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Does Cambridge Audio still exist? Ooops, I see there is a British company called Cambridge Audio that does still exits and makes cd players. I was referring to the company started by the late Henry Kloss which made speakers years ago. They put out a great cd radio combination similar in sound but not in price to the Bose. And I see that Kloss's company was called Cambridge Soundworks. Cambridge Soundworks still exits as a label but I can't vouch for its equipment.

I agree with all of the above (and I downloaded it).

Chimes at Midnight and F for Fake are streaming for now on Filmstruck. When it closes down they'll probably be on the new Criterion channel. I think you mean "A Touch of Evil" when you write about the restored version. Unfortunately Ambersons has never been restored and I expect will never be. (Met a guy once who'd spent years looking for the materials and he says they don't exist.)

it's unfortunately not hard to be a Welles (as a director) completist. I heard Bernard Hermann give a lecture at the National Film Theater in London and someone from the audience asked him how he could have co-operated with RKO's reedit of The Magnificent Ambersons. Given Welles and Hermann's subsequent history his answer was heartbreaking. He said "We thought it was just a movie. We thought we were going to make lots of them." dit

I saw the doc first. I liked it that way but I think it affected how I "read" the film. I'd be more interested in your reaction to seeing the film first and then the doc. Not so much how you "liked" it but rather what you think was going on if you haven't seen the doc.

I saw her perform a couple of years ago. She was great.

He did "It's My Party"! I have a newfound respect. (And Quincy produced it.)

Wow I thought I was the only one who felt that way about The Last Waltz. And I'm talking about the film as well as the record. But Rock of Ages-- that's the real deal.

Ottawa 55.

I still have my old Cambridge Audio clock radio. Unfortunately the cd player part of it broke so I've had to use a cheap DVD player as a turntable.

Oh dear. I saw her a couple of times when she was working at the Hamburger Hamlet in Hollywood. She was the hostess and was very pleasant.

OK: Can You Ever Forgive Me, The Green Book, Bad Times at the El Royal, The Front Runner, The Hate U Give, They'll Love Me When I'm Dead, The Happy Prince, First Man, A Star is Born, Overlord, Susperia and RGB. Tomorrow I hope to see Cold War and the new Coen Brothers movie.

That seems to be how every concert ends nowadays. I can't remember if he ever did encores (I first saw him about 1970). Anyone remember one? Here's Van back on Cypress Avenue:

I think I'll keep my cds and my hard disc backup of music on my computer but I can see streaming music and "capturing" rare material that I worry might disappear.

I saw him a couple of years ago and was just as enthralled as I was the first time I saw him nearly 50 years ago. I saw him about 5 times in between and I don't think I ever saw him do an encore though the band keeps playing as if he might reappear.

Happy B'day!

Happy B'day young man.

I feel the same way. And I also think Brooks is great.

So did Isaac Stern (well at least he had an office there) and Bill Cunningham.

Just as his best playing reminds me of Pres in his prime, some of his latter day playing reminds me of what I consider Pres in his decline. (And I know some here don't think Pres was ever in decline.) It sounds like there was even later playing that shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as Lester.

Wow! Who knew?

Moondance!? Wow I 'd love to hear that.

Was My Blue Heaven the flip side of I'm in Love Again or was it just out around the same time? And how did you avoid hearing Rock Around the Clock in 1955?

Going back to the original question: Am I the only one here who remembers "the days before rock n' roll"? (As I think VanMorrison once sang.) In the summer of 1955 there was nothing intellectual about it-- it was like being hit by a bolt of lightening. In the summer of 1956 adults were still arguing about whether rock and roll would last and I had an epiphany: I was in a restaurant when someone put Elvis singing "Don't be Cruel" on the juke box and I realized that not only would Rock and Roll last but in 50 years we'd still be listening to many of the same songs.

IIRC it was originally released in the UK as two EPs. Is the cd based on the US Lp release?