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So remember boys and girls, not all great musicians are nice (or even untroubled!) people 100% of the time!

All well, good, and certainly understandable, but I believe that if you're going to put your name on something as a leader, then you should be as ready as you can be. Anything less, I dunno, it just seems a bit of a vanity effort to put something out just because you can. I mean, ok, you're old, sick, just out of jail, whatever, in the process of discovering something heretofore unknown (oops, wrong century!), something like that, hey, it ain't gonna necessarily be "prime". Understood. But sometimes I hear people and I think, hell, know, that a month, hell, even a few weeks or so of heavy shedding would have made things so much better. And yeah, I know, sometimes things pop up at the very last minute, but still, that don't happen all that often. Not for a cat to get together a leader date. But then again, these are very trying times. But then yet again again, all the more reason to try to get it right, w/o excuses or fallbacks.

I like Jemeel Moondoc just fine as well, no way I'd call him a BS-er, that's waaaaaay harsh (and not true) but.... I'd like him a lot more fine if he'd clean up his fingers just a little bit. The ideas are definitely there, and the execution is too about 95% of the time, but it's that 5% that bugs me, since it sure seems to me that it's shit that could be cleaned up w/o too much trouble. Sometimes you fumble just 'cause your mind gets ahead of itself. Can't do too much about that other than chase it and see if you can eventually catch it. But sometimes you fumble just cause your fingers get just ain't fully conditioned. And that you can fix, just by practicing. Trust me, I speak from plenty of experience about this...

Kay Starr is not an artist away from whom I would reflexively turn.

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Welcome aboard, and draw your own conclusions!

When it comes to CTI, the internets is your friend.

Now, if it's really kinda creepy you want out of a Scopitone, try this: Kay Starr - Wheel Of Fortune Then again, it's the oddity of the whole Scopitone production values that keep them "interesting" today, no? So many of them play like stag films trying to not be stag films. That's always gonna be awkward, like walking up to the altar to take communion with a hardon you get from watching the minister's daughter a few pews in front of you... But ok, here's a truly creepy Scopitone: It's like Devo before anybody even thought about Devo, and if that's not a disturbing notion...

Dude, watch it again - she pulls him down. What I found kinda creepy was the little post-it notes washing down the gutter with things like LOVE & LUST handwritten on them. The rest of it was pretty much cheesy imo, not so much creepy as just plain Ed Wood-ish bad. I do like that record, though. Never heard it before. Very much a period thing, but very nicely so.

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Raney did a few sides for Capitol with Nelson Riddle doing hte charts, and they're all dandy, what with Riddle upping his game just a little bit, always a sign of his respect for the musicianship of the talent. That's borne out by the fact that for years, Raney was Riddle's female vocalist for his assorted pick-up gigs where he'd front an orchestra playing his book for various social functions. So yeah, Sue Raney's got skills, no doubt.

But sersiously folks, that's a pretty nifty production in that genre. Did a little research and found this: http://www.sueraney.org/liners/aliveliner.html Hey....

And now....................the REST of the story:

I think that Farrell himself had a glass eye, that's why it turned up a few times on the CTI covers. Or so I've been told.

Aw man, don't be. I mean, I dig and respect Brian, but hell, sometimes you just gotta call him on his bullshit, just so he knows that you know, if you know what I mean

Chuck's one of the most no-bullshit people I've ever met, him and my old man. Doesn't mean that they're perfect, just means that they say what they mean, and can you can bank on it not being phony or schmoozy or "aw-shucks" passive aggressive. What you hear is what was meant to be said, for better or worse, rougher or smoother. Me myself, I'd like to live in a world where that type of unambiguousness was a more common quality.

OOOOHHH!!!! I hope it has this one:

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I have two things to say (and I'll put them in the same post, thank you! ) : 1 - Strong opinions breed strong responses. 2 - Even allowing for human imperfection, drama in the face of getting what you give is pretty lame.

May I suggest little Joey Heatherton?

Is there such a a thing as "a little Joey Heatherton"?

Asked and answered!

And/or a case Of Rigorless Mortaris?