Just ten after five...

Playlist

Alfred Brendel - 3 Classic Albums

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out

Danny Kaye & Louis Armstrong - The Five Pennies OST

Duke Ellington - Nutcracker Suite

The Shadows - The Shadows

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Further Out

The Beatles - Please Please Me

The Shadows - The Shadows' Greatest Hits (Mono)

The Beatles - With The Beatles

The Hollies - Stay With...

The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones

Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'

The Monkees - The Works

King Crimson - Red

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Edward Spark Demos
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'
Frank Zappa - Chunga's Revenge [2012 Remaster]
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats

Up...

..and immediately found the Creek CDs I could not find last night...

18 sessions, 56 tracks - here condensed down to around 2.5 minutes each - I really must get all the Creek sessions up onto Bandcamp, as they still sound contemporary, despite being almost 25 years old...

Started the day with this classic, the eponymous "Chicago" - now known as "Chicago II", as their first LP was issued under the name Chicago Transit Authority - to which the real company took offence...



This was their highest charting LP in the UK, entering the charts on 29/3/70 and reaching No 6...

It stayed on the chart for 27 weeks...

Imagine that, a double LP of jazzy funk rock with two virtually side long song suites (and a third)...



...and people were buying it in their droves... 

Good times for challenging music... 

50 years gone...

Scenes today...

The classical piece was Brendel & Rattle's rendition of Beethoven's "Emperor"...

Nice...

Then, following on from the compiling of 50 year old records I have, I went back to May 1959 under the same criteria - imagining I only ever bought records that entered the charts...

Here's my collection by May 1964 - just 10 albums in the first 5 years...

Breakfast...

Two different eggs...

...made for a nice scramble...

While the radio was present, my own choice of music soundtracked - the young lady from Eurovision, Roxen...

...which the EP also enjoyed...

Next door, there is work going on in the garden...

Here too, Annie is working on the front step while I WFH...

This evening, a very tasty Spag Bog - yumtastic of course, although Anne found it somehow wanting...

Hmmm...

By the end of the day, I'd reached 1966 re the LP list compiling...

The collection was up to 39...

Creeker Craig advised he has finished four of the tracks for the new CBQ LP...

I couldn't find them, then I did...

Some listening for tomorrow...

Tonight's record was King Crimson's "Red"...

I posed the question on the Twitter as to how anyone could enjoy listening to the very quiet indeed opening section of the second side, "Providence", on vinyl, when CDs are readily available...

It sparked responses...

...which led me to the confirmation of my belief that some people are idiots...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Compiling...