paul secor

Lester Young: Pres (Verve Japan)

Ginger Rodgers Ginger Mary Ann

Thelonious Monk: Live in Paris Part 2 (BYG Japan)

Thelonious Monk: Live in Paris Part 1 (BYG Japan)

Sandy Duncan Mary Martin Robin Williams

Probably so.

There are actually two other Sonny Simmons Arhoolies, though both are on CD - Live in Paris (recording isn't great, but Simmons is on fire) and Reincarnation (1991 recordings with Barbara Donald).

Sonny Stitt: My Mother's Eyes (Pacific Jazz Japan) Bob Porter begins his liner notes by saying that Sonny Stitt would go into a studio 3 or 4 times a year, usually with just a rhythm section, and record albums with a few blues based originals and some standards. This was is probably a cut above average, but what was the point? I know the point was that Sonny picked up a few bucks, but beyond that?

Mommy Dearest The Mummy Steve Martin

Those records never seemed like Chris Strachwitz's thing. Perhaps they resulted from someone connected with him. There are at least three Sonny Simmons Arhoolie records, so there evidently was a connection there with someone at Arhoolie.

Never visited but did order from them a couple of times. N.Y. Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/10/arts/music/other-music-record-store-closing.html?_r=0

Interesting to me that in some parts of the U.S., it seems to be soda - in other parts, pop. And I'm sure there's some overlap. In New York, it's always soda. When I was a little kid in the Midwest, it was pop or soda pop.

Here Come Earl "Fatha" Hines (Contact/Flying Dutchman Japan)

Well, we can always start over. New beginnings can be good.

The Doublemint Twins Pud Gumby

The Mercury New Orleans Sessions 1950 (Mercury/Bear Family)

www.folkways.si.edu/news-and-press/smithsonian-folkways-acquires-arhoolie-records I guess that it was inevitable, given Chris Strachwitz's age, but I'm sorry to see it happen.

Mangione was so far outside my world that I guess I didn't see it coming until it was there. And then I guess I tried to ignore the fact that it was there.

Ross Macdonald: The Barbarous Coast

I guess there's a good reason I can't remember much about 1976.

Margaret Thatcher Old Ironsides The Tin Man

Giuseppe Garibaldi Yul Brynner Kojak

From the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/04/28/us/ap-us-duke-ellington-auction.html It would be a good thing if much of this were sold to a museum, but the reality is that museums probably aren't interested in spending that much money for it - a sad situation - and the family probably isn't interested in holding onto and storing things indefinitely, so they're going up for auction.

Bobby McGee Molly Ringwald Brenda Starr

Norman Bates Anthony Perkins Dave Brubeck