<div dir="ltr"><div>MP3?  May the Goddess of beautiful recorded music save us!</div><div><br></div><div>I have a CD of Mathis's "Greatest Hits."  I often dismiss such collections as commercialized pandering to music marketing that overlooks a lot of great music, </div><div>but on this CD Mathis's voice reveals a recording with much warmth, richness and depth.  Hard to believe his hit "Misty" was from 1959!  Maybe it was recorded with vacuum tube amplification?</div><div><br></div><div>In contrast, to compare to a singer from roughly the same time period, a CD of Patsy Cline's "Greatest Hits"  reveals a recording with more edge and grit... Too bad, given Cline's amazing singing voice, that I feel is </div><div>more honest to her unique musical spirit than the apparently beautiful but perhaps artificial Johnny Mathis... </div><div>Mathis hit a certain successful style that he exploited commercially to the point of redundancy... </div><div><br></div><div>Patsy Cline's famous hit "Crazy" from 1961 was composed by Willie Nelson, long before Nelson became famous himself!</div><div>----------------------------------------------</div><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 7:05 AM, Tom Hansen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">thansen@moscow.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div>. . . <b><i>Johnny Mathis</i></b><img id="m_-777418245584766551FE1567CC-1746-4E92-907F-AB6604A103C3" alt="image1.jpeg" src="cid:FE1567CC-1746-4E92-907F-AB6604A103C3"><div><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Johnny_Mathis/Johnny_Mathis.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.TomandRodna.com/<wbr>Songs/Johnny_Mathis/Johnny_<wbr>Mathis.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>“Chances Are”</b></div><div><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Johnny_Mathis/Chances_Are.mp3" target="_blank">http://www.TomandRodna.com/<wbr>Songs/Johnny_Mathis/Chances_<wbr>Are.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>“It’s Not for Me to Say”</b></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Johnny_Mathis/Its_Not_for_Me_to_Say.mp3" target="_blank">http://www.TomandRodna.com/<wbr>Songs/Johnny_Mathis/Its_Not_<wbr>for_Me_to_Say.mp3</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><b>“Misty”</b></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Johnny_Mathis/Misty.mp3" target="_blank">http://www.TomandRodna.com/<wbr>Songs/Johnny_Mathis/Misty.mp3</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><b>“Twelfth of Never”</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Johnny_Mathis/Twelfth_of_Never.mp3" target="_blank">http://www.TomandRodna.com/<wbr>Songs/Johnny_Mathis/Twelfth_<wbr>of_Never.mp3</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><b>“When Sunny Gets Blue”</b></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Johnny_Mathis/When_Sunny_Gets_Blue.mp3" target="_blank">http://www.TomandRodna.com/<wbr>Songs/Johnny_Mathis/When_<wbr>Sunny_Gets_Blue.mp3</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><b>“Wonderful Wonderful”</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Johnny_Mathis/Wonderful_Wonderful.mp3" target="_blank">http://www.TomandRodna.com/<wbr>Songs/Johnny_Mathis/Wonderful_<wbr>Wonderful.mp3</a></span></div><div><br><div id="m_-777418245584766551AppleMailSignature"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">  </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div>  </div></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>==============================<wbr>=========================<br>
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