Topic: THE MAGIC FINGERS (Read 19809 times)

elmore3003 · « **Reply #30 on:** November 05, 2004, 05:53:29 AM »

Quote from: Ben on November 05, 2004, 05:38:04 AM

Yesterday JRAnd asked:

"Which artist or group do you have the MOST recordings by?"

Well, I'm not a "completist" but there are a few groups for which I think I have everthing or almost everything. I have everything from the Chad Mitchell Trio and the various incarnations (they became the Mitchell Trio after Chad left and had singers come and go, including John Denver). I also have almost everything by Peter, Paul and Mary, including an odd radio show from 1969 with Skitch Henderson. He hosted a show for National Guard troops and PPM appeared on the show in July and August of 1969 talking and performing some of their songs. I got it on cassette years ago from Sandy Hook (remember them) and just recently transferred it to CD. The only recording of PPM that I don't have is a live recording of a concert in Japan in the late 60s, which I have heard about but never seen. I also think I have everything from Michael Feinstein. I have a great deal of Sondheim, though not everything (I don't have the Night Music w/Judi Dench for example). I also have a lot of Barbara Cook, both show and solo CDs. In fact, I think starting from the Carnegie Hall concert in 1975 I think I have all the commercially produced CDs by Miss Cook. I have all of Nancy LaMott's CDs. I have all of Mandy Patinkin's CDs (I know he's an aquired taste). I have 3 of Lyn Larsen's AKA Music Guy) organ CDs (Kerry, are there any more?). I also have (with the help of DR Jay) the complete set of Capitol Sings CDs, ranging from Harold Arlen to Duke Ellington to Johnny Mercer to Around the World and more. IIRC (if I remember correctly) there are 20 CDs in the set.

That's enough. I don't post much and now I have logorrhea (look it up ).

That's all for now.

DRBen, I love the Chad Mitchell Trio! I blame them for turning me into a raving Democrat. In the early 1990s, they had a reunion at Symphony space and I went backstage to meet them and tell them how they influenced my life. I didn't like Chad much personally, but Mike was very kind, and Joe Frazer, who's gay and now a minister, was wonderful.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #31 on:** November 05, 2004, 05:54:58 AM »

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Ben · « **Reply #32 on:** November 05, 2004, 06:00:04 AM »

Elmore/Larry, you're not as incompetent as you think you are. You're getting the Page Dance down very well.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #33 on:** November 05, 2004, 06:08:16 AM »

The World's Most Fascinating Media Check of Me:

CD Player (at home): George Winston -- The Music Of Vince Guaraldi.

CD Player (at work): Nothing. I've been on a internet radio kick this week and I'm listening to classical music channels.

DVD Player: Felix the Cat. This one was one of the $1 DVDs I picked up at Target last week. These are very early Felix cartoons from the 20s, and a little bit of these goes a long way and not in the good sense. Interesting only in the historical sense.

VHS: A Disney Halloween cartoon compilation. It has Donald Duck's Trick or Treat on it.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #34 on:** November 05, 2004, 06:13:34 AM »

Quote from: Dan (the Man) on November 05, 2004, 06:08:16 AM

VHS: A Disney Halloween cartoon compilation. It has Donald Duck's Trick or Treat on it.

My fave Disney cartoon! When I was a kid I had the Dell comic book of Trick or Treat as well, but I hardly ever see it on eBay. Now watch: today there will be a million for sale after I've said that.

Today's NY TIMES op-ed page appealed to me:

www.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/opinion/05herbert.htm?th

William E. Lurie · « **Reply #35 on:** November 05, 2004, 06:22:20 AM »

I wouldn't see BROOKLYN even for free. First of all the 4 song demo was absolutely terrible and if that is the best of the score, I can imagine how bad the rest is. And second, these are the producers who shafted BK on the TFNM stage production (and I think his movie as well) so I would not support them in any way.

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BK - Before you make your comments on BROADWAY: THE AMERICAN MUSICAL --- which I gather will not be that favorable --- please remember two things: (1) these were not meant for big fans of the genre, but as a basic primer for people who don't know a lot about the topic; and (2) they had only about 330 minutes to cover over 100 years.

