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Now wait a second here - this has turned into a thread about duplicate threads, and we've already got one of those: I'd like to see a pure picture dictionary, where there's no words and everything's in photographic order.

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What's funny is that the open Rodney King thread is getting no traffic at all, whereas this one about the closing of its duplicate is turning into a Johnny Richards chart!

That's one of the funniest probably-unintentional jokes I've ever heard!

Nothing wrong with this one either. Ok, the vocals (lead and background" are too echoey and could be brought more forward in the mix. Apart from that, though, this is a damn fine straight-up Soul record. And if it kinda sounds like Ray's in the middle of that particular parade instead of leading it from in front, hell, whose parade is it, anyway?

A few misfires, but on the whole, a very strong album, funky and soulful and slickly produced, all in one. If you're an RC fan and don't know this one, you might want to fix that.

Joe Simon tends to be on the awesome side of things in general. At least for me.

Ok, I'm coming around on the Joe Williams BN side, at least a little bit. It's kind of a schizo side. The parts where they're making a jazzy/MOR/R&B record for AM jazz radio end up working well enough on an individual basis. Time/place/intent/etc. That's ok. But the parts where they try to make a Jerry Vale record with Joe Williams as Jerry Vale...that's where it gets uncomfortable.

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Nope - it's Joe Williams - Worth Waiting For

Nothing earth-shattering (to put it mildly), by I know we have some Joe Henderson completionists here for whom this of interest might be, perhaps. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9zAqrm9SgU

Jerry Van Dyke indeed.

Sets, and choreography:

Kudos to Justin Grimm, who made his MLB debut tonight after being called up from AA Frisco. 6 IP, 6 hits, 3 runs, 7K (inc. 5 consecutive) and most impressively, no walks. Hardly eye-popping #s )especially against the Astros), but the kid got the call and didn't fuck it up, showed plenty of poise and didn't look like he's never played AA ball. Plus, he got the win, thanks to a Ranger rally in the bottom of the 6th. Good to see those Ranger rallies again, and good to see them again winning games against teams they should beat instead of letting Weird Baseball continue to have its way. I hate Weird Baseball, it's like those films from the early NASA days when rockets fail during launch, just...disturbing. Physics Gone Wrong usually is. Alos good to see the return of Prime Yu Darvish last night, after some rest and some work with Mike Maddux. I'm still gald to have Darvis, expect there to be some bumps on the learning curve, and for some of those bumps to be painful. But the guy's got the stuff, and most importantly, he's got that fire. He's going to learn, and he's going to succeed, and for the next few years, he will do so as a Texas Ranger. I'm ok with that. Meanwhile, Ervin Santana's got a perfect game thorough 6 in Anaheim. But here, it's good to know that even if he goes ahead and gets one, or even a win, oh well!

Love it when that happens.

I still say Earl Hines grew a third hand. Nothing else makes sense.

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Hines didn't improve his playing, he just grew another hand.

His first album was a trio side on Mercury, probably from when he was Sarah Vaughan's MD. Very mainstream stuff. I give him credit for being curious and checking stuff out. There's plenty who aren't and who don't. And I think that quality shows up in his later, overtly "commercial" work as well. It's a guy making calculated choices, sure, but he's making informed choices, not just giving his artistic booty up to the Robot Probe while reading the Enquirer in the checkout line. Those type guys are a pox on humanity. The Bob James types are just people having fun making a good living. I'll not convict for that.

Beyond category.

As long as you get it right, it doesn't matter.

So...this thread is cool!