Topic: KEMPT (Read 23553 times)

Rodzinski · « **Reply #30 on:** June 08, 2005, 08:06:34 AM »

Gosh, I love records. It's fun to hear everyone talk about their formative ones.

Don't even get me started on the Kirby Stone Four, JRand, I absolutely love those guys! I'm guessing the LP you have is this cheapie that came out on a couple different labels and has them singing "How Deep Is the Ocean" imitating all kinds of vocalists.

THE GO SOUND and BAUBLES BANGLES AND BEADS are just wonderful albums.

Matt H. · « **Reply #31 on:** June 08, 2005, 08:07:43 AM »

At the same time, I grateful to Warner Bros. for giving us so many great DVD collections, but I could throttle them for choosing so poorly. Why, oh, why, of all the Bette Davis movies they have at their disposal, would they choose THE STAR to include in their new package? Why not THE CORN IS GREEN or THE OLD MAID or ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO or A STOLEN LIFE or JUNE BRIDE or PAYMENT ON DEMAND or THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER? Just because she got an Oscar nomination for it doesn't make it a good picture.

And, of course, they're including NOW VOYAGER and DARK VICTORY in the box, too, even though they've been released previously though DARK VICTORY is supposed to be a new transfer. Still, I think I'll just buy MR. SKEFFINGTON separately and be done with it.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #32 on:** June 08, 2005, 08:07:55 AM »

As a tribute to the Kirby Stone Four, the page two dance is The Buck Dance, from their LP THE GO SOUND.

Matt H. · « **Reply #33 on:** June 08, 2005, 08:09:48 AM »

Quote from: MBarnum on June 08, 2005, 08:04:05 AM

You know what, I didn't have very many kiddie albums, but I sure do love the covers for them...the artwork is a lot of fun!

My parents evidently figured since I was listening to their LPs there was no reason to spend money on any kiddie ones...although I did have a whole line of the Magic Mirror Disney ones from the early 60s which might have been purchased by my grandparents.

Here is the Bambi one, which is the only one I ever listened to regularly.

I had the SNOW WHITE and PETER PAN ones in that same series. I was so thrilled because many of the songs on these LPs were taken from the soundtracks, and at the time, the soundtracks themselves weren't available except on these storybook LPs.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #34 on:** June 08, 2005, 08:14:31 AM »

Yeah, I'm still looking for a ROBIN HOOD soundtrack that has the actual songs on it. I have one with a chorus of children singing, but I want Roger Miller.

MBarnum · « **Reply #35 on:** June 08, 2005, 08:15:42 AM »

When I was in second grade I kept seeing an advertisement on TV for a two record set which featured singers like Doris Day, Judy Garland, Kay Starr, Dean Martin, Sarah Vaughn, Vaughn Monroe, etc. I begged my parents to send for it, which they did, and I played those records to death! All old pop standards like THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY, HOW MUCH IS THAT DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW, KISS OF FIRE, BUTTONS AND BOWS....my friend Theresa and I would put on puppet shows to some of the songs!

Jennifer · « **Reply #36 on:** June 08, 2005, 08:21:31 AM »

This funny tidbit was in the Montreal paper today. It is titled "Brooke Shields strikes back!":

You saw the item about Tom Cruise dissing her for having become dependent on Paxil, and writing about it.

Now Shields, who is appearing in a London production of the musical CHICAGO, chose to respond by commenting on tom's new love katie holmes.

"If he wants to see CHICAGO, I've left him two tickets - one adult and one child."

Tom is 42, Katie is 26. Brooke just turned 40.

MBarnum · « **Reply #37 on:** June 08, 2005, 08:23:05 AM »

I don't think I bought any records for myself until I was in 7th grade, and the first one I recall was a record I ordered through Starlog magazine. It was of music from various 1950s/60s B films composed by Albert Glasser...things like BUCKSKIN LADY, AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, BEGINNING OF THE END, BOY AND THE PIRATES, and others...I loved that LP!

I was so disappointed, however, that there was no music from ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE on the album and I wrote to Starlog to see if they might do a second album. They never did another one, but they did forward the letter to Albert Glasser and he was nice enough to transfer his original tapes of PUPPET PEOPLE music, including the outtakes, onto tape for me... something which I treasure (and recently had transferred to CD).

Mr. Glasser later sent me tapes of music from a number of his other B films!

