> I was stone cold sober at the time I wrote that, and unlike, say, last
> week Friday, didn't get dead drunk later in the day...womp womp.

I wanted to make an off-hand-yet-funny-and-not-in-the-slightest-insulting-sounding joke here, but every single attempt failed, so...still, the thought of you drunk is entertaining.

> That's not a joke thing though...the gospel take on Handel's Messiah is a blast.

Well, there goes that insinuation!

> It could, but you shouldn't need the Treasury here. The recent Tadlow
> rerecording included the choir on those 4 or so tracks.

See, here's my dilemma...I've cut down on acquiring new stuff (both on the current output and on re-recs and/or deluxidations), and as much as I want to support James F. and his endeavours, the 2.5-hours Rhino release is all I need of King of Kings. But I guess my "argument" about what's being the point in these admittedly glorious-sounding re-recordings of, say, Ben-Hur or The Blue Max if there are multiple fine releases already existing over historic scores where there aren't? (Don't ask me to name names, because...I can't.)

That being said, I do own the re-recs of Quo Vadis and The Thief of Bagdad, do enjoy them and am aware of the implicit contradiction with my yammerings about MR.

It's a complicated affair, what can I say?

> I think you thinking I didn't know about the notes despite owning that box
> for over a decade is perhaps the best indication you were having a
> high-quality Friday night.

I keep forgetting that besides old Film Music Grandpas like myself, there are plenty not-as-old Film Music Uncles with a degree in Knows-Film-Music-Minutiae-Like-Few-Others. My apologies, Jon.

> I'll pass.

My apologies, that "recommendation" was solely aimed at said 'roo...who, as I am well aware, probably didn't need any to begin with.

> But it was amusing to see this generate a follow-up comment from someone else, one that
> leans dangerously close to Jim Ross WWE 'as God as my witness, he is broken in half!'
> territory.

I can always count on Michael to be a good sport and happily join into this non-sequiturs. That triggered a memory of a scene in Men in Black. Which was scored by Danny Elfman, whose score to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory I listened to earlier today. Man, I do love it when posts generate unintended and unlikely cross references!

Unrelated: @Edmund, if you make it to the northern Midwest in the foreseeable future, do try to arrange a meeting with Film Music Uncle Jon Bl. here. You won't regret it.

CK