Teasing the Korean

This album was later reissued as St. Thomas under Herbie Mann's name on the Solid State label, with boring cover art. As I was never able to find a clean LP of the UA release, I ended up placing the Solid State vinyl inside of a pristine UA sleeve. This made me very happy!

Russ Garcia - Sounds in the Night (Bethlehem, stereo). The money cut is "Wow."

Morricone - Escalation (Dagored)

That's what the cover band should have called their album instead of Blue. Kind of Kind of Blue.

It wouldn't have been Kind of Blue without Bill Evans.

Paul Butterfield - East-West (Elektra, stereo) Just listening to the 13-minute title track, and "Mary, Mary."

👍 Various - American Popular Song - Smithsonian box set (Columbia) My cat left the room and found another place to sleep when this one started. Maybe he doesn't like the lo-fi recordings on disc 1.

Sly and the Family Stone - Small Talk (Epic, orange label, 1974). Liberated from a dollar bin.

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So, for fun, I checked for updates, and I threw caution to the wind and installed the latest version again, 20240310 (157.0). It installed fine and is working perfectly. So I have no idea what was going on previously. I'll chalk it up to weirdness.

Sonoma 14.1.1 is the Mac OS. I don't know the name or number of the latest XLD, but I was asked if I wanted to upgrade, so I said yes. I then reviewed links to some of the older versions of XLD, and ended up installing Version 20211018 (154.0). It is working fine now. I don't know if this is the version I had been using before I was prompted to upgrade, or if it is earlier. Either way, it is working fine.

I was able to fix the issue by using an earlier version of XLD. Unfortunately, iTunes does not rip CDs accurately. XLD provides a readout at the end of the rip and tells you if there were any errors, and by extension, if the disc is damaged.

I installed a previous version, and it is now working. There must be a glitch with the update.

Yes, he is, and I agree about the high bar. But then again, I didn't think that Better Call Saul could be better than Breaking Bad, but it is.

At Bob Belden's suggestion, I picked up Otto Friedrich's City of Nets, a massive tome about the golden age of Hollywood. It is packed full of good information, but the author's dry writing style doesn't exactly make it a page-turner. There is a chapter about European, mostly Jewish, composers who fled Europe during Nazi Oppression and came to Hollywood, Schoenberg among them. I did not know until I read the New Yorker piece that Leonard Rosenman studied with Schoenberg, or that James Dean was Rosenman's piano student, or that Dean got Rosenman to score his films. Good information.

Ah, Sussex County, New York. Plenty of New Yorkers here! 😆

I assume you do not mean Brighton, MA, USA.

Don't mention it, Pal!

No idea, or as they say in Spanish, no idea.

I am now a veteran.

🥂🎂 Wow! Happy Birthday!

Thank you!

Bump. Can anyone comment on the 2 different CD box sets? Apparently, one was on Atlantic and one was on Definitive. Thanks in advance.