Teasing the Korean

I didn't say anything about mono. I was discussing the ambiguity of the phrase "digitally processed."

Her vibrato had gotten much worse in the interim.

This is fantastic. It kind of has that post-Jesus Christ Superstar/Hair-era aesthetic of Jesus freaks, the ecology, and back to nature. The 1959 swingin' young couple in the city were probably too old to have embraced this sort of thing, while being too young to have a kid old enough to move onto a commune.

I think I may hear Laura Leslie in the Basie group, but I can't say for sure.

One of the best albums along these lines is an obscure - can't find it on YouTube - album of Mancini tunes by George Wilkins and Group I. It is an RCA album from the mid-1960s, but it sits squarely in 1959 stylistically. I don't know if they ever did anything else like it. Russ Garcia - Wow! (literally) Armando Trovajoli - Seven Golden Men Kenyon Hopkins from Mr. Buddwing: Bob Thompson's three RCA albums generally fit into this vibe. Like a jazzier version of Ray Conniff:

I would have guessed New York, as a lot of ABC Paramount records from that era were done in New York. For vocal session work, singers tended to work only in New York or only in LA, unless they moved. Vocal sessions in those days generally relied on a pool of available singers. Each group leader had his A list and B list, and a lot of it came down to who was available on that particular day. I will have to listen to this album to see if I can identify the singer you refer to.

Don't know this record! Was it a New York or Hollywood session?

I don't think they allow fake beef in Plant City, so you probably have nothing to worry about.

I've been vegetarian since the nid-1980s, and I'm 99% with you on this. It's just that every once in a while I like to remember dinners from my childhood. My mom has been gone for several decades. She used to make a great linguine with white clam sauce. I have developed a veg version of this using certain mushroom varieties in the role of the clams. Anyway, I plan to make spaghetti using the faux Italian sausage just to relive the experience.

Ms. TTK and I watched the Alain Delon film Any Number can Win, with a score by Thee Great Michel Magne. I could not find the fantastic main title on the InterTubes.

Forget? I just posted it the other day in the Euro Modernism thread in misc. music. But yeah, let's add it here! This one doesn't have that swingin'-young-couple-in-the-city jazz sound, as it dates from a few year's later, but it is a nice example of the Now Sound with wordless vocals. Yes, and that album cover! Which Gabor Szabo track are you referring to? The video you linked is an entire two-album set.

Well, I sautéed one of these, sliced it up, and topped a couple of slices of pizza with it. As a long-time vegetarian, this was as close as I've come to Italian sausage in decades.

I have this, and forgot about it. Thank you!

OK, I will avoid it, and express my gratitude for your sacrifice.

Incidentally, Light in the Attic put out a compilation of tracks from Sly Stone's Stone Flower label, circa 1969-70. Sly wrote all the songs. It kind of works as the missing album between Stand and Riot.

I'm talking about professional singers providing an air of sophistication and elegance, not angry goats getting in the way of the music!

Thanks. It sounds like I should listen to it once on the InterTubes, but will I ever be able to un-hear it?

Don't know that, but it sounds like I should avoid it.

I am a sucker for late 50s/early 60s jazz that uses a wordless vocal chorus. It is such a hip sound. It conveys a swinging-young-couple-in-the-city kind of vibe. Here are some examples.

I just got a great deal on a MONO copy of my favorite Tito Puente album Tambo, from 1960. I have had this on CD for decades. It is the stereo version, and mastered by a guy named Dick Baxter, whose mastering to my ears sounds brittle and tinny. This mono LP sounds fantastic, very full with lots of presence.

Thank you! Academics were fond of using the word "problem" during that period. Do you have Jazz et Jazz? That is my favorite of his.

Adjust the bass accordingly.

Of course, but why not add them here? I will have to find the old CD of Greatest Hits to get them in mono, or actually, rechanneled for stereo. I do not like the contemporary stereo remixes of these tracks.