Monk hummed along with his solos. There's a neat story behind that album, which was recorded in 1957, if you want to hear it.
And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Hayden - Nov 21, 2007 8:52:01 am PST #6818 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Nutty - Nov 21, 2007 8:54:11 am PST #6819 of 10003
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Do tell!
Hayden - Nov 21, 2007 9:25:22 am PST #6820 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I started to write it down, but here's a better telling from All Things Considered.
All Things Considered, October 5, 2005 - One day in late January, Larry Appelbaum was thumbing through some old Voice of America audiotapes about to be digitized at the Library of Congress when he made a discovery that would stun him and many other jazz fans.
Eight 10-inch reels of acetate tape were labeled "Carnegie Hall Jazz 1957." One of the tape boxes had a handwritten note on the back that said "T. Monk" with some song titles.
Appelbaum, a jazz specialist at the Library of Congress, got excited at the prospect of finding unpublished materials by the jazz master Thelonious Monk. Then he heard another distinctive sound. "I recognized the tenor saxophone of John Coltrane and my heart started to race," Appelbaum says.
The Nov. 29, 1957, concert was recorded by the Voice of America but never broadcast. For years, the recordings were lost and forgotten. Now, thanks to Appelbaum's discovery, Blue Note Records is releasing them.
Nutty - Nov 21, 2007 10:16:48 am PST #6821 of 10003
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Oh, cool. I just have this one track, and I've listened to it 10 times before without noticing the humming till today.
BigDuluth - Nov 22, 2007 12:36:49 pm PST #6822 of 10003
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
Huh. I should totally become a Hollywood screenwriter. Or, you know, write stuff for the SciFi Channel....
Step 1: Strike like crazy
Step 2:
Step 3: Be successfull.
tommyrot - Nov 26, 2007 8:46:45 am PST #6823 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Totally and completely random question - a John Lennon song has the lyrics "War is over if you want it." Does that seem awkward to people? Wouldn't "War is over if you want" or "War is over if you want it to be" be better? (Except, of course, he was constrained by having to come up with two groups of four syllables.)
DXMachina - Nov 26, 2007 9:05:36 am PST #6824 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
"If you want it, here it is, come and get it..."
tommyrot - Nov 26, 2007 12:54:14 pm PST #6825 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Rank the following:
The Broken Family Band
The Handsome Family
The Loud Family
The Partridge Family
The Savoy Family Cajun Band
DavidS - Nov 26, 2007 8:06:17 pm PST #6826 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hmmm.
Handsome Family
Loud Family
Partridge Family
Broken Family Band
Savoy Family Cajun Band
I'm just back from drinks with a couple people from my writer's group. Had an excellent conversation with Erik Davis (who did the 33 1/3 book on Led Zeppelin) and Lynn Peril (famous for the zine Mystery Date).
shrift - Nov 27, 2007 7:30:22 am PST #6827 of 10003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Any Chicagoistas want to see Jonathan Coulton at Schubas on December 8th?