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Stanley Wheyman Little Miss Muffet Bill Buckner

rhey are indeed rubbish. Well, in the right hands, I like all three of those.

Sol Weiss Saul Zaentz Sahl, Mort

The Dionne Quintuplets We Five The Association

P.J. Carlesimo Sleepy LaBeef Buffy Sainte-Marie

Summer Sanders Shelly Winters The Fall Guy

Johnny Shines Ronnell Bright Murray, Sunny

I've always thought that one of the hippest interpretations was the Wes Montgomery (M. Brothers, actually) version on World Pacific, which was recorded a year or two before Trane's. Released on the "Far Wes" CD.

I happened to drive by the local store yesterday, and noticed all the "going out of business sale" signs. After a few years of decline there, very few decent sales, and the blossoming of a couple of good indie stores nearby, I haven't hung out there nearly as much, and I wasn't even tempted to go in. Sad, though, and hard to believe. I started shopping for LP's there when it opened, whenever that was... '73? '74?. I feel like I spent half my life in that place (and spent half the money I've ever had). Sigh...

the suits The Blazers Ben Coates

Oh... BOOOOoooo. Don't forget, Rob was a Petrie too. Anyway, I just know that hers was the face in the misty light... and I'm pretty sure I heard her footsteps down the hall a couple of times.

Buddy Sorrell Sally Rogers Laura Petrie

Indeed, and we've also been down the "jazz standards" vs "standards / popular standards" road before, and I can see the line blurring again.

One of my favorites (to each his own, as they say). To me it has a certain magic... sounds easy in a way, but it's a bitch (for me, at least) to play. Most of the renditions I've heard are relatively modern (not sure what year Waller wrote it, but I know I haven't heard many older versions). The canadian guitarist Reg Schwager recorded it in the 80's on a record called "Resonance", and that version completely knocked me out. I'm basically with Free For All, although there are a couple mentioned so far that I don't exactly "love".

Steve Young Parilli, Babe Paul Child

Large head?

Ben Franklin Jimmy Key Greg Kite

What!?! No "props" for Sky King? ... get it?... "props"....

Benny and the Jets The San Jose Sharks Michael Buffer

Dame Edna Graham Chapman Mrs. Cut-out

I only know of his persona from seeing him interviewed in the Burns film and the "All-Century Baseball Team" (which I happened to find recently on an old VHS tape), but he struck me as a very classy man. May he be long remembered. RIP.

Little Miss Cott Mister T Mr. T

Bora Milutinovic Steve Sampson Bruce Arena

Richard Long Martin Short Ed Grimley