Teasing the Korean

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This was apparently a one-hour Mancini special done for the BBC in 1964. Several videos from the show are on YouTube.

Yeah, that's great. Some of his Six Million Dollar Man stuff was really good too.

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Funny, I am now listening to Johnny Mandel's score for The Sandpiper and picking up on all kinds of Gil Evans chord voicings and instrument combinations.

Johnny Mandel - The Sandpiper (film version) - FSM

In a thread I started years ago called something like "Jazz" albums by "pop" singers, I mentioned the Patti Page/Pete Rugolo Mercury albums, of which there are at least three.

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Here is a great tune in Esperanto. Take three minutes out of your life and listen.

Group 1 - The Brothers Go to Mothers (RCA, stereo) The Wild Tchoupitoulas (Island)

Luiz Henrique - Barra Limpa (Verve, stereo)

Edu Lobo - Presenting (Philips, stereo)

Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps (Columbia) Stereo recording conducted by the composer.

Various - Blue Brazil, Vol. 2 - nominally on Blue Note, really Brasilian Odeon.

I get what you're saying, although I think that he swings on "Come Dance with Me," on Capitol. That said, my two favorite "swinging" albums of his are "Swingin' Brass" with Neal Hefti and "Ring a Ding" with Johnny Mandel, both early Reprise albums. There is a narrative suggesting that Sinatra's Capitol years are unequivocally his best. I would say while Capitol is more consistent, the highs were higher on Reprise. Unfortunately, the lows were lower also. But those who ignore the Reprise era are missing some of his best albums.

Various - American Popular Song, sides 5 & 6 - Smithsonian (CSP)

The label that we know as Columbia in the US was CBS in England. The older, pre-1948 Columbia Records was part of EMI in the UK, hence the older Columbia label. UK EMI Columbia used the logo with the two 16th notes well into the 1960s if not later. Are you familiar with Frank's Columbia album Swing and Dance With Frank Sinatra from 1950? It sounds in some ways like a precursor to what he would do at Capitol, but he's not really there yet, not fully formed. Frankie Laine seems much more in his element doing this kind of stuff than Sinatra did concurrently. A few years and one record label later, though, that would change, at least to these ears.

I don't think I have that one. Will check it out!

I am the opposite. I don't like her vibrato on the later stuff. I reach for the Columbia or earlier Mercury recordings.

Ms. TTK just did a Sarah Vaughan set on her radio show, and she played the Columbia version of this tune from the early 1950s!

Sarah's 100th birthday was March 27.

@JSngry, Just curious, where does Jackie Paris fit into your chronology relative to Frankie Laine, in terms of jazz/swing vs. white pop?