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Title: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: bk on March 12, 2024, 12:07:47 AM
Well, you've read the notes, the notes were in stereo, and now it is time for you to post until the stereophonic cows come home.
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Post by: bk on March 12, 2024, 12:09:04 AM
And the word of the day is: SUMPTUOUS!
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Post by: Rodzinski on March 12, 2024, 12:56:16 AM
Notes tabled. Turntabled.
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Post by: George on March 12, 2024, 12:58:08 AM
Well, this is an interesting pattern:

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Post by: Rodzinski on March 12, 2024, 01:00:03 AM
That’s because to me Ormandy is synonymous with having a hi-fi and a dad who enjoyed classical music. I hear the name, and I hear Columbia and RCA classics coming out of our octagonal end table with pull-out turntable. Not a high-end system, but everything sounded luscious to us.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 12, 2024, 04:41:05 AM
Good morning, all!
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 12, 2024, 04:46:18 AM
I got Jeremy's latest batch of illustrations this morning. They're quite delightful.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 12, 2024, 04:50:20 AM
I have phone calls to make this morning to my urologist and the vascular surgeon I saw two years ago. First, I need to vacuum. The place is a mess.
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 12, 2024, 05:12:20 AM
When I was around three or four, the Boston Pops and Arthur Fiedler recorded Khatchaturian's Sabre Dance from Gayne. It was my favorite recording. I remember having a Little Golden Record of the dance of the little swans from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, and that was probably my only classical recording until I saw Disney's Fantasia in 1956, and that was a revelation: I thought Stokowski was the greatest conductor, and I fell in love with "The Sorceror's Apprentice" and the Nutcracker Suite. In 1958 I caught part of the broadcast of the complete Nutcracker ballet and that was a real kick in the butt: the Suite was about a quarter of the music in the ballet, and I got Dorati's Mercury recording of the complete Nutcracker - the first complete recording - with the Minneapolis Symphony. That led to Dorati's complete Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake.

Around 1961, my Aunt Jean, trying in vain to teach me fiscal responsibility, suggested I begin a checking account, and that led to my joining, like Benjamin Kritzer, the Columbia Record Club. I got my stereo player, and the only albums I purchased were classical, mostly Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. and musical theatre. Among my favorite purchases were Bartok's "Miraculopus Mandarin." Orff's "Carmina Burana," and suites from Delibes' ballets Coppelia and Sylvia.
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Post by: vixmom on March 12, 2024, 05:16:53 AM
Well, this is an interesting pattern:

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Nice!
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: vixmom on March 12, 2024, 05:17:32 AM
I got Jeremy's latest batch of illustrations this morning. They're quite delightful.

That is wonderful !!
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Post by: vixmom on March 12, 2024, 05:19:09 AM
I fell asleep around 9 last night.
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Post by: vixmom on March 12, 2024, 05:19:22 AM
Slept until 3
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Post by: vixmom on March 12, 2024, 05:20:02 AM
Tossed and turned until 5 and finally fell back asleep
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Post by: vixmom on March 12, 2024, 05:20:37 AM
Slept through the alarm or turned it off in my sleep
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Post by: vixmom on March 12, 2024, 05:20:56 AM
Woke at 8
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Post by: vixmom on March 12, 2024, 05:21:09 AM
Now to Wordle and run
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Post by: vixmom on March 12, 2024, 05:21:31 AM
Well walk slowly to the car and drive
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Post by: vixmom on March 12, 2024, 05:21:44 AM
I’m still feeling exhausted
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Post by: vixmom on March 12, 2024, 05:22:17 AM
Oh well soldier on….
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Post by: George on March 12, 2024, 05:24:33 AM
I got Jeremy's latest batch of illustrations this morning. They're quite delightful.

(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7534.0;attach=21250)

Very nice, Larry!  Can't wait to see the whole book!
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Post by: George on March 12, 2024, 05:25:52 AM
Well, this is an interesting pattern:

Wordle 997 5/6

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Nice!

Thanks, Vixmom!
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Post by: vixmom on March 12, 2024, 05:26:31 AM
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Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: vixmom on March 12, 2024, 05:26:41 AM
Whew!
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Post by: vixmom on March 12, 2024, 05:45:23 AM
Connections
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Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: George on March 12, 2024, 05:46:00 AM
Whew!

