If you wanted to impress someone, which track?

Neil Young's Unplugged version of "Unknown Legend".

In addition to a fine live recording of a great tune in general, I can point out the exact location in the recording of the guy in the audience who, understandably, goes "Whooo" about 1/3 of the way through!

Maybe Tchaikovsky "Serenade for Strings" or most any other cut as well off the old Dorati Nutcracker recording on Mercury Living Presence.

Take something that was typically heard as low fidelity AM radio fare back in its heyday.

"Aquarius" by The Fifth Dimension is one example that comes to mind.

OR even things like "Pleasant Valley Sunday" by The Monkees or "Winchester Cathedral" by those New Vaudeville dudes or "Oh Babe What Would You Say" by Hurricane Smith.

"The Theme From Shaft."

That is good!

It is on this:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000KP62UM/3dgazo391-20

Lots of classics to recommend on this recent and nicely mastered release!

Not just "Theme From Shaft" but "Son Of Shaft" to boot!

I was playing Stan Getz "The Girl From Ipanema" and my 14 year old son got off his Xbox and walked in the room to see what was playing. That doesn't happen very often! It did sound VERY good!

" it could have been that cool bossa nova/samba rhythm that drew him in.'

Probably.

10 minutes later "Whodunnit" by Genesis of Abacab was playing and same thing happened. That's got a cool rhythm of a different type.