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[Dan (the Man)]

Two antibiotics.  I hate taking even one.  I suggest when you finish the antibiotics you follow them with an equal round of Lactobacillus acidophilus.

Even if the sound of that is something quite atrocious?

[Dan (the Man)]

I think I'm babbling...

[George]

Well, it took me longer to drive to the doctor's office than the amount of time he spent examining me.  But I sort of expected that since I was a new patient to him (my regular doctor has gone AWOL from that office.)
 Anyway, he told me I have a malicious bug that's been going around that totally wipes out its victims.  He told me that he's seen several basketball players from a local high school that were in worse shape than me!  He prescribed an antibiotic and, as a precaution, sent me to the labs to get a chest x-ray (because of the crackling in my lungs)
So I plan on taking the rest of the week off from work and just loaf around the house.  Maybe I'll do a SMASH marathon!

~~~FEEL BETTER QUICKLY VIBES FOR DR DAN (THE MAN)!!~~~

[bk]

Jane, that sounds very peculiar, a 47th reunion. 

[bk]

Finally finished one set of liner notes.  Whew!  Will do the next one later tonight.  I've been teetering on the verge of feeling sick but am fighting like a tiger not to succumb.  I've sucking down Coldeez, I sat in the Jacuzzi, and I'm resting.

[George]

DR Elmore I am also confused about your twitter problems. When you go on twitter you only see the tweets of the people you follow. But even if say you followed 500 people. Twitter even lets you put people into lists. So you can just view one category of people at a time. This is what I do. For example I follow alot of authors. I have them all in a folder called "authors". So any time I wat I can just look in that list and I see only their tweets.

I seem to be getting as well the damned tweets of every person I'm following, not simply their tweets. I wouod swear everyone tweeting our E&T DR Jose, for exammple, is also sending them on to me. So, I have to say that, even if I weren't sifting through a million of "I'm at the bakery," the pornographic ones an orchestrator friend sends out thinking he's funny, as well as the others are a perfect waste of time and sense.

You can unfollow people if you don't like their tweets. Or make a special list of the people you find worthwhile. Then you can just look at that list.
It makes it much easier to read only the tweets of interest.

I've reached the conclusion that there are no tweets of interest!

Well, that's because you don't follow *me*!  My tweets are sublime bits of whimsy that detail the absurdities of this world, along with what I had for lunch.

I wonder if Benjamin Kritzer's Grandpa Gelfinbaum would've tweeted anything.

[Jane]

Two antibiotics.  I hate taking even one.  I suggest when you finish the antibiotics you follow them with an equal round of Lactobacillus acidophilus.

Even if the sound of that is something quite atrocious?

  It comes in a capsule.

[Jane]

Jane, that sounds very peculiar, a 47th reunion. 

I know.  Maybe because you skipped your 45th.  We are having a very casual 45th reunion in July.

[Dan (the Man)]

My question for ASK BK day.....what do you think is the worst-sequenced Broadway Cast LP?

Well, most of them are sequenced in show order, but I do know, for example, they moved Grapes of Roth on Promises late in the program, which I hated and put right when we reissued it.  I don't like when they move stuff around on a cast album - but in the LP era sometimes it was out of necessity due to how much you could put on one side of an LP

Maybe that explains SWEET CHARITY, which had been tops on my list of frustrating LPs...

[Jane]

Bruce go to classmates, click on reunions & scroll down for your class.  There is a contact link for Carey Stock.  There is also a list of classmates to see who has responded.  If you scroll down the list you will find your name to click & open.

[Dan (the Man)]

* * * * * Strong Immunity Vibes For BK * * * * *

[TCB]

G'night!

[Jane]

Bruce try an allergy pill to go with the coldeeze.  I find a Benadryl, or half of one helps.

[Jane]

'night

[bk]

Bruce try an allergy pill to go with the coldeeze.  I find a Benadryl, or half of one helps.

I did exactly that this morning - an Alavert, which works best for me.  In a while, I may go to Jerry's and have a bowl of chicken soup.

[Dan (the Man)]

Nothing does better than a hot bowl of chicken soup.

[Dan (the Man)]

'night!

[John G.]

I always thought it hilarious on the London cassette recording of "A Little Night Music" that they broke "In Praise of Women," so that it starts on side A and then finishes on side B.

Remember 8-track tapes??  Just about every song was broken up into chunks because of the limited amount of room.

I do recall 8-track tapes. Never had one. This was a cassette.

[Michael]

I've tried to put the word out that I would buy back Haines His Way and the Sherman Brothers Album, to no avail.  I know they've sold back masters to a few singers - I've told the singers what to ask for and how much to offer.  I would only do the Sherman Brothers album if they had the hard drives so that I could completely remix it from scratch - as most know, the idiot who did the mix left off half the band tracks and didn't comp vocals.

So do they own all the tapes or only those that belong to the "other label".

[bk]

Listening to a rough mix of the STAGE benefit - this one Sondheim.  I'm at a loss most of the time as to who is singing - save for Len Cariou.  I've asked for a list of the singers and songs.  Next we mix their Bacharach show, then ALW, then I'll go over and we'll finesse all of them - then we have to rush and have all three done by the end of April.

[bk]

I've tried to put the word out that I would buy back Haines His Way and the Sherman Brothers Album, to no avail.  I know they've sold back masters to a few singers - I've told the singers what to ask for and how much to offer.  I would only do the Sherman Brothers album if they had the hard drives so that I could completely remix it from scratch - as most know, the idiot who did the mix left off half the band tracks and didn't comp vocals.

So do they own all the tapes or only those that belong to the "other label".

