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Agree with you about most falsetto's, including Christie's (MArvin Gaye's otoh, that is the voice of an angel, even if not in the body of one), but for me, the genius of "Lightnin' Strikes" is how there's really three voices at work here, all Christie's. You got the "I'll be good. I WANT to be good" voice, then the "hey, looky there looky THERE voice", and then - and only then, do you get to the falsetto, the voice of the priapic horndog thrusting away. It's throughly, carefully, and quite intentially planned to roll out like that, and even more unsettling is how, after the chorus, after the guitar solo, that's a logical place musically and clock-wise for a fade out, but NO - it comes back right to a wedding day, there's a chapel in the pines, hello bells and gowns RIGHT THERE, but nope, not gonna happen, this motherfucker is flat out saying I AM A DOG I WILL FUCK ANYTHING THAT MOVES EVEN FIVE MINUTES BEFORE OUR WEDDING. It's some dark shit, really, much more dark than "Rhapsody In The Rain" which is just about two kids fucking in a car. But "Lightin' Strikes" is some disturbed shit masterfully executed (the female chorus who keeps saying "STOP" once his glands get to working, those are there for percussive punctuation, voice of conscience contrast, and most importantly, WOMEN SAYING NO LOU PLEASE DON'T DO THIS TO ME, DON'T DO THIS TO US, yet the dog just keeps on going, he can't stop, he WON'T stop. And everybody knows it. Dog gonna be dog, ya' know? And if you want a dog for a boyfriend/husband, here your's is. That might even be an overdubbed Christie making those "Stops", in which case, oh, that's even worse, you know you're being a dog, you know it's wrong, but you can't stop - WON'T stop. Are you a misogynist in particular, or just a self-loathing sociopath in general? So yeah, Lou Christie, usually a skillful clever quantity surrounded by excellent craftworks, but in "Lightnin' Strikes" we have, really, one of the darkest, most cynical, and soul-crushing pop records of the 20th Century disguised, quite masterfully, as a cheery ride on the roller coaster at the Sate Fair. In fact, one wonders if one is in fact nothing more than the other, if American personal relationships = cheap carnie rides. THAT, Dear Friends, is American Pop Music at one of its bests.

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But what about Lou Christie? Chicks dug it because they fantasied about being on the receiving end of one or both of the guy's impulses, just DO ME LOU, WITH OR WITHOUT A RING ON MY HAND, regular dudes dug it because, yeah, that's the them they either are or would like to be, a cute begging dog-puppy who gets it both ways, OH YEAH BABY YES I WILL DO YOU WITH AND/OR WITHOUT A RING ON ANYBODY'S HAND, but, REAL MEN & REAL WOMEN dug it because of the bari part (and many other such things that have nothing to do with doing anybody or their rings), and to them, the real hero is Charlie Calello, and/because sooner or later they will get around to reading the label or its modern-day equivalent. But yeah, that Gary Puckett cat, pure bullshit, and pedophillic bullshit at that. That dude was a nightmare. Shoulda never happened, one of the failures of character of the music industry, all-time failure. Yes music industry, you have raped generations and you have cheapened so many lives, but we love you anyway...EXCEPT for shit like Gary Puckett. SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED. But you can't forget that it happened, so you just...learn the difference between Gary Puckett & Lou Christie, and thank god for Charlie Calello and bari parts on teen pop records and other such meaning(ful)(less) miscellany. There should always be room for that in life, or even three tenors and three baris, Little Richard to the extreme, like on "Savoy Truffle", to bring things full circle, more or less, sorta/kinda.

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Yeah, I mean, ok, the UK mixes are the originals, and now that I've lived with them, I consider them "definitive" as far as the music goes. But as far as how that music sounds, hey, don't expect me to unlearn what, 20+ years of aural memory. What, just tell myself that everything I heard never really happened?. What kind of retro-revisionist brainwashing is that? For that matter, don't play whatever mix it is of "Satisfaction" where you can hear the organ part loudly and clearly on STEREO FM oldies station and expect me to just act like nothing's wrong with that. I think all pre-New Wave (not Punk) pop music should be required by law to be played only on AM radio, and only on vinyl/shellac, and only LPs when that's all there was. Rock them 78s , rock them 45s, non-stop, day and night, higher RPMs, wider grooves, and (for a truly great 45) compressed so dam much that it punch you in the jaw so hard every time you get back up that you keep getting back up. Especially on R&B records with saxophones (plural), especially those made in New Orleans. Hell yeah. That's what those records sound like, and if you've lived with the records, you know that - what the records sound like - that's a whole 'nother thing than what the music is. As a practical matter, I jest. But in my heart, I know I'm right. Vote for me with both absolute confidence and an unshakeable sense of impending dread. Either way, you're right!