Rodzinski · « **Reply #38 on:** June 08, 2005, 08:24:38 AM »

As for stuff from my folks, well my mom had a box of 45s, and I would go down in the basement and play "radio station" doing countdowns of those on a little kiddie record player. She had some Elvis but was sort of a pre-Rock and Roll gal, and this box might explain my eclectic tastes. "Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White" was a big hit on my charts, and a song called "Sugar Lump" by the Prophets, "Dance Me Loose" by Arthur Godfrey, "Heywood's Bounce" by Eddie Heywood.

Then my dad had a Perez Prado LP called DILO (UGH) which blew me away. The WEST SIDE STORY cast LP. Voices of Walter Schumann, just a few of the things I got (and still have) from my folks.

The first LP I bought myself was by the rock band Journey.

Jennifer · « **Reply #39 on:** June 08, 2005, 08:24:38 AM »

This is for DR STUART, and any other LOST fans.

Re: yesterday's announcement that Michelle Rodriguez would be joining the cast next year.

This is what it says about her appearance in the finale:

In a flashback scene on the season finale, Rodriguez played a passenger on doomed Oceanic flight No. 815 who flirted with Jack (Matthew Fox) at an airport bar in Sydney.

ABC didn't specify what Rodriguez's role would be, but some fans of the show believe passengers in the back of the plane are alive and haven't been discovered.
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Cool!

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #40 on:** June 08, 2005, 08:25:38 AM »

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes--now there's a romance that's straight out of a storybook!

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #41 on:** June 08, 2005, 08:31:15 AM »

The first LP I bought by myself with my own money was The Beatles' Yellow Submarine soundtrack. I got it at Shop-Rite for $3.98.

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #42 on:** June 08, 2005, 08:36:11 AM »

DR Rodz, the kiddie album website is terrifically fun. Aside from the album covers, you can actually download the albums, themselves, as MP3 files. iPod fodder!

Got to wonder what's the story behind this cover, though...

MBarnum · « **Reply #43 on:** June 08, 2005, 08:40:50 AM »

Rodzinski, PEREZ PARADO is wonderful!

Have you ever picked up any of those wonderful ULTRA LOUNGE cds, or the TV DINNER cds...they are so much fun!

Matt H. · « **Reply #44 on:** June 08, 2005, 08:55:54 AM »

The first LP I bought for myself was MY FAIR LADY in stereo (the London cast). I had seen the show on Broadway (but with Sally Ann Howes and Edward Mulhare), and this was the edition that my local record store had once I found out that Broadway shows had their songs on LPs! I was SO thrilled.

Matt H. · « **Reply #45 on:** June 08, 2005, 08:58:12 AM »

There are quite a few Tom Cruise movies that I like, but the public persona he presents to us is about as loathesome as I can imagine anyone being. I find him so plastic, phony, and pretentious.

Matt H. · « **Reply #46 on:** June 08, 2005, 09:00:15 AM »

The new Joan Crawford boxed DVD set also contains previously released movies (MILDRED PIERCE, THE WOMEN), but Amazon's price puts the movies at less than $7 apiece. I'll give my snapper case PIERCE and WOMEN to a friend who's trying to build a DVD collection, and keep the new Amray cases for myself.

George · « **Reply #47 on:** June 08, 2005, 09:04:12 AM »

Quote from: Matt H. on June 08, 2005, 07:37:09 AM

DR George, Amazon will be able to get you TWO'S COMPANY. I got mine from them, and if you've never heard it before, I think the quality of the score will really surprise and impress you. I've had the LP for years but hadn't played it in awhile, and I had forgotten how lovely this score really is. Quite underrated, I think.

Thanks. Even though I have a bout 30 items in my "Saved for Later" section on amazon.com, Two's Company will be my next purchase.

George · « **Reply #48 on:** June 08, 2005, 09:05:41 AM »

Quote from: Dan (the Man) on June 08, 2005, 07:41:29 AM

I loved the record player we had when I was a youngen. It was a combo TV/radio/record player. The record player was in a drawer at the bottom that played four different speeds (has anyone ever had a record that played at 16 rpms?) Sometimes, the best fun was to be had by playing records at the wrong speed.

"Mmmmmoooooooonnnnnn.....Rrrriiiivvvvverrrrrrr..."

Yes! When we lived in Germany (I was about 4-7 years old), my parents had a (rather large) portable record player that had four speeds. We never knew what the 16 rpm speed was for.

