Whats playing on your system today?

I guess I'm deep in my senility/cups, this afternoon. I started off with side one of the Beatles White Album (that I bought the day it hit L.A. stores but which already has a six digit serial number), followed by a CD of The Four Seasons featuring Pinkie Zukermann and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. My stereo should be shaking its finger at me.

Floating through the F’s on my pop LP shelves. Enjoying it, too.

Fleetwood Mac, Rumours. Yeah, the mammoth hit that repelled the band’s core fans while seducing the rest of the planet. It still sounds pretty good. Sexy. Inviting. Some good artificially induced 3D.

Roderick Falconer, New Nation. I’m probably the last person on earth that still has a copy. Or am I the only person who bought a copy? Stately 70’s rock. A multi-miked, carefully produced production with SQ on a par with Rumours.

Both on mega-tonnage, pancake flat pressings.

Florence Price's Symphony No. 1, streamed on Idagio.

The Pink Panther movie soundtrack via Qobuz. Totally lovin' it. Yeah, my opinion of it may come off as patently ridiculous, but the only way I can describe it is that it's the Beethoven's Ninth of Lounge Music. As profoundly shallow as the Beethoven is deep, but a masterpiece in its own right. Multi-tracked but otherwise a first class recording. The perpetrator of this?  Henry Mancini.

Rachmaninoff's Third Symphony, in a lovely-sounding (yeah DG!) recording with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nezet Seguin.  CD quality stream from Idagio. Mellow. Happy. Chock full of Rocky's ever wonderful tunes. 

I'm just stuck on The Pink Panther. As they sing in one of the cuts -- Meglio sta' serra baby, go go go. Or as we natives say, "Va subito!"