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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.

I got the first two (the Command albums) out of cutout bins as a teen. Kevin Ayers on the first, Hopper on the second.

Anything/everything by Greil Marcus is worth reading

Grab 'Bundles'. Allen Holdsworth's greatest moment is the "Hazard Profile" suite. '6' and '7' and 'Softs' and 'Live in Paris' are also well worth your time. Karl Jenkins joined the group on '6' and quickly became the dominant voice, though Ratledge continued to have good moments until he left.

Atlanta sent Grissom down last year and went with Arcia at SS because Grissom's glove work was so poor. You don't want him as your SS. You stick him at 2B, but I would have rather taken my chances with Urias there. Two bad trades, Sale and Urias.

Thanks Tim! This album was my first conscious notice of Dana Hall. I was mightily impressed! Researching further, I see that he plays on some Malachi Thompson discs I own. I'll need to circle back and listen to those.

Please let us know what you think of the second disc when you get to it. I stopped following rock in the mid-80's.

He and Greil Marcus were the first great rock critics. To me, they and Dave Marsh remain the gold standard, especially Marcus, who is still astonishing as he pushes 80. Marcus's review of Bob Dylan's Self Portrait album remains the ultimate work of art in rock writing 50+ years later: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/self-portrait-107056/

Please report back on the 2 disc set. The idea intrigues me, but Robert Christgau, I think, savaged it in a review.

I'm generally in on their archival stuff on decent labels, will look forward to checking this out - especially since it's what I consider their most exciting group (Dean/Ratledge/Hopper/Wyatt).