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Oh, I could listen to that one for minutes on end! But instead, I'm reaching for: Danni & Delli - Calling All Boys!!!

So, what's your favorite track? I think mine is "Cut Me Slowly (Cut Me Deeply)". Kinda like that old Andy Kim song, but not really.

I wonder if it has to do with saloons, like, a tourist guide or something.?

oh my.....

Close! Brenda fixed me a bowl of Green Chile Stew made with the pork shoulder she did yesterday. Also, growing Anahiems in the garden this year, they seem to be coming in small batches, but we have 3, and a few more almost ready. A few weeks ago we had 4 and, again, Brenda made some kickass rellenos. I've had those after large portions really good frijoles. It was ice of them to wait. Truly, a sign of good breeding!

Hospitable Records. says it's a Canadian label.

Is that the first pressing? The one I have says "Bar" code. A later pressing, maybe? Or maybe it's a different record altogether?

Pasta? Fish? Barbeque? Burgers? Chicken? Details, please, it's getting to be lunch time here and I'm open to suggestivity!

Noncents!

I know the music well enough to feel if they have a feel, and then, let the feels begin! Some books are useful for data, and that includes quotes from sources. I have learned to not expect more than that (and that it be accurate). Anything else is a bonus. And if too many "conclusions" are drawn about what it "means"...if I can call bullshit, I will. If not... Trust has to be earned, at least as much when engaging with the written word as in real life, off the page. Real people can be fluid, but words on a page don't move.

Big Head Todd and the Monsters Big Joan Big John

It's all the same thing. People project their reality onto somebody else's story, something always gets left out or misrepresented...I no longer look for too much besides did they get the facts right and did they talk to the principal party and/or close associates if possible. If not....uh-oh.

It really is. As "frank" as Straight Life (but less "sensational"). In the end, the man confronts his demons (like, confronts them, what they are, where they came from, why they are there, and how he let them get to him) and decides to move on in spite of them. "Raise Up Off Me" indeed.

It's useful but infuriating. Read it with that in mind. Ultimately, it was not the book I was looking for. aka Ken Burns Effect

That's the only Verve record in there, right?

It's free if you want it. I tipped the band on the way out. Now, hope he does right by them that gave it to him. Jihad if no!

I mean, my first impression of Hawes was that he was some kind of a west coast Horace wannabe. But I was something like 16 at the time and didn't know jack shit about too much of anything. I got over that soon enough.... I really can't imagine a well-informed adult saying anything remotely like this, especially in a liner note on one's own label! But this is why a fuller history must be told. For all I knew at the time, Hampton Hawes WAS a west coast cat who just fell in with the rest of them Contemporary Records crew. But then, the history comes more fully to the fore (not the least in Hawes' own words), and...Critical Jazz Theory, still needed!

There ya' go. When in doubt, isolate the variable.

I just found this one via a Dianne Reeves record and was blown away. It's not been recorded much that I can tell, and following the finds in chronological order is...interesting. It keeps getting more and more elaborate. Starts here, in 1953: then takes a left to a swinging version by Dave Lambert on a 1960 record I had never heard of until this research (video is cues to start on the song)... and then Johnny Mathis (on Mercury, very nice writing by Al7yn Ferguson), in 1964. Here's where it starts getting, like i said,.elaborate... Then to Nancy Wilson in 1967 (Billy May, iirc): in between, Blossom Dearie in 1983 & Don McLean(sic) in 1987, don't care about either one, so... Dianne Reeves in 2008 (George Duke!!!!!!) past that, that's all I can find. Hardly anything if not obscure, and still room for interpretations, I think. How it gets to the bridge is pretty....delightful, imo. Personally, I'm not so much into songs for the sake of songs any more, but you know, when one comes along that you haven't heard AND is really interesting AND is not at all visible in a level that is concomitant to its interest...yeah, that works for me!

She's hanging in there...still very underground/cult figure. A long, strange trip...But yeah, all the progress in new pop either goes through her or has to catch up with her. What I put up here is just the best of what's available on YouTube. There's much more...but here's two from her Japan days, more pop in nature, but DAMN, what pop! She's got this gift for doing all the pivots in a wholly unique way, be it melody, harmony, or lyrics, stuff just takes these turns and shifts that are always RIGHT. Check out that TOTAL WTF? curveball at the end - PURE SUGAR POP!!! I don't often joyfully LOL at pop, but damn, this one gets me EVERYtime!

Decimal is not a problem, or wasn't for me. $ might be. Didn't try that. But that makes sense, $ is not a number.

Pops Erdenthall - Slippers!!!

I think there might be a jazzbigbandtune in here?

Looks like the button only allows for PayPay or offline payment (mailing address for check is provided). I just made a token donation thru the button as a test and had no issue. Might be a browser thing?

it's a great book, you should read it. And it was actually critically hailed in its time for its honesty.