I love Julie London. This is a must buy!

Set the Wayback Machine for 1956 and The Girl Can't Help It.

I wonder what he was drinking to get that effect.

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The song I remember best was Misty. I think there was an album by the same name. Julie London deserves to be timeless. Oh, and I did I say knock down gorgeous? That's a fantastic video too, a visual poem.

You may want to sample Sarah Vaughan's Misty, also available at iTunes. I first discovered it in the fifties when it was on the flip side of my all-time favorite Vaughan effort, Broken Hearted Melody.

I wore that single out along with Little Richard's Lucille.

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Julie is among the more popular song 'stylists' of the mid-fifties, but not quite in the league with Chris Connor or Anita O'Day. I just found "Julie Is Her Name" on vinyl for $0.35 at a thrift store. Throw away your earbuds and get a record player!

Those of us with direct drive turntables have a tendency to look down our noses at those who refer to them as "record players".

I once bought seven copies of Also Sprach Zarathustra on Deutsche Grammophon vinyl just to try to get one with fewer pops and tics in the quieter passages. Virgin vinyl discs are pretty good but I've had enough music recorded on recycled shower shoes.

I have digitized a lot of my old vinyl and it sounds pretty good when the PC is connected through a tape loop into my old system.

I didn't save any of the vinyl Zarathustras.

Just as a trivial thought, nowhere in the iPod specs is there any mention of wow and flutter.

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Thanks for the tip on the Zarathustra. I'll look for it. Some of the old RCA Victor Red Seal recordings were pretty good as I recall. I meant to post this link the other day but I forgot. Notice how quickly the pickup crosses that disc.

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