Teasing the Korean

His contributions to the Monkees albums are always solid. Get the mono versions if you can. Also, a ton of Monkees stuff, including top notch Nesmith songs, showed up the collections "Missing Links, Vols. 1-3. You have to skip over some pretty godawful Davy stuff, but these Mike songs are killer. As for post Monkees stuff, the three RCA albums with the First National Band are great. Loose Salute, Magnetic South, and Nevada Fighter are the titles. They all pop up on vinyl for reasonable prices. If you like country rock from that era, these are the cream of the crop. I never checked out too much after these three, but a friend of mine swears by his concept album "The Prison."

Actually I've done this with a pocket knife. If you use the label as a reference point, you can figure out where to make the whole bigger, and then line it up properly on your turntable. Of course, if turntable manufacturers allowed for the removal of the spindle, as they used to, you could easily solve the problem every time.

John Zacharle - Monster Mash - Cameo/Parkway (mono) The Wyncote reissue has 10 tracks. The original has 12.

Michael Nesmith & the First National Band - Magnetic South - RCA yellow/orange label, but pre-Dynaflex. "The Crippled Lion" is dedicated to my cat, who sliced open his paw when he knocked over a ceramic plate. He now has a cast an is wearing an Elizabethan collar. Mike Nesmith is one of the REAL originators of country rock. He was doing it - and selling millions - before some of the others even had a record deal.

Robert Cobert - Dark Shadows Vol. 2 - Media Sound

Mingus Dynasty - Scorpio reissue of the Columbia mono. Sounds great in mono. If there's one thing that drives me up a wall about stereo LPs, it's when the bass isn't in the middle.

Recently spun "Spellbinder" and "Jazz Raga." 1969 is a little on the hit and miss side, but I love the other 2.

Multiplication Rock - Bob Dorough, et al - Capitol orange label.

David Raksin Conducts His Great Film Scores (Laura, Bad & Beautiful, Forever Amber) - RCA Red Seal Stereo Gorgeous stuff.

Michel Legrand - Legrand Jazz - Columbia 6-eye mono.

DON'T.

Las Vegas Grind - Various Artists

Jungle Exotica - Compilation of wild Las Vegas Grind-esque exploitation proto-R&B-lounge-exotica!

Stan Kenton/Johnny Richards - Adventures in Time - Capitol rainbow mono. This must be one of Stan's best albums ever. The cover of my copy has a huge orange sticker with an endorsement from Playboy!

Lambert Hendricks and Ross - The Swingers - 80s Charley reissue of World Pacific LP. Great version of Randy Weston's "Little Niles!"

Funny, that sounds alot like Dentist....

I can't believe an AARP commercial is using the BUZZCOCKS!!!!! As for Canned Heat, they sucked then and they suck now. End of discussion.

So is that reprocessed stereo or do they have the mono tapes?

Ironically, the decades-long campaign to prevent forest fires helped to create the very conditions for the mega-fires we see today.

You have your choice of the original film tracks and the Laurie Johnson conducted recording, both great releases.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think audio signals that are "eliminated" by phase cancellation are nevertheless perceived as a signal by the eardrums.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ubjgisuitDw

Sinatra & Swingin' Brass (with Neal Hefti) - Reprise mono. What an album. This and Ring-a-Ding with Johnny Mandel (also on Reprise) are great companion pieces.

with the great LALO SCHIFRIN arranging. I have a MONO copy that I LOVE!

I was kind of surprised that the west coast jazz book pretty much ignored the whole arrival of jazz into film and TV scoring. This of course happened in Hollywood and impacted LA jazz musicians at the time.