Dan Gould

Pretty much. It also wasn't the only time I was involved in an operation that ran afoul of the Feds and was subject to an armed raid of the premises. My first phone gig in south Florida was at a "phone dating/phone sex" shop. Cast the widest possible net by advertising in both hardcore porno mags and also Rolling Stone type general circulation publications. So you had people calling in to be "matched" with "local" girls for phone "dates" but also being "matched" to "local" girls for dirty talk, and since these were "local" women, a lot of calls who thought they were booking an outbound escort, too. (I could have put "girls" in quotes too, as we had one who was pre-op and called herself Fabia, as in the female version of the romance novel cover-dude Fabio.) Anyway I was one of many who took these inbound calls for supposed "matching" and we got a base rate plus bonuses based on whether they were going to pay by charging it to their phone line (.50), call the 900 number ($1) or charge their credit card ($2). I was consistently in the top three of "bookers". I remember the book of "profiles" we were supposed to read from, which had only three. Seems like everyone went with "Sandy" the "hot blonde" for whom "anything goes". Anyway, they were scummy, and the scummiest thing they did was to churn the suckers who called in and had their conversations, by calling them back to say 'Sandy' really wanted to talk to you again, would you like to talk to her?' They neglected to mention that their phone or their credit card was getting hit again. SO - long story short, I found out not long after I left that they got raided by the FCC, with management getting frog-marched out, the owner's Ferrari impounded and towed away ... I held these types of jobs with 3-4 companies in south Florida, from phone sex to septic system treatment systems to vacation sales and all of them either got shut down, were banned from selling in certain states (the septic treatment company) or were seriously ethically challenged (the vacation sales place).

I responded to an ad. At the time I had to keep my days open for Voice-Over gigs and I held a series of phone-sale jobs in the evenings to keep a regular stream of cash coming in.

There is a lengthy interview on this FB post with a lot of different stories: https://www.facebook.com/philschaap/posts/4173610969329657

Redd Foxx Blues Boy King Tony Orlando

Cheryl Ladd Kathleen Turner (ca. Body Heat) Christina Applegate (there's an obvious "actress" connection but believe me, in my mind, its a bit more, ahem, personal)

Not being a Kentonite I had no idea, but that would have actually pissed me the f*ck off, had I seen it.

Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake Terry Bollea Terri Runnels

"Slick" Willie Andrew Cuomo La Cosa Nostra

I didn't think I'd like Soul Symphony but I really, really do. Its just loaded with Gene's piano and the strings don't detract. I took a while to pull the trigger on a vinyl copy before the CD came out. I think I came to the conclusion that Gene was dead and gone and there's only so much music, might as well try it. Boy was I pleasantly surprised. I like it way more than the Elegant Soul LP that preceded it.

On that Walkin/Talkin' thing? Hell yeah. But what I specifically recall was a Jim Hall/Bill Evans thing with the "Best in Jazz since 1939" think and I'm like, WTF?

There was a time that I bought so far into the Blue Note mythology that it outright pissed me off to see the BN insignia on reissues from labels I knew didn't have any connection at the time of original issue.

I believe that Alfred was still in charge when the Sounds came back and he produced Good Vibrations? (I also don't appreciate the implication of your second sentence, but I'll let it slide. )

Most enjoyable and recommended piano trio recordings from Storyville, by folks not afforded too many opportunities to lead record dates: Hugh Lawson and Richard Wyands. Two disc set is about $16 on Amazon right now, and there are several unissued tracks/alternates.

I thought that line was Chuck's?

My ebay purchases have been buy-it-now for probably six months or more, (with the occasional "best offer" stab which doesn't seem to work as often as on discogs, maybe these fees are part of that?) so on that level it might as well be discogs.

So I was reading something on one of the 78 groups I peruse on FB - eBay has dropped Paypal as the required payment processor? And massively upped their fees or something? Anyone still selling on ebay? Anyone buying? Once I stopped ever selling I didn't mind so much the self-dealing mandating Paypal as the payment system. But I am thinking I am never going to put things on ebay for sale ever again. Thoughts?

No I hear he was a pretty bad influence on his kids for a while there back in the day. And my god, the language they picked up!

Not even original tapes for remastering? Mastered from hi-res files of the original analog masters by Malcolm Addey, Malcolm Addey Studio, NYC 24 bit technology was utilized at all stages of the production of this Mosaic release.

I am going with debut as a leader:

Daniel J Travanti Mick Belker Mickey Mantle

Ray Brown Gene Harris The Gene Harris Fanatic

I almost worked for a company selling auto warranties. They actually told me that one of the principals had invented a way to spoof their outgoing phone calls, so that the do-not-call registry didn't have to be obeyed, and their phone center was rockin'. I was there one night to observe, didn't like what I saw and didn't go back. Less than a week later I saw in the paper that the feds had conducted a raid (during what would have been my evening shift) and arrested everybody and shut the place down. I guess my instincts were right. I thought it was hysterical that they would brag about being able to ignore the do-not-call registry but the Feds figured them out - if you're that brazen.

To finally hear some of it is awesome but four tracks only is disappointing. This Too Close for Comfort is great, I love the way he starts mellow then starts to wail. Curtis Amy, y'all!

No idea.

Yeah that's the elusive one. Almost certain MG said its Clifford Scott.