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Why don't we get Zager & Evans in on this?

Forget 150 years. What about 1500 years? Or 5000 years?

How will we be able to find out which, if any, of our predictions were correct?

I understand why, but I don't in any way share those feelings. It's a perfectly fine document of a certain "slice of life" from a certain time, far more honest as such than some might realize. It's hard to ask for more than that out of any record.

What was Jutta Hipp, a transvestite? (and I don't eveen pretend to know if there was anybody from the 78 era who qualifies...)`

Merle Saunders Merle Travis Milton Berle

That's a shame. I would liked to have seen that. I guess in some Third World countries...

That, my friend, is the question to which I'm looking for an answer. There may or may not be a satisfactory one, but otoh, nothing ventured... I'm thinking, though, that one way is to look at certain things as being the "new way" of doing the same old thing and taking it from there, with an attitude that even though I'm old and experienced in the old world, I still gotta keep humble in this new one until I learn what's what. And stay humble, just like in this one, only moreso. Because we are getting in after the show's started, if you know what I mean. One heartening thought, though - that attitude of humility automatically excludes the paunchy Nehrus!

The challenge for all of us is to put it there. It can be done, if for no other reason than it has always been done. Humans will get what humans need, and humans need heart. This is going to be an ongoing thing, to be sure, but we're really just at the very beginning of it. The "Digital Age" began in earnest, what, about 20-25 years ago, right? Not even 1/100 of a bat of the eye in the evolution of humanity. Has the technology evolved faster than we've been able to healthily absorb it? I think it has. But I don't think that it's going to stay that way forever, and that's what we're going to do - absorb it, not abandon it, and make it work the way we need for it to work in human terms. We're not going to have a collective awakening one day and say, "Hey! Screw all this convenience and shit, let's go back to the old days!" Hore-drawn carriages ain't coming back, big bands ain't coming back, and a non-digitalized future ain't going awaay. Is it a fundamental change? Of course it is. But there ain't gonna be any stopping it. Adapt to it (or even better, help shape it!) or be prepared to spend your (as in our) remaining days as a spectator whose seats keep moving further & further into the upper deck.

And the big bands are coming back too!!!!

Chris Kraft Perry Como Tito Puente

She started out in Disney productions and got famous there.

Sukey Tawdry Lucy Brown Jenny Diver

That stuff is going right around us... http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findwe...ast?query=75023

Stubby Kaye Stumpy Brown Stuckey's

Jude (Hey!) Joe (Hey!) Rosemary Clooney

Father John Farmer John Brother John

You're getting rain?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Henry Ford Joe Ford Joe Chevrolet

It's like I told my daughter the other day when she was feeling guilty about eating a hamburger - don't be afraid to bite the cow that feeds you.

Well, it was made for the Japanese market, so unless you speak Japanese, not having the sound is not going to be a deal-breaker. Then again, I don't speak Japanese, but really enjoyed the timbre and cadence of her voice listening to her speak it. And that laugh of hers is about as uplifting as things get. So yeah, play it with sound!

I bought her most recent CD from Dusty Groove a while back. Good enough stuff. Believe it or not, there's a few songs on that album that sound to me like she's been checking out Monday Michiru, especially one called "Maybe It's Not So". Production is pretty bareboned at times, and she writes the type of songs that could benefit from some more elaborate/focused settings at times, so that detracts a little from my overall enjoyment of the record (but not from the songs). The album has a "demo" quality to it at times, and for "pop" type material (even "jazzy pop", which is what most of this stuff is), I gotta use my imagination to hear what it would sound like more fully fleshed out ("production" for pop being what arrangements are to big bands, imo). But I do, and it sounds good! All in all, I'd recommend her album as a "non-essential but pleasant" purchase to those interested in "jazzy Neo-Soul" type material. And I really hope that her career advances to the point where she can get the budget to do her material with the benefit of the production that it deserves. She's a talent all right!

Maybe there's money to made in providing an escape from music. You could take requests for diferent kinds of quiet, with or without various background sounds. It would take years of practice to master getting the different ambient sounds down to a perfect timbral and proportionate balance that would have an aesthetic appeal. A real virtuoso would get the sounds moving in some sort of rhytmic motion too, one that makes itself felt w/o calling undue attention to itself. Pretty soon, that might be the new music! Oh, wait, that's another thing that already happened in the 20th century. Never mind.