Teasing the Korean

I believe so but I don't know for sure. She was on Perry's TV show and most of the records at that time, AFAIK. I think she would have been on the A-list for recording sessions as late as 1964, but it was down to whoever was available for the session that day. Session people back then sometimes wouldn't know if they were recording for a record or for a TV show. Growing up, the only Ray Charles Singers album we had in the house was the Command album Something Wonderful, from 1961. I remember they would spin this on an occasional Sunday afternoon. This album mixes some mildly-jazzy numbers with some overtly corny stuff. Based on what else I've heard by The Ray Charles Singers, this was typical.

Yeah, but why the second Pulitzer?

I thought Duke already received one posthumously. Am I misremembering?

Most of the upcoming Forumula-1 races are too early in my timezone to drink Champagne. I will have to wait for the Brazilian and Japanese races.

I don't think so, although the images are pretty blurry. This would have been on the cusp of when she left the show. I don't remember the circumstances.

Yes, circa late-1950s to mid-1960s.

Is that from Perry's TV show? If so, my Mom would likely have been on that show. I would love to ask her about all the guests. Johnny Mercer was a guest one week.

I think the phrase "slot cars" was originally applied to the larger-scale cars that you would take to race in public locations that had a track set up. Do you remember those? My older brother had a car made by Cox, and I remember as a very little kid going with him to the track that was in our town. This would have been late 1960s. But yeah, "slot cars" began to be applied to both Aurora and later Tyco HO-scale race cars. I wish I still had my Aurora set, but you can't keep everything. Since this is a music site, two Formula-1 soundtrack albums I have are Michel Legrand's Le Mans and Maurice Jarre's Grand Prix.

Well, sometimes "nice" is what you need to get you by. I also love the Fred Katz album played by Chico's Quintet. It is far more challenging, but I have to be in the right mood to hear it.

Thank you for the detail. You have confirmed my overall impressions. Now, did you have Aurora Model Motoring when you were a kid, or was it before your time?

I am now just learning that Formula 1 is essentially Grand Prix, or more accurately, that participating Formula 1 countries hold their own Grand Prixs. Is this accurate? Grand Prix - or Formula 1 - seemed very international and jet set to me when I was a kid. This was when I had Aurora Model Motoring tracks and cars. Did anyone have these? Collectively, all this made me think of suave, nattily dressed Europeans drinking wine or champaign while watching the races. Formula 1 seems like the opposite of Nascar, certainly in terms of the demographic that the latter attracts. (I don't want to teeter into political discussion.)

I was a big fan of Rat Fink. Any overlap in aesthetics?

I dunno, I've never heard a Chico Hamilton record I didn't like, although my favorites are from the Gabor Szabo era. I have long included the track "Far East" on my Exotica Buried Treasures compilations.

Good to know! My copy, or the copy I possibly imagined I own, is mono.

Blue Martini by Plas Johnson and John Neel.

Now enjoying this album, featuring Gauguin cover art, with brunch. The version of "Bali Hai" is especially nice. If you have the Pacific Jazz box set, you have this album, but it is of course split up between two different discs, because we are talking about Mosaic, after all.

Yeah, Mike gets a combover and they bring in the dreaded Bruce. And Brian and David are gone, although Al Jardine becomes the secret weapon in their harmonic blend. Dennis looks great regardless of the era.

L to R: David Marks, Dennis, Brian, Nick Venet, Carl, Mike.

Yeah, anyone who would want this has most of these albums already. Kind of like the Miles Davis box set.

I thought that was surprisingly insightful and respectful from the 1962 United States perspective. So many pieces like that from that era take a dismissive tone. This really seemed like they were trying to understand what the music was about. Thanks so much for posting!

I'll look for it, thanks!

Don't haz it!

They are good for Starbucks customers, though.

Don't forget Gerald Wilson.

Is Blue Note still releasing digital compilations that include tracks from other Universal/EMI labels, but under the Blue Note banner? They were doing this during the CD era. I have no issues with combining tracks from different labels for a comp, but it is misleading to present that stuff as Blue Note.