Teasing the Korean

This just arrived. Looking forward to spinning after Ms. TTK's radio show is over.

Thanks. I should specify that my reaction to those four is less about the individuals than it is about the convention of including them in music documentary interview segments. It's as if they are the ultimate arbiters of taste, and that their appearing in a documentary is a cultural seal of approval, i.e., Morricone must be worthwhile if someone as great as Bruce likes him!

Please tell me that the interviewees do not include any members of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, namely Sting, Bono, Elvis C, and Bruce. Few things inspire me to change the channel as quickly as those four.

Peter Gabriel - Passion OST for The Last Temptation of Christ, which I never saw. I haven't played the album in forever, but I instantly remembered many of the tracks.

Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks. Wanna feel old? The show debuted 34 years ago this week!

I think they did the same thing with Great Pumpkin and Thanksgiving. There were limited vinyl releases, but also other formats too.

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I've never seen a Record Store Day release that was not overpriced.

Vince Guaraldi's score for this 1969 Peanuts special will be released for the first time this year. The CD and download will be released on July 5, and there will also be an overpriced vinyl edition for record store day on April 20th. http://filmmusicreporter.com/2024/04/08/it-was-a-short-summer-charlie-brown-55th-anniversary-edition-soundtrack-album-announced/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPT5V79R?&linkCode=sl2&tag=filmusrep-20&linkId=77a50eca833e412c84f676d7a0fcbe4e&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl

Tuesday, April 16, 2024, marks Mancini's 100th birthday. I posted the following from CBS Sunday morning in a different thread last year.

Well, one easy workaround is just to remove the odd-numbered bar lines from a tune, and your 232 bpm tempo becomes 116.

The Command percussion albums were the first to go.

Tacos for dinner. Which can mean only one thing: HERB ALPERT AND THE TIJUANA BRASS! Spinning a homemade comp drawn from their first 8 or 9 LPs, all in iiiMONO!!!

Claude Denjean - Open Circuit (Decca/London Phase 4 stereo) Featuring "Kiss This."

Luiz Henrique & Walter Wanderley - Popcorn (Verve, stereo) Not the amazing Hot Butter Moog hit, unfortunately, but it is a good record nonetheless.

Don Elliott & Rusty Dedrick - Counterpoint for Six Valves (Riverside, mono) "Featuring the modern jazz compositions of Dick Hyman." My parents were in the biz and they frequently worked with Don Elliott. Rusty Dedrick is the Uncle of The Free Design. My copy of this LP was previously owned by Saul "Sandy" Feldstein of Freeport, NY, who was a percussionist. https://www.pas.org/about/hall-of-fame/sandy-feldstein The house Sandy lived in was built in 1953, but judging from Zillow, someone tried to turn it into a McMansion. How sad.

Various - American Popular Song (Smithsonian/CSP) Sides 3 and 4. This is it. I started with sides 1 and 2, and then went to sides 13 and 14, and worked my way backwards.

Not a fan. I unloaded most of my Command albums decades ago. That said, I do like Enoch Light's crime jazz album The Private Life of a Private Eye and a couple of his Now Sound albums, including Permissive Polyphonics and Spaced Out. I held onto those three.

@JSngry With regard to Laine "...working in a niche that he created, a conduit of sorts, a transitional music that poked holes in the wall around White Pop," where do Louis Prima and Sam Butera - as vocalists, specifically - fit into the discussion? While I'm no expert on New Orleans music or culture, I do know that at the time Prima was coming up - and maybe Butera, who was 17 years younger than Prima - Italians were considered second-class citizens in New Orleans society, and they often hung out and gigged with African Americans. And then there is the whole complex web of New Orleans accents, which include what we may think of as African American dialects spoken by "white" residents. I realize that this example is several years after the Frankie Laine cuts you posted, but if one were not familiar with Louis Prima or Sam Butera, one might assume that the vocalists on this track were African American.

Thanks @John L and @mikeweil. When all else fails, read the booklet.

Of the two Cannonball Riverside albums with Bill Evans, one is included here (Know What I Mean) and the other is not (Portrait of Cannonball). Any clues as to why? Is it simply because Bill Evans is listed as a quasi-leader on the former? I realize there are two Evans originals on the former and none on the latter.

Heard about it, but have not seen it.

It was Mancini's gig, not the Tubster's.

Track 15 sounds like he's channeling Morricone. Skullduggery has exotica content!

Details and audio samples: https://lalalandrecords.com/death-of-a-gunfighter-limited-edition-1/