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Wow! I forgot about Julie

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Posted on July 23, 2015 at 20:05:18
dirtyvinyl



Found a replacement for a noisy copy. Never thought I would find an excellent..period mono, no less! Best $7 buck find lately.

If you don't already have this Ella album, her version of CMAR is fantastic. Hearing it from the woman the song was written for, makes you stop whatever you're doing if you're not already listening.
Ella's album is also a period mono and 5 years "younger"1960.

Both of these albums should not be heard on CD and ONLY on a mono press!

 

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CMAR?, posted on July 23, 2015 at 21:56:05
jimbill
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 Is it really so famous that it goes by its initials?

 

RE: CMAR?, posted on July 23, 2015 at 22:34:40
dirtyvinyl
 It's more lazines, than anything. CMAR= " Cry Me A River" figured most know of Julie because of it. Every diva of the period and perhaps some current I'm not aware of have recorded it.A few pull it off. Imelda May w/Jeff Beck is maybe the best modern performance I've heard.

 

Jack Webbs girl......., posted on July 24, 2015 at 05:22:42
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 for 7 years. Webb was to have had one of the best jazz record collections and had a great sound system. Julie was first to do CMAR in '55


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"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936

 

I call it "Crimea River", posted on July 24, 2015 at 07:26:14
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 After Rocky & Bullwinkle.

jm

 

RE: Wow! I forgot about Julie, posted on July 24, 2015 at 07:30:43
Mike K
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 That Ella album is one of her absolute best. I've got an "audiophile gold"
cd version of it, and the sonics are spectacular.

Lack of skill dictates economy of style. - Joey Ramone

 

RE: Jack Webbs girl......., posted on July 24, 2015 at 09:08:35
dirtyvinyl
 I did a wiki on Julie. She and Jack had a history. Very interesting.

 

Fan mail from some flounders?, posted on July 24, 2015 at 09:14:32
dirtyvinyl
 Hah! Is that a reference for an episode? I will have to look that one up on the DVD.
Big Aesop and Son /Fractured Fairytales fan!

 

Ella, posted on July 24, 2015 at 09:20:10
dirtyvinyl
 You MUST get "let No Man Write My Epitaph" if you don't have it already.
The great thing about that album is its just Ella and piano.
I bring a period mono to shows and play "Black Coffee" which NEVER fails to amaze all listeners.

 

Judith Owen does a pretty great rendering of CMAR too...//nt, posted on July 24, 2015 at 10:34:58
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 nt

 

RE: Wow! I forgot about Julie, posted on July 24, 2015 at 10:59:54
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 "Bout twenty years ago I went to a record sale at a collector's house. A bit OCD, he had a massive collection of Presley including every album he ever recorded. He knew the value though so I could only buy a few.

But he also had a complete Julie London collection. Not ony a copy of every album she recorded, but also the stereo and mono copies, as well as alternate covers and such. I was so impressed with the effort he put forth I purchased the entire set.....

 

The collection, posted on July 24, 2015 at 12:06:18
dirtyvinyl
 Always cool to find those types of collectors.
I'm obsessive about trying to obtain a 1st pressing of anything. Even better when I find them at the yard sale where the owner could care less and sells a stamper for 3 bucks!

The album I picked up is the black label which I suspect is a 2nd run? Do you have the blue label? Mine is a VG+ copy with just a few random stiches. It has that rare hypnotic effect some diva albums(Ella,Billie) seem to project. As the back cover notes mention-" Julie had a voice that says,come hither".

 

RE: The collection, posted on July 24, 2015 at 12:40:57
unclestu
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 I bought the collection and it lies somewhere in my storeroom. AS I have some 40K LP's, hard to say what have, although I do have multiple coppies of Julie is My Name. It's unfortunately at the bottom of a pallet!

And like you, I get obsessed with finding first pressings or as close to them as I can, hence I have many multiple copies. Somehow, to my ears, first pressings seem to sound better.

I still run into this guy at sales and swap meets. I remember once I was looking at another London LP and he looks over and tells me that that copy is in better shape than the one he sold me ! This was 15 years after he sold the collection to me !

He had to sell because of a divorce, and last I checked he was collecting Nancy Wilson. As he says "common and cheap, but enough of a challenge"

 

The cross a bridge and the roadside sign says "Crimea River." Nt, posted on July 24, 2015 at 18:20:15
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 nt

 

RE: Ella, posted on July 24, 2015 at 18:26:15
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 I have it. It's great. Paul T Smith on piano, one of the under-rated
greats, and her accompanist off and on for 30 years. Haven't played it
in a while though - will do so soon.

Lack of skill dictates economy of style. - Joey Ramone

 

I like this one also, posted on July 25, 2015 at 07:14:51
dirtyvinyl



This British release is an odd ball mono from the 80's of Ella's early Decca work. It too is only piano-Ellis Larkins. Really nice. Its on CD
as "The Decca Years" Check it out, if you haven't already.

 

RE: Jack Webbs girl......., posted on July 25, 2015 at 08:06:43
dirtyvinyl



I forgot she was Dixie Mccall on Emergency!
At least you would look forward to your next blood pressure check if she were your nurse.

 

RE: I like this one also, posted on July 25, 2015 at 08:21:07
Mike K
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 I've not heard that one. Ellis Larkins was one hell of a piano player,
however, and was well favored as an accompanist by good singers. I'm
sure it's good stuff.

Larkins has a disc in the Concord records "Live at Maybeck" series and it's
very well worth having.

Lack of skill dictates economy of style. - Joey Ramone

 

You might also enjoy, posted on July 27, 2015 at 11:23:43
mwhitmore
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 'Ella and Ellis' with Ellis Larkins.

 

mad magazine flashed through my mind..., posted on July 27, 2015 at 12:19:01
tunenut
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 Ages ago, of course, they had a feature on deceptive record covers.

In big letters JULIE, then in small letters smith and she comes from and then big letters LONDON.

And of course there were others long lost to memory.

 

RE: You might also enjoy, posted on July 27, 2015 at 17:25:07
dirtyvinyl
 Ella and piano=suddenly your blood pressure drops and your shoulders relax.....aahhh

 

RE: mad magazine flashed through my mind..., posted on July 27, 2015 at 17:32:14
dirtyvinyl
 Hah! I don't recall that issue, but having been a MAD freak, I'm sure it was hilarious.

 

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