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.