Not sure what you mean?  The label that went under owns about a hundred of my productions.  Varese owns a handful of the more expensive recordings and all the film music recordings I did.

[Druxy]

My wife was as Costco today, and some employee pushing a merchandise cart accidentally ran into her back.

 

My wife has had 3 back surgeries.

She's now lying down with a heating pad on her back and will be going to see her doctor tomorrow.

 

Oh, your poor wife.  I hope she is much better by tomorrow.  Did someone report this?

Very definitely.

[Druxy]

My wife was as Costco today, and some employee pushing a merchandise cart accidentally ran into her back.

 

My wife has had 3 back surgeries.

She's now lying down with a heating pad on her back and will be going to see her doctor tomorrow.

 

Did she report it to the store manager?

Absolutely.

[VinTek]

I've tried to put the word out that I would buy back Haines His Way and the Sherman Brothers Album, to no avail.  I know they've sold back masters to a few singers - I've told the singers what to ask for and how much to offer.  I would only do the Sherman Brothers album if they had the hard drives so that I could completely remix it from scratch - as most know, the idiot who did the mix left off half the band tracks and didn't comp vocals.

bk, I was wondering what had happened to the attempt to buy back the Sherman Brothers album since you'd mentioned at that Kritzerland show you were trying to make that purchase.  Do you think that they're refusing to sell both albums to you out of spite, despite finding out who a snake the person who betrayed you was?  I have no ideas about how to acquire Haines His Way, but what if Mr. Richard Sherman tried to buy the Sherman Brothers album instead of you?

[bk]

I've tried to put the word out that I would buy back Haines His Way and the Sherman Brothers Album, to no avail.  I know they've sold back masters to a few singers - I've told the singers what to ask for and how much to offer.  I would only do the Sherman Brothers album if they had the hard drives so that I could completely remix it from scratch - as most know, the idiot who did the mix left off half the band tracks and didn't comp vocals.

bk, I was wondering what had happened to the attempt to buy back the Sherman Brothers album since you'd mentioned at that Kritzerland show you were trying to make that purchase.  Do you think that they're refusing to sell both albums to you out of spite, despite finding out who a snake the person who betrayed you was?  I have no ideas about how to acquire Haines His Way, but what if Mr. Richard Sherman tried to buy the Sherman Brothers album instead of you?

I'm afraid it's probably hopeless.  You'd think, as you say, they'd have figured out who the real villain of the piece is (there is no doubt for those who read my book), but I only know that after having sent a message to their son, who sells their stuff on amazon privately, he denied he was their son and refused to answer any questions - whether he did as I asked and forwarded mine to his mother is anyone's guess, but my guess is he told her about it and she told him to deny it was him.  It wasn't too hard - selling only releases from one label out of Louisiana (Lafayette, to be exact), which just happens to be where these people are from, and a username that's the same as his mother's save for a different first initial.  It seemed positively weird and nuts to me, but I dropped it after that.  There's something seriously wrong with all these people.

[John G.]

Night, all.

[Michael]

I've tried to put the word out that I would buy back Haines His Way and the Sherman Brothers Album, to no avail.  I know they've sold back masters to a few singers - I've told the singers what to ask for and how much to offer.  I would only do the Sherman Brothers album if they had the hard drives so that I could completely remix it from scratch - as most know, the idiot who did the mix left off half the band tracks and didn't comp vocals.

So do they own all the tapes or only those that belong to the "other label".

Not sure what you mean?  The label that went under owns about a hundred of my productions.  Varese owns a handful of the more expensive recordings and all the film music recordings I did.

I guess I was a little obtuse.

I was wondering if they actually owned the Varese recordings, the FA recordings or both.

But you answered the question.

But I will ask this
I thought that either Original Cast Records or footlights took over the label and was distributing them.

[bk]

I've tried to put the word out that I would buy back Haines His Way and the Sherman Brothers Album, to no avail.  I know they've sold back masters to a few singers - I've told the singers what to ask for and how much to offer.  I would only do the Sherman Brothers album if they had the hard drives so that I could completely remix it from scratch - as most know, the idiot who did the mix left off half the band tracks and didn't comp vocals.

So do they own all the tapes or only those that belong to the "other label".

Not sure what you mean?  The label that went under owns about a hundred of my productions.  Varese owns a handful of the more expensive recordings and all the film music recordings I did.

I guess I was a little obtuse.

I was wondering if they actually owned the Varese recordings, the FA recordings or both.

But you answered the question.

But I will ask this
I thought that either Original Cast Records or footlights took over the label and was distributing them.

I don't know what the exact deal with - I do know that if you look on eBay and amazon all those sellers selling this stuff sell because they bought CDs at rock-bottom blow-out wholesale prices - so, just guessing, they just dumped as much as they could to get whatever cash they could.

[George]

Favorite line from tonight's episode of "Happy Endings":

You know what I was thinking about…if Mary Tyler Moore married and then divorced Steven Tyler, then married and divorced Michael Moore, then got into a three-way lesbian marriage with Demi Moore and Mandy Moore, would she go by the name Mary Tyler Moore Tyler Moore Moore Moore?

 

[vixmom]

I didn't have to break one of the clips--I think it was in the wrong position somehow.  Once I squeezed them, there was an audible click, not like something breaking, but like something going into its correct position.

sorry, that was my knees