Teasing the Korean

Gordon's War - Andy Badale, a pseudonym for Angelo Badalamente, who went on to score David Lynch films.

My copy of High Contrast on Blue Thumb lists the artist as "Gabor Szabo/Bobby Womack" on the labels, but the front cover, back cover, and spine say only "Gabor Szabo." Anyone know the story behind this?

Oliver Nelson - Zig Zag I looked at this quickly and thought it said Salute to Shemp.

Why do some images post correctly, while others are elongated?

Elmer Bernstein - Music for the Films of Charles & Ray Eames.

Lee Morgan - the RUMPOLLER - Blue Note stereo played back in MONO so we can kick the bass and piano up an additional 6dB where they need to be!

7/3/195?

Three if you count the MGM knockoff. Of the two RCA UNCLE LPs, here is how I would describe them. Volume 1, with the red cover, has compositions by Jerry Goldsmith, Lalo Schifrin, Walter Scharf, and Morton Stevens. It focuses on scores from the first season, when the show was more serious. Hugo Montenegro did the arrangements, and they are really good and varied. If I had to choose my ten favorite spy albums, this would easily make the list. The second album focuses on the second and third seasons, during which the show got more campy. The two main composers are Robert Drasnin and Gerald Fried. Montenegro is back again as the arranger, but these arrangements lack the range of those on his first album. He really overdoes his patented I Dream of Jeannie sound, with the muted trumpet and organ playing unison lines. Some of the pieces that were chosen are a little more on the goofy side. Still, the second album has its moments. If you spring for that CD, you get both albums, but the first one is the one you want. At around the same time, Montenegro did another spy album for RCA, Come Spy with Me, which has one of the greatest album covers of all time.

The Mission: Impossible albums occupy an interesting stylistic niche, as they are on the cusp between the mid-60s spy sound and the late'60s Now Sound.

I am obsessed with this track from the first Man from UNCLE LP.

I have not seen that show!

Can you believe that our adorable Illya Kuryakin is 88 years old? Tempus fugit. McCallum also released several albums under his own name, in collaboration with Thee Great David Axelrod. And here is Lalo Schifrin's "Ilya," as interpreted by Thee Great Hugo Montenegro.

100 records Bob played on: A Big Hunk O' Love Elvis Presley A Fool Such As I Elvis Presley Abilene George Hamiltion IV Am I Losing You Jim Reeves Are You Teasing Me Carl Smith Battle of New Orleans Johnny Horton Before the Next Teardrop Falls Freddy Fender Big Bad John Jimmy Dean Break It To Me Gently Brenda Lee Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon & Garfunkel Chug-A-Lug Roger Miller Coalminer's Daughter Loretta Lynn City Lights Ray Price Crazy Patsy Cline Crazy Arms Ray Price Crying Roy Orbison D-I-V-O-R-C-E Tammy Wynette Detroit City Bobby Bare Devil Woman Marty Robbins Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue Crystal Gayle Don't Worry 'Bout Me Marty Robbins Dream Baby Roy Orbison El Paso Marty Robbins Foggy Mountain Breakdown Flatt & Scruggs For The Good Times Ray Price Frauline Bobby Helms Funny How Time Slips Away Jimmie Eldridge Gone Ferlin Husky Gotta Travel On Billy Grammer Heartaches By The Number Ray Price He'll Have To Go Jim Reeves Hello Darlin' Conway Twitty Hello Walls Faron Young Help Me Make It Through The Night Sammi Smith He's In The Jailhouse Now Webb Pierce His Latest Flame Elvis Presley Husbands And Wives Roger Miller I Ain't Never Webb Pierce I Don't Want To Play House Tammy Wynette I Fall To Pieces Patsy Cline I'd Be a Legend In My Time Don Gibson I'll Go To My Grave Loving You Statler Brothers I'm Moving On Hank Snow I'm Sorry Brenda Lee In The Summertime (You Don't Want My Love) Roger Miller It's Only Make Believe Conway Twitty Jingle Bell Rock Bobby Helms King Of The Road Roger Miller Last Date Floyd Cramer Lonely Blue Boy Conway Twitty Lonely Weekends Charlie Rich Lover Please Clyde McPhatter Mean Woman Blues Roy Orbison My Man (Undertands) Tammy Wynette My Special Angel Bobby Helms North To Alaska Johnny Horton Oh, Pretty Woman Roy Orbison Old Cold 'Tater Little Jimmy Dickens Only The Lonely Roy Orbison Please Help Me I'm Falling Hank Locklin Poison Love Johnny and Jack Rainy Night In Georgia Brook Benton Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree Brenda Lee Room Full Of Roses Jim Reeves Ruby Ann Marty Robbins Running Scared Roy Orbison Satin Sheets Jeanne Pruett Sea Of Heartbreak Don Gibson She Thinks I Still Care George Jones Six Days On The Road Dave Dudley Snap Your Fingers Joe Henderson Stand By Your Man Tammy Wynette Stuck On You Elvis Presley Such A Night Clyde McPhatter Sugarfoot Rag (Instrumental) Hank Garland Sweet Nothin's Brenda Lee Talkin' In Your Sleep Crystal Gayle Tennessee Waltz The Boxer Simon & Garfunkel The Door George Jones The Gambler Kenny Rogers The Grand Tour George Jones There Goes My Everything Jack Greene There Stands The Glass Webb Pierce Walk On By Leroy Van Dyke Walkin' After Midnight Patsy Cline What Made Milwaukee Famous Jerry Lee Lewis White Lightning George Jones White Sport Coat Marty Robbins Wine Me Up Faron Young Wings Of A Dove Ferlin Husky Wolverton Mountain Claude King Wondering Webb Pierce Wooden Heart Elvis Presley World Of Make Believe Bill Anderson Young Love Sonny James Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad Tammy Wynette

He played on all that countrypolitan stuff in the early 60s. He was grooming his son R. Stevie to join the the Nashville machine, but Stevie wanted nothing to do with it.

Now enjoying that most hated of albums, the Monk Columbia album with Oliver Nelson. If you get rid of the two Teo Macero originals and reinstate "Blue Monk," this is a very good album, like Monk sitting in with the Tonight Show band.

You have to see the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore spoof, where they are actually on strings!

Regardless, it is an interesting time capsule.

I watched three of the puppet shows, Thunderbirds, Stingray, and Fireball XL-5, as a kid. Loved 'em. I watched Space:1999 at the time and have the DVD set for the first season. I think there is a consensus that the second season is not as good. I remember thinking that the shows were more "cerebral" than those of Star Trek, but I was only a kid. I haven't spent enough time with the DVD set to form an opinion as an adult. Incidentally, all of the shows I mentioned were scored by a British composer named Barry Gray. The scores are fantastic. I have several on CD, and the season 1 Space:1999 scores in particular are amazing.

The WWII generation was living in the suburbs and raising kids at that point. They wouldn't have had the time or the disposable income until later.

Yes, because that was what was available to the baby boom generation by the time they began to age and have disposable income. The WWII generation was not identified as a similar target audience by the record industry 25 years earlier. For the most part, there were not good LP reissues for that generation during the 60s and 70s and into the 80s. The French EMI series was an exception.

You should have known my parents and their friends! Also, working in record stores during that period, I encountered many customers who were disappointed that there weren't more albums available by X or Y. I think the article hints at this but may not explicitly state this.

Um... I'm talking about LPs. The article is from 1981. The WWII generation did not receive the kinds of reissues that the baby boom did.