Comments on: Les Brown & The Super Sounds of Renown – “New Horizons” http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/07/29/les-brown-the-super-sounds-of-renown-new-horizons/ Trash, Treasure, Oddities, Obsessions and Obligations Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:10:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TikiHead http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/07/29/les-brown-the-super-sounds-of-renown-new-horizons/comment-page-1/#comment-18501 TikiHead Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:01:12 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/?p=205#comment-18501 <p>Well, I liked them -- not sure how they hold up today. We got to meet them and Copperfield backstage.</p> <p>Copperfield got really mad when a stagehand showed us how one of his tricks worked. Oops. We were just standing there, and the stagehand goes, pssst! -- and showed us a trap door in his disappearing tiger trick.</p> Well, I liked them — not sure how they hold up today. We got to meet them and Copperfield backstage.

Copperfield got really mad when a stagehand showed us how one of his tricks worked. Oops. We were just standing there, and the stagehand goes, pssst! — and showed us a trap door in his disappearing tiger trick.

]]> By: Nick http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/07/29/les-brown-the-super-sounds-of-renown-new-horizons/comment-page-1/#comment-18496 Nick Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:19:35 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/?p=205#comment-18496 <p>PLEASE tell me there really is a "Junior Samples NOW!" album in existence.</p> <p>Great post as usual. Nice to know someone else enjoys finding these "old fogeys get down and funky for the younger folks" albums in the shops.</p> PLEASE tell me there really is a “Junior Samples NOW!” album in existence.

Great post as usual. Nice to know someone else enjoys finding these “old fogeys get down and funky for the younger folks” albums in the shops.

]]> By: Derrick Bostrom http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/07/29/les-brown-the-super-sounds-of-renown-new-horizons/comment-page-1/#comment-18462 Derrick Bostrom Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:48:49 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/?p=205#comment-18462 <p>Who knew Les Brown dug Shields & Yarnell??</p> <p>(I know what you're thinking: "who didn't?")</p> Who knew Les Brown dug Shields & Yarnell??

(I know what you’re thinking: “who didn’t?”)

]]> By: TikiHead http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/07/29/les-brown-the-super-sounds-of-renown-new-horizons/comment-page-1/#comment-18461 TikiHead Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:01:03 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/?p=205#comment-18461 <p>My uncle owns a casino in Nevada, and back in the 70s I was sitting in the dinner theater, waiting to see Shields & Yarnell and David Copperfield. An older gentleman was sitting opposite me, and it was Les Brown.</p> <p>He was tickled that I added "and his Band of Renown?" when he told me his name.</p> My uncle owns a casino in Nevada, and back in the 70s I was sitting in the dinner theater, waiting to see Shields & Yarnell and David Copperfield. An older gentleman was sitting opposite me, and it was Les Brown.

He was tickled that I added “and his Band of Renown?” when he told me his name.

]]> By: Derrick Bostrom http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/07/29/les-brown-the-super-sounds-of-renown-new-horizons/comment-page-1/#comment-18427 Derrick Bostrom Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:47:11 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/?p=205#comment-18427 <p>Oops. Rookie mistake.</p> Oops. Rookie mistake.

]]> By: Dave Nuttycombe http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2008/07/29/les-brown-the-super-sounds-of-renown-new-horizons/comment-page-1/#comment-18425 Dave Nuttycombe Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:58:51 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/?p=205#comment-18425 <p>It's Rod McKuen, but point taken. And thanks much for this. Also thanks for helping a friend find a childhood "treasure," "1432 Franklin Park Circle Hero."</p> It’s Rod McKuen, but point taken. And thanks much for this. Also thanks for helping a friend find a childhood “treasure,” “1432 Franklin Park Circle Hero.”

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