Teasing the Korean

This page features digital rips of obscure 45s in this micro-genre. It is a fantastic resource. The Lonely Beat captures a period–specific set of images, motifs and themes associated with the modern, post–War American city. It is a world in sound that was based in reality as well as reconstructed within the media and pop culture. American cities reflected a changing socioeconomic and cultural reality in the post–War decades. The pursuit of home ownership following World War II meant an acceleration of a white demographic's relocation from the city to its mushrooming suburbs, a shift that would exacerbate economic disparities and urban segregation, especially for black populations. Even as their economic fortunes began to founder, however, cities remained a center of media, publishing and advertising as well as fashion, design, architecture and entertainment. Moreover, the American city – in this case most clearly identified with, though not necessarily limited to, New York City – would attract a new cohort of artists, becoming in the process a crucible for new visual and performance art, dance, the literary arts, music, theater and film. Many aspects of mid–century city life and culture were remade and romanticized in pop culture, a hard–boiled, bohemian version of the city in particular developing in novels, short stories and television and film dramas. This was the version of the city that became seated in the popular imagination, the city that was a sort of labyrinthine nexus of underworld forces, exotic lifestyles and minority populations. The potency of this confabulation would only increase as white populations retreated further into the suburbs. Popular music became a major vector for this image of the city. Music sustained an idea of the city as sexy and stylish, dangerous and decaying. It was the foreboding Metropolis, gangland Gotham, the Naked City, the Asphalt Jungle, bohemia, the mean streets. It was a place of after-hours intrigue and rendezvous - it was a place of crime, juvenile delinquency, corruption, lurking evil - and men who sought to stop these forces. As portrayed in music, the city was at its most mysterious and atmospheric; there was a romance in its solitude. It was skyscrapers, streets, wharfs, fogs, smoky nightclubs. Crucially, too, the city was where black communities lived, along with ethnic populations of every stripe. In this sense there was, like exotica, an element of the Other about the city, some world that aroused Middle American anxieties and fantasies. All of these images, motifs and clichés are evident in post–War popular music. https://exoticaproject.com/2/ https://exoticaproject.com/2/about.php

Complete Cuban Jam Sessions Erroll Garner Concert by the Sea complete Jazz Disques Vogue French box Jazz Disques Vogue Jazz from America box

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I've never personally interacted with Al, but he is touring with Brian's backing band, and his son Matt beautifully sings Brian's high parts, so it should be fun.

June 18, 2025 is the 107th birthday of composer, arranger, violinist, and ethnomusicologist Elisabeth Waldo! She is by all accounts still with us! Happy 107th Birthday!

If it meets your criteria, I recommend Gunther Schuller's Quartet for Double Basses. I have it on a Turnabout LP (TV-S 34412), where it comprises Side 2.

My love for Ginastera and modern sculpture collided on this LP.

Actually, it's +11. 😀

I include both "Lady Friend" and "Triad" on my 13-track Notorious. It works better in that context, IMO. I'll find that playlist too. Notorious Side 1: 1. Artificial Energy 2. Tribal Gathering 3. Triad 4. Natural Harmony 5. Draft Morning 6. Wasn’t Born to Follow 7. Get to You Side 2: 1. Lady Friend 2. Change is Now 3. Old John Robertson 4. Dolphins Smile 5. Goin’ Back 6. Space Odyssey This playlist has a more-or-less lyrical sequence going from experience to transition to innocence.

Here are my playlists for 5D & YtY integrating the Gene Clark album. I've tweaked these some, and I may still, but these are the latest versions: Eight Miles High Is Yours Is Mine Wild Mountain Thyme Mr. Spaceman The Day Walk (Never Before) What's Happening?!?! Tried So Hard Eight Miles High Hey Joe (Where You Gonna Go) I Found You John Riley Think I'm Gonna Feel Better Why [single version] Fifth Dimension 5D (Fifth Dimension) Needing Someone It Happens Each Day The Girl With No Name The Same One I Know My Rider (I Know You Rider) I See You Elevator Operator Psychodrama City Couldn't Believe Her Keep on Pushin' My Back Pages Younger than Yesterday So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star Have You Seen Her Face C.T.A. 102 She's the Kind of Girl Time Between Everybody's Been Burned Echoes Thoughts And Words Mind Gardens So You Say You Lost Your Baby Renaissance Fair One in a Hundred For Turn Turn Turn, I add "She Don't Care About Time" to side 1 (at the end), and replace "Oh Susannah" with "It's All Over Now Baby Blue." I also use the superior alternate arrangement of "Times" instead of the LP version.

I have included "The Day Walk" on my 5D playlists, as it was considered for inclusion and fits there better than on Turn Turn Turn. But I recently got the mono CD of Gene Clark & the Gosdin Brothers - the stereo is lame - and I have integrated these tracks into 5D and Younger than Yesterday, along with adding "The Day Walk" and the two 1970 Byrds tracks on Roadmaster. I primarily mess with 5D , as it needs all the help it can get. For Y&T, I delete the needless Dylan track and "Why," and add the two Roadmaster tracks and one other. So I end up with three Byrds albums, where we had two. Did you ever see my playlist for Notorious in which I add the two Crosby tunes and work out a mildly revised sequence?

Thank you!

I just picked up a cheap CD of Tito Rodriguez Live at Birdland, on Polydor. The LP has eluded me. Recommended.

Thanks for the detail!

This show was great, thank you! @Stonewall15 sent me the link. Does anyone know the audio sources that were used for the LPs represent the surviving shows, or could some of the audio be from lost shows? Are these available for viewing anyplace?

I stopped drinking a year ago, and shed a ton of weight. Not drinking also made it easier to watch what I eat. I’ve been veg since the mid-1980s, and I work out - walking, yoga, push-ups, and crunches. I weigh less now (155 lb) in my 60s than I have at any time since at least my early 40s if not 30s. I’m not on any meds, other than vitamins.

Here you go. You may have to click on the image to see it better. Dankworth connects each of the Zodiac signs to one of the 12 keys. Each of the LP's 12 tracks represents one of the signs. The featured soloist on each track is of the sign being portrayed.

I have Zodiac on LP. I'll provide details when I get home.

I have a three-CD set of all of her Scepter singles, A&B sides. It is around 95% Bacharach. Beyond the hits, you get a number of amazing B-sides that you may not have heard. This set is mostly mono, and the mono mixes of the early tracks are so much better than the thin stereo versions we've heard all these decades. I don't see anything about mono/stereo content on this box set. If the early albums are presented in mono, I may spring for this, but if it is all-stereo or mostly stereo, I'm not so sure. I have many of these on LP as it is.

After Hours: Middle East is indeed a fantastic album. But the real reason I love Sonny Lester is those Groove Merchant albums, which are quickly and routinely snapped up by all the crate diggers I know.

Russ Garcia's Hollywood Hills home, designed in 1962 by John Lautner.

Do we know what Gil Mellé was up to between roughly 1958 and 1966? Was he studying composition and orchestration? His jazz/graphic design era runs roughly from 1953 to 1957. His film/TV career, along with the release of Tome VI, begins in 1967. Do we know what he was doing in the interim?