Dan Gould

What the hell would you possibly mean by "frail"? Teddy was one of the toughest tenor sounds right from the start.

Sorry not feeling most of his analysis. 1. What were the record companies supposed to do thru R&D of this "70 year old technology"? The whole point was that it was 70 year old technology that some people had started to think wasn't so bad after all. What were they going to do, reinvent the CD? 2. Owning factories - excuse me but did record companies ever own their own pressing plants? For vinyl or for CDs??? 3. 50% don't own a fucking record player. They are lucky to get money out of them period. 4. Anyone notice that he speaks of back catalogs as this great source of revenue and having no artist or production costs, but the biggest sellers are current stars with new recordings? 5. He points out consumers who stream "for pennies" dominate, but thinks if they offered prices at $10, and below costs, the industry would convert them to buying vinyl? Beyond the fact that the price is still hugely more expensive at that price point, how would they convert buyers and overcome the great advantage of streaming: you can hear it thru your PC or your phone or whatever - but if you have vinyl you can only hear it while sitting in front of your non-existent rig. I don't care if record companies make money, make a ton of money or turn into a single huge conglomerate. Vinyl was never going to be some huge part of their business again. Ever.

Everything is now sold. Thanks.

What the heck, to clear these out - $15 now on Tomcat

So let me get this straight: While they knew that Trevor Story had a serious problem with his throwing elbow (again), and Correa was still out there in limbo, they made no effort to try to get him? I swear they brought in that GM from Tampa and think they can win with a Tampa size payroll. What is the point of all this money coming in from NESN and the ballpark? And on top of that, Story is rapidly shaping up as the worst free agent signing in recent memory. Utterly shitty season last year, couldn't hit at all except for an isolated 15 day stretch in the late spring, plus other injuries that kept him off the field, and now missing all or most of 2023. He's going to get better as he goes deeper into his 30s?

Seems early for the mid-month lull, seven days and counting. 😒

LMAO.

King and Mikey, after a well-timed tongue-click and snap.

Very long time, Peter.. You got 'em - sending PM now.

And now maybe the Mets are ready to walk away? https://www.mlb.com/news/carlos-correa-rumors Wouldn't mind the Red Sox swooping in at something like 5 years/150 million. And can I say I am relieved that they are extending Devers for 10 years or whatever but that does nothing for the roster. I am kinda intrigued by Justin Turner on a short-deal for run production, and what I am really intrigued by were the rumors of a deal for young Marlin pitching, and now, my dream that they replace Boegarts with Correa, if a deal can be made.

You got it - thank you.

Did everyone who cares about better sound already get these? I am selling at 33% less than list price for what I would consider the best sounding CDs extant.

Gotta say I thought $20 (and $18 on one) for XRCD would clean me out but I guess not.

Two months since my last youtube upload, how about something special: Percy France with LD's own favorite pianist, Herman Foster?

I think that I thought I heard him and while it's on me, discogs was no help, and the chosen tune was one that caught my ear way back when so it was easy to select.

Now you're talkin'!

Thanks for your thoughts Randy. #2 is not Don Patterson but the composition is.

Let's see ... you got track 1 artists correct and yes 3 is now identified. The Track 6 Marsalis Stain must be by osmosis as no one is a Marsalis or a particular acolyte. Personally I've liked Dave McKenna with Hamilton. And you didn't really mean to write that Pharoah is alive to make Pharoah records? Not really Nex-Gen, no, but I was kind of relying on your ears to spot and ID elements that would help bring the theme to light and you haven't. That may be more on me than you.

UP for New Year's and one and only final price reduction.

I'll take the win on that, then! Number 6 is post-1990 but none of the names thrown out are correct. I am very curious what it is about number 8 to spark such a powerfully negative reaction especially considering many of the other tunes are also soulfully played blues.

You got number 10, of course but the bop tune is not as you identified. #1 is a '90s recording, but not O'Farrill. The other names you mention are not present (at least on the tracks you placed them). Very glad you enjoyed the compilation! Thanks for participating.

You are correct on all, Bill, and way better at tune-naming than I am.

Here we go: 11 tracks total, about 73 minutes or so. There is one Felser Should Like This™ track, and one Felser Will Not Like This™ track. The rest are all Felser May Not Actively Dislike This™. Otherwise, one artist is on two tracks. One track has Gene Harris. Percy France does not appear. There is one gimme - at least via Google. Most importantly, there is a theme. The theme started in one spot but I had a long stretch of no time at all to review and cull the list I had accumulated. So when December rolled around, I had no choice but to adjust my theme a bit and ultimately came up with this theme and these tracks. Hope you like some of them. As my friend Mr. Felser has said, guesses are nice, comments on the music, positive or negative, are even better. http://thomkeith.net/index.php/blindfold-tests/

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3788260-professor-sues-tiktok-poster-who-accused-her-in-university-of-idaho-killings/ The pull quotes are pretty insane (emphasis mine): A University of Idaho professor sued a TikTok poster for defamation after she published videos accusing the professor of killing four students in an off-campus home last month. Ashley Guillard, a self-styled internet sleuth with roughly 108,000 TikTok followers, has posted dozens of videos in which she accuses Rebecca Scofield, the chair of the school’s history department, of orchestrating the four students’ killings. She says she based the accusation on tarot card readings. .... Guillard acknowledged the lawsuit in a series of TikTok videos over the past week, although she said in one that she had not yet been served with the complaint. “I’m not stopping, so let’s just start there,” Guillard said in one of the videos. ..... In a later post, Guillard said she was “gleaming with excitement” that she would have to opportunity to “present my ideas in court” about the killings. “The lawsuit Rebecca Scofield & her team of attorneys filed against me are false, frivolous and perjurious,” Guillard told The Hill on Monday evening. “I look forward to presenting the evidence I gathered in court.”

Easy Listening's closest relative in radio was stations playing "Soft Adult Contemporary" such as MELLO-105 where I had my first (and last) full time radio gig in the mid-90s. Soft A/C distinguished itself by playing pre-disco Streisand, Neil Diamond, certain singer-songwriters of the 70s-80s, The Carpenters (which to me epitomizes "Easy Listening" as a genre) and one or two Sinatra tunes - I think Stranger in the Night was one of them - with two tunes an hour from the current Adult Contemporary hot 100 list. They also played instrumentals from the Mike Post songbook especially Law & Order themes. My point being that Adult Contemporary as an inheritor of the Easy Listening mantle is not really accurate in terms of radio formats. Adult Contemporary was Toni Braxton and Michael Bolton and a good large heaping of Kenny G's worst. I don't think it can be identified as descended from Easy Listening, whatever that is, the same way that Soft Adult Contemporary could be.