Teasing the Korean

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Jack Jones - Write Me a Love Song, Charlie (RCA Victor) In which our hero sings the songs of Charles Aznevour.

Gene Krupa/Lionel Hampton/Teddy Wilson - Playing Some of the Selections they Played in Most of the Film that May Have Been Called The Benny Goodman Movie. Or Not. - (Clef, mono)

Thanks, will check them out! NP: Benny Carter - Swingin' the 20s (Contemporary, OJC reissue, stereo)

Brother Jack McDuff - Do It Now (Atlantic, stereo)

I don't think so, unless it is in one of my 45 cases, which are completely disorganized. I do have the booklet though. How do those 4 tracks compare to the rest of the double LP?

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life (Tamla) A lot had already changed by 1976.

The other masterpiece by Calello and Gaudio - and Jake Holmes - is Sinatra's Watertown. When Gaudio found out that this was really happening, he had a pool put in his back yard to impress Frank!

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Cannonball - Soul of the Bible

Nat Adderley - Double Exposure Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Zero Time

Stevie Wonder - Music of My Mind (Tamla)

Stevie Wonder - Where I'm Coming From (Motown reissue)

World on a Wire (German: Welt am Draht), a 1973 German sci fi TV serial, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, courtesy of the Criterion Channel. Very prescient.

Wow!

Yes, I noticed this! I have the run from Where I'm Coming From through Key of Life, plus Musiquarium. I am missing the 7" EP from Key of Life though.

My 2024 July 4th selection: Gary McFarland - America the Beautiful: An Account of Its Disappearance (Skye)

Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale (UK pressing on EMI/Tamla Motown)

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (Tamla)

Lionel Newman - Exciting Hong Kong (ABC Paramount, mono) Stevie Wonder - Talking Book (Tamla)

I think he plays some kind of a cop or quasi-father figure to the little girl, I can't remember. It's been a while. Incidentally, it is difficult, it not impossible, to find the original, complete version of this film. We have a grainy DVR burned for us from a friend who was a film freak, and it is purportedly complete, or at least the most complete version available. Since then, we got the Blu-ray from Network - which may or may not work with most US players - and it is apparently the most complete commercially available version. I have not yet carefully compared the two, but that is on my to-do list. I always remember Jan Murray from Hollywood Squares, with the hippy beads and medallions in his chest hair. Even as a little kid, I knew instinctively that there was something terribly wrong about this.

I don't have them, but they are/were on YouTube. One pet peeve was that two of the contemporaneous covers miss my favorite chord in the tune. There was a cover by a female British singer from more recent decades, and I liked her version. Here is the film version, by Rita Dyson, apparently released on a promotional EP. It's the Leslie Uggams version that misses my favorite chord.

Thanks, and good to know. My skepticism stems from the fact that I have long been intrigued by these mono cartridges, but I haven't received satisfactory explanations as to the stylus details. Maybe I'll reach out to Ortofon and see what they say. 👍

That may be correct, but for quite a while, people were attributing the theme to various singers who covered it. There were a few contemporaneous 45s, one by Leslie Uggams IIRC!

None of the cover versions of the theme are as good as the film version. I don't think that version was ever commercially released, and the singer may not have been correctly identified either.