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Media Check:

CD - "Look, Ma, I'm Dancing" - OBC

DVD - Volume 2 of the Looney Tunes which has a lot of the titles people complained were not in Volume 1

VHS - The "Times Talk" with Sondheim and Barbara Cook that is on today

Stuart · « **Reply #36 on:** November 05, 2004, 06:26:56 AM »

DR JRand: Congrats on the big 5000! And yes, I have heard of Joe Bushkin. I don't know exactly why I have heard of Joe Bushkin, nor do I think I have ever heard him play, but the name is familiar to me. Perhaps he was on CAMI's roster at one time or another.

Media Check:

CD/Work: Nope....still listening to Radio AOL. (Roz Russell's "Conga" as I type)
CD/Car: Nope....radio there too.
VCR: Last night's Survivor and Apprentice for the Dear Partner.
DVD: Empty now, but probably the PBS Broadway set at some time over the weekend. We pickedit up last week and still haven't had a chance to watch.

Stuart · « **Reply #37 on:** November 05, 2004, 06:27:59 AM »

Artist whose recordings I have the most of? Probably Miss Streisand.

Matthew · « **Reply #38 on:** November 05, 2004, 06:29:00 AM »

Well, DR's, the Garden is no longer a secret. "The Secret Garden" opened last night to a rather small audience of family and friends. Probably a good audience for last night's show as the kids made mistakes they'd never made before. We have three more shows and I predict they will be fab-oo. Especially Sunday when we have a REAL trumpet player, the guy I hired is lame, doesn't practice and backed out of the last matinee AFTER he committed to the run of the show. You heard it here, DR's, having a music degree (or any degree) does not mean you are great at what you are educated for!!!

Media Check -

iPod - currently shuffling through all songs sung by Guy Haines.

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #39 on:** November 05, 2004, 06:33:05 AM »

DR Matthew,

Congrats on the opening night, and best wishes for the rest of the performances. I'm sure they will be fab-oo indeed.

MBarnum · « **Reply #40 on:** November 05, 2004, 07:29:52 AM »

Good morning...I am soooo happy that it is Friday! Off work at noon and then having lunch with former co-worker Ryan who has announced that he and his wife have a bun in the oven!

Media check:

DVD: Some of the $1 dvds from The Dollar Store with episodes of COLGATE COMEDY HOUR starring Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin, and some obscure old detective TV shows like DICK TRACY, MYSTERY THEATER: MARK SABRE, and TREASURY MEN IN ACTION.

CD: A lot of Arabian and Egyptian pop music.

VCR: Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1951) starring James Whitmore and Marjorie Main; and No Questions Asked starring William Reynolds.

MBarnum · « **Reply #41 on:** November 05, 2004, 07:34:33 AM »

...and my Bollywood DVDs for this weekend will likely consist of MADHOSHI starring John Abraham and Bipasha Basu. It is about an Indian woman who loses two family members in the 9/11 attacks (although you wouldn't know it from the DVD cover!)

MBarnum · « **Reply #42 on:** November 05, 2004, 07:43:58 AM »

And for something vintage I will maybe watch HARIYAL AUR RAST. Don't know what it is about, but I liked the cover and it has a good cast (Manoj Kumar and Mala Sinha).

Jennifer · « **Reply #43 on:** November 05, 2004, 08:02:15 AM »

Am I the only one who has never watched a tv show on dvd? It sounds interesting, getting to watch it all at once.

Jennifer · « **Reply #44 on:** November 05, 2004, 08:04:09 AM »

Oooh the Singing Detective has arrived! Can't wait to watch it.

Stuart · « **Reply #45 on:** November 05, 2004, 08:06:37 AM »

I can't imagine why you are such a big John Abraham fan, DR MBarnum, but you certainly seem to be one!

bk · « **Reply #46 on:** November 05, 2004, 08:29:16 AM »

I guess I've fixed my internal clock, since I now seem to wake up at exactly eight-fifteen every morning.

WEL: You are correct - not favorable, but I'll be very specific as to why, in my opinion (IMO, in Internet lingo), it failed on just about every level.

George · « **Reply #47 on:** November 05, 2004, 08:44:15 AM »

Quote from: Ben on November 05, 2004, 05:38:04 AM

Yesterday JRAnd asked:

"Which artist or group do you have the MOST recordings by?"

<SNIP>

I have a great deal of Sondheim, though not everything (I don't have the Night Music w/Judi Dench for example).

Ben (and der Brucer from a private message from several months ago), would you like a copy?

