Teasing the Korean

Agreed, but there is a pretty finite number of albums that really fit the category, not counting some film soundtracks. I think there is a general consensus that the Garcia and the Comstock are the two best examples.

No but the greatest outer space album ever made was written and arranged by Russ Garcia. And the second greatest outer space album ever was arranged by Frank Comstock, who was at least on the periphery of jazz.

Son of Muthaf@#$in Ice Bag! Massive break in "The Call of the Wild!"

I get that. But when I was paying 50 cents or a dollar and bringing this stuff home by the armload, I wasn't complaining either way. That was an incredible time. All these LPs and no one selling them knew anything about them.

Well, I was paying a dollar or two for all of this stuff in 90s - twofers, and OJC single LP reissues - so functionally, I didn't feel a major difference. I was hauling this stuff home by the armload. Getting the original cover art for Yambu made up for not having an extra album. I would have paid for the cover alone. But otherwise, it all blended together for me. Maybe it was different if people were paying $5.99 or whatever for an OJC single album reissue.

Yes, but all of it involved Fantasy being able to reissue this stuff with their CCR earnings, so functionally, there was no difference between the 70s twofers and the 80s-and-later OJC albums.

Oh, I understand. Being able to write about the albums with some historical context rather than hyping the music like you would on a new album.

I think about that often. I was able to lie in bed, put on headphones, and read liner notes over and over. Now, I'm either at my desk working, sweeping the floors, doing the dishes, cooking dinner. I can't even remember the last time I was able to close my eyes and listen to an album top to bottom, while doing nothing else.

Lots of those OJC twofers - before they were called OJC - were by Dan Morgenstern.

Now playing another Silva Horror collection:

Just drank a glass of a 2020 Pinot Noir from Lodi called Old Soul.

Understood. Before I knew the name George Shearing, I recognized that sound. It was everywhere when I was growing up. In films and TV shows, it was often heard in the background at parties, to create an air of elegance and sophistication. All the major film and TV composers used it at one point or another. John Barry and Henry Mancini come to mind.

Don't know Virgin Witch! We have seen Blood on Satan's Claw and might have the DVD. Who is the composer? EDIT: I see that it is Marc Wilkinson. Not familiar with him. Is this a Hammer film?

Various: Silva Treasury - Horror!

And sometimes non-LP tracks, like Yusef Lateef's exotic 45.

They make sense in the south, too, where your cars can heat up to lethal temperatures in a matter of minutes.

Gianni Ferrio - Death Walks at Midnight

At a time when most of the jazz section in a record store was either fusion or smooth jazz precursors, the twofers filled a very important void. I bought several at the time, and picked up many more during the great vinyl purge of the 1990s.

Carlo Rustichelli - The Whip and the Body, featuring the beautiful "Windsor Concerto."

Exactly, especially when the so-called "anchor stores" like Sears aren't there to create the foot traffic anymore.

Wish I could be there. Break a leg. Please post any video, if it exists.

https://www.miamiherald.com/miami-com/restaurants/article254599882.html

Well I hope the contestants brought home some Lenny Bruce, in addition to CCR and Cal Tjader.

I'm guessing that The Sick Humor of Lenny Bruce was out of print by then.

For the first time in many years, I went to an old-school, large, enclosed suburban mall yesterday. Long story, but I had to go to this particular location. Aside from the fact that malls seem like an anachronism in the age of Amazon, there was the added element of our pandemic-era reality. The space that had been a Sears was empty, as was the parking lot around it. The functioning part of the mall had almost a post-apocalyptic quality about it. There was an Apple store and a Verizon store that were both packed to the gills, but many of the other stores looked empty. Employees all seemed to be wearing masks. The shoppers' mask status was about 50/50. When I was finished, I exited through a department store that had very nice displays, but almost no shoppers or employees. I lived in NE cities for many years, so malls were not at all a thing in my life. In the area where I've lived for about 18 years, many of the old-school malls have closed, and there are enough shopping options to avoid the two surviving malls. I had a mixture of feelings. I always hated 70s suburban mall culture on the one hand, but on the other, it seemed a little sad to see a mall on life support. That's my dispatch for today.