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| From | "KGC" <kcrothers@awod.com> |
| Subject | OT: Pop-related poll! |
| Date | Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:45:23 -0500 |
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You are going to be stranded on a deserted island, albeit one with
electricity and a killer stereo.
What's the one album you'll take to listen to for the rest of your life?
As much as I love Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper, etc., I take...
Dick Hyman - The Man From O.R.G.A.N.
From the early 60's, it's Lowrey combo organ renditions of spy movie/tv
themes - Thunderball, The Third Man, Honey West, I Spy, The Man From
U.N.C.L.E., and a ringer of Agent Double-O-Soul. Tony Mottola plays guitar.
This album never fails to pick me up if I'm in a bad mood, and makes good
moods even better.
Part of the effect is nostalgia - my first copy of the album first belonged
to my (late) grandmother, and it was a favorite ritual of mine to slip it on
the turntable in her console Silvertone stereo the first day I went to her
house to visit (for most of my life, my grandparents lived nearly 12 hours
away). The Silvertone had a tube amplification system, and still sounds
wonderful to this day.
I would kill to be able to play organ like this.
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