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You're right. I had blessedly blocked that one from my memory!

I bought all the Conns, but replaced many of them with RVG's.

Her prime was a bit before my time, but that's the one by her I always liked, and 'Stupid Cupid' is stupid fun. Can't name a third song by her...

RIP - she was often tied to horrible songs and production, but she was not without talent, and survived a lot of personal trauma. She was 19 when "Who's Sorry Now" hit in the late 50's, 26 when she had her last top 40 hit in 1964.

@greggery peccary will do the September BFT - in fact, he has the files ready to go! Thom, can you please reach out to him?

This is a late 60-album, and Hawes had changed with the times. I love this album, but also dig his earlier Contemporary work.

We're not, HG is set for October.

Agreed, and I like 'Don Juan's Reckless Daughter' (I may be the only person in the world who does) and 'Shadows and Light', but it's all steeply downhill for me after that except for 'Wild Things Run Fast'.

Please hold off on finalizing this. I think a new person may be on the verge of volunteering for September.

LOL! Much truth there re: Joni & "jazz".

https://daily.bandcamp.com/label-profile/strata-east-where-to-start

Good point, forgot about US3's 'Hand on the Torch' and the hit "Cantaloup" and McFerrin's 'Simple Pleasures' and the dreadful, ubiquitous "Don't Worry, Be Happy". I did like the title track to the album and still will break out singing "Simple pleasures are the be-est", to the annoyance of my family. Those each sold a couple million copies. The gorilla was Norah's 'Come Away With Me', which had sold over 25 million copies as of 2016. And her next two albums were multi-platinum.

I still have mine. Absolute piece of junk, but I was so excited to get it.

Yes, amazing times. I'm forever grateful to Norah Jones for putting so much operating capitol into the BN coffers in that era. Her first three BN albums sold millions and millions of copies...

I was conversing with @Holy Ghost, and he'll take October. Looking forward to that!

+1

Random notes: 1 - The Muzak reissue of the Cowell has much bettet SQ than the DA/Black Lion. Also true for other Black Lion titles, and they use the original artwork. 2 - DA was onboard for the early CD era Black Lion reissues. 3 - I love the Freedom artwork, hate the Fontana drawing covers,find the Black Lion covers to be in-between. All personal taste. For instance, I consider Patrick Roques to have done even better Reid Miles covers than Reid Miles did.

I have dozens of their sets. From experience, it will be a slimline double jewel case with an informative booklet and tray card, with an outer cardboard case to slip the jewel case into.

PM sent on Mayall box.

Per Wikipedia. Much of this is news to me, I always thought Freedom was the original company, and that Black Lion somehow just picked up the rights in the early CD era. This was fostered by the change in album covers, where I grew up with the Freedom covers, and the Black Lion CD's had all those (to me) inferior-looking black and white covers. "Freedom Records was a jazz record label headed by Shel Safran[1] and founded by Alan Bates as a division of Black Lion Records.[2] Individual recordings were distributed via Polydor Records and Transatlantic Records during the early 1970s before the company was bought by Arista Records with the imprint dubbed Arista/Freedom in 1975.[3]" Here is an example of the covers: And it actually looks like maybe neither of those was the original cover?:

+1, but I am glad to have these for certain labels such as High Note/Savant,ignore these postings for most labels.

Awaiting more Strata-East reissue news!

Looks good! I have the Deram CD's Clouds and Tales and some sort of official gold CD-R of the first album, but glad to pick this up for the remastering and space savings. What label is this on? The design and concept look like BGO, but I don't see this listed on their upcoming releases on their website.