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MLC season starts today. Willow is on it and it is on Willow My son and I are going to an evening match on July 14. I "had to" buy a yellow T-shirt to represent our "local" team. I probably need to buy new T-shirts anyway, in all colors! Better shopping through sports.

Them shoes...

At last!

They should have had Lou Christie singing.

The streaming platform remains operational but has yet to add any new content. There's a video of a Mickey Bass group with Carter Jefferson on there, though, that should probably be gotten before it goes.

I seem to recall some story about UA repressing the entire BN LP catalog for some sort of "one last time" project on behest of...somebody.

Jan Murray

That Nicole Kidman sure goes to work!

Spicy Foodyton - Spicy Comes a'Callin'!!!

Jan Murray? What did he play in the movie?

Good to see you, Paul, it's been a while!

The credit to Rita Dyson is said to have come from Jet Magazine. Do any of those 45s have producer's credits on the label?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightnin'_Strikes#:~:text=Ralph Casale's "stuttering" guitar solo was an overdub. https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/ralph-casale-session-pro Ok, this is all falling together now. Avant-Garde as fuck. In its own world, of course.

C. P. Monostereo - A Wonderful Day Party For You!!!

Hey, Jim Palmer is still doing color on Orioles TV games and is as effortlessly lucid, articulate, and insightful as ever. At 78! If you got that MLB TV thing, check him out. This guy is a treasure

Calello was the producer on Lou Christie s MGM hits and their B-sides. This one is more interesting than it has to be: Some people will say oh, that's just a bad song, just musically incoherent, and ok, maybe. But maybe not. Maybe it's simply som interesting choices. And who were those female singers? What did he tell them in order to get that crazy ensemble timbre? Attention should be paid. All things relative to their own size of course, but Lou Christie did some not uninteresting work.

If vibes deflected full estimation of Bobby's talent, what do you reckon his 70s focus on marimba did?

There ya' go.

Charlie Calello went over to the dark side, but before he did, those Lou Christie hits of his were tight. Maybe even genius, to get normal human adults to make those sounds like they did, put together like that. That track should be studied. Rita Dyson pet a YT post. Not correct? Also interesting to see the intersection of Calello and Bob Gaudio on that song. Gaudio was another one who would do some offbeat shit in the backing tracks

It's in the July 1 issue, print.

I can totally relate. My musical relationship with my dad kinda flowed the other way, he liked calm music, I liked energy. He didn't really like "jazz" as I knew it But he did take me to see Basie when I was 15! Anyway, the older I got, the more I would have him asking me to make tapes of that "smooth" stuff, which meant a lot of Ben, Turrentine, the proverbial "ballads and blues". He loved Blue Hour. It was really meaningful to find that coming ground in his last years. A lot of times, common ground is never found. I feel blessed that we did

I have a few records on the Tribe label by individuals, but don't think I have any by the group proper. I liked that cut!

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