I know that feeling!
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 12, 2024, 05:46:33 AM
I had an interesting dream last night. I was working summer theatre somewhere with Jean Druesedow, the wonderful costume designer at Miami University for whom I was graduate assistant for two years. In the dream, I wasn't at Miami and I was surprised to find Jean working there. There were other friends, none of whom I remember. At one point, we seemed to be at a muddy construction site, and I commented, that car looksd like my brother Macbeth's. I turned around and there he was, He started to speak to me, and I turned around and walked away, yelling, Don't talk to me! I never want to see you again!

Now, my feelings are accurate; I never want to see or hear from either of the Macbeths ever again, but I've never before had any dream about our situation. I have no idea what prompted it.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 12, 2024, 05:53:40 AM
Good morning, all.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 12, 2024, 05:56:33 AM
Two (count ’em) rehearsals today, going into the late evening.

Thursday will be even worse, with a visit to the Grand Inquisitor (a.k.a. the dental hygienist) thrown in for comic relief.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: ChasSmith on March 12, 2024, 05:57:33 AM
The illustrations look wonderful, DR Elmore.
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Post by: singdaw on March 12, 2024, 06:02:57 AM
PAGE TWO!!
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Post by: singdaw on March 12, 2024, 06:03:06 AM
Good morning, friends.
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Post by: singdaw on March 12, 2024, 06:03:32 AM
LOVE the illustration, DR elmore3003!
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Post by: singdaw on March 12, 2024, 06:03:53 AM
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Post by: singdaw on March 12, 2024, 06:04:19 AM
Who decides these things?
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Post by: singdaw on March 12, 2024, 06:04:38 AM
Hope your stamina returns soon, DR vixmom. No fun.
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Post by: singdaw on March 12, 2024, 06:05:57 AM
DR John G., perhaps you should whip up a purple sweet potato pie.
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Post by: singdaw on March 12, 2024, 06:11:51 AM
Really enjoying reading all the comments about Ormandy.
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Post by: Ginny on March 12, 2024, 06:15:29 AM
Tuesday morning greetings!  Busy day yesterday and I’m enjoying some time in the slow lane today.
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Post by: Ginny on March 12, 2024, 06:17:30 AM
DR Elmore, Jeremy has perfectly captured the Hilary Knight vibe you were looking for!  My favorite is the passed-out pigeon.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 12, 2024, 06:17:35 AM
The first classical recording in the house was somebody’s Beethoven Fifth on 78s. I have no idea whose it was. When we got our first record player that had all four speeds, we branched out a little bit, but it wasn’t until my dad brought home the Mercury recordings “Bach on the Biggest” and the Gershwin Concerto in F (Eugene List) that acquiring classical recordings started becoming a thing for me. Those were unfortunately the mono pressings, but I would eventually discover the wonders of the stereo.

Later, through the record club, I played the Ormandy Grand Canyon Suite to death, and then I discovered his Carmina Burana which sent me over the moon. I got to his recording of the Miraculous Mandarin Suite much later still, and I do love that one.

I also joined the RCA club for myself, just to branch out and be different, and the Fiedler recording of the Concerto in F was another major thing for me in the Gershwin department. And then there was Skitch Henderson’s Porgy and Bess. When I discovered London recordings, in addition to the G&S operettas, I loved Ansermet’s Nutcracker.
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Post by: Ginny on March 12, 2024, 06:24:22 AM
TOD - our family acquired a stereo in 1959 because my mother liked the walnut cabinet that contained it.  My father bought a Reader’s Digest 12-record set in a cool box in a slipcase with a Renoir painting on the cover. 

Then, when I was in college all my music major friends gave me a recording of the Cleveland Orchestra that included Dvorak’s “New World Symphony.”
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Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 06:39:20 AM
Good morning, all.
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Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 06:40:27 AM
DR John G., perhaps you should whip up a purple sweet potato pie.

