Zeeba Neighba
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The Quintet - Jazz at Massey Hall (1956 - recorded 1953)
What are you listening to? December 2024
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Zeeba Neighba
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Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958)
Unsomnambulist
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Legend has it he was arrested at a McDonald's in Altoona, PA.
axolotl
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That could have saved him from the wrath of One-Take Frank.
Zeeba Neighba
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Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast (2000)
Unsomnambulist
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Connie Smith - The Best of Connie Smith, Vol. II (1970)
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
According to my database, I bought this one new on December 19, 1975 for $4.96. Not that I'm obsessive or anything.
Ojai Sam
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Others may cry, cry, cry, but I say "Run away, little tears." I don't feel sorry for you.
While I doubt you bought it as an investment, I am willing to be wrong.
Ojai Sam
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Axo, you are right as usual. Money is secondary where music is concerned because, as Connie always says,Others may cry, cry, cry, but I say "Run away, little tears." I don't feel sorry for you.
While I doubt you bought it as an investment, I am willing to be wrong.
Zeeba Neighba
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L7 - Bricks Are Heavy (1992)
Zeeba Neighba
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Pavement - Brighten The Corners (1997)
Ojai Sam
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^ ^^Pavement - Brighten The Corners (1997)
Two albums from the 90s that I really like.
Unsomnambulist
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^ ^^
Two albums from the 90s that I really like.
Last real decade before we entered this fake reality.
Ojai Sam
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It’s reassuring to hear you say that.
Zeeba Neighba
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Big Thief - Two Hands (2019)
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Ojai Sam
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Hank Williams - The Immortal Hank Williams (MGM [Japan] comp. 1983)
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
Before the CD era, systematic catalog reissues by domestic record companies were few and far between. Even an artist with the stature of Hank Williams received dismal treatment at the hands of the label which had profited so handsomely from his work. After his premature death on New Year's Day 1953, his recordings were reissued innumerable times in a haphazard fashion that defied explanation.
As a country artist, Hank's sales during his short life derived exclusively from 78 rpm singles. In researching this post, I leaned to my surprise that no albums had been released while he was living. Discogs tells us that his Memorial Album was "the first ever compilation of Hank Williams' songs and was released shortly after his death in 1953. The 12" LP disc was still an emerging format at the time so the album was also released on 10" LP disc, 4x10" 78 RPM shellac discs, 4x7" 45rpm single formats and 2x7" vinyl EP formats. The 12" LP featured 4 additional songs (Crazy Heart, Move It On Over, My Heart Would Know & I'm Sorry For You, My Friend) in hopes of enticing the country music buying public to try long play albums over the more popular (and less expensive) singles."
The enticements continued as a flood of redundant albums with duplicative titles, rechanneled stereo, even string overdubs for the twangophobes.
Leave it to MGM's Japanese affiliate to deal properly with this priceless legacy. The Immortal Hank Williams packaged all of his regular studio masters along with the transcriptions and demos that had been overdubbed and released posthumously on ten LP's in a faux leather box with a booklet full of notes (in Japanese, unfortunately). Sound quality is amazingly good considering the age of the source material. As a bonus, they included an 11th disc with one of the badly edited and overdubbed fake "On Stage" albums.
I bought this box new from Down Home Music back in the day and foolishly traded it for some CD's and 30 pieces of silver. Recently I was lucky enough to find a really clean copy, complete with obi strip, which I have been enjoying over the past few weeks. Polydor eventually got around to producing a deluxe CD long box (also ersatz leather) with a few more stray tracks, which I have somewhere in the vault. But if I feel a hankering for the music of the man they used to call “The Hillbilly Shakespeare”, I suspect that I will throw this vinyl box on the turntable.
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
Before the CD era, systematic catalog reissues by domestic record companies were few and far between. Even an artist with the stature of Hank Williams received dismal treatment at the hands of the label which had profited so handsomely from his work. After his premature death on New Year's Day 1953, his recordings were reissued innumerable times in a haphazard fashion that defied explanation.
As a country artist, Hank's sales during his short life derived exclusively from 78 rpm singles. In researching this post, I leaned to my surprise that no albums had been released while he was living. Discogs tells us that his Memorial Album was "the first ever compilation of Hank Williams' songs and was released shortly after his death in 1953. The 12" LP disc was still an emerging format at the time so the album was also released on 10" LP disc, 4x10" 78 RPM shellac discs, 4x7" 45rpm single formats and 2x7" vinyl EP formats. The 12" LP featured 4 additional songs (Crazy Heart, Move It On Over, My Heart Would Know & I'm Sorry For You, My Friend) in hopes of enticing the country music buying public to try long play albums over the more popular (and less expensive) singles."
The enticements continued as a flood of redundant albums with duplicative titles, rechanneled stereo, even string overdubs for the twangophobes.
Leave it to MGM's Japanese affiliate to deal properly with this priceless legacy. The Immortal Hank Williams packaged all of his regular studio masters along with the transcriptions and demos that had been overdubbed and released posthumously on ten LP's in a faux leather box with a booklet full of notes (in Japanese, unfortunately). Sound quality is amazingly good considering the age of the source material. As a bonus, they included an 11th disc with one of the badly edited and overdubbed fake "On Stage" albums.
I bought this box new from Down Home Music back in the day and foolishly traded it for some CD's and 30 pieces of silver. Recently I was lucky enough to find a really clean copy, complete with obi strip, which I have been enjoying over the past few weeks. Polydor eventually got around to producing a deluxe CD long box (also ersatz leather) with a few more stray tracks, which I have somewhere in the vault. But if I feel a hankering for the music of the man they used to call “The Hillbilly Shakespeare”, I suspect that I will throw this vinyl box on the turntable.
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