Teasing the Korean

In Somerville, MA, there is a funeral home that bears an uncanny resemblance to a Bob Evans restaurant.

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I think many of his 60s soundtracks rank up there with Lalo, Oliver, etc., but they're not part of this box.

Here's to you! Thanks for all the great music.

Originals of Q's Mercury albums pop up frequently and they're not expensive.

Thanks. The MGM LPs were put out in the states, presumably while Shearing was making LPs at Capitol. There were at least seven collections, probably more. The material is all the early pre-Capitol quintet from the late 40s and early 50s (a few trio and solo sessions too): You're Hearing George Shearing A Shearing Caravan I Hear Music Touch of Genius An Evening With GS When Lights are Low and ??? - some collection of all the Latin stuff from this period. Most sound like they were transferred from 78s. There are problems throughout - "Cool Mambo" was transferred from a disc with a skip, aforementioned speed issues, etc., but they can easily be obtained in the states for short dough.

How is the sound on those Proper CDs? Any improvement over the MGM LPs?

Yeah, I don't transfer too much vinyl to CD, but i need to do that album. It may be my favorite of the MGM collections.

I LOVE this piece. I have it as a 2-parter on an MGM album, "An Evening With." Unfortunately, on my copy, there are pitch issues on side 1. I think it was mastered at a slightly slower speed (based on the low notes the vibes play and the flabby drum sounds). Is this track on CD anywhere?

All of my post-A&M CTI albums (I lose interest circa 1975) state that you can order a lithograph of the cover art. Curiously, as you look through the albums chronologically, the price drops from $19.95 to like $1.50 in about a year. In all my years of thrifting I've never come across one of these lithographs. I asked Doug Payne this question and he's never seen one either. According to Doug, Creed Taylor claims to have a warehouse full of these collecting mildew. Did anyone ever order one? Does anyone have one? Has anyone actually seen one?

Coming this holiday season: Paul McCartney - Face Almost Frozen

YES! YES! No, that's their SECOND album on the Blue Thumb label, which also contains the definitive version of BB's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart." The album I posted is their first album on A&M. As far as I know they made only these two records, both gems, and essential for a hipster like you!

Thanks. Seeing those ads also reminded me of the comic-style ad where the guy punches in late and gets chewed out by Mr. Bemis. The kid then tells Mr. Bemis he's enrolled in votech classes and has a promising career ahead of him. The guy leaves and Mr. Bemis is shaking his fist. Those were the days...

I'm curious if any of you boomers or early gen-xers ever ordered the 7 foot tall monster advertised in comic books, Mad Magazine, etc. He had glow in the dark eyes, and he was only a dollar. I'm just curious as to how much monster you really got for only a buck.

MONO!

That's right, I forgot. Only I heard the double took his place in early '67...

The Beatles were simultaneously an AM radio pop band AND an experimental pop band. We've heard these records to the point that they've lost their element of surprise. The White Album, for example, is a really WEIRD record. Even the happy ditties on that album come off sounding creepy. Therefore, though Paul is certainly talented, I have every right to view his solo career as a colossal wasted opportunity from an artistic standpoint. His accountant would disagree, surely.

Avoid ALL RCA CDs from the 1980s mastered by a guy named Dick Baxter. He also did a lot of those RCA "Tropical Series" CDs that reissued classic 50s Afro Cuban stuff, often with hideous cover art. I have mp3s that sound better than these CDs.

That's fine. You may not hear it, but his biographer(s) make this claim. I'm simply asking if anyone else has picked up on the similarities.

At least one Sun Ra bio strongly claims otherwise. The Les Baxter track "Reverberasia" (from Skins), for example, sounds uncannily like a Sun Ra track. And various passages in Sun Ra records sound like LB, for example the wordless vocals in "Somebody Else's World" (from My Bro the Wind vol. 2).

It's my favorite song NOW and I'm well out of high school! You're further along than I am!

I'm curious if any of you are into Les Baxter's exotica records, and if you've noticed Les's influence on certain Sun Ra tracks.

Starbucks' Records and Tapes.

Thanks much!