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Barracuda Maneater The Shark, who bites with his teeth, dear.

Without objection, the motion passes by acclamation.

The man was a force of nature who is forgotten at our peril.

It don't suck!

Fresh Sound costs. If it's OOP, I want it for free. But seriously, those look like some good prices, I need to get a copy at some point soon.

I never knew about this book. Where can I download a copy?

I don't know if you'd want to listen to it all at once, and if you're the type of listener who hears "sound" in front of "music", then it might all "sound the same" to you, but....there's a lot of subtle diversity in there, so as a "library item", something you can come back to for both study and pleasure (and be able to have a variety of selected "spots" for each), I think it's a pretty darn good deal.

http://www.jazzhouston.com/articles/words/1004

How immediate is immediate?

Pops Poopadeaux

Scary photo, but scary beautiful & imaginative harmonies... http://www.youtube.c...feature=related And then.... Check out at about 0:45 (and then again, to a lesser extent, at about 1:13), the original harmonies just come untethered altogether and float of into this infinite cloud of etheriality, but then they come back like they had never left. Not just anybody can do that... http://www.youtube.c...feature=related Yeah, Gene Puerling had skills.

you can't go wrong with either set. I am a bit surprised that the rich is already running low - it has not been out that long. Maybe their lease is expiring. ah that must be the case. in which event i would be curious to know how many sets actually sold! Do not underestimate the # of Buddy Rich fanatics in the world. For real.

Although the Four Freshmen predated Gene Puerling's Hi-Los, Puerling considerably upped the ante, perhaps even set the standard, for harmonic adventurousness and complexity for vocal writing of this sort. Brian Wilson has been more "vocal" (pun unavoidable) over the years about the Freshmen influence, but he has given credit to Puerling as well. If you want to hear Puerling's Hi-Los writing at it's most insane, you gotta (pretty much) look for the old Spotlight sides. The later things for Columbia & beyond are missing a lot of the edge that can be found in abundance on those earlier sides. Although, there were two "reunion" sides from the 70s on MPS that are not at all bad.

Always have regretted never visiting the New England area, this is just one more reason why.

Whichever one has the added/restored announcements is the one to get, just because.

Manhattan Transfer at their best is good showbiz. Singers Unlimited at their best is great music. The SU a capella albums have some truly breathtaking moments, not just because of the "beauty" of the overdubbed-into-infinity voices, but because of the beauty of what they were given to sing. Gene Puerling was a true master.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEboAJf9UVc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT0q7tCSUZM&feature=related

SU at "cheery" uptempo and or "swinging" usually = not so hot for me. But SU doing ballads and/or a cappella = supremely & deeply engaging. This one, with orchestral backing by Robert Farnon, is some serious shit. And for the record, I've only felt this way about them for the last year or so. Did a total 180.

There are some significant oral histories in those pages...

Gotta love a sonic boom that blows a hole in the sky but is nice enough to leave a window!

but are they better than "elvis"? How can you be better than something which really doesn't exist? Just imagine Imagining, like any other freedom, can have horrific & life-destroying consequences if one is not careful.

but are they better than "elvis"? How can you be better than something which really doesn't exist?

Just got knowingly acquainted with Plug/etc. & am indeed finding much with which to become engaged. Stone's Throw is a "known quantity" in this house, and same there, too. Yesterdays New Quintet's output is an ongoing favorite. It's out there, if you look for it!

Gene Puerling had some serious, serious skills. The "muzak-y" sounds of SU are real, but they are also entirely superficial and only occasional. There is a harmonic depth there (literally and figuratively) that is not to be underestimated or trifled with. A buddy of mine once described them as cotton-candy heroin, and that is not far off the mark, on either end. As far as "better than the Beatles", hey, whatever. I don't know what that means, really.