Teasing the Korean

Bev, interesting that you left off the bossa stuff. Don't you like these albums or did you just get sick of them because they were overplayed? Also, what do you think of Communication '72? I am obsessed with Michel Legrand.

The Wild Angels OST - Tower (mono) with Davie Allan and Arrows and others.

Bola Sete Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival - Verve (stereo)

I love Tony Bennett, and I love Bill Evans, but this album doesn't do it for me. Evans's playing is gorgeous, but Tony's not in his best voice, IMHO, and he tends to overdo it on a couple of numbers. I think that at a different point in his career this could have been a better record. There are a couple of good tracks, though, including "When in Rome." I can't stand Gene Lees's lyrics for "Waltz for Debbie." Frankly, I don't care for Lees as either a critic or a lyricist. I never heard the second Bennett Evans album.

Duke Ellington - And His Mother Called Him Bill - RCA (Bluebird Digital 80s reissue - not my first choice of a pressing; the price was right) Burt Bacharach - Reach Out - A&M (mustard label, stereo)

Duke Ellington - Bal Masque - Columbia (6-eye mono) Jazz Crusaders - The Young Rabbits - Blue Note (twofer comp of World Pacific stuff) Joao Gilberto and Herbie Mann - Atlantic (red and purple mono) - Comp including Joao's early Brazilian recordings and Herbie Mann's recordings in Brazil.

My instincts tell me that the crowd sounds were added to a studio recording. Am I correct? If so, have these tracks been issued without crowd sounds?

Thanks for the replies. I have a 22 minute file that I'm trying to break into smaller chunks. I'm used to doing this with audio programs and it seems way more complicated than it should be. Then again, I'm just starting to use this program. I'll figure it out. Thanks again!

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He had the foresight to release "Introducing the Beatles" before Capitol signed them! Happy Birthday!

I LOVE library records.

The paper sleeves are stuck to the records! I has three kittehs, so I don't know who is responsible. Do they do kitteh DNA testing?

Mono LPs are amazingly forgiving in that regard.

When I first saw this thread title, I thought it was a vinyl geek's equivalent of "Fantasy Football!!!" As in, wouldn't it be a great to have matrix number AXFZ-1044867B?

Why do they go to the trouble to create these programs, but make it so difficult to do anything with them?

Oscar Brown Jr. - Between Heaven and Hell - Columbia (six-eye mono). Sometimes OBJ sounds like a male Nina Simone. In fact, now that I think about it, sometimes Nina Simone sounds like a male Nina Simone. All these OBJ albums on Columbia have a large percentage of tunes that I've never heard elsewhere.

This is the biggest stupidest non-issue that the media and/or government has ever addressed. No one cares. Let's arrest opera singers for taking a sinus pill before they sing.

OMFG! I WISH I COULD SEE THIS! I hope they do "Happiness is Just Around the Bend" and "Whenever You're Ready!"

John Keating - The Keating Sound - London/Decca Phase 4 (stereo)

I'm taking your advice to heart because I trust that if there was something there you'd not be afraid to admit it. I have a much higher tolerance for this kind of stuff than many of the regulars here. Gordon Jenkins's concept albums, while they have their moments, were corny back in the day and time has only made them worse. Judy's vibrato was completely out of control by this time, you could fly a plane through it. If you like Judy and you like "Seven Dreams" or "Manhattan Tower," you may find something worthwhile here, I suppose. My Dad worked with Gordon Jenkins for years and had a copy. When I inherited Dad's record collection, this one didn't stay. Nice cover art, though, with an actual letter affixed to the sleeve.

You mean the Yoko Ono part? I love that! That album has a perfect mix of Plastic Ono Band minimalist thuddiness combined with Bollywood strings that nicely suits French lasciviousness. It is such a brilliant album.

Johnny Williams - Rhythm in Motion - Columbia (six-eye mono). Never cared much for John Williams, but he was pretty good when he was Johnny.

It's horrible. Avoid.

The album where he's in the wagon is way better in mono. The bass sounds off-mic in the stereo version. The mono has much more presence.

Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring - Mercury Living Stereo Dorati, Minneapolis One of my very favorite interpretations, with the second-best cover art.