Teasing the Korean

That's how I discovered this series. I have been OBSESSED with the title track since it first came out on the "Snowflakes" MPS compilation. The only music I feel like hearing right now is stuff that would be played at a fondue party in 1973.

Various - Get Easy Vol. 4: The German Pops Collection

Les Baxter and 101 Strings - Que Mango! Alshire 1970s session with that decadent Euro feel, perfect for today's young couple sipping Martini and Rossi on with Angie and Burt on their yacht.

That's it. I stumbled across a Horst Jankowkski collection in this series.

The new JAZZ CLUB series adds an attractive budget line to the Verve catalogue. With its modern design and popular choice of repertoire, the JAZZ CLUB is not only opened for Jazz fans, but for everyone that loves good music.

Horst Jankowski - And We Got Love - Mercury (stereo) Featuring "Zabadak." The sound of today's young couple sipping a sherry in front of the fireplace at a ski lodge.

Horst Jankowski - Jankowski Plays Jankowski - Mercury (stereo) Fondue for dinner tonight, so we're spinning nothing but fondue music today.

Bacharach's tune "Nikky" was the opening theme for the ABC Movie of the Week in the late 60s and 70s:

Oh, totally, that tune is pure Bacharach. TV commercial jingles from the 1950s- 1970s are light years beyond anything you would hear now on pop radio. If there is such a thing as pop radio anymore. A sad commentary. We're having fondue for dinner and you can bet that some Burt Bacharach LPs where his is wearing a cable knit sweater on the covers will be on deck.

As a kid, this commercial represented the mysterious world of adulthood in less than 30 seconds. I'd like to live inside this commercial, minus the outpatient treatment at the Ford Clinic.

There was a generation or so of good and great jazz critics. I would argue that with the internet, we have far less of a need for critics in general. It's much easier with on-line consumer reviews, message boards, and sound samples to decide if something interests you or not. There are many people whose opinions I value - some of them post on this site. There are also a lot of hack critics right now, some of whom post on that other site and use embarrassing cliches like "muscular" and "respect for the tradition." Yechh.

There's a version of this tune on the Benny Golso album "Tune In, Turn On to the Hippest Commercials of the Sixties."

How much more music is there by him beyond the double Blue Note LP and the Bethlehem album? Is the rest mostly alternate takes? Are the alternate takes radically different?

He was ALWAYS a jazz guy!

Sinatra and Jobim - Reprise (white label promo, mono). I love Claus Ogerman. I can't wait until it gets cold and I can make fondue and have Claus Ogerman music on in the background.

I'll bet there were fewer computer problems back then, because the IT guys were always around.

I should add that I ADORE the Art Van Damme records on MPS from the early 70s. It sounds like music that young couples in Germany would listen to during a fondue party in the winter.

Lucky is a true cosmopolite. He has been everywhere, has seen and done just about everything, and knows everybody. He has a suave, sophisticated, polished and international demeanor. His adventures may involve anyone from a bowery bum to a deposed king. He's a mystery man, intriguing to women, admired and envied by men.

Henry Mancini - Mr. Lucky - RCA (70s yellow/orange Dynaflex pressing, stereo). Sounds amazing for a Dynaflex pressing. "Softly" is stunning. Dedicated to my late cat Brigitte who went to Rainbow Bridge on Oct. 28, 2009.

RIP. I can only wonder how many albums I have that were recorded at the Village Gate. What did they do with the space after it closed?

And its B-side, "Happy Birthday Digression Thread and More Computer Problems."

Skip this crap and read a novel.