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You bet, John.

It was fifty years ago today that I met Manfred, and that evening attended Chapter III's concert. He let me plug my tape recorder into his system! So today I have opened up this Chapter III set, and listened to the first disc. It is much better than I expected. More swing, less heavy than the studio recordings.

That's a great choice! And the music was recorded in Canada, so it is fitting.

This was my second single, purchased in August, 1964. And this was the flip side.

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I remember the Padres in '61. They were the White Sox' team, and their biggest star was pitcher Joel Horlen.

Rooster Fleming played two years with the Steelers. When they let him go in '65, the Jets offered him $45,000. The Ticats offered him C$48,000. In those days, the Canadian dollar was worth $1.05, so he signed with Hamilton. Ralph Sazio's secretary was a nice older lady named Audrey Brigger. Part of her job was to open all the fan mail, and pass it on, usually to the publicity department for a photo for the player to sign. Mrs. Brigger told me that Rooster's fans were young women who were unusually candid, and wrote with frankness regarding what they would be happy to do if he asked them out. Rooster was a happily married man, and he instructed Mrs. Brigger to just tear up the letters and throw them away. He didn't want to see them. Rooster won the Grey Cup with the Ticats three times, in '65, '67 and '72. He retired following the '74 season. He returned to Pittsburgh and became a successful stockbroker. In 1980, my girl friend and I went to a game of a new semi-pro team called the Pittsburgh Colts. Today, the Colts are the oldest semi-pro team still in existence. Two rows behind us, there was a guy who started screaming at the top of his lungs at the opening kickoff, and never stopped. "Come on! What are you doing out there? Hit somebody!" Sounded like he was drunk as a skunk. We didn't turn around to look at him, because sometimes drunks can take a look the wrong way, and want to start a fight. But near the end of the second quarter, my curiosity got the better of me, and I sort of turned around and vaguely looked his way. And I thought, That's no drunk. That's Rooster Fleming! We chatted after the game (he was cold sober), and he asked me to say hello to Ralph the next time I saw him. Rooster passed away April 22 at 76. RIP Rooster! https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/dave-fleming-tiger-cats-obituary-cfl-1.5543348 https://www.cfl.ca/2020/04/23/cfl-tiger-cats-mourn-passing-dave-fleming/ https://triblive.com/sports/david-rooster-fleming-hazelwood-legend-cfl-star-signed-with-steelers-out-of-high-school/ https://3downnation.com/2020/04/23/former-ticats-star-running-back-dave-fleming-passes-away/ Here are videos of the 1972 Grey Cup.

My favorite of theirs was their third album, South of the Border. I don't think it sold well compared to their first, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh. I remember going to the store in March, 1964, and seeing a rotating rack filled with two brand new albums hot off the press (probably the day of their release): The Tijuana Brass's second album and The Beatles' "Second" Album.

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I'm sorry to hear this. RIP. I picked up a few of his albums in the late '70s and early '80s in part because not many others whom I could find in the record stores were making albums like his. And it was great to hear his sense of humor. Anybody else remember Waiting for Waits?

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I read a different take on the TP shortage the other day. The author said that there are two markets: commercial and residential. Because so many people are staying home, they are buying and using much more residential TP than usual.

Dave, I see that that is on the RockBeat label. Do they do good work?

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The draft will be held Thursday, the 30th. Team analyses Hamilton https://3downnation.com/2020/04/27/2020-cfl-draft-examination-hamilton-tiger-cats/ Winnipeg https://3downnation.com/2020/04/27/2020-cfl-draft-examination-winnipeg-blue-bombers/ Edmonton https://3downnation.com/2020/04/27/2020-cfl-draft-examination-edmonton-eskimos/ Ottawa https://3downnation.com/2020/04/28/2020-cfl-draft-examination-ottawa-redblacks/ Sask https://3downnation.com/2020/04/28/2020-cfl-draft-examination-saskatchewan-roughriders/ ***** The league has asked the federal government for money. There is concern the league will not survive if no games are played this year. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-financial-assistance-federal-government-1.5548638 https://3downnation.com/2020/04/28/cfl-asks-federal-government-for-up-to-150-million-due-to-covid-19-pandemic/ ***** A look back at... the 2012 draft https://www.cfl.ca/2020/04/28/12-draft-successful-recent-memory/ the 2015 draft https://www.cfl.ca/2020/04/22/shuffling-deck-2015-re-draft/ the 2019 draft https://www.cfl.ca/2020/04/23/shuffling-deck-2019-re-draft/ the history of the draft https://www.cfl.ca/2020/04/25/8-historical-notes-need-know-draft/ the first round picks of the past five years https://www.cfl.ca/2020/04/27/draft-rewind-five-years-first-rounders/ trades of this year's picks https://www.cfl.ca/2020/04/28/summary-draft-day-altering-trades/ ***** Calgary has extended its ban on public events until Aug. 31. https://3downnation.com/2020/04/24/calgary-extends-ban-on-public-events-until-august-31-mayor-naheed-nenshi/ ***** Edmonton laid off some of its people. https://3downnation.com/2020/04/27/eskimos-lay-off-equipment-medical-staff-amid-covid-19-pandemic-report/

Thanks, Michael!

OK, Matthew! I will see your Endless Summer, and raise with this.

FWIW, I have four favorite surf guitar albums. Surfing Sixties https://www.allmusic.com/album/baby-boomer-classics-surfin-sixties-mw0000624419 Legends of Guitar: Surf https://www.allmusic.com/album/guitar-player-presents-legends-of-guitar-surf-vol-1-mw0000674407 King of the Surf Guitar: The Best of Dick Dale https://www.allmusic.com/album/king-of-the-surf-guitar-the-best-of-dick-dale-mw0000653998 Surfin' Hits https://www.allmusic.com/album/surfin-hits-mw0000653959 And two of my favorite tracks...

Matthew, that was my album last year! Sundazed is another good label, isn't it? John, thanks for the affirmation of Ace. For whatever reason, I have always linked them in my mind with Charly.

I enjoy opening up a surf guitar album every May. The Ace label has some. They do good work, don't they?

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The Suspended Harp of Babel features revelatory performances of the choral music of Estonian composer Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962). Kreek’s pieces, incorporating graceful settings of psalms and folk hymns, are juxtaposed here with instrumental fantasias and interludes created for this recording by Marco Ambrosini. Under the direction of Jaan-Eik Tulve, the Vox Clamantis choir - whose previous ECM recordings have addressed works of Arvo Pärt, Erkki-Sven Tüür and Helena Tulve as well as Gregorian chant- prove to be ideal interpreters of a music poised between old and new. The Suspended Harp of Babel was recorded in Tallinn’s Transfiguration Church in August 2018. © *2018 ECM Records US, A Division of Verve Music Group. All rights reserved.

I'm going to think about which Monk recording. But this is my favorite composition.

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