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$230! Must be worldwide. IIRC did just under $100 mil domestic. Yes I met him and got many a Cuban cigar from him but I don't think he ever knew my name.

Is that back when Hart House didn't allow women? (As I think of it, it couldn't have been because they were already allowing women when I was at UofT in the '60's.) I think of the big change as being in the '80s. In Ghostbusters (1984) the GBs all smoke. By GBII in 1989 there's no smoking.

Hey, I was one of the producers of that movie.

I think smoking would still be a deal breaker for me. Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray. Also smokers smell bad.

Not me. I got 481 even though I ordered it within minutes of getting the first notice. Can't complain: I thought it arrived in a reasonable time. BTW Someone has obviously noticed that the titles of disc 5 are listed in the wrong order-- whoever has listed them correctly for whatever system iTunes (or is it just Music now?) uses to i.d. titles .

I saw the quartet with Brookmeyer some 50+ years ago and really like the sextet recordings.

I think (don't really know) that it's not cause and effect-- you don't get put on a ventilator till you're in big trouble. Presumably. the ventilator increases your chance of survival.

BTW The announcer makes it seem that it's Sonny on Mooche the Moose but Losin implies that it's Hank. Opinions? Is it possibly both of them? Seems they're both on Ornithology-- at least during the heads. BTW The announcer makes it seem that it's Sonny on Mooche the Moose but Losin implies that it's Hank. Opinions? Is it possibly both of them? Seems they're both on Ornithology-- at least during the heads.

Billy Idol used to coach in my son's Little League league. Once sang the national anthem before a game.

Wow! Thanks! Where'd you get this? I'm trying to collect everything Losin lists for Bird but I thought I'd never find this. Wow! Thanks! Where'd you get this? I'm trying to collect everything Losin lists for Bird but I thought I'd never find this.

Thanks. Peter Guralnick is the best in his field and so was Little Richard.

They did do a Lee Wiley single--IIRC from 2 late period RCA releases that were very good. But, yeah I'd go for a Lee Wiley Mosaic even though I suspect I probably have everything that would be in it. I might actually choose one of the cds he did after being "rediscovered" by Bonnie Raitt. I saw him live in that period and he was great.

Since I have time on my hands (ha, ha). I'll relate my escape from New York story. (Which, of course ,you may find incredibly boring.) On March 10 I flew Santa Barbara -Regan Airport D.C. to attend a Duke Ellington conference at Georgetown University. People were coming from Australia, the UK, France and Scandinavia as well as from all over US. The conference was scheduled from Wednesday-Sunday nights. My plan was to leave via train to NY on Friday night, meet Laurie, my wife, who was flying in from SB and attend a memorial service for a friend on Saturday in Manhattan. (At my age you go to a lot of funerals and memorial services. ),Then on Saturday night have dinner with our son, Avery, who lives in Brooklyn (the cultural center of the universe), go to a matinee of "Girl from the North Country" on Sunday, see some art on Monday and fly back Tuesday. Laurie began to suggest that all this might not be a good idea and probably she wouldn't come to NY. I flew out anyway, arrived on Tuesday night and went to a restaurant with my friend Ken Steiner from Seattle. Schmoozed around Georgetown during the day, then met up with a lot of the attendees and we all went to a crowded club where we heard a very good local quintet do a tribute to Billy Strayhorn. Got up Wednesday morning to go down to the lobby of the hotel/dorm in which were staying and register there for the conference. I checked my e-mail first and discovered the conference had been cancelled as the University was closing down. Also Trump had closed the borders to Europeans so many attendees were scrambling to make reservations to return home while planes were still flying. Those of us who were giving presentations began giving impromptu ones while at the same time changing reservations. At that point I figured I'd still go to NY, hang out with my son for a couple of days, go to the memorial, see the play and maybe leave a day early. Then I got an e-mail saying the memorial was cancelled. Then I read on Twitter that Broadway was closing down. Fortunately i was able to change my plane reservations at no additional charge to fly NY-SB on Saturday. Phoned my hotel and said I was coming 2 days early, went to the train station, changed my ticket for a small charge and left on the next train to Penn Station. Told my hotel that I was staying one night instead of 6. They not only didn't charge me for the cancellations but gave me an incredibly cheap rate for the one night I was there. I had dinner in a crowded restaurant (expensive Korean BBQ) with my Avery. Got up on the morning, walked to Penn Station, took the train to Newark airport and flew home via Phoenix. Laurie met me at the airport, handed me a mask and told me she was semi-quarantining me for 2 weeks. I'd been on 4 airplanes and one train, hung out with a guy from what was then the most infected city in the US, spent a night in New York which was about to be the most infected city and been in 3 crowded restaurants, all in 72 hours. To the best of my knowledge I didn't get the virus. (I may of course just be unsymptomatic. I'm 77. Does being old make you more prone to getting the virus or just more prone to dying from it if you do get it?) All of which only proves that it's better to be lucky than smart.

Mine is in Secaucus too. I think that's the first stop after the Mosaic shipping place. Mine is scheduled for delivery on Thursday. After they get the backlog out of the way maybe they'll release the Louis Armstrong/ Avakian set the same way: i.e. Announce that it's ready to ship.

Directed by the always underrated Joseph H Lewis but I notice that the writer Phillip Yordan gets a "by" credit. Music seems a little on the nose for this thread.

"Hollywood" on Netflix. I have some qualms about the show, but the music is great. The score is old fashioned big band movie music a la Henry Mancini or even Elmer Bernstein. But it's the needle drops that are really interesting: Coleman Hawkins, Johnny Otis, Johnny Hodges, Brick Fleagle, Rex Stewart, Joe Liggins and some even more esoteric selections. I admit I don't always hear or recognize everything because they're often buried in the mix or only brief snippets but at times they carry the scenes and are played at length. (All of this is less true of the very first episode where the music isn't that interesting and sometimes anachronistic--e.g. Catch a Falling Star in 1947?)

Lost in the Stars-- the Tony Bennett, Count Basie version, though I'm sure the Lotte Lenya version would suffice.

What show? I know they're written by the same people but didn't know they were from a show.

It works now. Supposed to arrive on Thursday. People ordered before the e-mail went out? How did they know about it?

Don't Smoke in Bed, Smoke Rings, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning and probably everything else on that record.

Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most, The Man that Got Away, & I Cover the Waterfront.

I love that he played Dave Tough in The Five Pennies.

According to the Solo Flight page there are 7 numbers with Christian in the Savory Collection (if I counted correctly). BTW Does Rutgers have the complete programs on which these are found?

He does get co-writing credit on some songs so someone is owed money. And that's not just paid by the record companies. It's paid by broadcasters and streamers as well.

I just received my e-mail shipping but the UPS tracking number doesn't work. Oh, well.