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Time Life GOT ME! I woke up at 2 am one night last week and they got me with their Greatest Hits of Soul collection. Great stuff there, but what a bunch of crap the way they marketed it. They let you 'preview' the collection for $9.95 and then they hit you for several payments. I told 'em to bill me all up front. I can see tons of folks grabbing the phone to get the collection, and then getting to embarrassed to say they really can't afford it once Time Life gets them on the phone. It took an act of God for me to get them to tell me the TOTAL... they wanted to minimize the impact by spreading out the payments. They also tried to sell me a ton of stuff after I purchased the thing (which I still think is a priceless collection). But I told them to stop it or it would be a deal breaker and I'd cancel everything. Damned corporations. Nothing is just straight up anymore. bp

Right on, BP. Not just for getting the soul collection, which is indeed priceless, but for standing up to them and demanding fair and honest treatment. The music's great, but the system they are using is a ripoff. You did good telling them to stop the spiel and give you the facts...The Whiskey Saints worked up "Tears On My Pillow" last week...Lanis does a great Little Anthony...I couldn't agree more that they are one of the greatest vocal groups ever. They didn't get hype like The Drifters and later Ben E. King and the Tymes, The Platters and so on got, but they had not just soul, but class to go with it, plus a clutch of classics that still to this day give me chills. We also do "Save The Last Dance For Me" by the Drifters, it's that Latin-tinged number and we get behind it. Can't get enough Whiskey Saints, but it's a loooong way over there just to practice. I gotta allow that for myself somehow...great guys and great songs...isn't that one of the best things in life? Cheers, WC1

Thanks, Cat. I'm not a huge telephone fan in the first place... bp

Watching a PBS special; Tony Bennett cutting an album doing duets with rock and pop stars...Bono, Elvis Costello, Sting, Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, James Taylor, Dixie Chicks, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, John Legend, kd lang, Tim McGraw..."Boulevard Of Broken Dreams", "Are You Havin' Any Fun?", "Put On A Happy Face", "Cold, Cold Heart", "When Somebody Breaks Your Heart"...want to hear the greatest singer in the world? They got him on PBS tonight...the guy sings when he talks...Tim McGraw held his own (better than the rest of 'em), kd lang was great, but Tony totally blew everybody else away, smiling, laughing, cutting up, dancing around, kidding with his band and singing fabulously. His voice is like an instrument being played by a virtuoso...his control, if you could call it that (it's become effortless for him to sweep entire octaves in two notes, and then throw in a chuckling wisecrack) is without equal. The rock stars were in such awe of him they just kind of stepped back and gasped when he pulled off impossible riff after impossible riff...and he sings simple...basic. He just hits all the notes and adds his own special tone and sound to them, and the results are astonishing. He's coming to town in August, I would love to go to that show. It's gonna cost some major dollars to go, though. That cat just never stops smiling and swinging, man. He's a true American treasure...the only other singer I ever heard who actually hit all his notes dead-center, live, was Roy Orbison. The overwhelming majority of not just rock singers, but all of them, actually, approximate the notes in most places, but in isolating their vocal tracks, they're not even close almost all the time...not so with the Big O, and never ever the case with Tony Bennett. The man is above and beyond...during their session, on "For Once In My Life", he drew sketches of Stevie Wonder...Cheers, WC1

My mom and dad had us listening to Tony Bennett when my age was in the single digits... I've dug him ever since. bp

The Dell Vikings - Flat Tire

The Dell Vikings - Flat Tire

That's too bad.........Did they get it fixed yet?

The Dell Vikings - Flat Tire

That's too bad.........Did they get it fixed yet?

seal blubber

gotta dig out my BOSTON cassette.........

LULU on the oldies radio show right now... think i saw her on american idol last night ?