Re: Today's Notes: Well, BK, you have hit the synchronicity nail on the head again (no mean feat). When BK and I were getting to know each other many moons ago, I emailed him about a song on an obscure 1968 album by a Mamas & Papas-esque group called The Collage. The song is called Driftin' and it was written by a B. Kimmel, so I thought it might be our own BK (it turned out to be Bobby Kimmel of the Stone Ponys). In what I still consider a classic line, BK emailed me back "I would never write a song with a missing 'g' on the end." The hilarious thing is this Collage album has 3 (count 'em, 3) songs with missing "g"'s on the end: Driftin', Lookin' at a Baby, and She's Just Laughin' at Me. Where or where have all the "g"'s gone? Anyway, they do another song on that album called Any Day's a Sunday Afternoon, that has this prescient chorus:
It's a Monday afternoon on Friday
Thursday afternoon on Wednesday
Monday morning, Friday evening
Any day's a Sunday afternoon
Re: Jan Akkerman. BK, I mentioned this the last time you brought up Jan, but if you don't have it already, get his Atlantic album (out on import CD), S/T, that has the great picture of him in bed with the guitar turning into a woman (freaky cover, but great music). You'll love it, I guarantee. (Do you have the Toots Thielesmans album that originally came out on the same label as the Akkerman/Ogerman one, that also has Ogerman orchestrations? He does a magnificent version of Percy's Maybe September on that one).
Movie Set: Well, this is no surprise, but I would choose Come and Get It, probably on the day William Wyler took over for Howard Hawks. I just got an incredible candid of Wyler screaming at Frances on-set. She is sitting there with her head turned in an "I'm not listening to you" pose that is absolutely hysterical.