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Is it bad that at the moment of...uh...culmination I often shout, "THIS...IS AN ORCHESTRA!!!!"? Did you once have a great band break up arguing over applause? No, but Bob Graettinger's arrangement of "Laura" is a pretty fair orchestration of the end of my first marriage...

Is it bad that at the moment of...uh...culmination I often shout, "THIS...IS AN ORCHESTRA!!!!"?

I was never a huge Bond film fan. Saw a couple of them on the big screen (can't even remember which ones). But Casino Royale caught my attention, and I liked it a lot. I think Craig makes a great Bond, and I saw QoS pretty early on in its theater run. I liked it, but not as much as I liked CR.

Looks like a nice record. Interesting that the cover identifies him as Louis instead of Louie.

I just re-read the earlier thread. Why on earth did I use the lyrics to "Takin' Care of Business" as my example?!?!? WTF?

Sorry for your loss, Tom. Thanks for sharing a little more about how you two got to know each other. Sounds like he was a great guy.

The Louie Bellson website is reporting that he died yesterday. He had apparently been hospitalized for a while after breaking a hip last November. When I was a high school kid (probably '78 or so) I went to a summer jazz camp in Portland, OR and Louie came in to do a guest concert with the faculty. He played great, and after the concert he was walking through the dorm and my buddy and I were hanging out in our room with the door open. Louie poked his head in the room and we invited him in. We were so excited to get a chance to "hang" for a couple of minutes. He was very encouraging, and exuded a very positive vibe. Those "Big Band Explosion" records were staples of our big band listening.

Mmmmmmmm....Bobbi Fleckman! Funny you should mention that, I just happened to watch Spinal Tap tonight. Still funny as hell, especially the whole Stonehenge bit. "No one knows who they were, or what they were doin'..."

Mmmmmmmm....Bobbi Fleckman!

Wow...your vet is a cat psychiatrist? Yeah, he also said that the cat wasn't able to really connect with her kittens because she had an emotionally unavailable father. It all worked out OK, though. With twice-a-week therapy sessions for a few years, kitty finally had a breakthrough and realized that it wasn't her fault. Now we're working on the mild depression. Kitty seems to just sleep all day, so Doc has her on Zoloft.

+1 for Nature's Miracle. Another possible cause (among many, I'm sure) is kidney stones. I had a cat who started peeing outside of her litter box. The vet found the stones and said that because urination had become painful to the cat, she associated the pain with the litter box, and chose to pee elsewhere.

Looks OK, but doesn't seem right without the "Name Three People" and "Sexiest Album Covers" threads.

IIRC, the 3-camera technique was pioneered by DesiLu on "I Love Lucy", and remains pretty much the standard for sitcoms filmed/taped with an audience. I know that with more recent shows (Seinfeld), they would run each scene more than once to get reaction shots from characters, and get back and forth shots during conversations (you can see TONS of little continuity errors in the editing). What I don't know is, did they do a similar thing in the '60s and '70s? BTW, I get what Jim is saying about the "Vermont" Newhart show. But the "Chicago" show still holds a special place for me, if only because of my crush on Suzanne Pleshette.

There's an Albuquerque mall on the site. Built in 1960 and almost completely empty now (just a Dillards and Bed Bath & Beyond). Last year there was a film crew working there for a couple of months (part of the booming film industry here in "Tamale-wood"), and I learned recently that they were using that mall as the main location for new Kevin James movie Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

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No suggestions from me. But seeing the 5th Dimension's "Age of Aquarius" in your collection reminded me of the family dog we had when I was a kid. My older brother had that record, and there was some kind of frequency present in the title track that made our dog (lab/spaniel mix) "sing" along. Every time. Never happened with any other record.

That whole jazz/baseball name connection has been going on for a long time. They just didn't always report the ballplayers' full names: Babe Ruth Brown Dizzy Gillespie Dean Pete Candoli Fountain Rose Ted Joe Williams The list goes on...

Dig the "left-handed" flute playing!

Uhhhh... OK. So looking at the smaller print on the cover: "MODAL JAZZ IS JAZZ PLAYER USING MUSICAL MODES RATHER THAN CHORD PROGRESSIONS." "JAZZ GOES TO NEO MODAL BEGINNING FROM DISNEY" Sounds like a "foreign" release. Yet their using the Disney logo, and I'm sure that Mickey is a trademarked image. So did they actually license this through Disney? And then, other than "Chim, Chim, Cheree", I'm trying to imagine what tunes. "When You Wish Upon A Star"? "The Bear Necessities"? I gotta hear this record!

Why would Hank Mobley's "A Slice of the Top" in CD-R format be listed as a "LIMITED EDITION"? Isn't the the whole print-on-demand concept designed to eliminate that worry? Am I missing something (in this particular situation)?

Haven't seend it on CD. I have it on vinyl, and downloaded it from emusic. Pretty rough needle drop, including a skip here and there!

Bushmill's Black Bush!

Perhaps the designer consumed a bit too much of the Jazz Guy Ale.

I guess it musta been a rule on the Welk show that you had to smile while you were playing. Kinda takes some of the brooding mystery out of the tune. :bwallace2:

Lots of great suggestions so far. Not necessarily a "definitive" version, but the recording that was my introduction to this tune was on a Bud Shank album from the '70s on Concord called "Heritage". Has "Stella", "Another You", "What Is This Thing..." and other common standards. Also, when I'm learning a new standard, I usually look for some vocal versions to get a feel for the phrasing of the lyrics. As jazz vocalists go, Ella is a good choice, because she tends to stay pretty close to the original tune in the first statement of the melody."