GA Russell

Happy Birthday!

Saskatchewan Roughriders 30....Calgary Stampeders 21 Shane, what happened??? The Stamps had a 21-5 lead with a minute to go in the second quarter, and they never scored again. This is the second straight year that the Stamps lost the Western semi-final at home. I can expect that the natives will be restless when discussing Burris in the offseason. edit for typo

My pick this month is Sergio Mendes - Pure Bossa Nova. It appears to be a compilation of recordings he made in Brazil before he formed Brasil '65. One of my favorite albums is Cannonball's Bossa Nova, which Cannonball recorded with Mendes's working group at the time in 1962. I'm hoping this new release contains some items from that group, which was called Bossa Rio.

Happy Birthday!

I opened up my copy yesterday and listened to it four times. I'd like to continue to hear it for about a week before I make up my mind. It's different.

Yes, I guess that's true. The buzz on this one was along the lines of...If you liked French Connection, you'll like Seven Ups. Same director (as I recall), same actor, etc. It wasn't as good, but it wasn't bad in its own right.

Anybody ever see The Seven Ups? I enjoyed it in a theatre, but haven't seen it since. As I recall, the entire publicity was built around the car chase.

I remember seeing Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers do a song a Shindig. I liked it. I was sorry that I never saw anything of theirs in the record stores. To my knowledge they never received airplay in the US. Shortly thereafter their bass player left to join The Searchers, who IMO should also be in the HOF.

We didn't regularly watch the show, but I can remember singing along once to... When you're down and out, Lift up your head and shout. There's going to be a great day! Mitch had a peculiar way of directing. He stuck his elbows out, made fists of his hands, kept his hands close to his chest, and moved them abruptly to the beat up and down six inches.

I don't see your shooting him with your .357 listed among your options.

I have been listening to my old cassettes for the past month, and in the past week or two I have listened to a couple of Gino Vanelli albums for the first time in a number of years - Gist of the Gemini and A Pauper in Paradise. I also have his first album, which as I recall was called Crazy Life, but that's an LP which is boxed away. I think they're enjoyable enough, and for my money a lot better than most of the popular music that was being made at that time.

No one has mentioned The Dave Clark Five. I enjoyed the DC5 when I was in high school because they didn't try to sound like the Beatles. My favorite of theirs was Can't You See That She's Mine.

I'm not a participant, but as I understand it the guys doing the Blindfold Tests make CD-Rs of songs they like, mail them to each other, and challenge the recipents to guess who the artists are. If that's not right, maybe I ought to open one of those BFT threads and find out!

It appears to me that all of the participants of this thread except Alexander believe that the people here who participate in the BFTs are unethical. Am I right?

Of course! How could I have forgotten! Still same choice for me, online stores, but without doubt I got more CDs from Concord and its blowout sale than anywhere else this year - 46.

Years ago he hipped me to a cartridge that made a significant but inexpensive improvement to my turntable's performance. When I am in the market for a new system, I plan to give them every consideration.

Your Music for me.

When I joined BMG ten years ago, I studied a website which was devoted solely to the record clubs from a consumer's point of view. It said that the standard recording contract signed by the artists calls for the artist to receive one-half the usual royalty for discs sold by the record clubs, except that they were to receive no royalty for discs given free by the record clubs. I take that to mean that the artists receive one-half royalty for each Your Music sale. However, when BMG offers "Buy one, get two free, then unlimited $2.99", the artist receives one-half royalty for the discs sold at $18.99 and $2.99, but the poor guys who were arbitrarily selected to be the two free CDs don't get paid anything.

Just got this. No warning. "Thank you for keeping your Music Queue updated! Unfortunately, Kurt Rosenwinkel: Deep Song is no longer available and has been removed from your Music Queue."

Adam, the Harper, Babasin/Enevoldsen and a third were available in the Concord blowout sale. I have to think that they will be made available again after the invenotry is relocated to southern California.

I suppose it wouldn't be right for me to not fill you in. There was a beer heavily advertised on television called Busch Bavarian beer. Today it is known simply as Busch beer, and it is the sponsor of the #2 auto racing circuit in the US, sort of the minor league for the #1 circuit, which is called the Nascar Nextel Cup series.

Steve, I see that you are from "Southern Germany". That reminds me of an old joke we all loved when we were kids. What do you call a tired guy from southern Germany? A Bushed Bavarian!!! I don't expect the Europeans here to gt it, so you'll have to trust me that to a twelve year old kid that's funny.

My sister first told me about Guy Fawkes Day when we were kids, and she told me that the English were celebrating Guy Fawkes. As an adult I came to the conclusion that they were celebrating the fact that he was caught. Quite the plan. Blow up Parliament, and replace the king with a Catholic. Right up my alley!

Thanks Mark. Maybe I'll give it to my sister for Christmas. I ran out of patience waiting for an opinion because the birthday is coming up (my original order was backordered, causing a delay of a precious few days), and I ordered some Anita O'Day. My sister may like Anita OK, but I doubt that she will like her as much as she likes Linda Eder and Jane Monheit.

On Friday I ordered Janis Siegal's A Thousand Beautiful Things. Yesterday I was notified that it was on backorder. That album is on Telarc. I believe that a number of her Telarc albums have recently been removed from BMG/Your Music's list. Telarc is now owned by Concord, which has withdrawn its participation of BMG/Your Music for all of its other labels. So I cancelled the order, figuring that they are never going to get it back in, and ordered something else. If there is a Telarc you want, I suggest that you order it pronto.