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The other motivation on garbage B-sides is songwriting royalties on the record sales. Spector took full writing credit on this one, and the songwriting royalties for the B-side were the same as the songwrting royalties for the A-side. He messed up on the garbage B-side bit on "Hung on You", as he stuck Bobby Hatfield singing "Unchained Melody" there (No Bill Medley involvement at all, songwriting royalties went outside), and it got flipped of course. "Cara Mia" by Jay & The Americans was meant as a B-side. "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" by Steam was meant as a B-side. There were lots of others. Sometimes records got flipped by some DJ's, not by others, and both sides charted but ended up in the nether regions of the charts. BTW, England didn't get the message on "River Deep, Mountain High", and it was a huge hit there (as was 'Pet Sounds'). And Englad actually got "good" Herman and the Hermits 45's, not "Mrs. Brown" or "Henry the Eighth". Etc. But it works both ways.

Especially when the flip side is the Ronette's "Be My Baby".

LOL! And we've all been there on these BFT's (especially me).

That was quick, and I was considering doing the same. Glad they went to Jim. And great BFT by Dan!

1 – Beyond the pale for me. Definitely not a WWFL. 2 – Well played, but not my thing at all. 3 – Now this is more up my alley. Not something I would buy, but enjoyable. Clifford Jordan on tenor? 4 – Basie-like. 5 – Pretty tune but gets to drag after a while. 6 – “Along Came Betty” from this Different take on a good composition. 7 – Interesting mash up of “Jitterbug Waltz”, “I’ll Remember April”. 8 – Too laid back and tasteful for me. 9 – Technically formidable, but to what end? 10 – Lovely start to finish. Superior ballad playing. 11 – "Song of Delilah” from this fascinating album. Violinist sounds great on this, and is unmistakable. 12 – I do like this, whatever it is. Especially the piano solo. 13 – Also like this. Good tenor player. 14 – Good guitar playing on this bossa classic, of course. But does not hold my attention well. 15 – Interesting piano duo, and doesn’t overstay it’s welcome. 16 – Nice solo piano “Yesterdays”. Great technique. 17 – Excellent technique, but superior background music to me.

I'm really tempted to just go buy a big haul of Allen Houser from Amazon. Dan or anyone, any thoughts on that? Recommendations on where to start (otherwise I would start with the one represented here), anything I should avoid, etc.? Listened to some samples on Amazon, and they sound great! Can't find much of anything about Houser online. Thanks also for the John Young cut and the Bootsie Barnes!

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Dan, my December BFT went Dec. 17-28 with no comments - it's the nature of the beast.

I never could even get into the legendary 'Song Cycle' (tried a few times), and don't consider gems like "sunny down snuff I'm alright by the heroes and villains" to be transcendent lyrics, so I can't conceive... Way too "clever" for his own good.

Beware, I got bit on this. Concord issued a blah (par for them) album by McDuff withe the same title as the earlier Cadet gem. $10 down the toilet:

Agreed, the whole album is really good, including the two shorter (but not short) tracks by Archie Shepp and Karin Krog.

Strong series overall. The Eaton is the only one I've not heard, and the rest are varying degrees of good to great, with the Doug and Jean Carn titles being the crown gems, but lots of others very nice.

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Ebay and Discogs both have features where you can see what items actually sold for. I use that rather than the ask price a lot of times for pricing.

It's a really nicely done set (as are all of the ones in the Sony series), and they were dirt cheap when I bought them the first time around, $3-$4 per disc. I bought a ton of them. They always used the best available mastering BTW.

I am not the seller, and do not personally know them, but have bought plenty from them before with good experiences. Several other Harper titles and lots of other great stuff from this seller. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Billy-Harper-Capra-Black-Jazz-CD/265022912452?hash=item3db498b7c4:g:Xj8AAOSwqqBgCkin

My wife and I are eligible, as we are in our late 60's, and are pre-registered, but Pennsylvania and Montgomery County have left us in the lurch as far as what to do next.

+1, I also saw 715 off Al Downing (a very good pitcher) live on TV. Incredible how long he stayed on top of his game. RIP.

I'm sure it's a nice set, but at a price tag north of $100 for 7 CD's, I'm out for the present.

No, it's awesome! My first cat was "Mingus", and our current cat is "Aisha".