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It's on WEA instead of Columbia?

You don't usually think of William Parker shopping at Radio Shack, but...why not?

So, everything that is on here has been released, and everything that has been released is on here, correct?

Moanin'

Flipper Flopper Flyer

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Not deleting! Pimp the band! Just don't spam/flood. None of that has happened here, so it's all good. But hell, in this market, you do what you gotta do to get the word out.

Oh yeah, I'd like to know who chose the band name, and why. Does the band feel like their music is a bodily excretion/expulsion or something? I mean, that's not a name you pick at random and then keep the next day unless there's a story behind it.

Ah, it's a serious band, and a seriously bad music business. Street-teaming on a one-off like this is a fact of life. Hope it gets them some attention, although, yes, in places where Old & Serious People like us hang out, a better approach would be just to be straight up with it. But it ain't my place to tell a band and/or its marketers how to run their business, just to keep it between the lines when they do it here. So hey, AvantHard, do you know these guys? What are their backgrounds, goals, etc.?

For sures! A smiling pointing people, with a hatching egg thrown in for good luck!

Seems like a joke, but it's a real band, and they appear to be serious. https://soundcloud.com/shitpissnvomit We allow pimping a band here, just not spam/flooding.

Ok, Tigers rally. Yay!

Oh great - it's a four game series with a day game today, and it looks like it will be a four game sweep instead of a three. Thanks for being on such a roll, Tigers.

Wow, that's crazy.

Duke was a smiler, to be sure. But pointing, perhaps not so much, against his upbringing perhaps?

Helen Ward? 1963? And looking still-frisky, if you know what I mean! A derby-less Lion on top of that! I guess that Helen Ward being married to William Savory was a fact I had missed.

Way to go A's, sweeping the Tigers...you guys were supposed to lose at least one of those...grrrrrrrrr..... Oakland not going away, not at all...didn't I see this movie last year?

Yeah, I don't always need lyrical "depth" out of a singer, not if there's a substantial-enough "instrumental" quality of idea to replace it. And sometimes Ella could get there, for sure, especially at medium down tempos and slower.

Yeah, well that's "later" later. I'm talking about her mid-50s-through 60s records. Seems like the "jazz" ones got all scatty and "jazzy", whereas the "pop" ones (including portions of the songbooks) seemed to relieve her of whatever need she had to do all that, and to free her up to "just" sing the song. Other than the gorgeousness of her instrument, I'm still not that much of a fan of Ella Fitzgerald as a "jazz singer" up until the 70s. But geez, what an instrument, and when not trying to be jazz, I think she was more jazz than when she was trying to be jazz. Of course, now that she's dead (and has been dead for a good while now), you can't really look at it like that, it's all ELLA FITZGERALD now, all one big Legend, so my view is an antiquated and obsolete one. But I'm not one of the lucky ones who only knows Ella Fitzgerald as Dead Icon Of Jazz, and I will have to carry that curse with me to my grave, perhaps in a yellow basket, just to show the Next World that I am aware of my error.

I see smiling but not pointing. Please advise.

I'd not argue with that, nor would I argue with anybody who said that the more "pop" the setting, the more engaged she appeared to be in the lyrics.

Give my regards to Oprah. Tell her that anywhere she is is the TRUE Lone Star State.

When did this happen?

Fats Domino hasn't sued Chubby Checker for stealing his name, has he?