Joe T, thanks for the info (hey dude),  Ariel Ballet is one of the few Nilsson albums I have not heard.  I knew someone out there would know.  I was snooping around amazon.com and saw that there was an excellent box set of the Nilsson RCA years with 3 discs of rarities, demos and what not.   Tom From: "audities-owner@smoe.org" To: audities@smoe.org Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 3:00 AM Subject: audities-digest V8 #652 (4 msgs) The Audities Digest: for the discussion of insanely great pop Volume 8 : Issue 652 : "text" Format Messages in this Issue:   New reviews for Tracks Magazin  ["robert.pally" ]   negative effects of touring    ["robert.pally" ]   Ted 2                              [Tom Warfel ]   Re: Ted 2                    [JJ Giddings ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 08:05:42 +0200 From: "robert.pally" To: "Audities" , ,         "'Arne | Noisolution'" ,         "'Nancy Heyman'" , ,         "'Cristina Vega'" ,         , ,         "Kaech Roli" ,         Subject: New reviews for Tracks Magazin Message-ID: <000901d0b168$7a24eda0$6e6ec8e0$@pally@bluewin.ch> Hi I reviewed the following CDs for Tracks Magazin: Nadja Stoller, Biggles, Hathors, Doughboys, Emil Landman, The Soft Moon, James McArthur, William Fitzsimmons, Peter Broderick, Villagers, Sufjan Stevens. Here is the link for the E-Paper: http://issuu.com/tracks-magazin/docs/tracks_4_15 Best Robert Robert Pally Sägematt 3 6204 Sempach Switzerland ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 20:22:05 +0200 From: "robert.pally" To: "Audities" Subject: negative effects of touring Message-ID: <001401d0b1cf$59776d50$0c6647f0$@pally@bluewin.ch> Hi Here is the link to an interesting article about the negative effects of touring: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/25/musicians-touring-psychological -dangers-willis-earl-beal-kate-nash Best Robert Robert Pally Sägematt 3 6204 Sempach Switzerland ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 22:14:34 +0000 (UTC) From: Tom Warfel To: Audities List Response Subject: Ted 2 Message-ID: <1361936764.1553680.1435529674990.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Friends, The commercials for the movie TED 2 (I know, I know) contain a faithful recreation of the Nilsson TV theme "Best Friend".  Anyone know who is singing it? The arrangement of the horns and stuff are so close to the original.  The vocal is almost spot on but there is a regional twang of some kind that is "the tell". This leads to the next question.  I have the TV themes collections that went to great lengths to get the best recordings of the theme songs, but always, the original Nilsson, sounds like it was recorded with a hand held mic in front of a 1960's bad TV speaker.  Was there a ever a release of this in any better shape on any Nilsson rekkid or collection?  Is there a story here? Wondering because I have too much time on my hands. Thanks, Tom ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 17:00:40 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: JJ Giddings To: audities@smoe.org Subject: Re: Ted 2 Message-ID: <26389024.1435536041145.JavaMail.root@elwamui-hound.atl.sa.earthlink.net> I'm not aware of any actual release unless it's on some Tee-Vee Toons album from the late 80's early 90's. There is however a studio version by Nilsson of the original song on the album "Aerial Ballet" called "Girlfriend" which is the same song with different words. He rearranged it and changed the words for the TV show. Here's a link to the original: https://youtu.be/sCcMuVqg1FY hope that helps... -----Original Message----- >From: Tom Warfel >Sent: Jun 28, 2015 3:14 PM >To: Audities List Response >Subject: Ted 2 > >Friends, The commercials for the movie TED 2 (I know, I know) contain a faithful recreation of the Nilsson TV theme "Best Friend".  Anyone know who is singing it? The arrangement of the horns and stuff are so close to the original.  The vocal is almost spot on but there is a regional twang of some kind that is "the tell". >This leads to the next question.  I have the TV themes collections that went to great lengths to get the best recordings of the theme songs, but always, the original Nilsson, sounds like it was recorded with a hand held mic in front of a 1960's bad TV speaker.  Was there a ever a release of this in any better shape on any Nilsson rekkid or collection?  Is there a story here? >Wondering because I have too much time on my hands. >Thanks, Tom======================================================================= >Detailed Audities-List information:  >To manage your Audities List settings or unsubscribe: > ------------------------------ End of audities-digest V8 #652 (4 msgs) **********