Jrand73 · « **Reply #48 on:** November 05, 2004, 08:58:43 AM »

Lovely doggie photo derBrucer. What lovely eyes that canine has!

Thanks for the BROOKLYN review DRBEN. Hmmmmmmmmm.....did people complain in the 1940's that Broadway shows weren't as good as they had been in the 1920's?

Congrats to PENNYO on her THIGHS and to MATTHEW on getting THE SECRET GARDEN up and running!

I am hard at work on my new script as well. I have just put in a bid on a SCARFACE DVD gift set so that I can get the Pacino AND the MUNI versions! And I am waiting for my DVD of DIE MOMMIE DIE.

Weekend is here! Congratulations to MBARNUM'S friend and wife!

DRJAY don't forget to watch a bit more of your tape. Linda Darnell and Tennessee Ernie Ford await you.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #49 on:** November 05, 2004, 09:09:14 AM »

Quote from: JRand54 on November 05, 2004, 08:58:43 AM

Thanks for the BROOKLYN review DRBEN. Hmmmmmmmmm.....did people complain in the 1940's that Broadway shows weren't as good as they had been in the 1920's?

DRJRand54, most people in the 1940s doing an earlier show felt the need to bring it up to current standards, much like today. Kern's SALLY got revived for Bambi Lynn and half the score was replaced with Kern standards, Paula Stone revived her father's 1907 THE RED MILL with state-of-the-art Russell Bennett orchestrations replacing Victor Herbert's and Otto Langey's. SWEETHEARTS got a revisical as well, not to mention Hammerstein and Kern's attempt to turn the 1920s SHOWBOAT into a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical play.

Critic George Jean Nathan, sick of ballets, said "Cripes, what I wouldn't give for an old-fashioned hoofing chorus."

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #50 on:** November 05, 2004, 09:34:50 AM »

Quote from: George on November 05, 2004, 08:44:15 AM

Ben (and der Brucer from a private message from several months ago), would you like a copy?

Judging from the gleam in Woody's eye, I would say the answer is an excited, Yes, Please!.

der Brucer

Ben · « **Reply #51 on:** November 05, 2004, 09:47:02 AM »

I had a bit of musical theatre luck this lunch hour. I went to Academy instead of going home for lunch, since Anthony is on Long Island for a few days and what should be in the "Shows" bin but a copy of George M for $1.99. I opened it to make sure it was the show and to check for a scratched disc. It is the show and I don't see any scratches. A nice little find on the brisk Autumn afternoon.

I am slowly depersonalizing my office computer. Some time next week I will be getting a brand new computer. Even though they will reformat my current hard drive I am deleting things and moving it back to the state it was when I received it well over two years ago (eons in current technology time). The new PC will have a working burner but no Floppy (or A:) drive. How times change. I still have some back ups on floppys (I almost typed Floopy DR Sandra, an almost reference to your world-famous Floop) so I had to move them to a secure network folder so I can move them back to my new system next week.

Technology marches on. And I march on to lunch.

Ben · « **Reply #52 on:** November 05, 2004, 09:48:53 AM »

JRAnd said:

"Thanks for the BROOKLYN review DRBEN. Hmmmmmmmmm.....did people complain in the 1940's that Broadway shows weren't as good as they had been in the 1920's?"

LOL. I guess I'm just gettin' to be an old crank :-) As I said to Larry this weekend when we were visiting, the older I get, the more I'm becoming my father. Yikes!

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #53 on:** November 05, 2004, 10:19:34 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on November 05, 2004, 06:13:34 AM

Today's NY TIMES op-ed page appealed to me:

www.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/opinion/05herbert.htm?th

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Which brings me to the Democrats - the ordinary voters, not the politicians - and where they go from here. I have been struck by the extraordinary demoralization, even dark despair, among a lot of voters who desperately wanted John Kerry to defeat Mr. Bush. "We did all we could," one woman told me, "and we still lost."

Is no one asking "Did we run the best candidate"? Most of the Republican Vietnam era Vets I know that voted for Bush were voting AGAINST Kerry, not for Bush.

Has no one noticed how poor a campaign Kerry ran - they fell into almost every trap that Rove & Co. set.

Has no one noticed the "bigger picture" - that there are lots of us who would have been very happy to wake up on Wednesday morning to a Democrat controlled Senate?

I won’t ruin your day by posting the list of the 11 candidates on Bush's Supreme Court short list - be afraid, be very afraid!