Since sweet potatoes can give me kidney stones, I think I will pass. But Pi Day is approaching.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 12, 2024, 06:45:36 AM
We eventually got the stereo “console”, and a few of those Reader’s Digest sets, too, DR Ginny.
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 12, 2024, 06:47:36 AM
Several of those sets, actually. I went for the classical, and my mom and dad had to have the big bands ones.
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Post by: Freddie on March 12, 2024, 06:53:05 AM
Energy vibes for vixmom!
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Post by: Freddie on March 12, 2024, 06:54:23 AM
I got Jeremy's latest batch of illustrations this morning. They're quite delightful.

Terrific illustration, elmore!
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Post by: Freddie on March 12, 2024, 06:56:50 AM
TOD:  In terms of records, what stands out in my mind is Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite.  I wrote a school report about it.   
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Post by: Freddie on March 12, 2024, 06:57:11 AM
But there must have been some before that.
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Post by: Freddie on March 12, 2024, 06:57:47 AM
There must! 

(a Doris Day reference)
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 12, 2024, 07:02:33 AM
I got Jeremy's latest batch of illustrations this morning. They're quite delightful.

:)
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 12, 2024, 07:05:25 AM
Today is Tuesday, eh?

That means I have an afternoon appointment at my allergy clinic in North Augusta.  Should be a good visit since I have been feeling much better since startig my Dupixent injections.
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Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 07:07:16 AM
When I was younger, my dad’s family would have an annual reunion. It would always cause total war between Mom and him. One year, she stayed home and the rest of us went. On the way home, we stopped at a drug store, and he found a cut-out record with German writing on it. It was his version of a peace offering. He left the 49-cent price tag on it and proudly presented it to her.

She laughed. An ugly, cruel laugh, as I recall. I was about 7 at the time.

He had bought her Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, or children’s death songs. We were forced to sit inside on a hot August afternoon and listen to the whole thing. We hated every last second of it, feeling it was our death song too.

And that was the first time I remember classical music coming into our house.
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Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 07:09:11 AM
I like it now, but not then and not in an un-air conditioned house.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on March 12, 2024, 07:12:51 AM
TOD:

It's hard to say what my first exposure to classical music was unless it was the William Tell Overture while watching "The Lone Ranger" on Saturday mornings in the 1950s.

Of course, TV featured classical music in a lot of newscasts, etc., but I never knew what I was hearing.

My first recording was of some Strauss waltzes.  My mom picked up a bunch of cheap recordings on LP after I got my first hi-fi.  I was fascinated by them, but had no way of measuring the performances.

In band in high school, the first classical music we performed that grabbed my attention was a movement from Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg".  It was complicated, complex and thrilling even when heard through "band ears".

As an adult, I have to say there are two recordings that were my first major loves of classical music:  Sir Edward Elgar's "Enigma Variations" (and, of course, his "Pomp and Circumstance" was something I had heard many times as a youngster attending and playing in the band for graudations); and Puccini's "Turandot", with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti.  I had purchased the opera on LP (a boxed set) in the exchange in Vicenza, Italy.  Took it home, grilled a steak on a hibachi on my balcony, opened a bottle of wine and listened to the entire recording.  It took (and still takes) my breath away,

That was the beginning, but no end is in sight.
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Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 07:30:42 AM
Very interesting photos of a production of Sunday in the Park with ballet dancers:

https://playbill.com/article/photos-take-a-look-at-graham-phillips-and-talia-suskauer-led-sunday-in-the-park-with-george
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Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 07:31:02 AM
Discuss it amongst yourselves.
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Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 07:32:42 AM
One photo recalls Chicago: No. 17, the spread eagle
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Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 07:32:55 AM
On we go …
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Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 07:33:05 AM
Three!
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Post by: ChasSmith on March 12, 2024, 08:36:27 AM
As I read other people’s responses, I realize I’ve been forgetting a lot of other early exposure to music and recordings. Yessir, a lot.  But I guess it’s okay if I save some for the memoirs and the biopic.
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Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 08:39:21 AM
As I read other people’s responses, I realize I’ve been forgetting a lot of other early exposure to music and recordings. Yessir, a lot.  But I guess it’s okay if I save some for the memoirs and the biopic.

