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My dad did it for awhile when I was a kid. I don't think he ever made any money doing it, but I do remember that it seemed like everything in our house was made by Amway.

I also have been happy with the Norton releases I have purchased. The vinyl has been fine. I love their Link Wray double cd set. I listen to that often. My favorite Norton release is a record I picked up about 9 years ago called: King Uszniewicz & His Uszniewicztones - Doin' the Woo-Hoo Here's a quote from the allmusic review: "From the staggering group vocals and monotonal saxophone bleating of "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" to the tripping-over-its-own-feet downhill momentum of "At The Hop", Doin' The Woo-Hoo displays all the grace and easy charm of a sailor on shore leave hitting the nearest tavern..." The greatest bowling alley band of Polish descent EVER! This is way more entertaining than the Shaggs.

Thanks for your help, Chuck! I've been looking around this afternoon for Miller discographies and I haven't had any luck. Jazzmoose's question has piqued my interest.

Noj, You should check out the Album of the Week thread for Signifying. I remember there was discussion of his other Argo titles. They seemed really positive. Here's a link to the Signifying - Album of the Week thread My thanks again to Dan Gould for making it all possible. I've really dug that album. :rsmile:

That's a great record. I love to listen to the Beatles ABBEY ROAD and then throw on Booker T's McLEMORE AVENUE after it. I could listen to Steve Cropper all day. Regarding Stax, if you haven't checked out Isaac Hayes, make sure you pick some of his stuff up. I'd start with HOT BUTTERED SOUL or SHAFT. I guess I've been lucky with download speeds. I was able to get good pretty good downloads yesterday and today. Last week, I couldn't get anything.

That's a drag, Noj! I haven't had that problem. My biggest problem is getting all the tracks of an album to download.

It's one of 2 year old's favorite cds. He makes me play it for him all the time. And I don't mind a bit. I'm pretty easy, I've happy with almost every LD cd I've picked up.

That's cool. I thought about doing the same thing since the download speeds are back up. Good luck on getting your whole stash.

Here's a link to Avid's website: Avid records Glenn Miller section

I dunno, something tells me that those two options are pretty much the same... Hey, Kurt turned out fine! Oh wait, he didn't. Oof! That poor little girl.

The English label, Avid, has a bunch of Glenn Miller cds of airchecks, etc... It looks like emusic has them for download. I don't know if you have a membership or not (mine just ended), but check emusic.com, at least you may be able to here samples of the tracks - i don't know where you can find cds from the Avid label. Good luck!

My last download was Art Pepper's THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD. I'm just curious how many of you have cancelled your subscription as a result of their new policies, and if you have, what was your last download? :rsmile:

Do you still have his number?

I just wanted to pay one last visit to "All things emusic" - my subscription ended today. Yesterday, I was scrambling to finish my Art Pepper downloads. It was fun while it lasted.

My coworker was trying to sell a bicycle in the Recycler (which is a newspaper devoted to for sale/wanted ads) here in Southern California. He was contacted by a man from Australia who wanted to send him a cashier's check for $5,000 and have my coworker send him the bike and some change. Well, I heard my coworkers discussing this amongst themselves. He was about to do it. He'd given the guy his contact information and everything. As soon as I heard them talking, I knew it was the 'ol Nigerian cashier's check scam. I told my coworker as soon as I could, but at first he didn't believe. It was only after I sent him an email with links to a bunch of articles that he finally saw the truth. I just wanted to post this to warn you that these scammers are using other means than email and ebay now.

I love that Walt Dickerson record too!

I'm using Nero also on my PC. I burned too many coasters with Easy CD Creator. Noj is right about copying the mp3s to your hard drive. Also, do you have sufficient hard drive space / and have you defragmented your drive lately. I've had a lot of problems when I haven't defragged in a while. One thing that has worked for me is to create a cd image before I actually burn the cd. This is when the cd creation program essentally does all that it needs to do before the actual burning process begins and saves a large file on your hard disc (the actual size of the cd itself). Once you've created the cd image, you can create a cd from the disc image. Good luck!

Don't worry 7/4, no negative impression with me. Family stuff is tough! I feel for you. Those Fender Mexican Standard Teles are a good bang for the buck. If you have a dealer that does 40% off list, you can probably get one for $315. The best price I've seen online is $350, but with no tax and free shipping at musiciansfriend.com - just a thought Plus, they do have alder bodies now. Too bad you're not in California, you could borrow one of mine to get the Tele fix. :rsmile:

You're right, Jim. GEEK ALERT! GEEK ALERT! Back to the geekiness, Jazzmoose, I'm in 100% agreement about Revolver. The US version is terrible. I felt the same way when I first got the British version. "I'm Only Sleeping" and "Doctor Robert" are two of my favorite tracks.

Thanks Ramée!

That series of threads with Musicboy also merits awards. It's funny how many memories I already have of this place. It's like home now.

Congratulations on the Strat, 7/4! I love when the UPS person brings me one of those big boxes. It's like Christmas! I find that stress contributes to my purchasing also. In the last two years, since my son was born, I have gotten rid of 9 guitars and added 12 new ones to the herd. It's so much fun! I'm sorry it's been rough on you. I couldn't imagine how it must feel to be in NY.

I like it too! It goes with my James T. Cat avatar. Organissimo..... The Vinyl Frontier

That was a great episode!

I grew up collecting Beatles records. I guess I'd love to have copies of the US versions because I listened to those records so often that I got used to the track order. Heck, there's a little part of me that misses the reverb that Capital added. But, I would never say the American versions are better than the British versions. The British versions were what the Beatles intended in the first place. I grew up listening to American and British versions side by side. My wish would be that the deluxe reissues I wrote about would be the British versions plus a series of twofer editions of the American versions (like Capital's Beach Boy twofers). I do have to admit that the American version of Rubber Soul, with the tracks taken from the British Help album, is the only US version that I like better. It gives the album a more folkie feel.