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I'm interested. These type of albums by these type of singers interest me more and more. Wish the arranger had been somebody other than Sid Feller, though. His work with Ray, though always "good", was never "great" imo. Nothing at all wrong with it, but... Day always was a good singer, and with good material and good charts she could give a very nice rendition. She didn't get a lot of that at Columbia, but when she did, the reults were invariably nice. This one sounds like it might be worth a check out. BTW - the Day Columbia side that she did w/Andre Previn is a perfectly innocuous and perfectly tasty bit of singing. The "warble" (I think it's just her vibrato, really) is there too, and it does bug me a little, but it's still good songs well sung.

I bought one Lonehill disc early on, a Rusty Bryant thing. Given their marketing angle of "For Professional Collectors", I was expecting some good discographical information, and an informative liner essay. I got neither. The discography was bare-boned basic, and the essay was a generic, if competently written, career overview that shed no illumination whatsoever on the particular music at hand. I can usually tell a con job when I see one, and this one was definitely a con job. But the cover photo sure was colorful!

Nope, indeed.

Seriously, the premise that men must be lying because they report having more partners than do females is a flawed on, because it implicitly assumes that all/most of the women surveyed are going to be the type that all/most of the men surveyed are always/usually going to have as partners. And that just ain't a safe assumption.

Wanting to have responsible access to relevant information to responsibly use in the protection of my children is not "using my head"? Oh well, I can live with that. Please note - I have already expressed my feelings of distaste for the website in the original post, and I have already expressed a distrust of the current judicial/political clime and the resultant hysteria created by same. Lots of bullshit going on there. But that's not what I'm talking about. As to what I am talking about, it should be clear once the abstractions of "ideology" are cleared away and a little bit of common-sense takes its place (or once my previous statements in this thread have been read). But that's not much in style these days, is it? Babies and bathwater, always a troublesome combination for some...

Well then, that'll be one less partner for you!

Cheap shot. Your example isn't parallel and you know it. . No, I don't know it. For my uses and intents, it's exactly parallel.

Yeah. I'm all about that.

Watched curling this morning on USA. I was treating as a joke at first, but about 10 minutes in, I began to get hooked. So did LTB. Can't say that I've ever seen a sport where the results of a play are more engrossing than the play itself, but hey, maybe that's an idea whose time has come.

Yeah, putting signs up on streets to warn of potholes and such is a waste of time.

Thanks. I play country club gigs in Corpus 3-4 time a year. Never leave home early to go side-hunting, since the trip's long enough (longer, really...) as it is. Doesn't sound like it would be a good idea to start. Unless you're decoying me...

Marchel Ivery has long played the tune, and played it well. It's a hip little number- the form's a bit unusual, that short bridge that goes to the minor adds color, and the tag make for a good setup for the next chorus. Defintiely not something you can just thoughtlessly blow on/through. Can't stomach The Four Lads (?) version of it, but that's not the song's fault.

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There's used vinyl in Corpus? Where?

Probably some of both. Besides, who owns Bethlehem, Mode, etc, these days? Not a deep-pockets mega-corporation, I don't think. But the Argo stuff they're releasing, that's raising my eyebrows. Universal is multi-national, and they could come after them, I'd think. Same with the Sony/Columbia stuff. Hey - I deal with thieves in some form or fashion almost every day. That's life. But there's "honorable" thieves and then there's the kind that I don't want anything to do with, just because. Everybody's got to make their own call as to which is which, but Lonehill/Gambit/et. al. are firmly in the latter category for me. No humilty, no discretion, no class, no real sense of a deeper understanding, just gluttony and garishness. Not my kind of folk.

I may be one of the few people who feels this way, but I was actually disappointed in the way the "traditional" horn section sounded on Alegria. It hought they sounded drab, and, yes, "dated". I wanted to hear the broader colors that well-programmed/plaed electronic instruments can provide. I can never find fault with a composer/arranger/orchestrator looking for new colors.

As for the "majors", here's how I look at it. They are indeed in the business of turning a nice profit. But he music we're talking about is even more of a niche market today than it was in its time. Forget about "young people" making Kenny Dorham their next cult hero. Ain't gonna happen. It's 2006. Fifty years ago was 1956. I was 21 in 1976, and 50 years ago from then was 1926. A lot happens in 50 years. Anyway... Yes, there is a "profit" to be made, but it's not a big one by any standard. I do think that the majors ought to be more open to leasing their material out (and they seem to be becoming so), but nobody's going to get rich reissuing this type stuff. The numbers just ain't there, save for the odd "blockbuster" here and there. A major label would be crazy not to lease out their more niche material to anybody who wants to target that niche. A parked car gets no mileage. But here's the thing about Lonehill - they don't lease. They steal. And Public Domain? Hey - that's 50 years in Europe, and Lonehill is issuing plenty of things that were released less than 50 years ago. And as noted above, they lie about their product - "complete" sometimes isn't, "new" material never is, and "their" mastering is always somebody else's. This ain't preserving a legacy. This is selling smack to junkies.

Well, yeah. If I steal your car, repaint it, and then resell it, I going to make a real good profit.

Not me. Real instruments couldn't make those sounds. Which may be your point, , but red is not blue, if you know what I mean.

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