Teasing the Korean

Gary McFarland - Soft Samba Strings - Verve stereo The perfect album for today's jet-setting young couple, drinking French wine and having artichokes for dinner.

Brasil 66 - Herb Alpert Presents - A&M mono The mono version KICKS!!!!

Brasil 66 - Equinox - A&M mono. The mono mix KICKS!

You guys are selling Miles short. He also invented folk rock, boogaloo, exotica, and bossa nova.

Bang Bang, You're Terry Reid - Epic yellow label (stereo)

Riz Ortolani - The Biggest Bundle of Them All OST - MGM stereo. 60s soundtracks have the best cover art.

DIABOLIK!

DUDZIAK!!!

Will you guys go out on a date with me sometime?

Teasing the Korean: Are you the swinger from Rio? Sergio: I used to be. That's EXACTLY what Joan Bennett answered when someone said "Aren't You Joan Bennett?" The consummate hipster...

But the BEST edition is the one in MONO!!!!

I have handled on numerous occasions old reels of tape recorded in professional studios and I PROMISE you that their condition can vary greatly. Whoever Steve Hoffman is, he either has experienced this firsthand, or he's lying.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/c...0,6330700.story By Claire Noland, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer May 15, 2008 John Phillip Law, a tall, blond actor who cut a striking figure as the blind angel opposite Jane Fonda in 1968's "Barbarella" and in other film roles, has died. He was 70. Law died Tuesday at his Los Angeles home, his former wife, Shawn Ryan, said. The cause of death was not announced. Born in Los Angeles on Sept. 7, 1937, to L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy John Law and actress Phyllis Sallee, Law decided to become an actor after taking drama classes at the University of Hawaii. He moved to New York in the early 1960s, studied with Elia Kazan at the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater and landed bit parts on Broadway. He went to Europe and found work in a handful of Italian films, where he caught the attention of Norman Jewison. The director cast Law as Alexei Kolchin, a young Soviet submariner who wins the heart of a teenage baby-sitter in "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming," his 1966 Cold War comedy set in New England. Law's next break came in Roger Vadim's science fiction fantasy starring Fonda, who was then married to the director. Equipped with oversize, feathery wings, Law's bronzed angel, Pygar, shields Fonda's gun-toting, go-go-boot-wearing heroine in her intergalactic adventures. After gaining notice for his roles in "Hurry Sundown" (1967), "The Sergeant" (1968) opposite Rod Steiger, and "The Red Baron" (1970), Law starred as the ruthless Robin Stone in "The Love Machine," a 1971 version of Jacqueline Susann's pulp novel. The movie flopped. Law, who mastered Italian and Spanish in his European travels, worked steadily in Hollywood and abroad, appearing in such action-adventure movies as "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" (1974), "The Cassandra Crossing" (1977) and "Tarzan the Ape Man" (1981), among others. He also had a stint playing Jim Grainger on the daytime television drama "The Young and the Restless." At the beginning of his career in the '60s, Law lived in a 1924 Los Feliz mansion with his brother, Tom, who had been the road manager for Peter, Paul and Mary. The brothers rented rooms to up-and-coming singers and artists, including Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol and Tiny Tim, turning the home into a vibrant salon of emerging pop-culture icons. Life at the Castle, as it was known, was documented in “Flashing on the Sixties,” a 1987 collection of photos and text by Tom's former wife, Lisa Law. Besides his brother, Law is survived by a daughter, Dawn, and a grandson. Services will be private. claire.noland@latimes.com

John Philip Law has died. He was in both "Barbarella" and "Danger: Diabolik." I will leave both of these films on repeat all weekend with the volume down, while blasting the stereo and drinking wine.

I hear you, and of course there is a market for this stuff. I just find the quest for audio perfection puzzling. The same stuff keeps getting reissued and "improved." Despite what others have said, 50 year old audio tape is not indestructible. And those masters are going to get older and more fragile.

Wow, talk about being WAAAAAAAAAAY ahead of its time....... Yeah, I've got all the 78s.

I thought her father was the bass player Gene Simmons. He's certainly old enough.

Actually, record labels are fueled by this obsessive mania, these delusionaires that repeatedly spend money on the same titles.

Thanks. Are there any volumes that avoid the 80s stuff and focus on 60s or 70s?

So I guess we should just say "good enough" and send the shit off to Iron Mountain. Better than constantly reusing the tape for the sake of a few delusional obsessives.

So can any of you tell me if the volumes are arranged stylistically?

I picked up 3 volumes, ALL DATED 2008. Sergio is not listed among the 10 or 12 releases in the volumes I bought. This must be a different series (most of the featured artists weren't big in the US). Played the Menescal volume and it's superb.

Les Baxter - Ritual of the Savage - Capitol (turquoise label, mono).

Verve is mining Brazilian label catalogs and releasing CD collections of Brazilian artists from the classic bossa/MPB 1960s era. The series is called "Pure Bossa Nova." There are about 10 collections so far in the series - I picked up the Menescal, Nara Leao and Sylvia Telles volumes. Especially worth it for the artists who didn't release much outside of Brasil.

So are they arranged stylistically? Is there like a Latin funk volume or a Brazilian volume?