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My First Meeting with Wally

I was working at Filmways/Heider Recording in 1978 as an aspiring engineer. They had us doing everything but what I wanted to do. After 5Pm we all had a chance to answer the phone system. One night this guy calls up for Ray Thompson’s home phone number and I wouldn’t give it out since we [...]

Posted on March 28, 2007 at 07:18:41 by mirage · Permalink · Leave a comment
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About posting….

I’ve seen this happen a couple of times – a person writes a piece for the blog and it apears password protected. It’s not you — it’s this ambiguious WordPress software. If you are viewing an edit/author page, then you are already ‘connected’ and recognized – you do NOT need to put anything in the [...]

Posted on March 15, 2007 at 11:43:15 by admin · Permalink · One Comment
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How I met Wally

1970; I was working at National Recording in New York. National was in the building torn down to make room for Trump Towers. One day Duke Ellington and his brother Mercer came into the studio to record a few compositions with a new sax player. Johnny Hodges had just died and the poor guy was [...]

Posted on March 11, 2007 at 20:27:28 by Peter Granet · Permalink · Leave a comment
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