Teasing the Korean

As I've written elsewhere, I still have dreams about Stereo Jack's! And I left Boston about 8 years ago! I was back last year and of course scored some amazing stuff. Jack, my two favorite record stores EVER are Stereo Jack's and Princeton Record Exchange (back when the latter was great in the early 1990s). Best of luck - I hope this is happening for good reasons.

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Especially if red wine is involved.

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Incidentally, we wound up watching "Girl on a Motorcycle," which we hadn't seen in a while.

While I was having some fun with my posts in this thread, I have a substantial Bill Evans accumulation, but I unloaded this one because the cover is so hideous. That and the Rhodes, which is not suited for this kind of music. Presentation is important to me.

Many drug addicts grow beards to hide the facial ulcerations from infections and lack of fatty tissue in their cheeks. Evans had a beard to his dying last days. Thanks. Now explain the leisure suits.

Here you go:

I did, a few weeks ago.

Michelle... Here There and Everywhere... And of course... The Fool on the Hill. Whenever Singers Unlimited did a Beatles tune, it always BLEW AWAY the Beatles' own version. That's it, we just finished fondue for dinner and we're going to watch either Purple Noon or Girl on a Motorcycle. Have a good week! - Your beloved TTK.

A cold night. Fondue for dinner. What else can I play but something on MPS? Singers Unlimited - A Capella 1

The Electric Indian - Keem-O-Sabe - UA (pink and orange, stereo) A dollar bin wonder!

I love Jobim's voice - not so much because of the instrument itself, but because of what it says about the composer. Especially his 70s albums. Jobim sounds like a man who has lived well, smoked the best cigars, ate the best steaks, and drank the best scotch. I imagine these decadent dinners at his place in Rio, with Vinicius, Michel Legrand, Henry Mancini, Morricone and Bacharach all sitting around the table with wine decanters and lots of cigarette smoke in the air. The lights are dim, and the room is furnished in dark wood furniture. I see this in a grainy 8mm kodachrome, with the room bathed in dark orange light. It looks like a made-for-TV early 70s gothic supernatural film or a Cutty Sark ad in Playboy. Jobim's voice conveys all that.

Sounds like you may like Julie London's "Julie is Her Name." There is a two-fer CD available with both volumes.

Nat King Cole - After Midnight - Capitol (rainbow, mono) This is a Euro reissue also containing the 5 bonus tracks. Never knew these made it to vinyl. This is by far my favorite post-trio era Nat Cole album.

Thank you both. Looking forward to spinning this - I'll report back.

That's it. I love that mid-century modern design.

Correct, Philharmonic Symphony of NY. Thanks.

I've seen lots of "Stravinsky Conducts" LPs over the years, but I've never seen this one that I scored yesterday. Igor conducts the updated longer suite of Firebird on one side; the entire Rite - All 35 minutes - is on the other side. This one has a great cover (I can't find the image online - maybe someone can help me). It is clearly from the mono Hi Fi era, with that huge Columbia "LP" logo. So, a couple of questions. I have some LPs with sides approaching around 30 minutes, but this one has 34 or 35 minutes, making it the longest single side of a record I've ever seen. Has anyone seen a side with more than 35 minutes? I'll be curious to check out the sound (I haven't played it yet); I don't have high hopes for the sonics. Does anyone know if these are the same recordings that were released in stereo years later? This album is from the mono era, but I know that within the classical world, stereo recordings were being done prior to stereo LP technology.

Michel Columbier - Wings - A&M

That's very funny! Why is that funny? Several of those albums are along the lines of what you described. There are probably fewer than twenty artists whose albums I will buy without doing needledrops. Yusef is one of them.

Guarneri Quartet - Ravel and Debussy quartets - RCA Red Seal Dynaflex. Good pressing for a Dynaflex. Love these works so much. This is a nice performance and recording.

NO, PLEEZE, there are a few of those I'm still looking for!

jack Costanzo - Naked City - Liberty (stereo, rainbow)

To paraphrase Don Draper after they're all sitting around stunned at the VW "Lemon" ad, we're all talking about this, meaning that it's an effective ad.