{"id":5434,"date":"2023-03-29T18:55:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T12:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=5434"},"modified":"2023-03-29T18:55:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T12:55:19","slug":"more-vinyl-the-ghost-of-the-turning-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=5434","title":{"rendered":"MORE VINYL & THE GHOST OF THE TURNING POINT"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Here I go being late with another blahg.\u00a0 Really, I had an excuse.\u00a0 I’ve been working hard to finish the last of the audio podcasts for my book, “Pippa’s Passing.”\u00a0 Also, after living with the book for six months I decided that there was another ending or continued ending that was begging to be told.\u00a0 That made a 21st chapter and I wanted to finish writing it and then create an audio podcast of the alternate\/continued ending.\u00a0 I have begun posting the podcasts on various sites.\u00a0 So far 17 chapters are available from wherever you stream podcasts.\u00a0 Here are links to some of them:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pippas-passing\/id1677898737?ign-mpt=uo%3D4&mt=2<\/a><\/h4>\n

https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/2xVZwJaI60VflRZTXaSOOH<\/a><\/h4>\n

https:\/\/www.audible.ca\/pd\/Pippas-Passing-Podcast\/B0BYV211CC?qid=1679495429&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=b278ed0a-c3b2-4491-808c-7cb2190a487c&pf_rd_r=DYK9XZ95DVYDZ3684VPK&pageLoadId=osNGLY5Vv3qxvIPu&creativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c<\/a><\/h4>\n

https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/f11c6714-419f-4033-aad6-15cfb125eaf9\/pippa’s-passing<\/a><\/h4>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In previous blahgs like 12 MONTHS -12 RECORDS -12 SONGS<\/a> \u00a0 and\u00a012 MONTHS \u2013 12 MORE RECORDS \u2013 12 MORE SONGS<\/a>, I posted about records I had purchased over a period of time and then shared some tracks from the albums.\u00a0 I thought I would revisit that theme.\u00a0 Over the past year I’ve probably purchased another 12 or more records from thrift stores or record stores and haven’t shared any of it.\u00a0 I’m about to rectify that by posting about some recent additions.\u00a0 I’m only going to post about 7 right now but I’ll look through the stack near my stereo and see if I can do a part two for this blahg.\u00a0 So here we go, in no particular order.\u00a0 Okay, there is going to be one particular order and that will be the last album that I will post about at the end after a ghost story.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n


\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The first up is an album called “Ben Bagley’s Irving Berlin Revisited.”\u00a0 This was released in 1967 on the MGM Records label.\u00a0 The reason why I purchased it was that I’m a huge fan of the late great jazz artist Blossom Dearie.\u00a0 The album features two songs by her that I had never heard.
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From the album here is Blossom Dearies singing on “It’ll Come To You”:
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\nhttp:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/audiofiles\/ItllComeToYou.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

The second selection of Blossom Dearie from this album is “Wild About You”:
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/audiofiles\/WildAboutYou.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n


\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Next up is a mix between dixieland and ragtime.\u00a0 It’s “Those Fantastic Charleston Years” by the The Charleston Hot Peppers.\u00a0 This was put out on the Polydor label in 1962.
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From that album are two selections, with the first being the title track “Charleston” :
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/audiofiles\/Charleston.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

