Teasing the Korean

Is it '64 or 65? It is summer 1965.

You guys are quick! Thanks for the suggestions! I will see all of these. I had no idea there was another "The Big Sleep" - I'd seen only the Bogart. I LOVE Raymond Chandler but have not yet read "Farewell, My Lovely." I think I'll wait until I've read it to see the film. And the Mitchum-Julie London-Alex North triumvirate sounds amazing. THANKS!

I have only seen a few of his films, including the iconic: Cape Fear and Night of the Hunter. I have also seen "White Witch Doctor," mainly to hear the Bernard Herrmann score; "Thunder Road," which I should have liked more than I did; and "Dead Man." I also have his calypso album on Capitol, as well as the Capitol hot rod comp "Shut Down," featuring "Ballad of Thunder Road." What did Mitchum do in the 70s and 80s? I'd like suggestions on early films too.

I read about this. I'm not a baseball fan, but I love stories about rediscoveries of "lost" artifacts. I'm looking forward to the expanded "Metropolis," which is supposed to be out in time for the holidays.

I am listening to Italian stuff non-stop these days.

Looking forward to hearing this! Thanks for the shout out! Is real audio the only way to listen to these shows? I have iTunes on my Mac at home, and Windows Media on my computer at work.

A real fave of mine. I am hosting next week's edition of "Latino 54" on www.wmnf.org WMNF 88.5, and will pay tribute to Buddy by playing a track from the greatest album ever made.

Was the jazz community unified in its condemnation of Ken Burns's bad hair piece?

I'm not sure what the "jazz community" is in this century, but the consensus I've encountered is that the documentary contains some amazing footage but is seriously flawed in its opinions and presentations. And also that Ken Burns has a bad hair piece. I personally don't care for Burns's documentary style, regardless of subject matter, and the fact that he used this style to provide Wynton Marsalis with 20-hour-or-whatever platform to espouse his warped views leaves little of interest to me. Most of my friends who listen to jazz have generally agreed with this. EDIT: The fact that they crammed 1960 to 2000 into a single episode is absurd, and to make it worse, 30 minutes of that episode were devoted to Duke's and Satchmo's funerals.

Sorry, I though he was in BS&T.

The back cover of "Yesterday and Today" is arguably the greatest back cover of a rock album ever. I love seeing the titles of so many great songs in bold, and then the covers of all those great lost American Beatles LPs. When I was a little kid, I would stare at the back of this album endlessly. When I first saw the actual 12" covers in color at Sam Goody's, it was more than I could handle. To this day, looking at Beatles album covers is far more interesting than listening to their music.

Every version of "Spinning Wheel" is brilliant EXCEPT for the version by the dreaded BS&T. There is something very subversive about "rock" music being played by aging easy listening/jazz artists that sweaty hippies can never achieve. Screw BS&T. I want to hear Peggy Lee's version.

Any Kinks album on the Marble Arch label.

Is "Flirt and Dream" a part of this series? I love this album!!!

I don't think these styles are necessarily "dumbed down;" rather, I think they try to take into account how people read content on the interwebz. I often read Websites differently than I do hard copy.

You have to color the edges of your LPs with a green magic marker before you can play them with a new cartridge. They will sound better that way.

Has anyone seen this? How is it?

It wasn't practical. The only way to see color was to line up all three glass plates in a projector and project them onto a wall.

Maybe, I just found out about them today. On the Library of Congress site, they explain how the photos weren't viewed for decades - each photo existed only on isolated monochrome slides (blue, red, green) that had to be superimposed and projected. Digital technology over the last ten years allowed the slides to be combined and printed. Software apparently takes care of slight discrepancies that occurred between each monochrome shot. There's something very eerie about looking into those faces and wondering what happened to everyone after the Revolution, WWI, and Stalin. I'm conditioned to think about that era in black and white - it's interesting to see it in color. Even aside from the novelty of color, the shots themselves are amazing.

"...I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time - when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun. Collected here are a few of the hundreds of color images made available by the Library of Congress, which purchased the original glass plates back in 1948." http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html?ref=nf

He has a bad hair piece, too.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/arts/music/11silber.html

Congrats! Chuck, were you involved with the music for the wedding?

MGA, you have a PM. Thanks!