Dan Gould

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.

LMAO

No, Middle of the Road was a radio programming philosophy, not a category in record stores. It, IMHO, put what I think of as "Easy Listening" at the forefront. Think of the scene in Good Morning Vietnam when the staff is discussing programming, as well as who should be brought in for a concert. (This maybe why I am not getting the definition of Easy Listening as distinctive in any particular way - but have you considered that the dying out of Easy Listening that you perceive came about by the domination of Muzak in commercial spaces?)

Not getting the definition of "Easy Listening" and particularly what would separate it from "MoR" radio formats. Setting aside whatever TTK may label as "classics" of either genre, to me the label above "uninteresting music" covers both Easy Listening and everything (I think) that ever got programmed on an MoR station.

It's yours.

The Parlans are spoken for.

So I felt uncommonly flush back in November and splurged on ten BN XRCD releases at $30 a piece, without considering that the remarkable sound I have always enjoyed thru this technology doesn't exactly 'stand out' on PC speakers, even high-end ones. So I am offering the following for $24 shipped via Media Mail, Paypal only (Friends and Family, please). Non US buyers at actual Airmail cost, TBD. NEW PRICE: $15 shipped via Media Mail in the lower 48, for Lee Morgan, Tomcat Post or PM, the earliest time stamp always gets it.

I just found out that Dan Fogelberg's hit was actually based largely on a true event, which took place in 1975 in Peoria, where high school sweethearts ran into each other at a convenience store (not a grocery store, and I doubt there was a frozen food section, and her eyes weren't blue they were green, and given that they graduated high school six years before, it would be a shock if the years hadn't been a friend to her. 😁 But in all honesty I always thought of his tune, as effective as it may be, was only an attempt at his own spin on the story told in Chapin's "Taxi" (which I am pretty sure has no basis in reality, but it is true that both died relatively young and unexpectedly, Chapin in a car accident on the Long Island Expressway and Fogelberg of prostate cancer.) So a perhaps fun poll about these two 70s hits. I always preferred Chapin's tune but what do you say? Here are two live performances to remind you: Edit to add: Better is in the eye/ear of the beholder. Better production, better vocals, better whatever.

Oh yes it will be 80 before New Year's Day.

And the Mets are now questioning some element of Correa's physical.

Was thinking about Chuck and the city of Buffalo - the Times mostly covered how bad it is in their wrap up. Pim, I think Buffalo is most famous for "lake-effect snow" in winter as weather systems move west to east, they are situated at the eastern end of Lake Erie, and the water feeds the system producing sometimes shocking accumulations. This storm though is really off the charts. Here outside of Tampa, we got the same low temperature as last night but the pipes have frozen, no doubt because the cold sank deeper, and partly, perhaps, aided by the lack of much of a warm up (high of 45 yesterday). Mostly though my wife didn't run the faucets at all before she went to bed, so I hope that was not an extremely costly mistake.