When my daughter heard the above track she said it reminded her of “It’s A Wonderful Life” with Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed dancing on the gymnasium floor as it opened up to reveal a swimming pool beneath and Stewart and Reed eventually fall into the water.\u00a0 Great scene and a great memory.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 And now we have “When Buddha Smiles”:
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/audiofiles\/WhenBuddhaSmiles.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 It’s back to the vocals again but this time it’s Mel Torm\u00e9.\u00a0 I have posted links to Mel in previous blahgs such as THIS IS 100, PART TWO<\/a> and MY UNBELIEVABLE LIFE- STARRING ME<\/a>.\u00a0 I didn’t used to be a big fan of Mel’s but I remember when my children were younger we went camping and we had a portable radio.\u00a0 A station we listened to did a respective that evening of Mel Torm\u00e9 and I was hooked.\u00a0 When I was in Ottawa recently, I picked up the album “Mel Torm\u00e9 Loves Fred Astaire.”\u00a0 That’s part of the ghost story I will tell later but right now it’s about the music and Mel.\u00a0 This album is a reissue on the Bethlehem label from 1977.
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The original album was “Mel Torm\u00e9 Sings Fred Astaire” issued on Bethlehem in 1956.\u00a0 Still, it’s Mel Torm\u00e9 and up first is a swinger with Mel singing “Something’s Gotta Give”:
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/audiofiles\/MelSomethingsGottaGive.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Let’s slow things down and listen to Mel sing “A Foggy Day:”
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/audiofiles\/MTFoggyDay.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 It’s time to swing again and we’re back to dixieland, “Real Dixieland!”, an album by the Rampart Street Paraders.
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This album actually appears to be a compilation of tracks taken from two other albums, “Rampart And Vine” (1955), and “Dixieland, My Dixieland” (1956) both on the Columbia label.\u00a0 I’m going to start things off with “Sugar (That Sugar Baby O’ Mine)” from the Rampart and Vine album:
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/audiofiles\/RSPSugar.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

And now one that swings, from the “Dixieland, My Dixieland” album, here’s “After You’ve Gone”:
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/audiofiles\/RSPAfterYouveGone.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 Continuing on with the Dixieland theme, I want to talk a little about The Firehouse Five Plus Two.\u00a0\u00a0 Here’s a quote about this band from the Wikipedia entry:
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The Firehouse Five Plus Two was a Dixieland jazz band, popular in the 1950s, consisting of members of the Disney animation department. Leader and trombonist Ward Kimball was inspired to form the band after spending time with members of the Disney animation and sound department and finding that they had a lot in common as jazz aficionados. The lunchtime chats escalated into a full on lunchtime jam session as Kimball, an amateur trombonist, and animator Frank Thomas, a pianist, would find they “sounded pretty good all by ourselves.”<\/h4>\n

The band was also formative in creating the Good Time Jazz label under fellow aficionado Lester Koenig, who managed all the band’s releases from 1940’s The Firehouse Five Plus Two Story, Volume 1 to 1970’s Live at Earthquake McGoon’s. Walt Disney was approving of the band, letting them play at the company’s Christmas parties, at Disneyland, and other social functions, on the single condition that they never fully leave their jobs at the studio.<\/h4>\n

I think I may have another Firehouse Five Plus Two album somewhere so I’ll look around and see what I have and maybe post about it in the future.\u00a0 Maybe I just bought the same album again.\u00a0 Who knows?\u00a0 Obviously, I don’t!\u00a0 The album I picked up recently at a thrift store in Ottawa is “The Firehouse Five Story, Vol. 2”.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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First up is a jazzy song that asks the question, “Who Walks In When I Walk Out?”
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/audiofiles\/FF2WhoWalksInWhenIWalkOut.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Of course, if you’re going to have a song by the Firehouse Five Plus Two then you have to have a song associated with a Firehouse.\u00a0 Here’s “Firechief Rag”:
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/audiofiles\/FirechiefRag.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0 The next album from which I want to offer up samples is one I picked up at a local pawn shop in Belleville.\u00a0 Greenbacks Pawnshop has a huge selection of used records.\u00a0 I picked up the 1962\u00a0 album “Billy Eckstine & Quincy Jones \u2013 At Basin Street East” for $10.<\/span><\/strong>
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“Billy Eckstine does some fabulous singing on this album backed by the Quincy Jones Orchestra.\u00a0 The very first track on the album is a favourite of mine entitled “Alright, Okay, You Win”:<\/span><\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/audiofiles\/AllRightOkayYouWin.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

I often catch myself singing “Alright, Okay, You Win” because I remember seeing Joe Williams sing this on a tribute to Frank Sinatra back in 1990.\u00a0 Check out this video of Joe Williams’ performance:<\/span><\/strong>
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