Teasing the Korean

Ray Barretto - Latino con Soul - UA Latino (black label stereo)

Henry Mancini - Combo - RCA Victor (Black Dog, Living Stereo) As a monphile, let me say that this is the BEST SOUNDING stereo record I own. Featuring a young John Williams on piano and harpsichord!

Kenyon Hopkins - Mr. Buddwing (OST) - Verve (stereo) All-time greatest artist underrepresented on CD.

Charles Lloyd - Of Course, Of Course - Columbia (2 eye stereo) with THEE GREAT GABOR SZABO!!!

Stan Kenton, Pete Rugolo, Esquivel, certain Mancini, certain Les Baxter, certain Shorty Rogers, Dick Schory, many others. Of course, particular albums by these artists may be filed in the Latin, exotica, now sound, or crime jazz sections. I may have 30 albums by a particular artist broken up between, say, 5 sections. All of my Sauter Finegan are in Space Age Bachelor Pad.

Herbie Mann - Impressions of the Middle East - Atlantic (mono) Arrangements by Arif Mardin. This is an insanely hip album.

RIP. The Sauter Finegan records are among the best in the Space Age Bachelor Pad section of my collection.

Pete Jolly - Herb Alpert Presents (A&M stereo promo). Arranged by Marty Paich. The perfect album for today's young jet-setting couple enjoying continental breakfast on Sunday morning.

Bee Gees - Horizontal - Atco (mono) Their BEST ever album, and an overlooked psychedelic masterpiece.

Horace Silver - Sterling Silver - Blue Note (stereo, played back in mono to improve the mix).

Hank Mobley - Straight, No Filter - Blue Note (stereo, played back in mono to improve the mix).

Art Taylor - A.T.'s Delight - Blue Note (DMM stereo reissue, played back in mono to improve the mix).

"Lover" is on neither my 10" or 12" copy of "Black Coffee." I'm guessing it was on one of the other Decca albums (don't think she made too many on Decca; she was on Capitol, left for Decca for a couple of years, and then went back to Capitol).

Luiz Bonfa - The Brazilian Scene - Philips (mono)

Chico Hamilton - The Further Adventures of El Chico - Impulse! (mono) with the great Gabor Szabo. I love rekkids that sound like this one!

Chico O'Farrill - Torrid Zone - Columbia (2 eye mono)

And 40 thousand million people every day. We can be like they are. Come on, baby.

It's the same reason I love the teenage/party/club scene music in 60s and 70s films more than actual pop/rock from the era. The aging film composers came up with stuff that was far more creative and subversive than what kids really listened to. It all comes off like pop music from an alternate universe, like it's jumping out from the pages of a 1967 issue of Vogue or Playboy.

Absolutely. Middle-aged easy-listening and jazz guys trying to get hip to today's sounds made the BEST records, infinitely better than what actual kids were doing.

Nah, he was WAY better than that.

I was standing by the Nile when I saw that lady smile...

The American dream/Includes Indians too...

I has to has this. Can I order it on the interwebs? I has "Manhattan Latin" on Decca and "Jazz for the Jet Set" on Atlantic, maybe one or two more. I love MPS records. Easy listening for groovy and decadent young Europeans in the early 70s.

Thanks. I was surprised to find out that "Demon with the Glass Hand" was from the second season. That's a great episode.

Rod Serling himself admitted that the show fell into a formulaic routine too often.