9-9-16
I went to the Eslite record album section to
browse their eclectic collection of used LP imports. I found three records that
I liked:
1. Chante- Josephine Baker (199NT-$6.21)
2. Earth – Jefferson Starship (199NT-$6.21)
3. Top 30 USA CBS Radio Programming; Sept.
14,1987 – 3 discs (299NT-$9.34)
Josephine Baker is someone who I had heard of but knew nothing about, until yesterday. The LP is a collection of fourteen recordings from 1931 to 1968. I watched a British documentary about her on YouTube last evening. She was quite an amazing person and entertainer, loved in France but shunned repeatedly by her racist, anti-communist (though she wasn’t a communist) American critics.
The “CBS Radio Programming” is like Casey Kasem’s Top
40, complete with commercial jingles. It’s like listening to the “Cruisin’”
series of radio programs; three-hours of really cool programming, including
Michael Bolton’s first top thirty hit, and Felix Caveliere sitting in
introducing Rascals’ songs! What a find! “Earth” is an album I have had a
number of times, vinyl and cassette, but never on CD and not uploaded into my
iPod for some reason. The packaging is beautiful but the album is not as good
as its two predecessors, “Red Octopus” and “Spitfire,” but the bad is the same
with the exception of Papa John Creach.
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