What Are You Listening To? April 2020

[Ojai Sam]

Enrico Caruso, John McCormack & Beniamino Gigli - The Three Tenors of the Century (rec. 1907-23, ASV Living Era comp. 1994)



Here's thirty bucks for you. Keep the change!

 

[axolotl]

Prince ~ Planet Earth (2007)



This is such a truly fine album.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Enrico Caruso, John McCormack & Beniamino Gigli - The Three Tenors of the Century (rec. 1907-23, ASV Living Era comp. 1994)

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Here's thirty bucks for you. Keep the change!

Thirty bucks could feed a family of five for 6 months in 1923!

 

[axolotl]

Thirty bucks could feed a family of five for 6 months in 1923!

Don't act so surprised, Sam.

You and I both knew that.

 

[axolotl]

Graewe / Reijseger / Hemingway ~ The View from Points West (1994)



Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation

It's piano, cello, and percussion. What do you think it sounds like?

 

[Nickyboy]

Enrico Caruso, John McCormack & Beniamino Gigli - The Three Tenors of the Century (rec. 1907-23, ASV Living Era comp. 1994)

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Here's thirty bucks for you. Keep the change!

Hmmm. I have plenty of Gigli and Caruso, but for some reason have never even heard of McCormack. I will rectify that today!

Spoiler

Gigli's voice blows Caruso out of the water. No two ways about it.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Eye Make The Horizon - Dim Sun (2019)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Hmmm. I have plenty of Gigli and Caruso, but for some reason have never even heard of McCormack. I will rectify that today!

Spoiler

Gigli's voice blows Caruso out of the water. No two ways about it.

Well, he is, er, different from the other two. This reminds me of the old Jeopardy answer “Socrates, Plato and Homer.”

Spoiler: Question

Who are two Greek philosophers and what Barry Bonds hit 762 of?

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Well, he is, er, different from the other two. This reminds me of the old Jeopardy answer “Socrates, Plato and Homer.”

Spoiler: Question

Who are two Greek philosophers and what Barry Bonds hit 762 of?

Sheesh, I thought of Homer Simpson. D'oh!

 

[axolotl]

June Christy ~ Something Cool (1954)

 

[axolotl]

Well, he is, er, different from the other two. This reminds me of the old Jeopardy answer “Socrates, Plato and Homer.”

Spoiler: Question

Who are two Greek philosophers and what Barry Bonds hit 762 of?

I'll take "Greek philosophers on steroids" Alex.

 

[Nickyboy]

I'll take "Greek philosophers on steroids" Alex.

We're going to need a dollar amount first, Axo.
Ah, the Daily Double!

 

[axolotl]

We're going to need a dollar amount first, Axo.
Ah, the Daily Double!

Well, I got 2/3 of the question right. Maybe.

 

[Nickyboy]

Well, I got 2/3 of the question right. Maybe.

OK, let's turn to Phil now, in that case. So Phil, you live in Oak Park and have had a rather "interesting" story about your mail man. Tell us a little about that!

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Monkey3 - 39 Laps (2006)

 

[Ojai Sam]

The Monkees - Missing Links vol. 3 (Rhino comp. 1996)

Aw, come on! "Odds and Sods" may work for The Who, but the Prefab Four?

Well, actually this is quite a fine collection, enjoyable on its own merits quite apart from the rarity of the material. We get songs recorded for TV plus a dozen studio outtakes. My favorite is "Propinquity (I've Just Begun To Care)", a full-on country tune recorded during Mike's May 1968 Nashville session.

on the Sam-O-Meter. Hey! Hey!

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Shabazz Palaces - The Don Of Diamond Dreams (2020)

 

[axolotl]

My favorite is "Propinquity (I've Just Begun To Care)", a full-on country tune recorded during Mike's May 1968 Nashville session.

I take it that this song was the impetus behind your selection of your law career in probate, trusts, and estates.

Don't tell me I'm wrong, Ken. I've got leverage now.

 

[Nickyboy]

Sam is dead. Long live Ken.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty (2014)