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I don't really care too much for Aretha's version. She exponentially bettered the original on "Natural Woman" but greedily slamfucked "I Say A Little Prayer". Which might mean nothing more than Carole King's version wasn't already there, and Warwick's/Bacharach's was. But Aretha over-iced the cake. Dionne's work from those days holds up quite well. The soulfulness is nowhere near as "raw" as Aretha's but it's no less abundant. What she & Bacharach/David pulled off over those relative few years is nothing short of miraculous.

Romeo Penque Ed Xiques Phil Bodner

Same here.

The Avant-Garde A Right Guard Mona

Hope y'all like it...spread the word if you do, please.

A major hit and a major work of trans-cultural genius in every way. That intro still give me goosebumps. Nothing tops the original. Nothing.

Tip of the iceberg, trust me... it's a pretty deep movie, at least as far as it deals with the issue of finding your own "voice" (or in the case of these dancers, time steps) within a community and the consequences, pro and con, of remaining true to it. It's more true to jazz as I know it than any "jazz movie" I've ever seen, and yeah, Chuck Green is mesmerizing throughout. Find a copy somewhere and check it out, I think you'll be well pleased.

Seems like a good time to (again) put in a plug for No Maps On My Taps is the best movie about jazz ever, and that Chuck Green = Lester Young in some kind of cosmic way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_OtQDMyfAI

The only reason I remember that clip to this day was because it was aired one evening when we had people over, coworkers of my dad, one of them one of the most hideous and vile slopehead racist I've ever encountered. What he had to say about Bob Hope hugging Diana Ross was not exactly "pissed off", I'll put it that way... He got some really, really nasty looks from everybody in the room, back at which he just grinned. Hate to say it, but I took great pleasure as that man died a slow painful death from lung cancer, divorced from his wife and estranged from his gay son and gold-digger bitch daughter, shacked up with the town tramp. So maybe I'm not always a nice guy. Oh well.

Dude - white woman w/black man and white man w/black woman do not equate in the mind of the American Racist.

But Bob Hope got all over Diana Ross...

OMG - found this cover - minus the LP inside - just a few minutes ago at a local Salvation Army - 49 cents for just the cover, oh HELL yeah! And there's the most beautiful RCA logo up in the upper right hand corner. fuchsia RCA Victor ("Disco Popular") & turquoise Nipper box (with "La Voz Del Amo") all in some font that just looks like it's Spanish. Ms. Rios' dress is more purple than it is red, and the artist/title info is way further down than it is here, and it a slightly different font. As awesome as this cover is, the original RULES. Yeah, here we go, this one: That shit is heavy...

Plenty of shelves have room for him, I'm sure. He's not missing not being on mine.

If Dionne Warwick would have been signed to A&M instead of Scepter...you might have to rewrite history!

I don't have unlimited shelf space. Therefore, Giuffre is allowed room, but not so Bob Cooper, except where he just happens to otherwise be there. No matter how much he "grew" it's always relative to where he was before, never to where he got to. Kinda like walking on a treadmill while riding a train. But Bill Perkins, for him there's a spot or two!

Bob Cooper...nice guy, I'm sure, and a very pleasant player. Giuffre on tenor (or anything, really...), that was a story.

Tom Collins Tom Poston Tom Terrific http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smr_dGw2ZwU

That's cool. I assume the child molester comment is withdrawn. Nuanced, but not withdrawn. I'm tired of people making excuses when there's really none to be made.

Yep. I concur. Tough gig calls for tough people, not "tough guys".

Steal of a deal for the Yankees. They've signed Hiroki Kuroda too...tightening up that rotation, they are...

I'll nuance him from a bad cop to a schmuck cop, but it's still a violation of the public trust anytime you're not protected and/or served by someone charged to do that and only that. It's a helluva a tough gig, no doubt, but that's no excuse, is it?

Sorry, but a violation of the public trust is still a violation of trust. Of whom much is given, much is asked, etc. I don't think you can give anybody anything more valuable than your trust. Now, if you want to say that it's naive to ever trust a cop, hey, that's another thing altogether, but really, isn't that just as much a symptom of being numbed by abuse as it is anything else? I'll put a good cop on as high a pedestal as can be had, but a bad cop is evil, and a schmuck cop is much closer to a bad cop than to a good one.