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For whatever reason I just thought of Joe Jackson, went onto grooveshark and dialed up the Look Sharp album, playing right now. Great stuff from the late 70s, early 80s that doesn't get much playtime these days. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SPogGqCgeM&feature=fvwrel

Is that dude wearing a sleeveless turtleneck? Even "it was the 80's" isn't a good enough excuse. How do you think the term "dickie" came about........LOL

This is eclectic. Yesterday: Right now: The Tony Bennett one is particularly interesting. He started at Columbia when Mitch Miller was the pop music A&R man. It's because Mitch was so old fashioned and stubborn that Columbia didn't sign a rock act until Paul Revere and the Raiders in 1966. Not only did he hate rock, he hated jazz as well, and wouldn't let Bennett do a jazz-themed album even though it was Bennett's favorite type of music. So over the years Bennett managed to slip a jazz-tinged song or two into an album here and there. Finally when Miller was gone, Bennett and Columbia compiled a double album of the jazz cuts Bennett had made from 1954 to 1967. The musicians vary from song to song and comprise a jazz who's who, including the Count Basie Orchestra (including Basie, drummer Sonny Payne, and guitarist Freddie Green), Herbie Mann, bassist Milt Hinton, Nat Adderly, Ron Carter, Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Herbie Hancock, Elvin Jones, Doc Serverinson, Mundell Lowe, Ed Shaughnessy, Art Blakey, and other great masters of their instruments. I have it on cassette and LP, and I ripped a CD of it to my iPod. So whatever your format, you can find one on cassette, vinyl, CD, or mp3. And according to Wikipedia, The Eagles album takes me back to when I was in a SoCal cover band in 1976. Eagles/Jackson Brown/Linda Ronstadt were our stock in trade and I think we performed just about every song on this album.