Teasing the Korean

All of the great British rock/pop drummers from that era - Ringo, Mick Avory, Charlie Watts, Jim McCarty - combined a hard-hitting rock approach with a certain light swing feel. This is largely missing from rock drummers from the 1970s on.

The house he lived in before that is certainly noteworthy as well. That's pretty amazing too! The guy had great taste in design, matching his futurist musical outlook.

No one else was bowled over by the house? I dream of living in a place like that one day. They should have spent at least 10 minutes talking about the house, the architect, etc.

AGREED, one of my favorites, then again, I'm a huge exotica enthusiast.

OMFG, Dave Brubeck lives in the MOST AMAZING MODERN HOUSE in Connecticut that he's lived in since 1960. YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS DOCUMENTARY TO SEE THIS AMAZING HOUSE!!!

Irving Joseph - Murder, Inc. - Time (stereo) THIS ALBUM IS AMAZING!!!

Dave Brubeck Quartet at the College of the Pacific - Fantasy (red label, red wax, mono). with Paul Desmond. Happy 90th!

Ray Brown All Star Big Band with Guest Soloist Cannonball Adderley - Verve (mono)

Obsession with album covers as a little kid was in large part responsible for getting me into music!

Arthur Lyman at the Crescendo - GNP Crescendo (red label, stereo)

Happy Holidays To You - The Whispers - Solar. Love late 70s early 80s R&B records with that Atari video game "ping" sound!

Thanks. It must be exhausting to be Sting - Everytime someone makes a documentary of a musician, Sting has to think of something profound to say.

Oh, Christ, I have to endure STING AGAIN if I watch the Brubeck? Thank God for fast forward.

Mimi Perrin

In Leslie's honor, I will spin the Louis and Bebe Barron soundtrack to "Forbidden Planet" and also the soundtrack to "Naked Gun" by whoever composed that one (I've forgotten).

I'll have some pix as we get closer to Christmas. I'm still working out some of the details.

Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles - Blue Note (stereo, decadent 70s label design).

STILL decorating for Xmas. So what else can I possibly spin? Johnny Mathis - The Sounds of Christmas - Mercury (black label, mono) The Three Suns - A Ding Dong Dandy Christmas - RCA (living stereo)

Well, the tree is up and the train is running around it. It looks great. All 1950s (and earlier) vintage freight cars, nothing from the era of the giant corporate mergers and ugly logos. The engine is a two-piece Great Northern, of the deco diesel design. I am piece by piece replacing the cheaper knuckle couplers with Kadee couplers. Also, I am replacing the wheels with higher-end versions that use real miniature springs for the shock absorbers (as opposed to the molded ones. I am very excited!

It's amazing that so much of this stuff has survived. I saw Prelinger do some screenings under the name "Our Secret Century" at the Harvard Film Archive in the mid 1990s. I first saw "American Look" there. At the time, he said the collection was so huge that he hadn't even catalogued the whole thing yet. I think at the time he was seeking grant funding to do this.

Understood. All advertising/PR is, I suppose, a form of propaganda, but many (including me) have come to interpret the propaganda as being used for more nefarious purposes. But I understand. You can get lost in those two Websites. Fascinating stuff.

The Leon Thomas Album - Flying Dutchman

Nino Rota/Armando Trovajoli - Boccaccio 70 OST - RCA International (mono)

Jack Jones Christmas Album - Kapp (mono)