Comments on: Classic Songs I Should Have Already Owned http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/07/classics/ Scattered values and the chance of philosophy. May contain funny. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:52:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Heather http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/07/classics/#comment-2681 Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:27:17 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/07/classics/#comment-2681 I played that Louis Prima song on my show this wee! He is...well, was - pretty cool. I played that Louis Prima song on my show this wee! He is…well, was - pretty cool.

]]> by: Cliff http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/07/classics/#comment-2567 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:53:21 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/07/classics/#comment-2567 Hey Katie - I know Ray's Jazz. You've also got Mole Jazz, if that's still open, and both can be pretty intimidating. I kind of want to walk in there and ask for Charlie Parker's Greatest Hits, just to see their reaction. I don't know Floyd Cramer, but if your dad liked Errol Garner he probably also liked Art Tatum. Amazon have the Gershwin and Kern album together with an album I don't know called Musician, which you can get here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magician-Gershwin-Kern-Erroll-Garner/dp/B000003D3Z/sr=8-38/qid=1163108598/ref=sr_1_38/202-4349214-5270228?ie=UTF8&s=music It's kind of a shame, because the original album started with Strike Up The Band, which is a great opener, but on this version it's track ten because the Magician album comes first on this version. Funnily enough, for the guy who wrote Misty, that song is not at all in his style when you think of how it goes. Look.... at me... Wonderful story, though - thanks for sharing it and giving me a Humphrey Littleton moment. "Well, Mrs. Newton, I can tell you that that album is available on Telarc records..." Hey Katie - I know Ray’s Jazz. You’ve also got Mole Jazz, if that’s still open, and both can be pretty intimidating. I kind of want to walk in there and ask for Charlie Parker’s Greatest Hits, just to see their reaction. I don’t know Floyd Cramer, but if your dad liked Errol Garner he probably also liked Art Tatum.

Amazon have the Gershwin and Kern album together with an album I don’t know called Musician, which you can get here:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magician-Gershwin-Kern-Erroll-Garner/dp/B000003D3Z/sr=8-38/qid=1163108598/ref=sr_1_38/202-4349214-5270228?ie=UTF8&s=music

It’s kind of a shame, because the original album started with Strike Up The Band, which is a great opener, but on this version it’s track ten because the Magician album comes first on this version.

Funnily enough, for the guy who wrote Misty, that song is not at all in his style when you think of how it goes.

Look…. at me…

Wonderful story, though - thanks for sharing it and giving me a Humphrey Littleton moment.

“Well, Mrs. Newton, I can tell you that that album is available on Telarc records…”

]]> by: Katy Newton http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/07/classics/#comment-2566 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:54:52 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/07/classics/#comment-2566 I haven't. I only ever seem to be able to find "best of" albums, which is a little frustrating - and jazz shops scare me ever since I went into Ray's Jazz Shop in Covent Garden and asked if they had any Floyd Cramer, so I am unlikely ever to do any better. But my father, who was a wonderful piano player, modelled himself on Erroll Garner (and Ray Charles, and Floyd Cramer), and listening to him always makes me feel as if I am small and sitting in my room listening to my father noodling his way through a summer afternoon. I haven’t. I only ever seem to be able to find “best of” albums, which is a little frustrating - and jazz shops scare me ever since I went into Ray’s Jazz Shop in Covent Garden and asked if they had any Floyd Cramer, so I am unlikely ever to do any better. But my father, who was a wonderful piano player, modelled himself on Erroll Garner (and Ray Charles, and Floyd Cramer), and listening to him always makes me feel as if I am small and sitting in my room listening to my father noodling his way through a summer afternoon.

]]> by: Cliff http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/07/classics/#comment-2536 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:51:43 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/07/classics/#comment-2536 Cheers Katie - missing the point beautifully: have you heard the album of him playing Gershwin and Kern? His version of Strike Up The Band is amazing. plinkyTHUNK! Cheers Katie - missing the point beautifully: have you heard the album of him playing Gershwin and Kern? His version of Strike Up The Band is amazing.

plinkyTHUNK!

]]> by: Katy Newton http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/07/classics/#comment-2534 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:39:47 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/07/classics/#comment-2534 ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh, Erroll Garner. I know this post wasn't strictly about Erroll Garner. But still. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh, Erroll Garner.

I know this post wasn’t strictly about Erroll Garner. But still.

]]> by: RW http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/07/classics/#comment-2509 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:33:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/11/07/classics/#comment-2509 Or Fats's 'My very good friend the milkman says': ...'that it would make his burden less if we both had the same address, and he suggests that you should marry me' Or Fats’s ‘My very good friend the milkman says’:
…’that it would make his burden less
if we both had the same address,
and he suggests that you should marry me’

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