Teasing the Korean

Everything looks orange after staring at those blue pages for an hour.

Ms. TTK, who frequently plays beat groups on her radio show, will program a Shel Talmy set on today's installment. I will add parenthetically that, while previewing particular songs for her to include, we were appalled by the lame stereo remix of the My Generation album on the deluxe set. And there was plenty of room to include the original mono mix.

On the other hand, maybe this is not surprising. I had sent them additions and corrections over the years, and in recent years, none of these made it to the Website.

Why are they closing it?!?

Wendy Carlos

You remove "ube" from "tube" in the url, hit "return," and then it takes you to a screen to download. I selected wav as the output format. It allows you to download up to three tracks in an hour. Everything downloads properly. Each file looks, sounds, and acts like any other wav file, but the time for each reads 6 hours, 12 minutes, and 50 seconds, regardless of length. I just listened to all 10 tracks in a playlist, and they collectively clock in at 28 minutes. Weird.

This is weird. Not sure how many of you download audio from YouTube. I don't often, but I do every once in a while. Anyway, today I downloaded some audio as Wav files. All of these tracks - 10 in total - individually clock in at between 2 and 5 minutes. But, when I play them with Apple Music, the times being displayed for all ten tracks are 6 hours, 12 minutes, and 50 seconds (!). All ten of them. They don't actually play that long, but that is how the time is displayed. I placed all 10 tracks in a playlist and tried to burn it to a disc, and I received a message saying that they would not fit on a single CD. I imported a track into Audacity just to see if it looked weird, but the file ends at 4:53. As a workaround, I suppose I could load all 10 tracks into Audacity and export them, but I wonder if there is a quick fix. Anyone experience anything like this? @Stonewall15 ?

I can hear the digital distortion just looking at the cover art! 😹

Well, it looks like our friends at Acoustic Sounds read my post immediately above. They are releasing these four tracks as a standalone (and expensive) LP.

Plus Q!

Lou Donaldson - Gravy Train (Blue Note, stereo)

Art Blakey, A Night at Birdland, Vols. 1 & 2 - Blue Note

Precisely the album that I played last night. RIP.

I hear you, but this isn't the kind of album I put on to hear stellar singing. I have about 30 other Sinatra albums I can do that with.

Lou Donaldson - Lush Life (Blue Note, stereo, played back in mono to optimize the mix.)

Yup! And a real time capsule...

Sinatra at the Sands (Reprise, stereo) With Count Basie. Arrangements by Q.

Q - The Great Wide World of... (Mercury, mono)

Q - Live at Newport '61 (Mercury, mono)

I've now been promoted to Grand Master, apparently too late to be included on the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Hip-Hop.

Do they give you 12 albums for one cent? * *...if you agree to buy 12 more albums at regular club prices within the next three years?

I'm not a fan of Andy Williams, but I don't think I've heard a better vocal version of the theme from The Pawnbroker than his.

For those who didn't know, here is an alternate arrangement of the theme from Deadly Affair, "Who Needs Forever," by Astrud Gilberto, but with Walter Wanderley rather than Q. I prefer the version on the LP, but this is an interesting take. It was released as a single, and appears as a bonus track on the CD of the Astrud/Wanderley Verve album. And the film/album version, with a very lush and exotic arrangement by Q (or perhaps one of his assistants):

Art Farmer - Foolish Memories (L+R)