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There is one hit on this compilation: This was not a hit: That's too bad!

Bill Burks https://books.google.com/books?id=qiQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT3&lpg=PT3&dq=Bill+Burks+designer&source=bl&ots=NhRn0X44Tn&sig=ACfU3U2nQP2OysY5aIdYhxwqq9zVi5b0HQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAt8bfzfPgAhUHjq0KHUKkCkg4ChDoATAJegQIARAB#v=onepage&q=Bill%20Burks%20designer&f=false https://www.discogs.com/artist/1832113-Bill-Burks-2

So there will be something instead of nothing?

"Stomp", to me, creates an image of somebody standing in one place intentionally and repeatedly footing it on down with the explicit goal of creating death. Nothing accidental about it. Disney always did seem a little, uh....repressed to me. Somebody whose gut response to a freaked out owl is stomping it to death...yeah...

A bit more on Cesar Frazier in this old thread:

And the Japanese model is to reissue in small quantities for selected period, then wait for demand to re-accumulate, then do it again.

How do you accidentally stomp anything, especially an owl? Waiting for the rest of the story!

there ya' go.

Yeah, that Disney/Paul Harvey story might seem harmless enough a fabrication, but, you know...there's a line somewhere between entertaining your audience with fiction without being too careful about fact and just spreading bullshit to an uncritical audience who will take everything you say as gospel, because, you know, Paul Harvey is "one of us". They will believe anything "he" says, and not entertain an even sideways does of skepticism that it is not 100% accurate exactly as he said it. There can be a problem with that, ya' know?

Personnel, anybody?

When it's good, it's great. It's not all good, though. And then...oh well.

The Rest Of The Story was good until the end. It was the noon thing that got weird.

Actually, yes!

Growing up in ultra-conservative oil patch East Texas when I did, Paul Harvey was huge. Huger than huge. Local radio stations would take out full-size billboards with his face on it. Work stopped (as did lunch breaks!) when he came on the air. As happened with many of his age/ideological inclination, the 70s made him increasingly uncomfortable and a few times he really stepped in it. REALLY stepped in it. Embarrassingly so sometimes. He used to be fun. By the time it was all said and done, I did not at all enjoy hearing him. Nor was I the only one. He became yet another one of those polarizing figures in the overall cultural landscape, and then he just sort of withered away. It was like he didn't get it at all, and doubled down on what was bringing him down. The marketplace responded in turn, and by the end, the SNL parody of him (was that Joe Pisocpo, who was that?) was all that was left of him - a cranky old white guy who rambled about all kinds of weird shit in a vaguely paranoiac ranty kind of way. The sparkle was long gone, as were people who remembered what it had sounded like when it was there. So that's what happens, people tarnish their reputations, they get relegated, and then, after the dust settles, maybe, other parts of their legacy get examined and perspective is gained. So.... Stand by..... for NEWS!!!

Page two....

More of the story, then. The parts that a high-powered defender machine was able to deflect when their client was alive. And of course there will be hype, exaggeration, and perhaps outright lies. There was certainly all that when MJ was being defended, and there will be some now. Stuff balances out over the long haul, but/and the harder it gets distorted, the more distorted is the rebound. But...onward. Until it all gets said, maybe this says it all:

The Jacksons are very protective of their name and their brand. And I get that, really I do. I've been to Gary, Indiana (one time), and it was one of the most toxic (literally) environments I've ever experienced, the air was poison. I almost vomited and could not imagine anybody actually living there, good lord no. So I get that it was a long way up for the Jacksons and that everybody involved busted all kinds of ass against all kinds of odds to let their God-given talents break through all the bullshit. And I get that that's a very real side of this coin, very real.And I also get that Joe Jackson was probably going to be an abusive asshole no matter where he lived. But Gary didn't help any, ok? But hey, Michael was a weird dude, and I'm totally ok with his pedophilia being called out (ok, alleged pedophilia), as long as it's called out in a broader context of what made this family so hardcore about everything, and how that quite likely warped beyond redemption the most gifted of the bunch (and certainly scarred all the others) while at the same time seeking to understand not just what happened, but why it happened this way. I don't seek sympathy, but I do want understanding. Understanding is not an excuse. So what I'm looking for is a full look at all the factors that went into creating this brilliant performer, as well as the damaged soul within. None of it's probably pretty, but oh well. We've had the pretty. Now it's for the rest of the story.

AROUND THE WORLD!!!!! THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD!!!! wait....maybe not the whole fucking world... Let it play out. He'll be back where he's been taken off, trust me. and if he's not, oh well. You gonna tell me that all the 96 octabajillion Michael Jackson records in the world are going to vanish from the collective global consciousness due to a moment of, uh, shocked reconsideration? The accusations against MJ are not new, nor should they shock anybody but the most blind (which is admittedly a whole lot of people). But yes, dead people can't defend themselves, which in some cases might be a good thing. The sheer machine power of an all-in defense juggernaut built not around defending but instead protecting needs to be worked around, and the guy being dead might well be the only way for that to happen. In my mind, I remain reasonably certain that he was a pedophile. I also remain reasonably certain that he was a severely damaged individual long before he was a pedophile (two words - Joe Jackson). And I remain absolutely convinced that he was one of the greatest entertainers/performers and, at times, artists of the 20th Century. Pedophile/Genius, both existing in the same space. Deal with that, world. Take your time, but definitely deal with that. So yeah, let it play out.

In real time, I found this one to be a little too transparent in its derivations to be fully enjoyable. Still feel that way, but with time and experience comes a perhaps more nuanced understanding of evolution, career paths, and all that good stuff, so let's just say that I appreciate this more now than I did then, without liking it any whole lot better. George Duke was a creative guy with amazing chops, endless abilities, and no really focused organic musical identity. That's not a criticism, just an observation. The world needs people like that, they make significant contributions to other people's musics and are more than capable of making interesting/fun work on their own that will never be wholly unique. This is that. Oh yeah, need to add that the amazing number of different derivations that Duke was absorbing - and processioning very knowingly - would be enough to paralyze (or even kill!) a lesser man with a slower mind and/or a weaker spirit.

No she isn't, silly. But she is Woody's niece, at least according to this guy: https://www.richardmoxham.com/bonnie-herman/

I've never heard her singing anything but that she didn't sound warm (no joke intended). She seems to be very much loved by those who have known and/or worked with her. Used to detest the SU, but that was because of only hearing them with the Boss Brass and stuff like that. Hear their a cappella things a few years ago and did an immediate revision of opinion. Then the albums with Farnon sealed the deal. And I did not know that she's Woody Herman's niece!

Richard Shores - Emotions Supposed to be MOR (I think?) ut is actually more "light classical" and as such, pretty damn good.

hmmmm........