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Herbie Hancock to Lecture at Harvard University

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Herbie Hancock gets a standing ovation at the Grammy Awards for the performance of Rockit.

Today, the news reports Mr. Hancock is named the 2014 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry.  Also, he will be presenting six lectures in February and March at the Sanders Theatre  on Harvard University’s campus in Cambridge Massachusetts . These lectures are open to the public (with tickets) and are a recommended as not to missed by our staff. Here are the details, dates and times.


As one of Turntabling’s most treasured artists, Herbie Hancock’s works across five decades are standards in our vinyl collection and dance floor.

In 1966 he composed the Swinging London soundtrack of Blow-Up. Blow-Up is one of the films that brought our staff to soundtrack appreciation in the first place.



We’re delighted  to send our congratulations to an artist who we feel is more than worthy of all the awards and praise he’s collected so far. We’re also a little sad. Turntabling staff can’t run to attend these, sure to be amazing, lecture events with a great man.

Jen Kilzer

 

 

 

An Amusing Story About Two Great Soundtracks

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Danny Baker shares an anecdote on the television show Q.I. (Quite Interesting) from the superstar Anthony Newley about the soundtrack for the James Bond film, Goldfinger. Stephen Fry provides a brief description of Anthony Newley. Jeremy Clarkson mistakes him for the film’s writer.  Bill Bailey and Alan Davies listen in.

Further investigation has revealed, though the two songs are alike, most of this story is not correct on many levels.  The Goldfinger soundtrack did not win the statue for either soundtrack or song at the 1965 awards show.

Perhaps these events happened when  Newley was holding the Oscar for a friend.  He was nominated for a song in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in 1972, but not the winner that year.

Apparently, the connection between two songs is an open secret. How long did Henry Mancini know about this and his choice of action is lost to time.

Anthony Newley was quite a character, known for his energy as an all around (stage/screen/music) entertainer.  Look at the delight Newley’s  mention brings  the two (Stephen Fry and Danny Baker). One of my favorite performances from him is in the film The Cockleshell Heroes, an underrated war film from the mid ’50s.

The soundtrack for Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) was almost three years old by the time the song Goldfinger came on the scene. Mancini looks like a class act in this situation.

Both soundtracks are classics among collectors.



Turntabling loves to hear great music and soundtrack yarns. Unfortunately, they aren’t always true!

Jen Kilzer

Turntabling Sales

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Just a quick FYI to let everyone know we’re prepping for a bit of a change in how we do sales here–if you want to purchase something you’ve seen on Turntabling, please get in touch via e-mail first. Our stock is in flux at the moment and we’re getting ready to migrate to a new sales platform so some titles may be unavailable depending on circumstance.

Get in touch by writing orders@turntabling.net and we’ll keep you posted on further developments…

In the meantime we are selling at shows including Horrorhound Weekend and Cinema Wasteland. Details coming soon.

WTF Album Covers: Caramel Photoshop Horror

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Viewing this album cover makes one feel there ought to be a law forbidding the unlicensed use of Photoshop for artistic purposes. Some kind of regulatory oversight is needed to prevent eye pollution from degrading our record store shelves, iTunes shopping carts and Napster downloads. Otherwise, I might have to gouge out both my eyes.

On a different note, is that Eugene Levy’s face?