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"There's A Flaw In My Flue"? Really? That's considered a "standard" now? I'm surprised he didn't team up with Lady Gaga to do "Mama Will Bark"! And is there a "standard" titled "Braggin'"? I can't think what that might be. Hopefully his next album will be a tribute from one poet to another -- Bob Dylan Sings The Rod McKuen Songbook. (But seriously, I would like to hear his cover of "A Man Alone".)

Those guys look totally stoned!

And the horse he rode in on!

Perhaps one of the most famous photos regarding this subject --

Perhaps I am wrong about that, but I thought I read somewhere that it was reissued. It's not an album I've clamored after, even in a used vinyl version.

I'm assuming they did not actually wear top hat and tails when they played in jazz clubs.

It was surprising to me that two albums which Dave Brubeck personally did not like and was firmly against ever being reissued -- Jackpot! and The Last Time We Saw Paris -- were reissued by Sony Japan, and yet this Brubeck/Mulligan album has not been. Does a performer usually have any say-so with a record company regarding the legitimate reissuing of his/her recorded works? Or can a record company reissue an album to which they have the rights, against the personal wishes of the artist, so long as they as they pay the appropriate royalties? (Let's leave the European public domain reissues out of the equation.) The two albums I mentioned were not reissued during Mr. Brubeck's lifetime, but I don't know if he had any actual "veto" power to have been able to prevent that from happening.

Definitely a "different strokes for different folks" moment, I guess. The very last word I would ever use to describe Rosemary Clooney's singing at any stage of her career is "pretentious". For me, her singing is very direct, honest and free of artifice or pretense.

I feel kinda sorry for the model in front. Here he gets a chance to have his image on a best-selling album and they selected the photo where his face is obscured by a balloon.

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Had absolutely no clue he was even still alive. I never really watched the show, but my parents did, so I at least heard it in the background as I lay on the living room floor doing my homework, I guess. Married to his wife for 67 years! In Hollywood, that is probably his greatest accomplishment. RIP Mr. Connors.

I used that one as an example in the very first post of this thread!

I wonder if that photo was meant to be used for the cover of a "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" single.

and it looks like another photo from this session was used for although that's not a cover I was aware of before.

While it wasn't his primary occupation, Jack Benny was a musician -- at least, he was a better violinist than he pretended to be on his radio & TV shows. (And what's up with the kid with the black eye? Was he some kind of music critic or something?)

This is from the back CD cover. It was drawn by the bassist Bob Haggart.

Christopher Walken plays an aging, once popular crooner and womanizer angling for a comeback. Amber Heard plays his daughter who is trying to create a musical acreer of her ow,n but has made a muck of her life. Not a very good movie and I can't recommend any one take the time to watch it. For me, it would have been better if they had had some one like -- hell, not just "like", but the real Steve Lawrence play the Walken role. I think he'd have the dramatic chops to do it and he could sing a whole lot better than Mr. Walken, which is important if one is to believe that a comeback would be at all possible. Be that as it may, I have lately taken to playing movies with the subtitles on, especially in a Christopher Walken movie as his is not always the easiest voice to understand when he speaks in hushed tones. There was one scene where what he said was, "I shall return anon". What the person doing the subtitles wrote was, "I shall return a nun". The thought that the next time we would see Mr. Walken he would be robed in a full nun's habit gave me the biggest, longest laugh I have had in a long time. I literally laughed till I cried. So for that and that alone, I'm glad I saw this film.