Whats on your turntable tonight?

Hey E, the other week Janis Ian's self-titled '67 debut LP on Verve/Forecast was in heavy rotation here. I don't really dig most of her stuff I've heard after that one, but I didn't realize that the title you mention, which was released in the mid-70's, contains early vintage material. Are they demos, do they feature a band? (BTW, I tried to email you thru the Agon system several days ago about SUT's but didn't receive a reply?)

Dan & Dale - "Batman And Robin" [Tifton LP '66]
Jan & Dean - "Save For A Rainy Day" [Sundazed CD reissue '96, orig. '66]
Bob James Trio - "Bold Conceptions" [Mercury LP '62]
Shelly Manne/Bill Evans w/Monty Budwig - "Empathy" [Verve LP '62]
Gil Evans Orchestra - "Great Jazz Standards" [World Pacific LP '59]
Ella Fitzgerald - "Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Songbook Vol.1" [Verve LP '59]
Red Garland Trio - "Groovy" [Prestige LP '57]

Z I sent off a reply today,but I had started it right after I recieved your email.Just got busy and I wanted to find a good web page for you.

As for Janis Ian, her Verve debut album mentions that she was 15 and after Wiki ing her birth date I just did the math.
Her "between the lines" came out about 1976 and is all contemporary stuff(to the best of my knowledge).I remember when it came out and "17"got lots of air time.Indeed,that is when I bought my copy that I have to this day.
I can understand how some may not care for her stuff;with all the self reflection on bad relationships.Joni Mitchell went down the same road, but less pathetically.
I personally was in your camp but lately have come to have more empathy and appreciation for women's plights in a male led society; especially in the 70's.
I hope you find the email I sent you helpful,and I hope that I piss off anyone with my last remarks.

e

Sorry E, I obviously misunderstood your post of 11/08 -- didn't notice that you had written "Janis Ian" in quotes as a separate title, thought you were talking about the '70's Columbia album instead. (Which, if I was a fan of her 70's work, I would have known didn't contain old stuff, since as I have since realized it contains her biggest 70's hit, "At Seventeen".) Yes, that first album is an amazingly precocious debut for a young teenager, and what helps put it over the top for me is the production of Shadow Morton (of Shangri-Las fame).

Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign just got a sealed copy today. Then T-Bone Walker Stormy Monday Blues.

Peggy Lee - "Black Coffee With..." [Decca LP '56]
Anita O'Day - "Swings Cole Porter With Billy May" [Verve LP '58]
Anita O'Day/Gary McFarland Orchestra - "All The Sad Young Men" [Verve LP '62]
Horace Silver Quintet - "6 Pieces Of Silver" [Blue Note LP '57]
Bill Evans Trio - "Portrait In Jazz" [Riverside LP '60]
The Modern Jazz Quartet - "Pyramid" [Atlantic LP '60]
Ravi Shankar - "The Sounds Of India" [Columbia Adventures In Sound LP '58] I believe this was his US album debut, replete with spoken introductions and demonstrations explaining the instruments, scales, modes and rhythms, and liners by the classical composer Alan Hovhaness
"The Adventurers" MP Sndtrk. - Comp. Antonio Carlos Jobim, arr. & cond. Eumir Deodato [Paramount LP '69]