I am going to a little dinner party tonight, me, my best friend and his bf and the bf's best friend. Just the four of us.

Now my best friend is happy with the champagne I am bringing, but I thought I'd give a nice little something for the two other guests as well.

I am burning a DVD with some MP3's that include all the Ella Fitzgerald songbooks, a 10 cd box of Billie Holiday's work on Columbia, the best of Nina Simone, the best of Dinah Shore and the best of Kay Starr, and topping it off with Edith Piaff Integrale and the best of Lucie Delyle (both French singers from the 1930's).

I hope they will like the pressie...

HamsterHuey said:

Ella
Billie
Edith

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if they don't like those presents, you should beat the crap out of them and send them to me!!!

i love the Ella songbooks. especially the Cole Porter one. he is the best!! and i have a couple Billie boxsets but still.

You can't go wrong with Nina. I'm LOVING my Nina stuff right now.

If they want a solid collection of stuff they'll be going back to forever then they'll appreciate that. If they're j/o's then bring an Alicia Keys CD just in case.

HamsterHuey said:

Wow.....awesome choices...I wish I was a guest at that party!

Have fun.

We did not play them at the dinner party (old fashioned-no computer linking friend) so they will have to discover at home what I gave them.

One of the two never heard of Ella Fitzgerald, though. Those people exist. It is entirely possible. So I hope to introduce her in a gradn way to him and I hope he will learn to love her as much as I do.

They will be shocked at the Lucy Delyle cd, though; an amazing thing to pass on, old fashioned music.

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Colin. Ayedunno if you are on new meds these days, but your posts are stranger and stranger lately.

Or are you posting drunk again?

Awww you're such a good friend,,,I mean to go through all that pain in the ass Not bad

I'm trying to get into Edith Piaff. The stuff I heard so far are very good, but like B.B. King, I need to know where to start.

HamsterHuey said:

Better late than never, though

Harlepolis said:

Hehehe, even though I was as shocked as you ('You're KIDDING, right?') later on I realised I was really presuming. Music does not mean the same to everyone and it is also a matter of what you hear growing up.
I had to miss out on stuff like Mahalia Jackson when growing up...

Cinnie said:

HamsterHuey said:

most likely

CHIC0 said:

Or he might just not like you, Chico.

HamsterHuey said:

you just like to hurt people

he doesn't like me....hims luhzzzzz me

CHIC0 said:

Nothing like a good flat hand on a big butt.

HamsterHuey said:

are you calling me fat???

and to think i was planning a trip back to NL.


wait...have you seen my butt??

CHIC0 said:

Ohoh. Projecting, aren't we? MY butt, mate. MY butt.

HamsterHuey said:

your butt?? or are you implying my butt is your butt and your butt is my butt?





hope you can handle it

Too late now. Too late.

HamsterHuey said:

CHIC0 said:

Short attention span. If you do not dig in immediately and start bantering, I am off for fries. That's how it is.
I can get my ass slapped any time, you know.

HamsterHuey said:

oh i was planning on doing more than just slapping it. but ok then. if you say so.

HamsterHuey said:

I agree!

My mother is an example. The ONLY thing she owns nowadays is Chaka Khan's discography(she sold the rest of the stuff, somewhere,,,when I could've made a good use out of 'em ).

Music snobs in theOrg(including myself) assume that people in general are passionate about music, whether its bad or good when in reality, some people just wouldn't give a damn.

Cinnie said:

That joke never gets old.