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You'll be pleased with it.

Rereading this classic:

Good for reading time on a snowy Sunday afternoon.

Sounds good.

First 10 tracks are a live later with James trio. Tracks 11 and 12 are with Diz's group from early on. I have the Laserlight of this. It's pleasant enough but absolutely not essential, even for Sassy fans (I'm a big one).

Windows Media Player can be used to do it if you have a Windows PC and a CD/DVD drive on it. PM me and I can help more. If you don't have the right equipment, and If your track is something you think I might have in my collection, I can rip it for you and disqualify myself from ID'ing the track.

I have the individual albums, got this for the convenience of having all the hits in one place and the remastering. She had probably the strongest top 40 run (qualitywise) of any artist in the mid-60's.

Start here:

Telling that it did not show up on the Milestone box 30 years ago.

Thanks! Same here.

I've found "Love Makes Sweet Music" hard to track down over the years, have it on the big Rubble collection. Don't have "Feelin Reelin' Squeelin", but can live just fine without it, as it's never done a thing for me. The early stuff and the first two legit albums are fascinating, very different than what came after.

Two singles, it looks like, this one came out in 1966. Keely Smith could really sing when in her element, but seemed like a relic of a previous age by then, though she wasn't 40 yet. Of that era, I've heard her Beatles album, and was not impressed, as she and the producer did not seem to have a feel for the material. And I'm not impressed with her "One Less Bell", or with Rosemary Clooney's. Give me the Dionne Warwick or Marilyn McCoo/Fifth Dimension versions.

With Charles Davis. Pretty obscure album at this point

They would be good "Felser cuts" for your BFT's!

Turns out I have some of Carrol's earlier work on some Sebastian Whittaker CD's that I got decades ago at a book outlet somewhere. Haven't listened to them in 20 years, spinning them now, and they're pretty great. I had stuck them on my keeper shelves and basically forgot about them. @JSngry , was Whittaker also someone down in your neck of the woods? Any thoughts on his recordings?

Yes, Dan, all credit due to you, thanks! Great album!

Thanks! I really appreciate his playing, a recent discovery. Thanks so much, $4.99! Ordered a couple more discs he's on from there. Free shipping, can't wait to get these!

Had no idea, thanks for the heads up! Love me some of those great Crystals records, some of the big hits with Brooks on lead vocals ("Uptown", "Da Doo Ron Ron", "Then He Kissed Me"), and the ringer gigantic hit ("He's a Rebel") with the magnificent Darlene Love emoting the vocals

Please let me know if you have a lead on where I can pick up this CD at a reasonable price or trade, thanks!

Having a blast discovering the unknown-to-me groups on this one, which I have never seen before, thanks so much! Now I'm motivated to track down an affordable CD of the Fort Mudge Memorial Dump, sampled on here!!

Yes it was. What a great time capsule it has proven to be - wish they would put out CD's of some of those old samplers on Columbia, Warner-Reprise, and Impulse. Agreed on Ratledge. I'm partial to SM3 and SM4, like Elton Dean and Hugh Hopper and Robert Wyatt a lot.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/arts/music/strata-east-records-jazz-music.html Just starting to read this now, but anything that draws widespread attention to the label at this late date has to be a good thing. Now if we could just get CD reissues for the Jazz Contemporaries 'Reasons In Tonality' and the Mtume 'Alkebu-lan, sets, as well as some of the other gems the label released in the 70's!

The turning wheel was #1. I bought it for like $.57 from Woolworth's in East Liberty, and #2 later on from a dollar record store in Philly. I had been exposed to them through an excerpt of "Out-Bloody-Rageous" on a fabulous Columbia sampler called 'Different Strokes'. I picked up Soft Machine III shortly after picking up #1 (2 LPs for the price of 1, easy call), and have been with their releases ever since.