Teasing the Korean

This album has eluded me, though I know the cover art. I will check it out. I generally like Russ Garcia's arrangements. In what way would you say the results are variable?

Love this album, but I never thought of it as a "with strings" album stylistically. Granted, it has strings.

June Christy - This Time of Year (Capitol, mono)

Stan Kenton/Ralph Carmichael - A Merry Christmas (Capitol, stereo)

Shearing (two versions), Billy May, Four Freshmen (recentish lineup).

Thanks! It seems that "Snowfall" was kind of forgotten for a long time. I'm glad it has had a resurgence of sorts in recent decades. Even Mike Nesmith recorded a version!

From the creators of Danger Five, Italian Spiderman is a dead-on parody of 60s/70s low-budget, foreign market knockoffs of US franchises.

Twinings English Breakfast tea with honey. Three teabags in a huge mug.

Santa brought me this box set this year! Currently listening while watching the train go around the tree.

And then tell us all that bagpipe music is thriving, despite compelling evidence to the contrary.

"Often very good" refers to the nature of the assignments that composers were given, and not necessarily the quality of the work itself. The albums were organized thematically. If Chappell needed a bagipe album for scenes depicting Scotland, that's what the composer delivered. So, If the Chappell bagpipe album is not in high demand, that's only because bagpipe music isn't in high demand. (No offense to our Scottish contingent, if we have one.)

Except that libraries hired and paid real composers, arrangers, and musicians, and the results were often very good. Hence the collectibility of certain records. I really don't care what Spotify does. I don't use it. If people don't like Spotify, cancel your subscriptions.

For me, Coltrane pairs well with trippy visuals.

The saddest Christmas album ever made: Jackie Gleason - Merry Christmas (Capitol, mono)

Perry Como New Year's Eve 1959 with Johah Jones, among others.

Last night, at around 11 pm, we listened to this: while watching on mute this: The juxtapositions were fantastic. I got this in high school, an out-of-phase LP reissue with revised cover art. It was an important gateway album out of jazz and into space age bachelor pad music. I eventually got the much better sounding CD, with the original cover art.

Are there any interviews with Nat Cole - print, audio, or video - in which he discusses his piano playing to a significant degree?

That was nice, thank you! Whose version of "Snowfall" was that?

No, I set up the trains only around Christmas. That is the reason that this is the time of year when a boy thinks about trains.

Yup! I'll post more pix later. I like night shots the best.

Merry Merry!

Yes, we had this one too growing up. Interesting that she had only one Perry (this one) and one Ray Charles Singers (Something Wonderful), even though she was on most of the records spanning the late-1950s to mid-1960s.

I don't think so. She is simply one of the contraltos on the tracks with a chorus. I do recognize her voice on the intro to Perry's version of "My Favorite Things." This has appeared on some Perry Holiday comps, but it is not on the Season's Greetings album. Thanks for remembering! You can see and hear my Mom at the 2:40 mark ("The Tender Trap"). https://youtu.be/f0PHnBWDGtM?si=8RoV2f5chTO1LI9j

Here you go. $8.49. https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/a-cool-yuletide-remastered-2018-urbie-green-and-his-all-stars/u0r1u4phv4kja Or, just download them from YouTube and choose wav.