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George Jones was just hotter'n a pistol in 1963 but I guess that his fan just weren't ready for this unusual Christmas record when Christmas rolled around. Instead of the usual fare, Jones is belting out a fun little twist number where the kid spies his mother doing the twist with Santa! It's got the twist rhythm, and Jones is giving it his best comic voice. What a classic! How did this get missed. Here's part of the lyric: I saw Mommy twisting with Santa Claus ! Well I saw Mommy in her night gown She was jumping all around Twisting with old Santy Claus. The record kept a-playin' And Mommy kept a-sayin' Old Santa was built for the cause. His tummy kept a-shakin' And Mommy kept a-making' jokes about the look in his eyes I'll make a little bet I never will forget Mommy twisting with Santa that night.

The funny thing is that Lee thrived w/Elvin & DeJohnette, and Warne did shit with time that pretty much defies description. It's almost like Lennie wanted to do something he couldn't quite do himself, so he got people who could, and then played head trips on them becasue he wanted them to be "his". Or something screwy like that, I don't know. You read the Warne bio? (and btw - I agree w/Jim Dye - it's not like Danny's doing his schtick all over the board or in other people's threads. He's confining it to specific threads - the ones he starts. This board offers many threads on many topics. I trust the moderators to handle things appropriately if they cross certain lines. In the meantime, the REST of the board is there for the reading and posting pleasure of all. Enjoy!)

My God... that very CD is currently sitting on my kitchen table. My wife's getting it as a present for a friend. What are the odds that I'd see that thing twice in two days?! It's on CD? Dude, that's a BAD omen...

Excuse me for quoting myself, but these two are probably connected. But it's a physical transition phase as the mental transition from analog to digital goes on its merry way. Some day... Where's Marshall McLuhan when you need him?

It's really nothing new for composers to take somebody else's theme and either rearrange it or slice it up into something else. The remix has the potential to do something similar. If the results so far have ranged from tepid to insipid to disastrous to sacreligious, it's the fault of the people doing them, not the technique itself. People will make music with wahtever tools they have at their disposal, always have and always will. A lot of kids today don't want to learn instruments and conventional theory, they want to learn turntables, samplers, mixing boards, etc. Although that notion bugs me to no end, I'm more than willing to concede the possibility that things are changing in a big way, and that they ain't going back. Sound is sound and tools is tools. Remember the touting of Sgt. Peppers as a breakthrough for using the "studio as an instrument"? Well, that was just Round One...

Point well taken. Morton's cool, no doubt about that, but I like what AT's looseness does to Lennie. Lennie might not have liked what it did to Lennie, though... I'd have liked to have heard Al Levitt w/Tristano in LT's later recordings.

Once recording made the move from document to artifact, a whole new stream of evolution began, of which I see the concept of the remix as just another step. It's just a tool like overdubbing, multitracking, tape speed manipulation, etc. Whether it's "good" or not depends on the results, not the process, I'd say.

A.T. - That Sing Sing Room stuff is the shit.