Got a release date set?
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 12, 2024, 08:44:39 AM
Vacuuming was hell this morning. The vacuum was picking up nothing, so I emptied the bag, which was pretty much empty. WTF?

So, further investigation revealed the opening where the hose fits into the bag was completely clogged. I had to take the filter and bag apart to dig out the clogged cat hair, pencil shavings and other crap causing the clog. It made quite a mess before I was finished, but now the vacuum runs nicely. I see a bath in my very near future
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Post by: George on March 12, 2024, 08:48:23 AM
Very interesting photos of a production of Sunday in the Park with ballet dancers:

https://playbill.com/article/photos-take-a-look-at-graham-phillips-and-talia-suskauer-led-sunday-in-the-park-with-george

There are a couple of videos of the production, too.
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Post by: George on March 12, 2024, 08:52:09 AM
Topic of the Day:  I have no idea when I first became aware of "classical" music.  I was always more interested in vocal music, but it wasn't until I discovered, and fell in love with, musicals that I branched out into classical music in general and developed an appreciation of and a liking for "classical" (both vocal and instrumental) music.
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Post by: Jrand74 on March 12, 2024, 09:06:07 AM
And I shall soon be receiving a new credit card to replace one that has been compromised.

Ugh!
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Post by: Jrand74 on March 12, 2024, 09:06:23 AM
Nice illustration DR ELMORE!

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Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 09:06:42 AM
From DR Singdaw:
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I saw something about the London Eye (the "Millenial Wheel") being dismantled and moved to Scotland. Which is apparently untrue.

Thanks for letting us know that is a hoax.
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Post by: Jrand74 on March 12, 2024, 09:06:59 AM
The Dream-O-Matic 6000 indicates that your dream could point to a reunion of sorts over past matters......
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Post by: Jrand74 on March 12, 2024, 09:08:54 AM
TOD:

Van Cliburn playing Tchaikovsky's Second Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor on the Ed Sullivan Show.

I asked for and was bought the Extended 45 rpm version of the recording....which I still have somewhere.

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Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 09:11:07 AM
Today is Tuesday, eh?

That means I have an afternoon appointment at my allergy clinic in North Augusta.  Should be a good visit since I have been feeling much better since startig my Dupixent injections.

I'm glad they are working.
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Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 09:12:19 AM
When I was younger, my dad’s family would have an annual reunion. It would always cause total war between Mom and him. One year, she stayed home and the rest of us went. On the way home, we stopped at a drug store, and he found a cut-out record with German writing on it. It was his version of a peace offering. He left the 49-cent price tag on it and proudly presented it to her.

She laughed. An ugly, cruel laugh, as I recall. I was about 7 at the time.

He had bought her Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, or children’s death songs. We were forced to sit inside on a hot August afternoon and listen to the whole thing. We hated every last second of it, feeling it was our death song too.

And that was the first time I remember classical music coming into our house.

Wow.  What a great story.

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Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 09:14:15 AM
I can't remember not having classical music playing at home.  I still have a few of my father's albums that we would listen to together.
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Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 09:15:19 AM
And I shall soon be receiving a new credit card to replace one that has been compromised.

Ugh!

Sorry.
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Post by: MichaelG on March 12, 2024, 10:03:16 AM
TOD: My parents had several favorite classical recordings. The ones I remember most are Ravel's Bolero with Paul Paray and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and Van Cliburn playing the Tchaikovsky First.

I can't really remember my first classical purchase like I can for rock and jazz, but as a band kid, the Fennell / Eastman recording of Holst and Vaughan Williams would be a likely candidate.
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Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 10:12:34 AM
I have listening to Bela Fleck’s new recording, Rhapsody in Blue. It features three versions of Gershwin’s classic. The first is Rhapsody in Blue(grass), reorchestrated for bluegrass instruments and Fleck on banjo. The second features Fleck on banjo with full orchestra. The third is Rhapsody in Blues, with a real bluesy take.

