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Unlike Wilkerson's BN sides, Texas Twister is a totally burning "straight ahead" session. Carpe diem!

Records look like massive lunar mountain ranges, CDs look like some kind of single-cell organazoidism. There's a lesson there somewhere, right?

I've got the SS issues, and "gloss", yeah, that's right. What I was wondering about was what was left after that gloss was removed.

Missed the Mosaic (dammit), but in my experience, "modern" big band w/o some kind of reverb (even it it's just hall sound) gets pretty claustrophobic pretty fast. Did the SS studio recordings have some kind of natural reverb? Seems like they would, since they don't sound really tightly, inndividually miked.

WORD!!!

Well, besides, what standards are we using for "good lyrics"? That of show tune/Tin Pan Alley? That of R&B and/or C&W? Brill Building? I mean, "I'll Cry Instead" could have been an Acuff/Rose song (except for that cleverass bridge...), and is that "teen pop"? I think not. I'm just saying - I bridle at the notion of all pre-RS Beatlesongs being "teen pop". It just ain't so. There is some of that, but there are also other things going on too.

"the teen pop/rock stuff, of which the Beatles were a part."...see I don't buy this...they were there, sure, and they got in it from time to time, sure, but they were a part of that scene like Ellington was part o the "big bnad" scene"...happy to share in the exciting, but ultimately more focused on a somewhat diffiderent game. "the teen pop/rock stuff, of which the Beatles were a part."...see I don't buy this...they were there, sure, and they got in it from time to time, sure, but they were a part of that scene like Ellington was part o the "big bnad" scene"...happy to share in the exciting, but ultimately more focused on a somewhat diffiderent game.

Teen-pop? You mean along the lines of "Johnny Angel", "Donna", "Da Do Ron Ron", "Surfer Girl", etc? Not so much in the Lennon/McCartney catalog... "This Boy", definitely (and worstly), and some others, but I think there's as much "young adult" lyrics, especially from AHDN up to RS...which is not the same as "mature adult", I'm just saying...there's an adultness to "When I Get Home" (not the song of a kid who dreams about getting some, but the song of a man who is used to getting some!), "I'm A Loser", "Things We Said Today" that represents the outlook of the early 20s more than it does 15 or 16 or even 17-18. As for lyrical sophistication strictly within the realm of "songcraft", I think the ability that Lennon/McCartney had to combine lyrical hooks with melodic ones was as good as anybody's. As cheesy as "I Call Your Name" ultimately may be, the title is the hook, and it's uses at the beginning & end of the lyric, with the in-between telling a predictable but perfectly "acceptable" pop song story of missing a loved one, is worthy of any number of "Ain't She Sweet" type Tin Pan Alley craftsmen. the type who made sure the the title was always in caps when it came up on the sheet music . Not a "great song" by any stretch of the imagination, but an awareness of traditional craft is nevertheless being displayed that is anything but accidental or occasional, and anything but "teenage" in aim. All of which to say, I grew up in world full of "teen pop", and, "Beatlemania" aside, the pre-RS Lennon/McCartney catalog only sometimes intersects with it, and then only in the sense of just passing through rather than actually living there.

The name's Tall Boy Horn. Have, blues, must travel.

Seriously?

That's the one I've got, bought it ca. 1974-75. Didn't come across the later version until years later (which means nothing, really, because UA had pretty much purged the SS catalog IIRC, and what you found in the mid-70s was "already there"...) As for the cover in the first post, I don't know its origin. Just came across it online. It looks older, the font & everything, like the Jones/Lewis albums w/Ruth Brown & Joe Williams That's the one I've got, bought it ca. 1974-75. Didn't come across the later version until years later (which means nothing, really, because UA had pretty much purged the SS catalog IIRC, and what you found in the mid-70s was "already there"...) As for the cover in the first post, I don't know its origin. Just came across it online. It looks older, the font & everything, like the Jones/Lewis albums w/Ruth Brown & Joe Williams

I've only always ever seen this one:

The dude looks like a psycho who's about to strangle the dog as part of ritualistic foreplay, that's what's so "uhhhh" about it!

FWIW, "K-4 Pacific" was one of the highlights of the earlier Age Of Steam, "Song For Strayhorn" came back on several recordings from the 80s & 90s, and both it and "For An Unfinished Woman" got a big band reading on 1992's Walk On The Water.

Stumbled across A Night In Havana on Ovation, & this guys' in the band. Seems like a real expert at altissimo stuff. Never heard of hime before, What's his story? Anybody? Thanks!

Still no word, Bob?

Don't forget his work w/Maynard!

Campanis!

Ok, my bad, this video. @ 2:39

This video, Larry, the one you posted. Is that Tony Oliva in there?

I want a DVD w/TAMI & TNT all together.

No, I mean in the video, the Minnesota Twin guy.