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Wilmer Splinterbritches - Baby Let Me Ride Your Bench

yep

It's short. And it's definitely of at-best secondary "importance" in the grand scheme of things. But it's still a fun listen!

Ah, here's an opportunity for somebody to crunch the numbers, find a backer (and a hypesperson), and then go about putting together a touring ensemble (hopefully with people who can functionally do all kinds of doubling). Movies are the crossoverhypeangle, "you will be entertained AND educated by things you always knew but never knew you were hearing" is what you get the reviews to all say in sync (although, each in their own micro-idiosyncratic personal way, of course), you open on the coasts, and then take it from there. Maybe hire some clowns to entertain the children of all ages who are sure to come from all around just to hear that modern music get down. I used to have this kind of ideal about 60s pop, in the mid-1970s, when there was no such thing as a real wedding band. Look what happened with that. Don't let it happen to this. Strike true and strike now!

Johnny Hodges, oddly enough! Johnny Hodges – Creamy (1955, Vinyl) - Discogs

One of the all-time greats. RIP

I have most of the small group and vocalist sides. It's really just the big band I'm wondering about at this time. Long story short - I got a severe case of Sammy Nestico Poisoning in the 70s, not by Basie, but by everybody else who played those charts (and not particularly well, give or take a band or two...no more than two, though). Did not want to hear anybody playing that stuff again, even Basie. In this town, it was ubiquitous and that was not a good thing. But today, with distance and Spotify, I can come back to it with a clear head, and it's sounding pretty darn good a lot of the time. James Leary on bass, wow, yeah!

Hatavina Joerk - Let's Have A Picnic Sing!!! Just in time for the weekend!

How many true big band albums did Basie do for Pablo? And has anybody put them altogether in a single package? Spotify is working in my favor here...It took me a LOT of time and a LOT of distance to not run swsy st the name "Sammy Nestico", but spotify is giving me good thereapy abotu that.

There are real orchestra playing concerts of Final Fantasy video game scores. I've seen the odd concert of Hermannn film musics, but I'd be interested in a carefully curated and presented concert or series of significant "modern classical" film music.

She's old, and so is her voice. But never fatally. Quite the contry, this is a pretty darn good record!

In it's intended function, film soundtrack is a way to hang music on a wall! A multi-media extravviganz!

Norrie Plunkert - That Old Lady At The Market

Uh oh...

Life itself is flawed on a number of levels... like what does "agree to disagree" mean anyway, other than 'I don't want to talk about it any more"? What's the opposite of that? We'll disagree that we agree? Modern language, that's what's wrong with the world today! 👁️

Luxury? Opportunity! And one too often wasted. You know what's frustrating? Hearing a new(ish) piece, thinking that you like it, and then getting home to find out that it's either not been recorded at all, or only been recorded once, and then you get the record and it's not performed all that well. It happens with older repertoire as well. 60 bajillion versions of something and you pick one (or more) before getting a good one. So in that sense, advantage to visual art, because all it has to do is sit there and be pretty enough to get through the door in the first place. They don't hang scores...but you can buy them, just as you can buy books of art to study at home, after dark or even in broad daylight, just like you can buy records. So, actually...you want it to go home with you somehow. Even improvised music, improvised anything. If it doesn't go home with you, it didn't really matter.

Well then there now!

Is he in some kind of HOF? He should be.

Oh, Barbara Burton and Waheeda Massey!

Well, that would be sad if true. He was the kind of guy who's on all kinds of records that youforget he's on...there were just SO many, and they were pretty much all good to great.

It's not as much a reality as it is a choice. And choices are very often driven by propagandistic behavior modification from all sorts of places. So, it's the "reality", because generally, the reality is that once you're in, you can stay until closing time. There's not much money in making people think what you want them to think (well, for now, any way...), but there's a buttload of money to be made by getting people to think that they've made up their own mind all on their own.

Don't know who Fred Plaut was, but DAMN!!!

That's a good thing? I always have a disagreement about when we're "ready to go" at a museum. She's of the "I've seen all of it" school and I'm like, uh....I'm still looking at some of this stuff, ok? I'm one of those guys who like to linger over stuff. It's not Top 40, right?

Como was in the house when I was a kid (and I mean, like as far back as I can remember, ages 3&4). Him, Frankie Carle, and glenn Miller got played a LOT, especially when I got laid down for a nap (which I seldom actually took). Most of that stuff didn't survive the trip to pre-adolescence, much less adulthood, but Como did. Como's Golden Records & Como Swings have had a place in my collection since I left home, and they still get played. But only recently have I began a deeper dive to see what else was there. Turns out there's a LOT, not all of it to my liking, but yes, the guy was a damn good singer. Sinatra and others brought the drama and shit, but what really strikes me about Como now is his total lack of malevolence. And that's a rare quality, then and now (perhaps especially now). Still, I was totally unprepared to find these three records, all of which appear to have been hits. 1955-56, on Elvis' label. One would expect that there would be some mockery, some condescension, even some outright hostility. But no! They got people in the band who seem to had, at the least, some real Swing band experience (or more than some), so, you know, let the people swing, right? No reason not to! They're having fun (and why not?!?!), and again - a total lack of malevolence. So yeah, I dig Perry Como. Still!