George · « **Reply #49 on:** June 08, 2005, 09:08:39 AM »

Quote from: Jennifer on June 08, 2005, 08:21:31 AM

This funny tidbit was in the Montreal paper today. It is titled "Brooke Shields strikes back!":

You saw the item about Tom Cruise dissing her for having become dependent on Paxil, and writing about it.

Now Shields, who is appearing in a London production of the musical CHICAGO, chose to respond by commenting on tom's new love katie holmes.

"If he wants to see CHICAGO, I've left him two tickets - one adult and one child."

Tom is 42, Katie is 26. Brooke just turned 40.

ROTFLMAO!!!

bk · « **Reply #50 on:** June 08, 2005, 09:14:20 AM »

I'm up, I'm up. Already getting panicked phone calls - apparently, two sets of notes for the ATB booklet were never sent to my designer, as I was told they were. Now, people on the East Coast are trying to find them (they were purportedly sent via e-mail, and if that's the case they have to be somewhere on someone's computer).

MBarnum · « **Reply #51 on:** June 08, 2005, 09:20:42 AM »

Waking up to a panic can never be a good thing.

Stuart · « **Reply #52 on:** June 08, 2005, 09:31:36 AM »

Quote from: MBarnum on June 08, 2005, 08:04:05 AM

You know what, I didn't have very many kiddie albums, but I sure do love the covers for them...the artwork is a lot of fun!

I don't recall oodles of kiddie albums, but I remember having a few. For me, what was more exciting than cover art was that some of them were different colors! I remember a yellow one that was opaque (I think that one was "Tubby the Tuba", but I recall a translucent red one, possibly "Peter and the Wolf," as read by Boris Karloff.) Or maybe I have them mixed up. But I definitely remember having color LPs.

I was never much into 45s. My brothers were, to some degree.

bk · « **Reply #53 on:** June 08, 2005, 09:32:47 AM »

Vinnie will be bringing me the mastered ATB CD at eleven, so that's one less drive I have to do.

Stuart · « **Reply #54 on:** June 08, 2005, 09:35:13 AM »

Quote from: vixmom on June 08, 2005, 07:30:50 AM

... he used to play ... West Side Story and Alan Sherman - My Son the Folksinger ...

Yes! How could I forget these! Unfortunately, my introduction to WSS was the soundtrack album. (I was grateful to find to discover the OBC while still in my early teens.) I remember laying on the living room floor looking at the glossy shot of Wood and Beymer on the back cover.

And my parents seemed to have the whole Allan Sherman catalogue. Still makes me laugh!

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #55 on:** June 08, 2005, 09:37:47 AM »

BK: Are there any shows on the horizon that you are actively now pursuing to record, or do you prefer to see and hear the staged show first?

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #56 on:** June 08, 2005, 09:45:19 AM »

Good Morning!

It's another scorcher here in the DC Metro area today. It was already 90 degrees by 10:30 at National Airport! And in true DC summer weather fashion, the humidity is up there too.

*Of course, this weather hasn't seemed to stop my Dad from pruning and trimming the tree in the front yard - he basically cut it in half! - and taking down the window screens. "Are you drinking enough water?"

And that's the weather report... for now...

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #57 on:** June 08, 2005, 09:53:21 AM »

My parents had quite a nice record collection while I was growing up. Lots of those Reader's Digest Boxes, as well as those Columbia Treasury ones too. -I would play the Reader's Digest Christmas box year-round since it had a bunch of Christmas-friendly orchestral music on it too.

The records and songs/performance that come to mind right now...

Johnny Mathis - Lots of Johnny Mathis. I liked his version of "Little Green Apples".

Barbra Steisand singing "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'" and Eydie Gorme singing "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" - There were part of some really cool Columbia box. Maroon/magenta cover.
The Beatles - "Hard Day's Night"

Horowitz Plays Liszt - Especially the 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody.

Van Cliburn - My Favorite Chopin

101 Strings, Montovani Strings - Various boxed sets. -But I seem to remember playing some instrumental version of "Hey Jude" over and over again.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #58 on:** June 08, 2005, 09:54:13 AM »

Of course, being the curious child that I was, the big "game" was always figuring out exactly how many LPs I could stack onto the changer at once.

bk · « **Reply #59 on:** June 08, 2005, 09:55:31 AM »

There are a couple of things on the horizon - I'm moving very slowly.

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