Teasing the Korean

And many A-list composers and arrangers did library music between assignments. Ennio Morricone, for example.

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When I lived in Beantown, they used to do free summer outdoor concerts at Government Center, which was Scollay Square before the sad destruction of the West End. I worked in one of the buildings that was part of the West End Urban Renewal project, the State Services building. This imposing brutalist structure was designed by Paul Rudolph, who is better known for his Sarasota mid-century modern homes. While I have mixed feelings about brutalism, the destruction of the West End impedes my ability to assess the building purely on aesthetic terms. I once described it as a fascist headquarters as if designed by M.C. Escher. At any rate, I was finishing my shift, and just as I stepped onto Staniford Street, I heard: Boom ba-boom POP Boom ba-boom POP. As I walked up the hill on Staniford Street, I listened. I then heard Ronnie Spector: "The night we met I knew I needed you so..." She was performing that day. I continued on Staniford, and made a left on Cambridge, walking toward Government Center. Ronnie kept singing. The song ended as I walked through the turnstile to take the Green Line. My walk was perfectly timed with "Be My Baby;" it accompanied me the whole way.

I know of this but I have not read it. I do have the book on library music.

Do you know if Seeburg was a Muzak competitor, or was that technology used by Muzak?

This is really fascinating. I had never heard of these.

The Jazz Heat Bongo Beat master tapes have been digitized as lossless files. They sound amazing.

The first time I saw Jack live, with orchestra, he did this song, and this arrangement.

This?

Jack Jones Sings Michel Legrand, featuring lyrics primarily by the Bergmans, is the greatest album Scott Walker never made. Jack signed my copy, and said it is one of his favorites among his own catalog. RIP Marilyn.

NO, is it on the InterTubes? Check out his reading of "Santa Claus is Coming' to Town!"

I am sadly saying goodbye to the holiday season, watching the B&0 F3 A&B units pull a final freight train around the tree, sipping some Jim Beam Bourbon on ice, and listening to the saddest Christmas album ever made, Merry Christmas from Jackie Gleason. A perfect album as late afternoon turns to evening.

Oh, and The Slender Thread.

I will see if I can find this. Thank you!

I was worried someone would say that.

What is the best available digital version of Duke Jordan's Les Liaisons Dangereuses? It looks like there are several grey market versions sourced from vinyl. Looking either for CDs or CD-quality downloads from places like Qobuz. Thanks in advance.

That track I posted is killer, easily the best thing Pat Boone ever did, even if he didn't know his voice would be overdubbed onto a funk beat!!!

Very cool. Do you know about the 1970 B-film The Cross and the Switchblade, in which Pat Boone plays an inner city priest? Ralph Carmichael did the score. This is the money cut, very big with DJs because of the breaks:

This film looks like essential viewing, precisely the kind of thing that Ms. TTK an I will enjoy on a Friday night.

Seriously? The Lost Man In the Heat of the Night They Call Me Mr., Tibbs

Time to break out those Quincy Jones albums!

IIRC, the stereo separation is so severe that the Monk is the only thing in the center. Everything else is mixed hard left or right. As a result, you can remove Monk's piano playing entirely and replace him with a different pianist. Or Jimmy Smith.

it is as close as we came to an Esquivel album of Monk tunes, so I love it for that very reason. It is the Monk space-age bachelor pad album that should have been released in 1959, but didn't come out until 1968 or whatever.