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Another excellent Ace compilation.  A great assortment of Leiber & Stoller songs (some written in collaboration with others) sung by such artists as Ben E. King, Jimmy Scott, Tommy Roe, Irene Reid, The Shangri-Las, Solomon Burke, Carmen McRae, The Walker Brothers and more.  There are some well known hits, the best known being perhaps Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?" (which had an enormous impact on me as a boy), but even the more obscure tunes make for great listening.  The liner notes are very informative.  For example, Mike Stoller wrote "Juicy" (a hit for Willie Bobo) as a TV commercial jingle for the Florida Citrus Commission and Jerry Leiber got co-writing credit on Johnny Cash & June Carter's hit "Jackson" by helping songwriter Billy Edd Wheeler edit and restructure his song, basically telling him to dump several verses and begin the song with his last verse and that unforgettable "We got married in a fever / hotter than a pepper sprout" line.

 

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in addition to music I also enjoy listening to old time radio programs.  The theater of the mind created by some of those shows is really wonderful  Appropriate for Halloween, here's a classic episode from the Suspense series called "Three Skeleton Key".  It's about three men who staff a lighthouse on a small, lonely island miles from the nearest coast.  One stormy day a seemingly deserted ship crashes upon the shore of their island -- but it is not deserted for it bears on its decks and in its holds thousands and thousands or hungry, ravenous rats.  With the sound effects used and the presence of star Vincent Price, this is a truly scary, suspenseful story.  You can listen to it (with the lights out, of course) here:

http://ia800500.us.archive.org/26/items/OTRR_Suspense_Singles/Suspense_561111_673_Three_Skeleton_Key_-128-44-_28101_29m53s.mp3

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John Aram Quintet - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Coup Perdu, 2011).  John Aram - trombone; Andy Scherrer - tenor sax; Colin Vallon - piano; Phil Donkin - bass; Norbert Pfammatter - drums.  Guest: Kenny Wheeler - trumpet.  Another swell recording discovered tracking down everything I can find with Colin Vallon playing.

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