In between are two short Gershwin pieces.
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Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 10:14:03 AM
It may be too much of a novelty, but it’s enjoyable for now.
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Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 10:15:21 AM
Here’s the bluegrass version: https://youtu.be/8DHPxRZFWQE?si=qusgTTmtzZDHaS5y
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Post by: elmore3003 on March 12, 2024, 11:32:17 AM
I finished Vanity Fair last night. The ending was not Thackeray's, but very satisfying.  Amelia was relieved of some of Thackeray's Victorian view of a passive woman and given a spunkier contemporary acceptance of Becky's proof of of George Osborne's infidelity. Watching the series had me thinking about sagas of women's friendships from Scarlett and Melanie to Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins in Old Acquaintance to Elphaba and Galinda and wondering if Thackeray's novel was the first. I don''t consider Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility part of the same trend.
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Post by: bk on March 12, 2024, 12:17:21 PM
I'm up, I'm up - maybe four hours of sleep.
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Post by: bk on March 12, 2024, 12:17:32 PM
Book has gone to the design team.
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Post by: bk on March 12, 2024, 12:17:46 PM
Illustrations look great.
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Post by: bk on March 12, 2024, 12:17:57 PM
Enjoying everyone's stories.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: bk on March 12, 2024, 12:19:30 PM
I don't believe we had a single classical record in the house when I was a kid. I think the first classical record that entered our house was the one I bought in junior high school - 8th grade - Ormandy's The Moldau, quickly followed by Adrian Boult conducting Greensleeves and other Brit bucolic music on Westminster.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: bk on March 12, 2024, 12:20:10 PM
I was thinking about a Gelson's run but I think I'll order in  - maybe two tacos from the good Mexican jernt I like, or maybe a salad.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Freddie on March 12, 2024, 12:22:54 PM
Book has gone to the design team.


That's great!  Congratulations.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jrand74 on March 12, 2024, 12:32:00 PM
Good book news from MR BK & DR ELMORE
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: elmore3003 on March 12, 2024, 12:41:09 PM
I don't believe we had a single classical record in the house when I was a kid. I think the first classical record that entered our house was the one I bought in junior high school - 8th grade - Ormandy's The Moldau, quickly followed by Adrian Boult conducting Greensleeves and other Brit bucolic music on Westminster.

My parents had a console but I don't believe it was ever played. They were so naive that when I was given the soundtrack of  The King & I for my tenth birthday, we all thought t was a 78 rpm record. For Christmas I got a 3-speed phonograph and could finally play it. There was no stopping me after that!
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 12:57:02 PM
Bruce you might recall my parents had a nice stereo consule to the right of our piano.  I don't think I ever played it when you were over since you were busy playing the piano.  I wish I remembered the song my mother would request you play.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Freddie on March 12, 2024, 01:17:04 PM
It's page 4!
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jrand74 on March 12, 2024, 02:10:46 PM
We had a stereo-tv-radio combo......which was a drag because you couldn't play records if everyone else wanted to watch tv.

I got my own phono - also for my tenth birthday - and started buying records - but mostly 45 rpm "hit" records that I heard on the radio.

I don't think I ever had 16 1/4 rpm record......does anyone know what that speed was used for?
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jrand74 on March 12, 2024, 02:11:29 PM
It is 68 degrees.  I may go sit on the front porch in my rocking chair and yell at people to get off my lawn.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 02:29:46 PM
We had a stereo-tv-radio combo......which was a drag because you couldn't play records if everyone else wanted to watch tv.


I don't believe ever seeing that combination.  Our music was in our living room and our tv was in our den.  My parents decided they didn't want to look at the tv and hid it inside a closet in our den with wood doors we opened to see the tv.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 02:30:42 PM
That little closet was perfect when I had the first boy girl party in elementary school and it was used for private kissing when playing spin the bottle ;D
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Freddie on March 12, 2024, 02:38:48 PM
It is 68 degrees.  I may go sit on the front porch in my rocking chair and yell at people to get off my lawn.


