[Magdalen] Fwd: Our kind

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

That is certainly a great album, and I can't remember the title either.
Unfortunately, the group sort of self-destructed when the other member (I'm
deliberately not naming names, so please don't try to help me,
sharpshooters) emailed Deb to say she wasn't going to be in the group
anymore. I remember how devastated Deb was when that happened. The
recordings were withdrawn at that time. Later on, there was some kind of
resolution or atonement, and the two were speaking again and the recordings
done were again available. It's hard to imagine how many more would have
been done, had they kept working together. Be that as it may, what they
produced was a cut or two or five or ten above most everything else out
there. I'ts great that we have what we have!

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for this reminder, Mike! I love that whole album. I’m really sorry
> MO only put out two albums—that one and another, the name of which I can’t
> remember. (Maybe “God Help Us”?) It has a spectacular version of “Breathe
> on Me, Breath of God,” with some extraordinary scat singing by Deb Bly; and
> Calvin Hampton’s setting of “There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy.”
>
> > On Dec 11, 2017, at 3:28 PM, Mahoney, W. Michael <wmmah at stoneledge.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Ain't no Advent hymn better than "The Stable Lamp is Lighted" as sung by
> > Ana Herndadez on "Keeping the Baby Awake", the CD by the Miserable
> > Offenders!
> >
> > And it's not only the stones that cry when I listen to it.
> >
> > Mike M.
> >
> >> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I always loved Advent best of all the seasons of the church year, and
> even
> >> though the Orthodox church doesn't have Advent per se, I'm celebrating
> it
> >> anyway. BTW, the Swedish church has some of the BEST Advent songs, not
> only
> >> the one we stole from them (Prepare the Royal Highway), but this one:
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSiV0StQU4&index=1&list=RDYJSiV0StQU4
> >>
> >> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 2:47 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>>>> Just happens to be close to the same time I'm observing the season
> of
> >>> Advent, preparing to celebrate the Feast of the Incarnation.<<<
> >>>
> >>> I like to remind those generally piss-offable in that regard, that
> >>> Christ's-mass doesn't begin until sundown on the 24th.  Until then,
> it's
> >> a
> >>> time of penitence and introspection.
> >>>
> >>> "But it's the Christmas season!"
> >>> "Nope, not yet.  And you better toss out your chocolate calendar lest
> you
> >>> have even more to atone for."
> >>> "You're just being a Scrooge!"
> >>> "At least he knew his calendar."
> >>>
> >>> M J (Mike) Logsdon.
> >>>
> >>> "Aaugh[.]" -- Charles Brown.
> >>> "Avoid dull needles and use a soft cloth." -- E Kovacs.
> >>>
> >>
>