Teasing the Korean

Jobim - Urubu - WB (1976) Truly captures that mood of international 1970s decadence.

chewy, don't you know by now that we're making up these fantasy albums and posting the details online, just to drive you nuts?

Yeah, the stuff he did with Reagan really takes the cake.

I have one of his albums. Also, I thoroughly enjoyed the documentary about him that made the film festival circuit recently. Tom Ze, I mean, not Chuck Nessa.

Michel Legrand - The Happy Ending OST - UA (black label) stereo

Seriously, are Roulette masters missing?

Thanks. Presumably, the conglomerate that slaps the name "Blue Note" on its product now has the rights to this. Why haven't they released it? Do you think because they lost the masters? I listened again to the track in question and I think it's from vinyl. Not that that's the worst thing in the world - I'm just surprised that it hasn't made it out in recent years. I wonder what the Springboard and Roulette vinyl reissues were mastered from.

It looks like this LP, originally on Jubilee, was reissued on CD on Fresh Sounds. It is a needle drop? Have there been other CD issues of this? One of the tracks is on a Blue Note compilation (Latino Blue, IIRC) and it sounds like a needle drop. Are the masters lost?

There is a nice 2-disc RCA sampler covering that period.

The Battle of Evermore.

Where's Kenyon Hopkins? Where's Chaino?

Neal Hefti - Pardon My Doo-Wah - Epic (mono)

Amazing voice. Maybe he can get a gig with the Temptations in the next realm.

How did THAT come off?

Sure, it's musically simple, but coming up with that musically simple idea was the difficult part. And as other composers have said, coming up with a TV theme is a real challenge.

Love this part of the LA Times article, regarding Batman: "I tore up a lot of paper," he told Jon Burlingame, author of "TV's Biggest Hits," a 1996 book on television themes. "It did not come easy to me. . . . I just sweated over that thing, more so than any other single piece of music I ever wrote. I was never satisfied with it." "Batman," he said, "was not a comedy. This was about unreal people. Batman and Robin were both very, very serious. The bad guys would be chasing them, and they would come to a stop at a red light, you know. They wouldn't break the law even to save their own lives. So there was a grimness and a self-righteousness about all this." Hefti said it took him "the better part of a month" to come up with the theme. "I was almost going to call them and say, I can't do it," he said. "But I never walk out on projects, so I sort of forced myself to finish." Hefti's "musical solution to a combined dramatic and comedic problem," Burlingame wrote in his book, "was perfect: bass guitar, low brass and percussion to create a driving rhythm, while an eight-voice chorus sings 'Batman!' in harmony with the trumpets. It was part serious, part silly: just like the series."

In another thread, I mentioned that he did the inside booklet to the Munch/BSO album of Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloe" on RCA Red Seal. This is the earlier mono album from the mid 50s.

I think he posts occasionally under at least two different names.

Downloading vintage AM radio broadcasts from the interwebs. Love the sound of music late at night on a distant AM station - a rarity now that AM is mostly all talk.

Wharton Women in Business?

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His album with Sinatra on Reprise from the early 60s - Swingin' Brass - is one of Sinatra's best ever albums IMHO. The version of "Serenade in Blue" on there is definitive. A hard-to-find but gem of an album is "Jazz Pops" on Reprise, also from the early 60s.

Absolutely.

Nancy has posted this on the Sinatra Family Forum. It is also on the Batman forum. Haven't found an official obit yet either.

The Beatles, from the BBC collection.