AllenLowe

for the talent portion of the program I will strip down into my tighty whities and name all 49 state capitols.

and my favorite guitarist is Pat Hare....

well, yes and no - you're right that the mastering should be right and the music should be ready. But mastering engineers, in my experience, often have not a clue about music of this vintage. But as long as they have not changed the wave form (with digital noise reduction) a lot of compensation can be made with a good eq. Best example I can give of this is the old BMG Jelly Roll Morton box, which was roundly castigated when it was released some years ago for sounding dead - everybody blamed "no noise" but that had nothing to do with it, as that system did relatively little at the time it was appplied. I've been able to take that box and make it sound absolutely brilliant (I surprised none other than Larry Gushee with this), but I was somewhat shocked at how much eq'ing that had to be done - but once again, you're right that the sound should be CD ready - on the other hand, if the original sources and transfers were right (as they were with Jelly Roll) than it's worth a little extra effort, especially since, with Sony (as with BMG) you're likely getting originals.

well, if they don't steal my money I don't care how many goats they've been with -

gotta be a typo - are you sure it's not Country and Western music from Threadgill's?

I like it. And I'm pretty sure the only Peter and Gordon hit written by the boys was World Without Love. I actually used to own the 45. Can't remember the flip -

any of it available?

interesting because I've never heard the Sony Holiday box but had read how good the sound was - when you say compressed, I'm uncertain, as they would not use compression on recordings of this age - are you referring to the eq? Amount of noise reduction? I may have to order this thing to find out.

yarb, I agree. Grab it.

I've had a few Subarus too - only extra advice I would give is to sell them at about 100K - both of mine began rapid disintegration at that point.

polka dots and moonbeams It could happen to you reets and I dance of the infidels tea for two I Cover the Waterfront over the rainbow (just a few recommendations)

Ira Sullivan is one of the greatest trumpeters I ever saw, and if justice meant anything the racialists at Lincoln Center would have had his lip bronzed by now. I only saw him in person once, but I was completely bowled over. Unforgettable (as a matter of fact it was at The Showcase). He's a great saxophonist but his trumpet playing was the deepest brass playing I have ever heard.

I just want to put in a plug for world peace and inter-species tolerance.

staying out of trouble - from now on all my posts in all forums will read like Miss America Acceptance Speeches.

more good stuff - thanks guys - can't tell the wife about this project as the last one almost killed me. Will do this one slightly less ambitiously -

and he accomplished a lot, especially since he was drunk from about 1946-1955. I kid you not. Really 'tis a pity.

well, I think the piano players still know him - and the older guys like Al Haig and Bill Triglia used to, literally, follow him around, club to club, just to soak it in.

you know, I think Bud Powell was perhaps the most profound American musician of the 20th century, and I just happened to be talking to Matt Shipp on the phone a little while ago and he mentioned the birthday - and said "Bud Powell is the source of everything. I can't even talk about it." And years ago Dave Schildkraut said "Charlie Parker was great, but Bud Powell had 10 fingers...." I used to have a recurring dream of playing the piano and suddenly sounding like him - Bud was it, probably my most constant musical inspiration. I've been working on a lot of new music lately and am back at writing at the piano, and I just can not escape the idea of his touch and musical voice. There is nothing else like him in the world -

is Sony the actual company releasing it?

sorry, Chuck, I've got you on ignore - I know you're saying something but I can't read lips - of course, if the moderators deleted personal attacks, some of us would lose a lot of our post numbers -

you can bury 'em in my back yard - kiss my ass, Couw -

actually, if you read through the thread, Rod Serling's name came up, earlier - I always thought he was a terrible writer -

just trying to pass Couw at 10,023 -

looking at the track lineup for that one, I think, well, that was always the problem with Rhino - they were too compromised - I mean, tracks by Sonny and Cher, Gary Lewis....their comps always seem too nervous about appealing to everybody, audience-wise; ultimately this was why I did not do a lot of work for them, as they were just too conventional to do real deep collections.

ok if you insist - in 1975 I was a student at SUNY Binghamton and there was a writing contest through the University for which Serling was the head judge - well, I entered and got an honorable mention, and then Serling dropped dead.