Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Not Quite Norah Jones

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Upon picking up today's record, titled "Come Away with Me", I was immediately put in the mind of Norah Jones' gorgeo...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

The Apron, The Pastries and Other Things

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As I've probably mentioned too many times, MSR is not my favorite label. And so it was some surprise that I came to rediscover t...
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Monday, October 14, 2013

He's Sorry He Answered the Phone

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Today's record does not broadcast itself as a song-poem the way that a record on Preview, Halmark or many other labels would. In f...
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Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Gene Does Vietnam

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As I've mentioned a few times, most recently five weeks ago , I've heard over the years from a few people who collect and documen...
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Monday, September 30, 2013

The Strangest Dream

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With weapons of mass destruction back in the news, along with the United Nations and, in this case, Syria all involved, I thought it wa...
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Sunday, September 22, 2013

Practice Your Rhythm

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Regular readers will already know that I'm not much of a fan of certain song-poem labels - MSR and Columbine being the biggest names ...
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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Norm Sings in the Sunshine

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I don't actually own a copy of today's record. It was recently auctioned at eBay, and while I failed to take ownership of the phy...
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Saturday, September 07, 2013

Two Views of Life

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Before getting to today's offering, I have an out-of-left-field request: Does anyone reading this blog either understand Dutch, or kno...
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Friday, August 30, 2013

Tin Pan Alley Does Vietnam

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Today, I have a record provided to me (and all of you) by a correspondent named Justin. He initially wrote me about Mike Thomas' perf...
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Sunday, August 25, 2013

The Longest Song-Poem Ever???

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In one sense, when you pick up a Halmark record, you can be pretty sure what you're going to get. In another way though, there...
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Saturday, August 17, 2013

The Great Joe Noto/Phyllis Ruby Team

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It's vacation week here, and although we're still at home (we're the ones being visited by relatives), I'm still spending...
Friday, August 09, 2013

Sammy and John at the Hot Springs Spa!

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This week, we have Sammy Marshall, appearing on only one side of the disk, which comes to us on a label not recorded at the AS/PMA w...