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[Jane]

DR Jrand I feared your response.  Is it possible for you to avoid working with this pair in the future?

[Jane]

SIX!

[George]

I'm still upset that over 400 of my cast album CDs were stolen out of my garage in 2009.

Yikes!  Did the thieves take other stuff, too?

Yes, they just took random boxes out of my garage.  Some were CDs and others were DVDs.  Of course, I have no idea exactly what was taken, so I'm sure other items disappeared, also.

[bk]

Dealt with a PayPal thing - I'm furious at the jerk who did it but thankfully PayPal did the right thing with me so I'm not out anything. I will be publicly naming and shaming the idiot in tomorrow's notes because he's never responded to a single e-mail, his items were delivered on June 29, he'd already filed a dispute with his credit card company rather than PayPal, and despite his cc company being shown proof of delivery, they sided with him and gave him his money back - so he basically stole two CDs. Thankfully, PayPal credited me for the money as a favor because I've had the Kritzerland PayPal account for almost twenty years now.

[bk]

I will name and shame - mark my words.

[ChasSmith]

It’s a little bit of everything. And yes it’s unwieldy. Lots of pop, rock, easy listening oddities, a good section of soundtracks and cast albums. My pride is in my garage, a section of cultural curiosities: home-recorded albums by unknowns, spoken word, or bizarre recordings of animal heartbeats, albums from tourist attractions. Big section of organs and carillons, a futile attempt to buy every Rod McKuen record, a hole to which there is no bottom.

Love the curiosities. I've probably had but a handful of true oddities, but I know some of the stuff is just out of this world. In the spoken word category, my passion is the recorded plays from, I guess, the late 50's through the '70s when such things were a "thing".

What’s the label that specialized in a lot of that stuff? Caedmon. Though big labels used to put out whole plays as well. Caedmon has a lot of poets reading their work, or actors reading older poets’ stuff.

Columbia. Some superb ones! Mercury, too. Yes, loads of them on Caedmon. Shakespeare plays on Argo. Well, that guy got around to all the labels. What am I not thinking of without going in and looking at my shelf?

[ChasSmith]

It is beyond disgusting when these companies side with the buyer while faced with PROOF of the lie. Name THEIR names, too.

[Jane]

Dealt with a PayPal thing - I'm furious at the jerk who did it but thankfully PayPal did the right thing with me so I'm not out anything. I will be publicly naming and shaming the idiot in tomorrow's notes because he's never responded to a single e-mail, his items were delivered on June 29, he'd already filed a dispute with his credit card company rather than PayPal, and despite his cc company being shown proof of delivery, they sided with him and gave him his money back - so he basically stole two CDs. Thankfully, PayPal credited me for the money as a favor because I've had the Kritzerland PayPal account for almost twenty years now.

I'm glad you aren't out anything.

[ChasSmith]

You forgot impudent, DR Jrand73.

Imprudent, Impudent and Insolent.

Shouldn't that be a Gershwin tune?

[Jane]

[Jane]

'night

[bk]

Heard from David Jablin, who produced all the Likely Stories segments I wrote and directed. He's trying to remaster everything to hi-def so he can make a streaming deal - but is having only sporadic luck. Thankfully, he scored a home run with my Elephant Man musical segment - which looks and sounds amazing: https://vimeo.com/107305601?share=copy

[Freddie]

I'm still upset that over 400 of my cast album CDs were stolen out of my garage in 2009.

Yikes!  Did the thieves take other stuff, too?

Yes, they just took random boxes out of my garage.  Some were CDs and others were DVDs.  Of course, I have no idea exactly what was taken, so I'm sure other items disappeared, also.

[Freddie]

Good night, Jane.

[ChasSmith]

Heard from David Jablin, who produced all the Likely Stories segments I wrote and directed. He's trying to remaster everything to hi-def so he can make a streaming deal - but is having only sporadic luck. Thankfully, he scored a home run with my Elephant Man musical segment - which looks and sounds amazing: https://vimeo.com/107305601?share=copy

That's fantastic!

[Freddie]

Heard from David Jablin, who produced all the Likely Stories segments I wrote and directed. He's trying to remaster everything to hi-def so he can make a streaming deal - but is having only sporadic luck. Thankfully, he scored a home run with my Elephant Man musical segment - which looks and sounds amazing: https://vimeo.com/107305601?share=copy

Fabulous! 

[bk]

Did a quick Gelson's run.

[bk]

Had a really nice surprise telephonic call from ace composer Charles Fox.

[Jrand74]

Yes to both questions.

[Jrand74]

I shall be on my way in a bit.

[elmore3003]

Caedmon was purchased in the 1980s by Harper & Row, who then destroyed the label and took most of the catalog out of print. The company was begun by a lesbian couple, and I used to place my Drama Book Shop orders with them over the phone. They used great performers, and a few of my favorite Caedmon recordings were:
    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Carol Channing reads the novel, accompanied by a 1920s dance band
    Eudora Welty Reads "Why I Live at the P.O."
    Mother Goose with Celeste Holm, Boris Karloff, Cyril Ritchard and music by Hershey Kay
    Tartuffe translated by Richard Wilbur, performed by the Stratford Festival
    Marat/Sade performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company
    A Streetcar Named Desire starring Rosemary Harris and James Farentino
 

[elmore3003]

Lorelei Lee and Blanche du Bois!

[KevinH]

Good evening!

[KevinH]

Wordle:  5/6

[singdaw]

On This Day in 1962, Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans made their debut at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, spurring the popularization of Pop Art in the United States.

[singdaw]

I had best get ready to go out for my haircut appointment.

[singdaw]

~~~CONTINUED PAIN ABEYANCE VIBES~~~ for DR John G.

[singdaw]

~~~GOOD MEDICAL OUTCOME VIBES~~~ for DR elmore3003

[singdaw]

Thanks for the travel vibes. Despite an unexpected 3-hour layover in Detroit, my DH made it safely to the East Coast.

[singdaw]

One more.