That sounds like fun!!!
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 02:40:43 PM
I know.  I am envious :)
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Freddie on March 12, 2024, 03:16:47 PM
I know.  I am envious :)


:)



Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: bk on March 12, 2024, 03:17:46 PM
Jane, yeah, what song would it have been back then?
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: bk on March 12, 2024, 03:18:02 PM
Lucky Me? I See Rainbows?
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: bk on March 12, 2024, 03:19:39 PM
The first phono I remember in our house was when I was really little - a machine that not only played 78s but also on which you could record your own record, talking or singing or whatever. I have one of those players in storage along with a lot of blank discs. I never tried to use it.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: bk on March 12, 2024, 03:21:01 PM
Then we got a console that played regular LPs, but not stereo, at least I don't think it played stereo. Probably around 1957, before stereo consoles were readily available. I also had a portable RCA player that played 45s.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: bk on March 12, 2024, 03:25:37 PM
So, my first stereo was the Columbia House Stereo with detachable speakers and the first stereo album I got from the club was, I think Gypsy, and then Mr. President and Subways Are for Sleeping, but those were 1962 and I know I got other stuff before that. Also, the soundtrack to West Side Story would have been in January of 1962. I probably got the record player in 1961. First stereo record I bought was the box set of Ben-Hur.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: bk on March 12, 2024, 03:25:58 PM
Kind of a useless day, really.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: bk on March 12, 2024, 03:26:13 PM
Got to make an appointment with an eye doctor very soon.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 03:28:44 PM
Jane, yeah, what song would it have been back then?

I don't think it was a popular song at the time.  I wish I could remember.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 03:29:05 PM
Lucky Me? I See Rainbows?

No.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 03:29:44 PM
The first phono I remember in our house was when I was really little - a machine that not only played 78s but also on which you could record your own record, talking or singing or whatever. I have one of those players in storage along with a lot of blank discs. I never tried to use it.

That would have been fun, if I could carry a tune ;D
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 03:30:25 PM
Got to make an appointment with an eye doctor very soon.

Are you still seeing double?  If so, be sure to mention that so you get in sooner than months away.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Freddie on March 12, 2024, 03:33:56 PM
Lucky Me? I See Rainbows?

No.


Was it "I Don't Care for Page Seven"
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 03:34:50 PM
My mother's favorite singer was Paul Robeson.  She even smuggled a record of his into this country.  I wish I knew what happened to it.

I searched his songs to see if something popped out at me but it didn't.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: MichaelG on March 12, 2024, 03:37:34 PM
We had a stereo-tv-radio combo......which was a drag because you couldn't play records if everyone else wanted to watch tv.

I got my own phono - also for my tenth birthday - and started buying records - but mostly 45 rpm "hit" records that I heard on the radio.

I don't think I ever had 16 1/4 rpm record......does anyone know what that speed was used for?

I had heard those 16 2/3 were for radio transcription discs. This article seems to confirm that:

https://bloggerhythms.blogspot.com/2011/05/slower-than-slow-16-rpm-records.html
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: MichaelG on March 12, 2024, 03:38:07 PM
Our record player had a 16 speed but I've never seen a 16 record either.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jrand74 on March 12, 2024, 03:41:06 PM
DR JANE it looked sort of like this.....

(https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/1206/31/antique-zenith-tv-radio-stereo-cobra-phonograph_1_54f3f1e584c1d99e56fd6506a16ff39b.jpg)
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 03:42:16 PM
Still waiting-lol
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jrand74 on March 12, 2024, 03:42:26 PM
Thanks DR MICHAELG that makes sense.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jrand74 on March 12, 2024, 03:45:28 PM
It showed up!
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 03:52:58 PM
DR JANE it looked sort of like this.....

(https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/1206/31/antique-zenith-tv-radio-stereo-cobra-phonograph_1_54f3f1e584c1d99e56fd6506a16ff39b.jpg)

Using "quote" I can see (https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/1206/31/antique-zenith-tv-radio-stereo-cobra-phonograph_1_54f3f1e584c1d99e56fd6506a16ff39b.jpg), but not the photo. 

Googling the link shown it only says "Direct image access denied, please go to worthpoint.com to view images."
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 03:54:36 PM
That's strange.  I quoted the image link and it is missing from my post.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: KevinH on March 12, 2024, 03:58:33 PM
Good evening!
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: KevinH on March 12, 2024, 03:59:14 PM
Wordle:  5/6
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jrand74 on March 12, 2024, 06:26:17 PM
Technology is a mystery DR JANE.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jrand74 on March 12, 2024, 06:26:38 PM
Watching some tennis from Indian Wells.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 06:30:52 PM
Had a good lesson today, but I feel really behind. These new dances aren’t coming easy.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 06:30:53 PM
Technology is a mystery DR JANE.

