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No need to gloat, Conrad. It was inevitable that PC hackers would eventually attack the superior platform. Especially when one considers the fact that Microsoft is doing a splendid job sabotaging its own Mac-emulating Windoze. The subheading on your linked piece says a lot. "As more and more PC users switch to Macs, they're bringing viruses and other malicious software with them"

You've clearly never been to Weston-super-mare! You mean to tell me that the Ramsgate Tanning Parlour on Walliscote Road is no longer in business?

I predict that he will return with heightened magnificence. And a possible tan.

How can we be sure that it was not Julianne Moore who ran into Allen?

When I sold 18000 LPs to my old (now departed) friend, Karl Knudsen, it was to make room for the CD--which were coming in daily. I knew that many of the LPs would eventually be replaced by CDs, but I decided to hold onto about 300 albums--the ones I had either produced or written notes for, and those containing music I might not want to take a hiatus from. It worked, I strongly urge that you hold onto favorites--we all have a few of those. I also would make sure that the place you choose to give away your records is--if not with a private person--one where young people can have access to them. Huge collections are often not generally accessible, so much that is donated to them ends up collecting dust. Dedicated college radio stations are worth looking into.

More to come on this sad news. I believe he was in his early sixties. Understand it was lung cancer--damn those cigarettes and the people who make them.

I like to think that Getz had yet to become nasty when he was 21 and gave us "Early Autumn", but I guess beauty and beast can be rolled into one,

At the risk of being labeled an anti-something by small minds, or incurring the wrath of a head-in-the-sand poster with excessive rock vinyl, I would like to say that I am thoroughly enjoying Jews in Hell. Highly recommended, a most unusual audiobiography.

You tried to steal the Moore undies? Then how do you explain the undies I found stuffed into the horn of my gramophone... BTW, today's temp and humidity shows a slight improvement.

I am very sorry to hear that and I hope your mother makes a full recovery, but accidents like that don't readily slide off one's memory. Sounds like you are thinking positively--and that's good. We will all be thinking of you and yours.

I knew it...just found another one...

I was looking for a remote, so I rummaged in drawers and came across more than I can recall having! Notice that most of them have been collecting dust--do you throw them away or have they also accumulated at your place. Here's what I found, and I think I missed some...

I wish you the very best, Bruce.

Chris, you were stationed in Frankfurt? I was born there, and listening to AFN almost daily fo several years. What year was that theme song played, and in which show? I wasn't American back then, I was still living in Copenhagen and listening to AFRS, religiously. It was the late Forties, early Fifties, and the theme song was "Dream" (when you're feeling blue...). Don't recall when it came on, but it was obviously a late night show. Another one that I listened to regularly had Charlie Barnet's "Skyliner" as a theme. I went to Iceland in 1954 and got a job with AFRS there, as the station's only civilian dj. Funny, I never even heard of Willis Conover until I met him over here--AFRS was what we listened to in Denmark. BTW, I have been to Wiesbaden. The U.S. Military sent me to Frankfurt around 1957, to coordinate the printing of a brochure I had designed for NATO. I remember a lively place called Meyer Gustel (spelling is probably wrong) a beer hall with a band in lederhosen. Sorry, off track, again.

Funny, Billie never mentioned Jo to me--she cited Louis and Bessie as her favorites and urged me to give Annie Ross as much play as I could (I was a dj when she brought up Annie Ross). This is not to say that Billie didn't admire Jo Stafford--I'm sure she did, as would anyone with a good ear. Billie had good ears.

This is Jo Stafford's thread, so I won't dwell, but--to clear up the confusion--this was never meant to be an interview, as such. Most of my questions were designed to elicit from Prez statements that I could use in a series of documentaries. If it wasn't for the fact that only two recorded "interviews" with him exist, I would never have made the tape public. I know why my questions sound stupid (naïve, if you will), but I also know that the exchange will come off as just another idiot interviewer blowing a golden opportunity. If I can find my interview w. Billie--from the same period--you will hear the difference. That one was for my regular dj show, so it is an interview. Now, back to Jo Stafford--has anyone mention her recordings with Red Ingle and His Natural Seven, as "Cinderella G. Stump"? Her twang was prepossessing. I first heard her with the Pied Pipers, played nightly (a theme) over AFN Frankfurt in the late Forties.

Would love to see what other gems you have in that photobucket! I just posted one here. It's the cover photo by Don Schlitten for a album I did in 1961. A great group of players.

Yes, Allen, I have the Lester Young tape--audio of the entire "interview" (it was really just an attempt to Lester statements for a radio documentary series I produced for WCAU) is included in the Verve Prez box. This exchange may be what you were thinking of, Larry--it is, basically, what led into the previous excerpt. CA: I mean, you liked Bessie Smith, didn't you? LY: Yeah, well, sometime you pick up on Kay Starr and listen to her voice and play one of Bessie Smith's record. See if you hear anything. CA: You feel there is a similarity there? LY: Yeah, very much. BTW Martin Williams transcribed the interview for one of his books, but he did some editing.

....and 47 years ago, when I did a session w. George and Howard McGhee ("Sharp Edge"--Fontana/Black Lion)

In my naïve August 1958 interview w. Lester Young, I asked him who his favorite singer was. I was trying to get a quote on Billie that I could use in a radio documentary. His answer surprised me--perhaps it shouldn't have: LY: You know, I can tell you this, really, my favorite singer is Kay Starr. No, that's the wrong name. What's that other lady's name? Her husband has a band. CA: It's not Jo Stafford? LY: There you are! Yeah, I'll go there. CA: Jo Stafford is your favorite singer? LY: Yeah, and Lady Day. And I'm through. CA: But Jo Stafford does not sing jazz, does she? LY: No, but I hear he voice and the sound and the way she puts things on.

Perfect pitch. An artist whose recordings have given me much pleasure over the years. BTW Lester Young told me that she was someone whom he admired greatly. I find that very easy to understand.

...and many great howls ahead!

I hope Columbia gets crackin'--I'm waiting for Wynton: Once More Without Feeling