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Word to the MotherPower.

Milton Bradley Milton Berle Milton, with a Swingline

The adventure continues, eh? All the best to all of you!

And Booker Ervin being another, on a few items. Not at all unpleasant, that one. And Booker Ervin being another, on a few items. Not at all unpleasant, that one.

Yeah, but to Monk in 1956 (the date of the quote), the difference between what he had probably heard of contemporaneous R&B and what he remembered playing with the evangelist was probably close enough to being the same thing just with different words as to really not make no never never mind.

That and the fact that what "it" "is" can and does change depending on where one is when one is looking at it.

Nobody made Monk swing.

And a helluva shirtmaker as well. He should've collaborated with Paul Anka.

Why does that last phrase sound vaguely pornographic? Sounds like someone is doing something filthy to that divide. It was like an audaciously & professionally confident three-way between Bacharach/David, Tin Pan Alley, & The Brill Building. And if you can appreciate the beautifully ironic yin-yang sexuality of the Alley vs Building metaphor not just here but in general, hey, front row seats for you!

Bacharach/David masterfully straddled the divide and did whatever it is that gets done when a divide gets masterfully straddled. But at their best, which was often enough, they deserve a mention in this conversation. How come nobody ever mentions the "Great Brazilian Songbook", though? Or perhaps more to the point of this thread, Harry Connick Jr.'s originals.

Yeah, I yearn for the days of sanity, when cats would piss in phone booths and stuff like that.

Lacquer is highly overrated...

Wouldn't the 2nd best second best be the third best?

Tell them sthat some music store "in the area" was cleaning their warehouse and discovered 50 boxes of LaVoz reeds that look like they're frrom the early 1970s?

Joseph Hazelwood Ricky Walters John Pisano, composer of:

Benson or Benton?

Por favor y Gracias!

exactly,,,Reprise went to WB pretty early on...'62, I think...Joni started on Reprise, by the time she went to Asylum it had just become a WB-related label.

Call mine the minority opinion, but I thought those mustard & brown Broncs throwbacks were perversely cool in an uber-football-as-underarm-deodorant-and-sweaty-jockstrap kinda way. They spoke to the inner crew cut in all of us. Plus, them vertical stripes on the hosiery was TRIPPY.

Monday Chance of Rain 61° F | 56° F 20% chance of precipitation Tuesday Thunderstorm 67° F | 63° F 100% chance of precipitation Wednesday Chance of a Thunderstorm 83° F | 65° F 20% chance of precipitation Thursday Partly Cloudy 74° F | 52° F Friday Partly Cloudy 67° F | 49° F No wonder everybody's sick... Partly Cloudy

A trip to Burbank might be in order!

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