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At once extremely more bland and extremely more weird than it seems. This iPod, good lord did I load it up with stuff I'd forgotten about. This is one it's good to hear every five years or so.

Yeah, I just reread the original statement, and it's clear that there are more financial issues than just medical debt, especially identity theft and repercussions thereof. That'd be a hard hump to get over for anybody of any age.

and that's the one you want, too. there's another version (Collectibles?) that doesn't have the extra tracks. Beware!

an iPod surprise!

I think so too, but if it turns out that there are other live links on that site that we get complaints about here at Big O Central, don't be offended if we have to remove the link or otherwise render it unlinkable. If you want to be safe, just list the name of the blog. Most of us here will know what you're talking about. Those who don't have an exciting learning opportunity ahead!

Taut!

Yes, an as-yet unreissued LP: https://www.discogs.com/Gil-Mell%C3%A9-Waterbirds/release/2977768

Taut!

I don't think Waterbirds was an actual soundtrack record? Although the compositions themselves were written for films.

That was a Disney-connected thing? I had no idea! Are we talking about the same thing? https://www.discogs.com/Gil-Mell%C3%A9-Waterbirds/release/2977768

Please do. Now, who do we have to talk to to get Waterbirds reissued?

Well, ok, if I don't have to like the movie...

Two years? What if I see the movie on TV next year and don't like it? Then I'm stuck having to sell it for less than I paid for it. Hardly seems like a winning proposition to me, better get it now and just never listen to it!

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/14/entertainment/tim-conway-dead/index.html Burnett, yeah. But THIS!

There won't be tariffs, will there?

Is this the only way to order, or will there be other outlets? I'm interested, but at maybe a little lower price point. otoh, if this is definitely all there's gonna be....who is it that's always talking about carpe-dieming? That fucker owes me money!

Sorry Marvin, but that shirt....

As far as actual recs go...looking at that list, the three I'd single (triple?) out for attention are the Vick (never, ever common in my life, and I know I LOVE me some Harold Vick), the Cecil (such a profoundly BEAUTIFUL record, lyrical even) and the BJP (nothing but groove/pocket from start to finish, the kind of thing where Grant Green just goes on and on and on and you NEVER want him to stop, but when he does, Patton keeps it right there and you never want HIM to ever stop, but when he does, here comes the next song, and...that kind of a record).

Yes, she was IQ's GF, but I believe she worked a lot in local clubs before and after that. For whatever reason. And she did make one other record, for Time, before the BN date. In 1959, actually. And she stayed active for a good long while too. Mention was made earlier of Gloria Lynne...Gloria Lynne sold a LOT of records to African-American audiences. Successful or not (musically and career-wise) Dodo Green was part of that market/society. I don't find her that bad, actually. But a little does go a long way. Still, I hear people just reflexively ridiculing her with no real awareness of how/why/where that kind of career happens and survives, and although I kinda get it, still, it seems a little uninformed overall. Music like this don't exist in a vacuum, nor is being a girlfriend automatically the only explanation. There's, uh, life involved, ok? https://www.allmusic.com/artist/dodo-greene-mn0000794573 https://www.discogs.com/Dodo-Greene-Aint-What-You-Do/master/1023113 Those Blakey "drum records"...many are similar, none are alike, though. None suck, but none have ever stuck me as "essential" in any way. I myself prefer less "American" versions of that type thing, although I'll stipulate that their "American-ness" is probably what Blakey was aiming for. But give me Side 1 on Mongo's Up From The Roots any day.

Dodo's not gonna be for everybody. but she does represent a very real segment of what was then "the jazz life". Myself, I found the original LP a loooong time ago in a neighborhood where such music was common enough. Let's just say that all the bonus cuts added to the CD struck me as, uh....not helpful.

Ike Quebec & Grant Green on the Sullivan show would have been not just good, but great! #TONYTIGERINDATTANK

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