JSngry

There's a book about Warhol Album covers what have just recently come out. I think it has pictures.

I think we all do live in a bubble, ultimately. It's the only way we can have a notion of "self". Or perhaps a collection of bubbles. The question then becomes, perhaps, how transparent or opaque is anybody's given bubble at any given time, and for what purpose and to what end? In the end, though, all bubbles pop. It's what bubbles do.

If you got Foobar, you don't have to convert it to play it. But if you want/need to, somebody here once posted a link to something called Efficient WMA-MP3 Converter that could have prevented the Spanish Inquisition, so easily does it convert anything and everything. Hell, somebody sent me some MP2 audio files, and this sucker walked 'em right in, sat'em right down, and next thing you know, wverybody was talikin' bout a new way of walkin'. Far out! Also, my Roxio (9.0) will burn a FLAC file straight to an audio CD. I suppose most current burning softwares will do the same. If they won't, I would replace them posthaste.

Quite nice of Mr. Astaire to give Mr. Smith what appeared to be a more than superficial endorsement. And quite the nice Old Spice commercial as well.

Not sure if Lee actually plays on it.

She (or somebody) created a really interesting rhythmic world in which to place her songs. So far, the stuff is holding up pretty well to my ears, musically if not "sonically".

I wanna hear 8-bit Freddie Freeloader here:

Somebody please hack Vegas Stakes and put this music in. Please!

It can be anything from a creative challenge to a hack-whore job. I like to listen to see which is which, and everything in-between. The functionality of a score make it very seldom "pure" or "real" jazz, but oh well about that. A lot of alleged "real" or "pure" jazz isn't either. If anything, the problem I find with "jazz" scores that actually try to be an underscore score rather than a soundtrack of songs is the apparent inability to let go of the song form. You know what one of the most interesting "jazz scores" out there is? The first part of They Saved Hitler's Brain, the part they filmed later and added on to the first. Kinda sounds like Paul Bley on Rhodes or something. In the end, it's just another way & reason to make music, so....why not?

Albert Heath Prince Albert Can

That's some funny shit! Where the video game to go with it?

Yes, and also one on the Sweedish(?) Amigo label that reproduced the original cover art.

Ok, the sighoff begins w/the minor3-2-1 motif of the main theme, only now its 4-3-2 (if the thing would ever go to that major key...)...that much I got... The more I listen to this thing, the hipper it gets, listening for all the possible derivations of the main HBO theme motif...good stuff in a highly unlikely place!

Hmmm...getting there:

hmmm....I didn't see HBO in 1979...but here's some from 1982: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdJovzTgB2s...feature=related (kinda vaguely similar, some melodic contours...?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhiggJUT0SQ...feature=related 0:41-0:45, maybe?) I can hear it in a few of them, but really, as a WTF? piece, that sign-off really stands alone, imo. If it was more variations on a theme, hey, kudos!

Glad you enjoyed it! Don't really want to go there about the other, because I relish when our tastes, interests, etc, diverge, almost as much as as I do when they intersect.

Well, see, that's what I mean, that's well-done, obviously, but also very "corporate". It tells you what you need to know and makes sure that you will know it. That sign-off is more like a hidden Gary McFarland or Pat Williams stealth job...totally non-corporate...warm, inviting, it lets you go... If the same guy wrote both, hey, that's some skills right there, some serious craft. Other contemporaneous corporate sign-offs: Disney: Cablevision: Family: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGAbJGhKDW4...feature=related Showtime: no music there...

I haven't heard that in a long time- interesting! It's been a long time since the sign-off days! How 'bout that orchestration, eh? The harmonic ambiguity from 0:25 - finish is gorgeous...major? minor? sus? just exactly where we landing here...or are we landing anywhere?...very "dissolving", as I guess befits the function. I remember all kinds of signoffs, but nothing as musically "interesitng" as this.

Yeah, whatever. It's an unusually "different" piece of music for what it is, interesting harmonies. I like it. Do I have to give back my AEC box now?

And by way of further recs, try the Heath Brothers 1st two on Columbia, Passin' Thru & In Motion. "Commercial" enough to be '70s, "Jimmy Heath-y" enough to be quite musical. Also, if you do vinyl, look for Horace Silver's Silver 'N'... on Blue Note. Not yet on CD. Some great tunes to be found therein.

Did they use Eastman people as well?

Didn't like Montara back in the day because it was so "produced", like it now because it is. Definitely a "presentation" moree than a "representation", but what it does, it does thoroughly well.

Full length, better sound:

I'd like to know.