This week post nearly didn't happen thanks to a severe migraine complete with flashing lights and electrical storms in my brain but here we go.
The Jazz influenced sounds of Steely Dan, comprising of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker with other assorted helpers have long been a favourite of mine but between a sad story of sticky analogue tapes saved to a digital format that itself had issues like a major corporation that lack a playback machine for it and the odd decision to bump up the low and high notes and squash the gap between loud and soft sounds on the current editions tying to find decent sounding Steely Dan has been challenging shall we say.
This is a band who had a way with lyrics and arrangements as evidenced on songs like Rikki Don't Lose That Number, Reeling In The Years, Aja and Do It Again and recently I found this triple cd compilation issued in the Netherlands by Universal that does sound rather good with a generous selection from their 1972-1980 albums including the song FM from the movie of the same name.
It'll do until some one can remaster the studio albums anew.
Hey, hey folks this week I'm talking about a couple of friends who've recently come into my life after requiring a new home.
First up is Millie who as you can see is a magnificent 8 inch 'vintage' rag doll in her sailor uniform including woollen bloomers in pretty good shape.
In addition to her and I did promise Colleen I would, here is her rehomed friend, Amy
Okay for girls of certain chronological age this means something because she is one of the Holly Hobbie characters popularized in the works of Denise Holly Ulinskas, an American children's story writer.
The cat-loving, rag dress-wearing little girl in a giant bonnet and licensed to Knickerbocker Toys who popularized these rag dolls in the mid 1970's.
Amy is an original and had to be resowed carefully during her previous life but otherwise is in good rather than exceptional shape.
Be that as it may, these were the dolls my female friends played with outside of Sindy and Barbie and I always wanted one badly and now I have Amy.
Important Note: The next blog update will be delayed as I shall be elsewhere shall we say but I will publish an entry as soon as I can.
