Teasing the Korean

Here are two tracks from "A Wilder Alias" by Jackie and Roy. This album is one of the reissues. I have a feeling that folks gloss over this one because they think it will be a typical Jackie and Roy album. Anything but. Also, that's Roy playing the Wurlitzer electric piano. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1jgTPzCMq0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GINLBMghPfc

The Miles Davis stamp would have been better with the original cover of Miles Ahead.

I was thinking of all these songs from the so-called "Great American Songbook" that end with some sort of play on the song's title. Some examples: "I Won't Dance" - "Won't" is used as a refusal to dance, but then the last line: "I know that music leads the way to romance/So if you hold me in your arms, I won't dance." "I'll Be Seeing You" - I'll be looking at the stars, but I'll be seeing you. "Nice Work if you Can Get It" - After two stanzas of "And you can get it if you try," we hear "And if you get it, won't you tell me how?" The only well-known song from the rock era that I can think of that uses this device is Todd Rundgren's "We Gotta Get You a Woman" - And when we're through with you, we'll get me one too. What happened?

C'mon guy's...

Any fans of Bernard Herrmann's 451 score? The final two pieces, The Road and Finale, are among the most beautiful things he wrote.

RIP. A big part of my teenage years. Tomorrow, I will spin Bernard Herrmann's Fahrenheit 451 score in his honor.

I was obsessed with Dark Shadows as a kid. I loved Barnabas and Quentin. And Angelique. The Dark Shadows LP on Philips was my first soundtrack album and was a gateway into experimental, dissonant orchestral music. I also had, and still have, the Viewmaster reels. When the show was cancelled in 1971, I was crushed, especially right after the Beatles broke up. When my wife and I got together in the mid 1990s, the show was being repeated on the SciFi Channel. I had no idea they'd saved all the shows. We subsequently started buying the DVDs. I have all the soundtrack CDs and love Robert Cobert's music. He also did music for the Night Stalker and Burnt Offerings. Yes, the show has all sorts of problems, but that is part of its charm. I have no interest in seeing the Tim Burton travesty.

These days I find myself getting endlessly lost on Youtube watching TV appearances by the great pop and jazz singers of this period. I love everything about these clips - the songs, the sets, the fashions. As a kid, all of this represented the mysterious and elegant world of adulthood.

The chart is virtually identical to Axel Stordah's instrumental version on his great Dot exotica album "Jasmine and Jade," circa 1960. I wonder if he wrote the chart for this TV show and then recycled it for the album, or vice versa. I tried to find it on Youtube. There are two other tracks from the album but not Baubles.

Great idea. I think I'll post a similar thread in each sub-forum just to be sure everyone gets the message.

At first glance, I thought it was Herb Alpert!

I think the "Horizontal" LP is their masterpiece. Here is a live version of "And the Sun Will Shine" from the late 1990s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0g057a4JeQ&feature=related

I'm spinning, back to back, the mono and stereo versions of "Rhythm Meets Rugolo." The mono has more presence in the rhythm section, but the stereo has nice room ambiance, even though the balance is off at times. Such cool music...

SPOILER ALERT: I just finished the novel. I was surprised that a lot of the plot/content around Michael in Godfather II was not in the novel at all (Roth, Miami, Fredo's murder, etc). Was much of that story written specifically for the film?

That's it, a.k.a. Naked City. (There were two Naked City themes; Somewhere in the Night was one of them).

You can get one really amazing album out of those two albums. I agree that's the weakest track of the bunch.

When you make a record as good as "Warmth of the Sun" or "Let Him Run Wild," I'll be first in line to buy it. Promise.

Thanks for the reply. Very helpful. As for the LP length, mono LPs in the 1950s often clocked in at 40-45 minutes, sometimes as much as 50 minutes. Sinatra's early Capitol albums had 8 songs per side. Shorter LP lengths became more common in the stereo era, with apprehension about groove cramming and inner groove distortion. So, based on Capitol mono LP lengths in 1956, Cuban Fire runs a tad short. Still, it's a lot of music compacted into 31 minutes.

The original LP of Cuban Fire has six tracks. There is a seventh track called "Tres Corazones" that was recorded and eventually released on the CD. The original LP clocks in at only 31 minutes; adding this seventh track would have made the LP only 34+ minutes. Does anyone know why this was left off the original LP? Also, is it intended as the last tune in the sequence, or was it supposed to fit in someplace else?

Looking forward to seeing this film. Music Licensing costs have delayed its release. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/movies/wrecking-crew-film-focuses-on-session-players.html?pagewanted=all

How sad that the guy who scored "The Saint" and "Danger Man" had to end up collaborating with the likes of Pete Townshend.