Whats on your turntable tonight?

Little Anthony & The Imperials - "Goin' Out Of My Head" [DCP mono LP '65]
The Grass Roots - "Let's Live For Today" [Dunhill stereo LP '67]
Gabor Szabo - "His Great Hits" [ABC/Impulse! 2LP compilation '71, rec. '62-'67] The cover shot shows the best view of his idiosyncratic guitar rig, a Gibson J-160E flattop acoustic with built-in magnetic neck pickup similar to the ones made famous by the Beatles, through the otherwise obscure but quite cool looking Toby "Sound Column" red Formica, cylindrical 2-12" solid-state amplifier (which a little research turns up was made by one Toby Guynn, still a small manufacturer of vehicle subwoofers and HT/stereo subs and speakers in the Fort Worth area, at toby.com)
Naif Agby & His Orchestra - "El Debke" [Audio Fidelity stereo LP '62]
Count Basie - "One O'Clock Jump" [Columbia LP '56, rec. '42-'51]
Buddy Cole - "Have Organ, Will Swing" [Warner Bros. stereo LP '58] Unusually, the jacket notes take the step of listing "Other organ albums suggested for your listening pleasure" by three other artists and their labels, all of which are totally unaffiliated with WB (they are: George Wright on HiFi; Wild Bill Davis on Imperial; Milt Buckner on Capitol)
Red Garland Trio + Ray Barreto, conga - "Manteca" [Status/Prestige reissue LP '58/?]
Gerry Mulligan/Paul Desmond - "Gerry Mulligan Meets Paul Desmond" [Verve mono LP '57]
Hank Crawford - "Dig These Blues" [Atlantic mono LP '65]

"Danses Anciennes de Hongrie"
-- Clemencic Consort (Harmonia Mundi France HM1003)

Piano Music of Chopin, Grieg, Debussy, Schumann, Beethoven
-- Kabi Laretei, Piano (Proprius 7793)

03-10-11: Almarg
"Danses Anciennes de Hongrie"
-- Clemencic Consort (Harmonia Mundi France HM1003)

Good one one you! What a wonderful recording! That one sees a lot of play time on my TT, thanks to Rushton who played it for me the first time.

Cali dreamin'...

The Seeds - "Future" [GNP Crescendo mono LP '67] Although the cover illustration of their third album is a cool timepiece, and the equally flowery, everything-but-the-commune-sink instrumental ornamentation may be goofy fun -- and despite the fact that no less than about two and a half of the songs are nevertheless shameless musical rewrites of their breakout hit "Pushin' Too Hard" (amittedly standard operating procedure with these guys, mostly because that's what they were capable of) -- as the inclusion of the earlier leftover B-side of that single ("Out Of The Question") makes clear by comparison, the more tripped-out music here is ultimately a good bit less memorable than the succinctly unhinged, leering aggression of the first two albums

The Turtles - "Turtle Soup" [White Whale/Blimp LP '69] In me 'umble opinion, the Turtles' swan song (aside from the odd'n'ends collection "Wooden Head") is one of the underappreciated albums of its era, as good in its play-it-straight way as its more celebrated and flamboyant (and likewise self-penned) predecesor "Battle Of The Bands", but for a group known primarily as a singles act on the strength of their radio hits, in the end no number of great rockin' pop albums lacking that one hit single was gonna be enough to stave off the inevitable in a time when gorgeous three-minute symphonettes and witty playfulness just weren't where it was at, man

The Flamin' Groovies - "Flamingo" [Kama Sutra LP '70] Why the San Fran rockers couldn't break through remains a stumper, given how strong a case their second album for as many labels (hint hint!) makes for the original group's unvarnished balls-out greatness (which they capped on the next year's epochal "Teenage Head" -- drawing favorable press comparisons to the Stones' "Exile...", though it still didn't sell)

Erstrand-Lind Quartet......A tribute to The Benny Goodman Quartet
Count Basie......................Basie Jam
Joni Mitchell......................Ladies Of The Canyon
Dexter Gordon...................Gettin' Around
Harry James And His Big Band........Still Harry After All These Years
Lionel Hampton..................The Lionel Hampton Quartet

Used these to tune my system after putting a PAD Aqueous Anniversary PC on the LAP-150 Mk ll by mostly increasing toe in of speakers. Levels up to 95db were comfortable and without "ringing" etc...!!!!