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2 By Bukowski - Drink From My Bastard Grail (2003)
What are you listening to? June 2021
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2 By Bukowski - Her Kind Fight Everything (2020)
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Lew Brown, Buddy De Sylva & Ray Henderson - Good News (soundtrack 1947, Rhino Handmade 2003)
How can you go wrong with a soundtrack featuring Mel Torme and June Allyson? Peter Lawford is enjoyable too, and the sadly forgotten Joan McCracken really rocks out for 4 minutes plus on "Pass That Peace Pipe".
How can you go wrong with a soundtrack featuring Mel Torme and June Allyson? Peter Lawford is enjoyable too, and the sadly forgotten Joan McCracken really rocks out for 4 minutes plus on "Pass That Peace Pipe".
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I wonder if Joan McCracken was related to Harry McCracken, the tech writer.Lew Brown, Buddy De Sylva & Ray Henderson - Good News (soundtrack 1947, Rhino Handmade 2003)
How can you go wrong with a soundtrack featuring Mel Torme and June Allyson? Peter Lawford is enjoyable too, and the sadly forgotten Joan McCracken really rocks out for 4 minutes plus on "Pass That Peace Pipe".
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axolotl
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Cool beans. I was just hoping nobody would make any dumb jokes about pistachios or Sidney Powell.
D'oh!
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Louis Armstrong & Billie Holiday - New Orleans (soundtrack 1947, Giants of Jazz release 1983)
What a lost opportunity! In 1946 plans were made to make a feature film about the closing of Storyville, loosely based on an idea of Orson Welles. Satch and Lady Day were signed to provide the music, joined by legends like Kid Ory, Barney Bigard and Zutty Singleton. 20 songs were recorded but wait! Most of them wound up on the cutting room floor. The movie was hijacked to tell the story of a white opera singer (played by "Queen of the B's" Dorothy Patrick) and her romance with gambler/restauranteur Arturo de Cordova.
Four decades later, the original acetate recordings were found and released on LP. They are every bit as revelatory as one would hope. Armstrong is in his finest form as a walking piece of New Orleans history. And the vocals of Holiday, relegated to playing a maid, are among the best of her career. "Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?", recorded just with Charlie Beal's piano, is a rare glimpse of her in an intimate setting. With so much potential for greatness, it's a shame that this music was tied to such a forgettable mess of a movie.
on the Sam-O-Meter.
Not available for streaming, presumably for licensing reasons.
What a lost opportunity! In 1946 plans were made to make a feature film about the closing of Storyville, loosely based on an idea of Orson Welles. Satch and Lady Day were signed to provide the music, joined by legends like Kid Ory, Barney Bigard and Zutty Singleton. 20 songs were recorded but wait! Most of them wound up on the cutting room floor. The movie was hijacked to tell the story of a white opera singer (played by "Queen of the B's" Dorothy Patrick) and her romance with gambler/restauranteur Arturo de Cordova.
Four decades later, the original acetate recordings were found and released on LP. They are every bit as revelatory as one would hope. Armstrong is in his finest form as a walking piece of New Orleans history. And the vocals of Holiday, relegated to playing a maid, are among the best of her career. "Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?", recorded just with Charlie Beal's piano, is a rare glimpse of her in an intimate setting. With so much potential for greatness, it's a shame that this music was tied to such a forgettable mess of a movie.
on the Sam-O-Meter. Not available for streaming, presumably for licensing reasons.
axolotl
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Not available for streaming, presumably for licensing reasons.
Shaking my (figurative) fist in the air, while (literally) typing:
HTH are we s'posed to hear it, then?
Thinking about ordering it.
P. S. Spoiler placed in case shallowgal ever comes back.
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Steve Earle - Guitar Town (1986)
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Hmmm. Maybe I can solve your problem tomorrow.
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Here you go:
View album 29
View album 29
Zeeba Neighba
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Elvis Costello - Get Happy!! (1980)
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Stephen Stills & Manassas - Down The Road (1973)
The first Manassas double album seemed to herald the arrival of a new super group with Steve Stills and Chris Hillman plus Latin percussion whiz Joe Lala, steel ace Al Perkins and a versatile rhythm section of Dallas Taylor and Fuzzy Samuel. This second album seemed a step backward at the time but all these years later, sounds damn good. The same heady mix of rock, country and Latin is still highly entertaining. Apparently there were some issues at these sessions that led to the group's implosion. Too bad, this is a fine record. I even managed to score the Japanese mini-LP complete with obi.
The first Manassas double album seemed to herald the arrival of a new super group with Steve Stills and Chris Hillman plus Latin percussion whiz Joe Lala, steel ace Al Perkins and a versatile rhythm section of Dallas Taylor and Fuzzy Samuel. This second album seemed a step backward at the time but all these years later, sounds damn good. The same heady mix of rock, country and Latin is still highly entertaining. Apparently there were some issues at these sessions that led to the group's implosion. Too bad, this is a fine record. I even managed to score the Japanese mini-LP complete with obi.
axolotl
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Half of the group wanted to call themselves Bull Run (and almost seceded)?
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Esto.The Timeout Drawer ~ A Difficult Future (2001)
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