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"The Blues Had A Baby And They Named It Rock And Roll"

"Corrine, Corrina" -- Wynton Marsalis w/ Eric Clapton

Blonde On Blonde

Rubber Soul


     When recommending songs and albums, I do it because I find them to be so good.

     I think of Jackie Kennedy in her 1962 televised Tour of the White House where she says, about 17 minutes in, "I think the entertainment that's given at the White House should be the best!  [she says something else, I can't remember, and then finishes her thought] -- Just as long as it's the best."

     Not -- "best" as in, "better than you, so there!" -- not that tone; she's recommending that we strive for excellence -- celebrating excellence.  Delighting in, and celebrating, excellence.

     "Just as long as it's the best."

     To listen to her say that -- you are left sort of spellbound.  Her voice is floaty, drifty, like a stealth diplomat ... with her mysterious mid-Atlantic accent from the early 20th Century -- lost, now, in History's inexorable folds.  (No one sounds like that, anymore!)

"Just as long as it's the best."

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