;D  Maybe DR George will see the photo and copy it for me.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 06:31:37 PM
Then I had Thai food with friends. The restaurant was new to all three of us, and it was excellent.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 06:32:08 PM
I think Keith is popping corn again.  I am going to try and save half of it for tomorrow as I am not hungry.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 06:34:11 PM
Now watching a sad heist comedy called Mad Money with Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes. The score partly by James Newton Howard thinks it’s a 70s flick.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jane on March 12, 2024, 06:48:31 PM
'night
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: George on March 12, 2024, 07:04:32 PM
We had a stereo-tv-radio combo......which was a drag because you couldn't play records if everyone else wanted to watch tv.

I got my own phono - also for my tenth birthday - and started buying records - but mostly 45 rpm "hit" records that I heard on the radio.

I don't think I ever had 16 1/4 rpm record......does anyone know what that speed was used for?

When we lived in Germany when my dad was in the army, he had a record player that played 16 1/4 rpm records.  I never knew what it was for either, but I had fun playing 45s and LPs at that speed. :D
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: George on March 12, 2024, 07:05:43 PM
Oh, tonight's rehearsal was canceled because the director has a migraine. :-\
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: George on March 12, 2024, 07:07:45 PM
We had a stereo-tv-radio combo......which was a drag because you couldn't play records if everyone else wanted to watch tv.

I got my own phono - also for my tenth birthday - and started buying records - but mostly 45 rpm "hit" records that I heard on the radio.

I don't think I ever had 16 1/4 rpm record......does anyone know what that speed was used for?

I had heard those 16 2/3 were for radio transcription discs. This article seems to confirm that:

https://bloggerhythms.blogspot.com/2011/05/slower-than-slow-16-rpm-records.html

Thanks for the info, MichaelG.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: ChasSmith on March 12, 2024, 07:12:09 PM
The 16 2/3 rpm speed was very low fidelity, only good for speech, not music.

When my parents bought that first 4-speed record player, a promo item that came with it was "The Talking Bible". It was a box set of 45-size records that presumably had someone reading the entire Bible. I don't think they ever listened to it.

Later, a few audiobook-type things were issued at 16 2/3 on 12" records. I might even have one here, of someone reading Proust - "Swann in Love", most likely.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: George on March 12, 2024, 07:13:50 PM
DR JANE it looked sort of like this.....

(https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/1206/31/antique-zenith-tv-radio-stereo-cobra-phonograph_1_54f3f1e584c1d99e56fd6506a16ff39b.jpg)

Using "quote" I can see (https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/1206/31/antique-zenith-tv-radio-stereo-cobra-phonograph_1_54f3f1e584c1d99e56fd6506a16ff39b.jpg), but not the photo. 

Googling the link shown it only says "Direct image access denied, please go to worthpoint.com to view images."

Well, Jane, if you still can't see it after your post, I downloaded it, so it definitely should be viewable by all here:
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: George on March 12, 2024, 07:16:13 PM
When I was a kid, I can remember visiting my aunt and uncle in California and they had a car with a 4-track tape player.  Its shape was just like an 8-track tape, but it played at a slower speed. 
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: George on March 12, 2024, 07:16:36 PM
Had fun with that one, too.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 07:37:13 PM
Oh, tonight's rehearsal was canceled because the director has a migraine. :-\

Nasty. Vibes it’s over soon.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 07:39:51 PM
That movie was dreadful.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 07:41:00 PM
On to a documentary called Godard Cinema.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Freddie on March 12, 2024, 07:50:41 PM
We had a stereo-tv-radio combo......which was a drag because you couldn't play records if everyone else wanted to watch tv.

I got my own phono - also for my tenth birthday - and started buying records - but mostly 45 rpm "hit" records that I heard on the radio.

I don't think I ever had 16 1/4 rpm record......does anyone know what that speed was used for?

