The Red Menace

Still at large, apparently...

Metal and jazz... hmmm, reminds me of somebody, but can't quite put my finger on the suspect!!!

Comrade Aric promised SS1 a date with a totally naked big-band singer in exchange for a CD and failed to deliver!!!

But of course, you silly comrade!!! Why, even now I am enjoying this little gem of a collection: Bet it has Night Wind....I have always liked that little tune..... It do, it do!!! Plus some of her recordings with the briefly-reformed early 1950s Goodman big band... some Fletcher Henderson arrangements that never got released. Plus a 1954 album with Percy Faith. Collectors' Choice puts out some nice compilations of the "canaries."

Happy birthday to a future liberal!!!

But of course, you silly comrade!!! Why, even now I am enjoying this little gem of a collection:

once again, political nastiness creeping into other threads....... You're absolutely right, GregK--we must slap this leftwing Freud character around for deigning to make light sport of our sitting president!!! How DARE he sarcastically proffer that photo of our dear leader!!! Undoubtedly he is some sort of liberal snake-in-the-grass who must be smoked out and sent slithering into some other den of iniquity. Shall we join forces and deport this European radical back to his beloved Viennese stomping grounds???

Comrade Moose, I grow disoriented only when the song is being performed by a big band with some totally naked chick for a vocalist... VERY confusing!!!

And what of your liberal past, Herr Doktor??? Does Google provide evidence of that??? Hmmm???

I am reminded of the American witmeister Woody Allen's remark that Commentary and Dissent should merge, resulting in a new magazine: Dysentery.

Was he playing "The Clothed Woman?"

And they say there are no creative thinkers left in jazz today!!!

Yes, he was as popular as Glenn Miller circa 1940-42. "Pop" big-band culture as opposed to "jazz," although I realize that's a dangerous/reductive comparison to make. I'd like to see that movie!

That's "Kollege," comrade (or should I say "komrade"); please remember your spelling!!!

Comrades, we must have peace and unity!!! We must all bond together and find a common target for any pent-up frustration that we feel... a single, solitary enemy upon which we can focus and then slowly smash into oblivion... a slithering viper that we can seize and strangle like a sniveling Trotskyite saboteur... uh, beg pardon, comrades, why are you all suddenly staring at ME???

It's a tough call between Hungary and Czechoslovokia... oh, beg pardon, comrades!!! I thought the question was "Best country invaded." My mistake!!!

The only proper penance for you, Red, would be some kind of enforced apprenticeship with a Wall Street broker! hehehe! Would it net me a few mill to er, um, "enhance" my People's Jazz Library??? If so, then socialist principles be damned!!!

And if that doesn't work, give the capitalist pig a sound thrashing, accompanied by threats to have him transferred to Universal's Buzz spam-marketing division!!!

Schitze!!! Will this still your flapping Viennese gums, Herr Doktor??? In any event, Ms. Rice and I are just very good friends!!!

Comrades, I, too, have committed capitalist crimes!!! I trust I will be rehabilitated after a proper period of penance in the potato fields!!!

Zounds!!! What tipplers these birds be: Drunk Birds

If there is any truth to this alleged uptick in "nastiness," comrades, I submit that we may attribute it to the mysterious disappearance of Achtung Dr. Freud Calling. Now there is a true uniter-not-a-divider!!! Where could he have gone??? Do you suppose he's been called in to examine at length the addled noggin of a certain American chief executive???

Nope, 'tweren't that! She hates country music! B-) Anyway, as with all teenagers, this is how she feels TODAY. Who knows what tomorrow will bring? (You'll find this out yourself if you're having a girl, BTW! ) Nope, we're having a boy. I'll just have to beat liberalism into him. Please, comrade, that is so Stalinist old-school!!! Nowadays we prefer a much softer touch for re-education efforts. B-) Of course, if he ultimately proves resistant to your efforts, we must exile him at once!!! Either that or shoot him down like a mad Trotskyite dog... In all seriousness, he will be quite lucky to have you for a father.

As I am now 87 years old, I fathom I make the "cut," as you Americans like to say!!!

Amazing!!! Such powers of invention!!! Such unflagging creative energy!!! When will he make his debut on American late-night???