Teasing the Korean

A Jack Jones Christmas - RCA (orange 70s label, stereo, but pre-Dynaflex) "Some Children See Him" is such a cool tune.

Andy Williams - Merry Christmas - Columbia (stereo) This is the green album. Just the pop side, not the religious side. I should glue the two albums together, pop sides out, and get a 180g vinyl version.

Andy Williams Christmas Album - Columbia (stereo) This the red album. Just the pop side, I'm skipping the religious stuff on side 2.

God, I LOVE watching the train go around the tree while Jack Jones is singing! It's like I'm 5 years old and there's great music on AM radio, instead of a bunch of right-wing blowhards!

The Jack Jones Christmas Album - Kapp (black label mono)

That's it, I'm ditching my piano for the alto sax and changing my name to Peter King.

Yes, it's all very confusing. I never saw Ronnie's colleague, Pete King, but heard his fruity cockney voice on the radio. I've seen the other one, who calls himself the full PETER King, several times in his career from the 1960s to the present and he has now developed into one hell of an altoist - Britain's secret, you might say, now we no longer have a Tubby Hayes or Victor Feldman to offer. Here's a curiosity: Peter King playing Bird's alto! My link Thanks for clarifying. Except that Peter did occasionally go by "Pete," at least in the states. Unless there is a third guy out there.

Although I prefer CDs these days, I must bring home at least 250 used LPs a year, most acquisitions from shows. Some are gifts and some are upgrades. I almost never buy new reissue vinyl.

Two saxophonists named Pete King who were both associated with Ronnie Scott...

Pete King was a British jazz tenor saxophonist and the manager of London's famous jazz club, Ronnie Scott's Well then it is apparently the same guy I'm talking about if we can believe this: http://peterkingjazz.com/bio.html

Another vote for "Reflections in the Sea of Nurnen."

Is this the same Peter King who was very active as an arranger for vocalists?

Membership in the Republican party? The order is usually the other way around.

The Swingle Singers - Christmastime - Philips (stereo) I love this album. It makes me want to drink hot buttered rum.

You guys with HO trains who do not have layouts: You really have to check out this snap-together roadbed track. They've made it within the last decade or so. The track never comes apart, and the trains never derail. Perfect for setting up under a Christmas tree.

JH, feel free to share your thoughts on these albums here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=49118

Beautiful. I'm trying to imagine if Ursula Andress or Edwich Fenech is behind the wheel waiting for you. Now playing: Various - Jingle Bell Jazz - Columbia (80s pressing, stereo) This is the version where they ditch the godawful dixieland track and replace it with "Deck the Halls" by Jack Ackerman (from the Cassavetes film "Faces").

Anyone seen him live recently and/or have any idea what his recent music has been like? Truth be told I didn't know he was still performing.

Kenny Burrell - Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas - Cadet (mono)

It's so boring now when you stop at tracks for a train. Everything is CSX. There is no variety in the car designs or logos. There are all these cars - I don't even know what you call them - that are kind of like flat cars with these boxes stacked on them. It's not like when you used to see box cars from all different railroads with different slogans in brush script, like "The Peoria Gateway" or "A Smoother Ride" or "The Katy Serves the Southwest." And there are no more cabooses.

You should digitize those super-8 films and put them on Youtube. There is some great train stuff on Youtube.

And he hears jazz in the house!

Back to TTK's world: I'm watching the train go around the tree, and I'm spinning Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite," on a Columbia 6-eye mono LP, conducted by Kostelanetz.

Wow! I love those art deco steam engines too!

I have HO trains. I don't have a layout, but now that they make that track where the roadbed snaps together, I can run it around the Christmas tree for hours and it never derails. The newer track never comes apart. I have all steam-to-diesel era freight cars, most of which are vintage Athearns. I have a two-piece diesel engine. I hate taking down the tree every year because I have to say bye bye to the train.