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Only in mono. No electronically altered Pigmeat for me!

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Fred Flintstone Mister Slate The Great Gazzoo

LP or CD? The bands on these cuts are really, really kicking. Seems like maybe something else could be combined with it to get a decent value. Or could have been combined...probably not going to happen now, although maybe Collectables or some other Rescuer Of The Arcane might stumble across it. Probably not, though.

Yeah, what's a German cat doing with a Napoleon complex?

It starts here: http://www.birkajazz.com/archive/columbia.htm Check it out!

There's some kind of joke going on in that photo...Look at J.R., he's all like "yeah, let's look like this paper has notes or something on it and that we're studying the great music we're about to make. Then let's go get high!" and Eddie Bert's all like, "what do you mean, GET high?" HA!

I mean, you got some fine solos Jimmy Oliver, Ray Bryant, Seldon Powell, Jimmy Cleveland, Urbie Green, Hank Jones, Oscar Pettifor, etc. You also got at most 30 minutes worth of music, and, of course, Joe Carroll. But ti ain't a perfect world. Has this thing been reissued anywhere, in any form, in whole or in part? I just paid a buck for a "well worn" LP, and I can almost always hear the drums...

If you squint just a little, you can use your imagination and see Jerry Lewis talking to Joe Dimaggio.

Joe Carroll I can live without, but the band is HOT!

Cassette only! http://blog.allmusic.com/2012/1/24/all-tape-guide-january-2012/

Wynn Stewart: Jimmy Wynn, The Toy Cannon Wynn Varble

Si! Guess who?

If you're lucky, find a copy of the 70s (80s?) LP reissue that includes a bonus take of "Billie's Bounce" that I don't think is found elsewhere.

Guess who?

Got the SendSpace file w/no difficulty.

Barring some basic genetic mutation in the species, my hunch is that the % of true talent relative to the overall population is probably close to a constant over time. I don't think the species suddenly developed a special baseball gene, if you know what I mean. What changes is # of opportunities, the size of the "venue", if you will. Let's face, there's a lot of pros today who wouldn't have made it to the bigs (or still be in them) if it was still just a sixteen team affair. Pitchers and utility players, especially.

Dave Blumberg, btw, worked at Motown for a good while, so I doubt that he felt slighted by having his name openly listed in the credits, if you know what I mean... There's names listed on the record? :o Geez, I hope nobody was able to use that for their career gain...

Per: http://www.discogs.com/Quincy-Jones-Body-Heat/release/766244 Per the liner notes, I don't see this asterisk, but I do see the names listed as co-arrangers.:

But your ironic point was the one I was making -- i.e. that the specific bad ethical behavior that Q engaged in and that we were talking about was irrelevant to his getting, in this case, the job as Gore's producer. Also -- BTW and IIRC -- getting that Gore gig was no picnic and/or big plum. It only became so after "It's My Party (And I'll Cry If I Want To)," and, again IIRC, Q and Gore were at loggerheads over whether to even record the tune, though I don't recall who was on which side. IIRC, "It's My Party" was at or near the start of the gate for the Gore/Jones affiliation. And no, I don't think he gets the Gore gig without displaying bad behavior. It's an axiom that to get ahead, you mimic the behavior of those whose status you want, not those of where you already are. How many "jazz guys" in the early 60s would have been cosidered for a teenage pop artist? From "jazz guy" to "pop producer", especially in those days, was a HUGE leap. We're not talking a Ray Charles album, we're talking Leslie Fucking Gore! And one more time - somebody tell me why Record Industry Giant Quincy Jones is any worse than any other Record Industry Giant? Hell, even that's not correct...he became an Entertainment Industry Giant. Hardly an field of Pure Angels, that one... These things exist with or without Quincy Jones, so...why not Quincy Jones?

Quite possibly, more people heard a fully-credited Frank Rosolino on this one Quincy Jones record than heard him over the course of the rest of his life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvC2dXiCuuU Roland Kirk got a good and well-deserved pimping in the liner notes to the In the Heat Of The Night soundtrack. Rahsaan probably used that to his business advantage. Freddie Hubbard's most-recognized solo? Quite possibly this one, also fully credited: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVkMheBXY28 I don't think Freddie bitched about it. And so forth. Business be a bitch.

I was not agreeing with that point. The "sure" thing was "ironic". I know, I know, you don't like irony. Sorry. Still waiting on that Top 5 list of Quincy Jones' Most Egregious Sins Against Mankind, btw. So far we've got cold-blooded careerism and taking credit for other people's charts (although in the past, it's often been said here that on the albums that Byers wrote the charts for there was often some kind of "fine print" saying "arranged by Billy Byers, which to me just circles back to cold-blooded careerism), What else we got here? Ruined lives? Illegitimate children living in poverty? Limbs severed by gangsters? Just how bad is this guy that in an industry filled (past the point of breaking, in fact) with egos and at best loose ethics that Quincy Jones comes in for this particular revulsion? I suspect it's because he was once an Humble Musician Who Should Have Known Better. Yeah, well, who shouldn't have known better? And yet, there they were, there they are. If Quincy Jones is Evil, then the whole Business is Evil (not the music, but The Business). Which it essentially is, sooner or later, who are we trying to kid, but we all live with that, don't we now... America is a Gangster nation, and if Quincy Jones is one of its Gangsters, yeah, so what? Why not? Somebody gonna be. Believe that. Which makes me want to ask - does the Mosaic set deal with this issue at all? Or does it even credit the arrangers correctly? And if not, why?

Yeah, Mercury Records would have had Quincy Jones producer Leslie Gore based on the strength of his big band charts and him being a nice guy. Sure. And yeah, ego. Take the ego out the boardrooms of America (then and now) and what do you have left? Jesse Stone? You do realize, don't you, that in most corporate cultures, your first firing of somebody is a Rite Of Passage?