, Hooper said. Court documents say the thefts occurred between Feb. 18, 2004 and Feb. 17, 2005.

This article ran in the Syracuse Post Standard on March 13, 1955, the day after Charlie Parker died. The news must have traveled slowly. Sadly Bird never got to play his "also" sax at Watson Dining Hall, though I'm sure Dizzy blew up a storm at Sims Dining Hall. I'm quite familir with both venues, but during my time there, nothing this exciting ever happened.

Kathleen Freeman?

My guess is that the helmet is meant to add to the comedic effect. A helmet is funny, whereas a baseball cap is not. Similarly the hamburger is topped off with pickles and as everyone knows, pickles are funny.

What am I going to do? I want to go to the Neenah, see Operation Petticoat and contribute to the thread, but look at what's playing at the Viking.

OK, so it happened in 1932 and the music involved probably wasn't what we would call jazz, but it's still a damn good story.