In the short term if those on the left want to avoid the looming catastrophes on the domestic front (further degradation of civil liberties, a bankrupt nation, worsening medical care for most segments of our society - if that's possible) then they need to postpone scheming for Hillary 08 and concentrate on forging alliances with the few more progressive Republicans necessary to stop the Administration's pending Domestic train wreck.

A good start would be for the angry and demoralized (rightly so) left to drop the "Spawn of Satan" rhetoric and earnestly seek out allies on key issues. You don't need us to love you, just to side with you on key issues.

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Even though you say the devil knocks at my door
And you say my ship will not reach the shore
I've got a will and a thousand ways,
I've got a dream of a thousand better days
I've got a smile that just stays and stays,
That's the way it's gonna be, wait and see.

Even though you say I've reached the end of the road
And you say the tides are all runnin' low
Victory is waiting for me round the bend
I won't stay down for the count of ten
I've said it before, and I'll say it again,
That's the way it's gonna be, wait and see.

der Brucer (hoping to meet you round the bend)

Stuart · « **Reply #54 on:** November 05, 2004, 10:31:09 AM »

Quote from: Stuart on November 05, 2004, 06:26:56 AM

DR JRand: Congrats on the big 5000! And yes, I have heard of Joe Bushkin. I don't know exactly why I have heard of Joe Bushkin, nor do I think I have ever heard him play, but the name is familiar to me. Perhaps he was on CAMI's roster at one time or another.

Sad, and ironic, to say that I see that today's NYTimes has printed an obituary for Mr. Bushkin, who passed away on Wednesday.

Stuart · « **Reply #55 on:** November 05, 2004, 10:36:13 AM »

Quote from: Stuart on November 05, 2004, 10:31:09 AM

Sad, and ironic, to say that I see that today's NYTimes has printed an obituary for Mr. Bushkin, who passed away on Wednesday.

In an even more ironic twist of fate, it seems that Mr. Bushkin's son-in-law, who reported the death to the Times, bears the same name as the late baritone Robert Merrill.

So, upon reading that Robert Merrill reported Bushkin's passing, my first thought was "How did he do that? He's dead too!"

So now all you Dear Readers out there in the dark (oooh, a SUNSET BOULEVARD reference) know that I possess a rather maudlin, and occasionally inappropriate, sense of humor. Especially where death is concerned.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #56 on:** November 05, 2004, 10:49:49 AM »

Quote from: Stuart on November 05, 2004, 08:06:37 AM

I can't imagine why you are such a big John Abraham fan, DR MBarnum, but you certainly seem to be one!

DRStuart, are you referring to John Abraham of SWINGERS, Jon Abrahams of SCARY MOVIE, or John Abraham, DRMBarnum's favorite softporn Bollywood actor?

George · « **Reply #57 on:** November 05, 2004, 10:59:16 AM »

In my VCR: a tape with Wednesday's "Lost," last night's 8-10pm NBC line-up, a couple of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" episodes, and (hopefully) enough room for tonight's "Star Trek: Enterprise," just in case I don't make it home in time.

In my DVD player: Warren Miller's "Bloopers, Blunders and Bailouts." Last night I ushered for the Warren Miller film "Impact" that came to the Washington Center for the Performing Arts. I bought the "Bloopers" DVD there.

In my CD player at work: Sarah Brightman. Love her or hate her, but I saw her in concert. The CD that I have is "The Harem World Tour: Live from Las Vegas." I really enjoyed the concert. My mom really only liked it when Sarah sang "operatically"...not the pop stuff.

After Sarah will be "I Sent a Letter to My Love," a musical written by and starring Melissa Manchester. It also has Stephen Bogardus, Meagan Fay, Megan Mullally and Paul Anthony Stewart (I've never heard of him). I listened to it once, from the library, but I got it used a few weeks ago for only $8. It's 2 CDs! Couldn't pass it up.

Stuart · « **Reply #58 on:** November 05, 2004, 11:02:48 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on November 05, 2004, 10:49:49 AM

DRStuart, are you referring to John Abraham of SWINGERS, Jon Abrahams of SCARY MOVIE, or John Abraham, DRMBarnum's favorite softporn Bollywood actor?

Most assuredly the last one.

George · « **Reply #59 on:** November 05, 2004, 11:10:05 AM »

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