Teasing the Korean

Jimmy Smith/Lalo Schifrin - The Cat (Verve, mono) RIP Alain Delon.

This is also one of their most restrained albums in terms of vocal arrangements. Which can be a good or bad thing, depending on your mood.

Cannonball - Music, Y'All (Capitol, decadent 70s red-and-olive label)

Stanley Wilson - Pagan Love (Capitol, mono)

The Hi-Lo's Happen to Bossa Nova - (Reprise, mono promo)

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That's what Jimmy Smith said!

You and I may be close in age. When I was in high school, I went through a punk/new wave phase, and then I became a full-on mod for several years. I never had a Vespa, but I had a parka, three-button jackets with narrow lapels, and skinny ties. And I listened to the Who, Kinks, Small Faces, American soul/R&B, and all that the Two Tone stuff. Plus a lot of ska/blue beat from the 1960s. Quadrophenia I think is a really good film, and by far one of the best "rock" films. I rate it above Purple Rain or any of the Fabs' films. And from photos and archival footage I've seen, they really nailed the period. I always wondered, though, about the scene in which the Mods crash the party and put the My Generation album on the hi-fi. Instead of showing the UK Brunswick LP cover, they show the 70s US MCA twofer reissue of My Generation/Magic Bus. I've wondered if that was a glaring continuity glitch, or if it was the Who's sly comment on the state of their US catalog.

Yes and no. In the US, "mod" was used primarily as an adjective to describe anything hip, groovy, contemporary. This would have been primarily mid-60s to maybe very early 70s at the latest. The US in general was aware of Carnaby Street and fashion, but less aware of UK mods as a subculture. That said, US soul/R&B acts who toured England were well aware of the mod scene and its obsession with US soul/R&B. This surfaced in the recent Stax doc. So it is possible that the Impressions knew about the UK mod scene. The lyrics to the title tune, though, don't necessarily support that idea. For what it's worth, I had heard the term "mod" since I was a very little kid, but didn't understand what it was all about until I started getting into the (early) Who and Small Faces. The film of Quadrophenia was a revelation for kids in the US.

The Young Mods' Forgotten Story - The Impressions

Stolen from Neil Innes on Rutland Weekend Television.

I love this Moondog song title: "Why Spend the Dark Night with You."

🤙 Around the time of the financial meltdown, a friend of mine called one of his albums Too Big to Fail.

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Don't Crush that Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers - Firesign Theatre. Television Personalities had two great album titles: Yes, Darling, but Is it Art? They Could Have Been Bigger Than the Beatles

I always thought Dudley Moore's Genuine Dud was a great title.

See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!

A few years back, we binged most or all of her films with Cassavetes. Opening Night is a real favorite.

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I have this disc, but I do not have the inserts, so I don't know how much info is included. Most of this disc, from track 5 on, is the Ray Draper Jubilee album with Coltrane, in mono. But there are 3 stereo tracks at the beginning - 4 if you count the alternate take - with McCoy Tyner. The tracks are "One and Four" ("Mr. Day" on Atlantic), "Like Sonny," and "Exotica" ("Untitled Original" or similar on Atlantic). What is the story with these tracks? Were they recorded for Roulette? I see that they showed up on one of those 70s Echoes of an Era Roulette twofer LPs. Was this their first appearance on vinyl? Was the Like Sonny CD the first time they'd been released digitally?

That Darn Cat OST. Bell, Book & Candle OST - George Duning

Agreed. And I really liked Laura Karpman's score. I was not familiar with her previously. She apparently has a jazz background.

This. This.

I have it on a Collectibles CD, but I've never found the vinyl. I wonder if the streaming version comes from a better source. There are fleeting instances of tape dropout on the Collectibles, suggesting that it was lifted from a less-than-ideal source. I don't think it was mastered from vinyl, though.