When we lived in Germany when my dad was in the army, he had a record player that played 16 1/4 rpm records.  I never knew what it was for either, but I had fun playing 45s and LPs at that speed. :D


:)


Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: vixmom on March 12, 2024, 07:53:04 PM
We went out stove shopping tonight
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: vixmom on March 12, 2024, 07:53:14 PM
We didn’t get one
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: vixmom on March 12, 2024, 07:53:42 PM
Why would you want to hook your stove up to Wi-Fi?
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: vixmom on March 12, 2024, 07:54:12 PM
We absolutely do not want that
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: vixmom on March 12, 2024, 07:54:35 PM
We refused the sleep number bed Wi-Fi too
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: George on March 12, 2024, 08:27:25 PM
Oh, tonight's rehearsal was canceled because the director has a migraine. :-\

Nasty. Vibes it’s over soon.

Thanks, John (for Erin).
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: George on March 12, 2024, 08:27:46 PM
Why would you want to hook your stove up to Wi-Fi?

WTH?? :o
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 08:50:18 PM
An hour of Godard is enough for tonight. The man was an a—hole. Talented but a real a—hole.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 08:51:03 PM
Why would you want to hook your stove up to Wi-Fi?

So it can google a recipe or two?
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 08:51:29 PM
What do you call bread with feet?
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 08:51:38 PM
Loafers.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 08:51:45 PM
Six!
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: John G. on March 12, 2024, 08:58:31 PM
Good night, all.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jrand74 on March 12, 2024, 09:57:13 PM
LOLL DR JOHN G.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jrand74 on March 12, 2024, 09:57:30 PM
Thanks DR GEORGE I hope DR JANE will be able to see it tomorrow.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Jrand74 on March 12, 2024, 09:58:56 PM
I am watching The Big Night starring John Barrymore, Jr. on Screenpix....and interesting film directed by Joseph Losey with an interesting gay subtext.....

And of course Screenpix is the only service that would show The Big Knife followed by The Big Night.......
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Rodzinski on March 12, 2024, 11:36:04 PM
Our first family stereo was a hi-fi that folded down out of a cabinet. Kinda portable but really too big. Then we got that octagonal end-table thing. U.S. kids were given a cheapie kids turntable to play 45s. That thing probably ruined a lot of records. Finally when I was 13 I was given my own stereo. A Fischer with radio, turntable and tape deck.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Rodzinski on March 12, 2024, 11:38:01 PM
I then took all the family records of which many were my dad’s classical. He turned us all on to Pachelbel’s Cano
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Rodzinski on March 12, 2024, 11:39:37 PM
One album I liked and still have is Cathedral Voluntaries & Processionals by organist E. Power Biggs.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: Rodzinski on March 12, 2024, 11:40:57 PM
You’d have a hard time explaining to a young person of today just how insanely popular organ albums were.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: George on March 13, 2024, 12:13:14 AM
You’d have a hard time explaining to a young person of today just how insanely popular organ albums were.

I don't remember if it was one of my dad's siblings or a family friend, but I remember going to someone's house when I was a kid and they had an organ in their family room.  That was long before I ever took music lessons, so it was just playing on the keys quite randomly.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: MichaelG on March 13, 2024, 12:20:26 AM
You’d have a hard time explaining to a young person of today just how insanely popular organ albums were.

I still have my "Denny McLain at the Organ" album from 1968, subtitled "The Detroit Tigers' Superstar Swings With Today's Hits."
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: bk on March 13, 2024, 12:33:04 AM
So, once again George deserts us. Here at 12:15 for ONE post. He WILL be held accountable.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: bk on March 13, 2024, 12:33:17 AM
Oh well.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: bk on March 13, 2024, 12:34:01 AM
If he cannot be bothered to make more than a single post then I'll just change the topic.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: bk on March 13, 2024, 12:34:09 AM
New notes are up.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: bk on March 13, 2024, 12:34:16 AM
Up are new notes.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: bk on March 13, 2024, 12:34:22 AM
I've seen them.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: bk on March 13, 2024, 12:34:29 AM
I've read them.
Title: Re: THE RETURN OF ORMANDY - THE COLUMBIA STEREO YEARS
Post by: bk on March 13, 2024, 12:34:35 AM
I wrote them.