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14,000 albums does not seem all that notable to me. I would venture a guess that more than ten members of this board have larger collections.

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Hey, you're derailing a perfectly good batch of speculation and conjecture with actual facts! I agree that it would be a good idea for us to read the book before dismissing it. I liked Wald's book on Dave Van Ronk a great deal, and am willing to give the Beatles-titled book a chance.

Oh, I see. I thought that you meant that something amazing was going to appear on the other side! I remember Mudcat Grant well in 1965. He was the best pitcher in the American League and led the Twins to the World Series. If there had been a Cy Young award for each league then, instead of one award for all of baseball, he would have won the A.L. Cy Young award that year.

O.K., here it is, now what was your point?

Jim, Thanks for these references! I love them!

When I heard the name "Widow's Taste" I thought it meant that she was picking unreleased material that fit her musical tastes, out of the vast amount which probably exists. These other meanings never occurred to me.

I saw Mose live once, in the late 1970s, and he put on a fine show. I can see what Chuck means about his turn away from his piano work of the 1950s. However, I will always have a soft spot for what he did after that. It was a gateway for me into blues and jazz. I immediately took to the lyrics, of songs such as "Your Mind Is On Vacation", "I Don't Worry About a Thing", "Your Molecular Structure", "Everybody's Crying Mercy". Recordings such as "Swingin' Machine" helped open my mind to jazz--those solos in the middle were easy to take, when surrounded by the lyrics. Compared to other gateways into jazz, Mose is less commercialized than many. The engineering students on my dorm floor in college found the lyrics of "Your Molecular Structure" to be particularly humorous. It was some type of in-joke professional humor which only engineers could understand. When the record got to the part where Mose sings "thermodynamically you're getting to me", the engineering students would be literally laughing out loud, some of them doubling over with laughter. I could never understand it. One of the students told me that if I had gone through the entire journey of the engineering curriculum and had just taken the thermodynamics course, as they had, I would understand.

As soon as I read this news, this image popped into my mind: I had several copies of this card. It was one of those common ones that everyone seemed to have in 1965. You couldn't get rid of your duplicates of it. Simon, the judge on American Idol, looks like him a little bit. [

I read an interview with Zappa decades later. To summarize his comments on this Steve Allen show, he said that he had been trying to get a break in the music business with his large ensemble classical works, with no success. This was very frustrating to him, so he decided to try to perform in the least serious way possible, the silliest and most trivial way imaginable. He thought that he would be given national media exposure for that, when his serious works were being ignored. It worked.

Thanks, Cyril.

I had many of his baseball cards as a kid. What I remember reading about him is that he would go into an intense rage at himself, whenever he struck out--which was often.

www.birkajazz.com Then go to the Archive section. Check it out! It's cool! The very early Prestige covers, and the European label covers, are the best parts for me.

Instant Composers Pool: Han Bennink and Derek Bailey Label: ICP 004 12" LP 1969 Han Bennink had many funny ideas as designer. On this handmade cover he has torn off a piece of paper, added drops of blood, and then dressed the wound with a real plaster. (Those words of explanation come from the website where I found the album--I did not write them).

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