Teasing the Korean

Arrangements on the CP album are square, old man arrangements, not even coming close to Comstock. It's ironic that most (not all) of the "jazz guy plus strings" albums had arrangements infinitely more square than you hear on so-called "easy listening" records from this period.

I *think* there is a novachord, along with some other electronic instruments, integrated with rhythm, woodwinds, and strings. Best version ever.

Now get to work on finding the Comstock version.

No one has ever come close to even touching Frank Comstock's definitive version.

Bernard Herrmann's first film score was "Citizen Kane." His last was "Taxi Driver." How awesome is that?

I'm going to write a future standard titled "Take A Train."

Actually, I'd have loved to be washing dishes when CP was blowing through the changes on Cherokee.

That's a good one, but if I had to choose one, I'd say the Village Green Preservation Society.

On a back cover of one CD, the writer uses the word "sunk" as a past tense for "synch." Everyone makes mistakes, but where are the proofreaders?

According to organissimo.org, he's in ICU.

David Garland interviewed her several years ago on "Spinning on Air." Not sure if it's archived or not. She talked about being very shy.

Here is a clip of them in the studio! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1RjMuB8Qkd8

If that's the album I'm thinking of, you probably won't be inspired to pick up much else. IIRC, it has period arrangements by Billy May, and self-consciously takes a throwback approach. I LOVE everything else I've heard by her. My Dad had an LP on the Forum label that was really solid. I love her version of "Detour Ahead." For some reason, her LPs don't show up too often in used bins. Either people didn't buy them, or they don't want to let them go.

Ronco In-the-Eggshell Egg Scrambler

Duplicate post, do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dollars.

For a "cheapo" label, these pressings sound pretty great. At least my copies do.

I have a couple of albums on this label that I really love, including one by Bookers Ervin and Little; and Donald Byrd and Booker Little. These appear to be reissues of earlier sessions. Couldn't find anything on the BSN discographies pages.

Revisionist in the way that she's being marketed now, i.e. keeping her first three or four early Verve albums in print (the ones with the bossa/Brazil bent) but not the other eight or so which are not particularly Brazilian. But I hear what you're saying, too.

Astrud's Now Sound LPs are really good - nothing particularly Brazilian about them, except for the overall international/jet set aesthetic that is found in so much of the young adult music of that era. It is interesting that the Brazilian stuff is what has remained in print, but not the now sound stuff. This gives a distorted picture of her as a "Brazilian" singer when in fact she was a pseudo-exotic pop singer, not unlike Claudine Longet. So, I think she should be appreciated on her own terms - if at all - and not as something we expect her to be because of revisionist marketing.

I want to be evil. I'll miss you, Ms. Kitt.

Forget the Brazil stuff. Her version of "Beginnings" KICKS.

I have a mono copy of "Freak Out" that rules.

She has lived in Philly for decades, AFAIK. In the late 60s, she covered a tune originally by a Philly group. It was only released on a single.