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So what is this, they used UK mixes on this new American albums set? All kinds of wrong if so. I just ordered the two Capitol albums boxes for fear of getting bit in the but for procrastinating. I don't want/need (and have never wanted/needed) The Beatles Story, have A Hard Day's Night & Revolver (American & UK) on LP from back in the day, so we are good now with all that. Actually have a lot of it from LPs from back in the day, but have either lost or overplayed my favorites. Mainly just want to hear a proper mono The Beatles Second Album, the first LP I ever bought, and still one of the great Rock & Roll albums as it stood, in its own form (I think of it as "the Ringo album" because that's what it is, Ringo's all up in everybody's ass on that one, start to finish, even some schlocky-pop like "Devil In Her Heart", Ringo got them kick-fills that hit HARD, yeah, RINGO, the little girls don't know, but the men all understand, and so did Tony Williams). In fact, I might break it down into two CDs so that I can get up to change sides - or let the same side play over and over and over. The rush from hearing Side Two begin cold with "Long Tall Sally", hey. UK mixes? Really?

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Maybe Rich Perry doesn't have any leader albums available on CD Baby. They're all on Steeplechase, right?

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Wow, yes, it's there in the jacket...they pretty much buried it there!

I like that a lot.

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The video is all Wilkerson, as for the CD/DL, there are samples, but I don't think there's overlap with the video. but they should be easy to tell apart.

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The church I visit when I attend presents a vast array of music of all varieties played on all instruments. They have a bigass organ which they'll use as needed. same with choirs and orchestras. I can't say that any of it is done earth-shatteringly well, though. It's a suburban Methodist church in an affluent (enough) area and the players are members as much as possible. Some are better than others, and the efforts are always sincere and appreciated, but...it's a five minute walk from the house, so hey. The organist is a pro, though, but she gotsta play to the room, ya' know? The main choir, though, I've heard them deal with some nice literature at a very nice level. Not "pro", but when it comes to "in context", that's not the standard, necessarily. They did very, very well, I'll put it like that. Gospel music...I went to T.D. Jakes' Potter's house a few times, specifically because I had gotten a tip about one of the singers that was then singing there. She was indeed fine, but that was at least as much show-business as it was context (or maybe that's one and the same for a gig like that...not for me to say). I can still hear local live broadcasts from what are basically storefront churches, but have never attended any of them, just because...why would I? For entertainment? For sociology? To hang out and feel good about myself? Not there, not for that, not like that, no, not unless I was invited, and the way my life is now, it'll have to take some more evolvements before that opportunity ever again presents itself. But who knows? I still have many years left, hopefully, and there are no guarantees in life, therefore predictions are pretty much...whatever). Stuff happens. If an invitation should be extended, I will accept. Same with Hebraic, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, any other faiths that have a music (and where I live now, there are any number of places to go for them all). I'm open to hearing anything in context, but some contexts I will not insert myself into without being invited, and "religious" ones are very much at the top of the list of such things. I've actually been asking around to some of my Jewish friends to see if any of their congregations have a really kickass cantor, and the best I've gotten is that one guy said that the synagogue he attended as a kid, in Houston, had an old guy who could make your body rattle with his low notes. But he's dead now, and nobody seems to really think about it these days. Sign of the times, perhaps. But anyway, Houston, home of obscure Don Wilkerson gig videos and a dead kickass cantor. And Roscoe Mitchell concerts. I wish the weather and traffic were more to my liking. More relevant for me, as far as the subject at hand goes, was hearing Red Garland at The Recovery Room, and similar such players in similar such places. To me, that was sacred music and to me that was in context. Still is, even though the "context" part is pretty much extinct nowadays. As Bird is said to have said, I'm a devout musician, even if now a somewhat lapsed one.

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I don't see how either Seattle or SF won that game.

Where do they get that Trane "led" this band? I don't recall ever hearing that before.