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Thanx muchly for aiding my failing memory, yes the Collage concert of.. is another good one. are there any late recordings of Pee Wee and Teagarden?

the recent double cd (which could easily fit on one, 22 songs, seventy some minutes) by Willie, Merle & Ray Price is quite nice, nothing new, but lots od nice singing on classics by Lefty, Floyd Tilman, Cindy Walker, etc. and featuring the playing of usual suspects like Johnny Gimble and Buddy Emmons.

the quartet albums with modern material, one on Impulse and one on Columbia, the names of which I'm forgetting, are v. nice, I'm sure others here can supply the particulars...

My guess is that if you're willing to put in a little effort it will be obtainable for $60-80...

Not really one trick ponies. They hit the big time with "Eyes" in 1959, but had been making great jump sides and bluesy ballads since the early 50's. Check out their Chance or Chess recordings some time - a far cry from the slick pop for which they're famous (which I also dig, of course). Yeah - I've got some stuff on videotape done at the Apollo featuring the Flamingos and did they ever jump! Around '56, when they got their first hit - the original version of "I'll be home", which Pat Boone killed, they started doing retro-Doo Wop stuff. The groove on "Eyes" is truly sublime, but an accident of timing - how could they do that in '59? Dunno. MG Ther's a canadian DVD that my library has called The Twist that has a great clip of the Flamingos in jump mode, don't know what it's taken from. The DVD has a lot of pre- and post- twist stuff, for context...

The shame here is not the $, or that it's going to Wynton, but that there's someting in our culture that says jazz has to have a single spokesperson and then forget about it...let a million flowers bloom!

Thanks for the good words steve & Lon, sorry I posted this in the wrong place, I've been kinda scattered since the accident. I guess keeping your classic in the sop is safer, but I love driving mine. The other side accepted responsibility so I've got a retal, waiting to hear how much $ I'll get and I've got a line on several Studes (what else?)...

I found the tracks in question to be maybe half a step down from the previously issued stuff...their worst fault being a kinda neither fish nor fowl lack of purpose, better in some sense than Always Something There or the Look of Love, but at least those were what they were (high class cheese) and can be enjoyed as such. Bottom line is that when they get arouns to the rest of the unissued stuff from this era I'll buy it, both to hear Stan and to try and figure out 'what were they thinking'.

I love doo-wop, as well as other group vocal stuff. Waws listening to the Belmonts acapella album just the other day, will have to check out the Moonglow's one. My little girl won't go to sleep until we sing "Goodnight Sweetheart", but then she probably thinks everyone drives a Studebaker like her dad...

I love doo-wop, as well as other group vocal stuff. Waws listening to the Belmonts acapella album just the other day, will have to check out the Moonglow's one. My little girl won't go to sleep until we sing "Goodnight Sweetheart", but then she probably thinks everyone drives a Studebaker like her dad...

Driving home from work yesterday, just coming to a stop in a long line of cars when the lady behind me apparently stomped the wrong pedal, slammed into me, bouncing me off the car in front, into the turn lane where she hit me again. Probably totalled my Studebaker (it's not worth that much) and banging me up pretty good. At least my wife and daughter weren't in the car and another Lark shouldn't be too hard to find. Still, kind of a bummer...

jamie Collum has earned my ire...but then i don't particularly like Joe Williams, or any number of others, either.

Seems to me 'the bar' is being 'raised' unrealistically, if not quite impossibly, 'high' here. And that this has dysfunctional, if not downright selfdefeating, consequences for jazz. And no I'm not particularly in love with Spaulding's playing - enjoy the BN's, was mildly disappointed in what little I've heard of his later work. Still the fact that Tyronne W. got a BNleader date and JS didn't is a little odd, maybe he shoulda done the funky thing - i've got at least one musician friend who compromised one time and refused the next (or vice versa) and got screwed both ways. Although Clem, as usual, greatly weakens his case by greatly overstating it, the Pete Brown analogy is close enuf for me - if I see their names on an album jacket it's a definite, if not huge, plus...

Years ago I listened to the above mentioned 2cd comp just to see/hear what all the fuss was about. Much like my reaction to Love, I could hear how they could have a cult following, but it was equally eay to hear why it never went beyond that...perhaps the vnearest analogy would be Buffalo springfield who also had to much talent for one band, but I much prefer BS...since I do prefer BS to csn&y, Yardbirds to Led Zep, etc. seems like I should like bands like Moby Grape and Love more, but I don't, For What It's Worth.

Isn't this the sme Jan '64 date as Spirits/Witchs & Devils (is there any discography with more confusing name issues than Aylers?)? I've long thought that is sequenced properly a full issue of this date would be quite amzing...

Glad, but not surprised, to hear that they were beter live. On record I found them v. stiff and a big step down from the MGs, JBs or Meters. Open to revising my opinion but not likely to go out of my way...

Surely the worst album title ever? Or do I just have a sic mind...?

jsngry, Not so strange, I was just having a brain glitch/wishful thinking, 'cause I'd rather hear him play "I Wish it Would Rain"...

I would have to think that "Let It Rain" is more likely the Temptations song of that name rather than Clapton's...

I'll be interested to hear this, mostly 'cause I've met Perry and think he's a heck of a nice guy...

I was working at the Electric Fetus in Mpls when the Wilburies were current and people would come in to ask for it and not be able to exactly remember the name...best garblization was "the wandering wallabies". For me, hearing Bob relaxed and funny was by far the best part...

I've always passed on Drives 'cause the one time I heard it I thought it was stiff, esp'ly compared to the v. energenic Live @ the Club Mozambique with which it shares some material. Turning Point is perhaps a little more 'thoughtful' than Think! but the're both fine.

That Lester (bangs the shit outta his typewriter) was unafraid of being "dopey" is one of his most endearing qualities, IMHO. Same could be said of both John & Paul, in their decidedly different ways. I also love Run Devil Run, so yes I do think he can still rock in a decidedly old-fashioned way, but his grammy "Helter Skelter" was at least relatively modern..on the other hand he wometimes seems intent on exploring the connection between infectious (sonething you can't get outta yer head) and infection (something that just makes you sick).

Hey, he's nowhere near the asshole that Miles could be, but then he's nowhere near the motherfucker (in a good sense) that Miles could be either.

Got it, but then I am a GG completist. Enjoyed it quite a bit, but I think I can hear why it wasn't issued initially (lack of gel and some rough edges and not quite adding up as an album). Well worth anything under $10, but probably no more...