Teasing the Korean

"Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry." Lots of stuff Frank does on his heartbreak albums are possibilities, but some of those don't really fit. Also, some substandards that Frank may never have recorded.

I feel like "Midnight Sun" somehow fits this category, but it doesn't meet all my criteria.

Oscar Brown, Jr. must have some songs that fit the genre I'm seeking!

Don't know this!

Good one!

Is "Lonely Town" the one that starts "It's a lonely old town?" "Lonely Town" and "You Don't Know What Love Is" are great suggestions!

"I can't Get Started."

That is especially good! From the same show as "All the Sad Young Men." The entire "This Time of Year" album by June Christy, now that I think about it, is kind of a holiday version of the aesthetic I'm seeking. "Deep in a Dream" is a good one, as the entire lyric is centered around a burning cigarette. "It Never Entered My Mind" - "...and order orange juice for one..." "Lush Life."

Please help TTK compile a list of pulpish, noirish, world-weary, ennui-laden standards and substandards. Musically, these tunes are likely to be downtempo, bluesy, and/or minor key. Lyrically, they likely involve alcohol, coffee, or cigarettes; lost love; late nights; and general feelings of being a loser and feeling isolated within an urban environment. Most of the best examples will likely date from the 1940s or 50s, perhaps extending a decade into either direction. The best examples may include occasional pulpish slang or Cain-esque, Chandler-esque language. If you can imagine music playing at an urban 1940s lunch counter at 4 am while a tough-talking waitress named Doris serves you bacon and eggs with black coffee, you are on the right track. Here are some examples off the top of my head: Black Coffee No One Ever Tells You Cry Me a River Lonelyville Detour Ahead Blues in the Night One For My Baby Angel Eyes Everything Happens to Me All the Sad Young Men It's not an exact science, and there will be tunes that offer more of this than others, but hopefully you get the idea. Thanks in advance, pal.

In the US, there was a 70s twofer reissue of those albums on the Rare Earth label.

So he hasn't expanded his repertoire after all?

SF Sorrow and Parachute are brilliant. RIP.

Tito Puente - Tambo - LPM 2257 - "SAVAGE DRUMS"

You can say that again! You can say that again!

Technicolor Paradise is awesome!

I have this on LP but it has been ages since I've spun it.

Johnny Mathis and Tony Bennett were similarly on Columbia for very long stretches. Johnny was at Mercury for a few years in the mid-1960s. Tony didn't have a deal for about 15 years in the 70s and 80s. Still, remarkably long runs at Columbia.

And here are Frank Zappa and Mike Nesmith making fun of Smalls' crackpot theory at the 1:43 mark:

Pat Williams and Billy Goldenberg did a lot of great early 70s cop show funk scores. they are sadly underrepresented on CD.

Mike and Frank Zappa make fun of his crackpot theory one week later.

It's just that your particular soul may fall on certain beats and not others.

The arrangement of "Lotus Land" is stunning. It is an exotica essential!

Both "Ring a Ding" and "Swingin' Brass" (with Neal Hefti) easily rank among my 10 favorite Sinatra albums, and they may even crack the top 5, depending on my mood that day.

I'll spin it this weekend and report back.

I have lots and lots of Sinatra, but I never fully gave this album a chance. I always lumped it with the final Capitol contractual obligation albums. I need to spin it soon.