Whats on your turntable tonight?

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]

F.S.Blumm - Zweite Meer [Morr Music LP '05]

Widespread Panic - Dirty Side Down (my fav of 2010)

Van Halen - II

Van Halen - Women and Children First

Tchaikofsky Berlin Philharmonic - Nutcracker Suite (getting in the season)

Tears for Fears - Seeds of Love