Teasing the Korean

I used to hate "Carol of the Bells" until my wife pointed out to me that it sounds like it's from one of Dario Argento's giallo films. Just imagine if Goblin had covered it. Now it's one of my favorites. It just goes to show you how context can determine whether you like something or not.

Rolling Stones, Aftermath, London, US MONO (FAT!) red label.

Journeys of Odysseus - A Jazz Suite for Chamber Orchestra by Bob Freedman - Cobblestone/Skye (w/Gary McFarland involvment).

I've accumulated lots of Auger stuff through the years. My favorite is Closer to It. I often spin "Whenever You're Ready" when DJing. Auger has a band now with a couple of his kids. On youtube, there's a live performance of "Happiness is Just Around the Bend."

In no particular order... Sergio Mendes & Brasil '65 - BLP 2294 Howard Roberts - Spinning Wheel - BLP 336 Cannonball Adderly - Mercy Mercy - BLP 2663 Gerald Wilson - Portraits - BLP 90047 Bud Shank/Laurindo Almeida - Braziliance - BLP 1204 Chet Baker - Chet & Crew - BLP 5005 June Christy - Ballads for Night People - BLP 1308 Lou Rawls - What is Was, What it Is - BLP 0215 Peggy Lee/George Shearing - Beauty and the Beat - BLP 1219 The Hollyridge Strings play the Beatles Songbook Volume 5 - BLP 2876

Julie London - Julie is Her Name Chet Baker - Chet Baker and the Mariachi Brass, Vol. 17 These are the two greatest Blue Note releases ever!

This is likely my own ignorance showing, but did Chet Baker actually ever record for Blue Note? I thought he only ended up being reissued by BN because EMI bought Pacific Jazz and put it under BN's control. Better check with Blue Note! Both Julie London and Chet Baker show up on Blue Note compilations; so, they MUST have recorded for Blue Note, right? Blue Note would NEVER dream of misrepresenting their back catalog, would they?

Any of the Blue Note CD compilations including such important Blue Note artists such as Chet Baker or Julie London would be fine with me.

Ahmad Jamal - Outertimeinnerspace (ABC/Impulse!).

Joe Morello, It's About Time, RCA Dynagroove Stereo (with stupid separation). Still waiting for a mono copy.

Thank you. I still have dreams about the dollar bins at Stereo Jack's, pathetic though that may sound...

What was the deal with these? Were they manufactured for the Capitol Record Club? Over the years I've come across a number of Verve albums - mostly mid to late 60s releases - and a couple of Atlantics. They usually have a Capitol-esque catalog number listed somewhere on the cover and/or label, while leaving the original catalog number intact elsewhere.

Canadian RCA is one of the labels that did the mono fold-downs of the stereo mixes. Based on the 1969 date, I'm guessing this is a stereo album, right?

In some cases, mono Canadian pressings of US masters used fold-downs of the stereo mixes rather than the original mono mixes, and as we know, fold-downs can be disastrous. If you're buying mono, try to get specific info first.

Good Lord, how many times was this album reissued? Landmark??? TTK, as I recall Orrin Keepnews reissued all of the Cannonball Riverside albums owned by Capitol in 1985 on the Landmark label. Maybe not all of them, but I think so. This album was also released on Capitol, Pickwick, and Everest. There was a whole thread about this album recently...

Good Lord, how many times was this album reissued? Landmark???

US Atlantic Collection drawn from Joao's first three Brazilian Odeon LPs.

Gary McFarland does the definitive version of this ditty (originally done by a forgotten beat group) on his Verve album "Soft Samba." The album also includes three other songs by said beat group. I hope they're grateful that he chose to immortalize them...

Mike Love in the role of Levin, from the 1972 Broadway adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. The portrayal won Love a Tony nomination.

If you Google "Mike Love" and "Toga," you get TEN TIMES as many hits as you do Googling "Mike Love" and "combover." Interesting...

El Chicano - Viva Tirado (Kapp)

That's an error on AMG's part. It came out in the mid 90s, at the height of the cocktail nation.