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http://starbulletin.com/2007/04/06/news/story11.html Hawaii-born Danny Barcelona, the drummer with Louis Armstrong's All-Stars band, died Sunday due to complications from cancer in his adopted home of Monterey Park, Calif. He was 77. Born in Waipahu, Barcelona had his own sextet, the Hawaiian Dixieland All-Stars, when he was in his early 20s. The band toured the islands and Japan. (His musical contemporaries include Gabe Baltazar and Frank and Bobby Kamano.) In 1956 his good friend Trummy Young, who was playing trombone and singing with Armstrong, introduced the 27-year-old Barcelona to the jazz great, his daughter Dana Barcelona-Bonner said. Armstrong promptly invited Barcelona to join his All-Stars, and for the next 15 years, Barcelona traveled the world with the band, even behind the Iron Curtain. Highlights of his career included an African tour in the 1960s during which Barcelona amazed Rhodesian drum masters with his rhythmic skills, as well as playing for more than 130 recording sessions and soundtracks, including Armstrong's hit singles "Hello Dolly" and "It's a Wonderful World." Referred to affectionately as "the little Hawaiian boy" by Armstrong, Barcelona remained a member of Armstrong's group until it disbanded in 1971, after Armstrong's death on July 3. Barcelona-Bonner said her father returned to Hawaii and was active in the Honolulu music scene, becoming a fixture onstage at the Hilton Hawaiian Village for several years, playing with good friends Bernie Halmann and Melveen Leed. He also worked for many years at Harry's Music Store and the Easy Music Center. Barcelona and his wife, Dee, moved to Monterey Park in 1979, where they lived until his death Sunday. He is survived by his wife of more than 50 years, daughters Dana Barcelona-Bonner and Jodi Barcelona, brother Jose ("Sonny") Barcelona, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Services are pending.

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Lots of stuff to rave about: Catch a Wave / In My Room / Don't Worry Baby / The Warmth of the Sun / She Knows Me Too Well / Girl Don't Tell Me / Summer Means New Love / God Only Knows / Pet Sounds / Heroes and Villains / Here Comes the Night / Anna Lee, the Healer / Little Bird / Our Prayer / This Whole World / Feel Flows / Lookin' at Tomorrow / Surf's Up / Marcella / Funky Pretty / It's OK / Hey Little Tomboy / Good Timin' Finally hearing the "finished" Smile after having known it in bits and pieces over the years was a revelation. A brilliant achievement! Has anyone seen the Smile DVD? I highly recommend it - beautifully filmed and recorded, and a near-flawless performance. I love Pet Sounds, but like others here, don't think it's head and shoulders above the albums that immediately preceded and followed it. As well as I thought I knew the album, the Pet Sounds box really opened it up, and my estimation of Brian's genius shot way up! He had the whole thing in his head and just needed to convey it to the musicians bit by bit.

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I love 'em all except walnuts. My favorites are almonds, especially the smokehouse flavored kind.

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I think this was only sold through Texaco, but at a budget price, hence the album is easy to find. I do believe that this is the only LP where you can get the title track, although it was also issued on a regular Columbia 45.

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There is a Fresh Sounds release that gathers all the material from this marathon session on 2 CD's. It came out in 1991, and is still available. http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/record_po...?record_id=2454

This is a Capitol Record Club pressing. For a time in the mid-1960's, Capitol Records operated a mail-order service, through which they offered records on a variety of labels besides Capitol. The non-Capitol records were pressed by Capitol, and assigned Capitol catalog numbers. I've seen Impulse, Verve, and others with Capitol numbers.

Got these when they came out on Muse, and again when they were combined on a 32 Jazz CD. Great stuff!

One of the true originals.

I saw the film in 1956 when I was kid - liked it at the time, of course. Interestingly, it was shown as recently as 1986. It seems to me that we were well into the modern PC sensitivity by then. Wouldn't there have been a VHS release at the time?

Nobody is more surprised than me!

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A question, MG - correct me if I'm wrong. Is this your interpretation of a lyric from the Coasters' "Searchin'"? The last one should be Boston Blackie, a reference that may be lost on non-Americans.