>That's too funny. Gotta wonder what that client was thinking. Too bad you weren't in the car when he played it.

It's probably a good thing I wasn't.

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>I figured there was an in-joke with the music when you put "greatest hits" in quotes. If it can cause that sort of reaction I definitely want to check it out.

It's a good CD to put on at parties to find out who does and who doesn't 'get' it. The vocals are more obvious, but I imagine some people will hear the volcano of notes spewing from the piano and think it's good stuff because of quantity.

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>>I'm going to assume you aren't familiar with Jonathan and Darlene - most folks aren't. And I just have to tell you a story.
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>>The idea is that Darlene sings off key and her time is really bad, but it's sort of ok because Jonathan's time is awful too. Jonathan is one of those lounge players who like to display their technical mastery by taking the riff out into very dangerous territory. The problem is that he has no idea how to bring it back. So sometimes he stumbles back, and sometimes he just ignores it and starts from scratch again. It's truly hilarious stuff. They won a grammy for comedy a number of years ago. The kicker is that Jonathan was, in reality, Paul Weston, a superb pianist, and Darlene was his wife Jo Stafford who has perfect pitch.
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>>A couple of years ago, I made a tape of their 'Greatest Hits' album and brought it to work. Gerard, a guy I worked with was also a jazz fan, but he'd never heard of Jonathan and Darlene, so I gave him the tape and told him to listen to it in the car on the way home. Unbeknownst to me, he had a client coming in during the day and was going to drive him to the airport. The next morning, I was sitting at my desk, when I sensed heat and shadow behind me. I turned around, and there was Gerard, veins bulging, eyes popping, his hands at his sides in fists, and he screamed at me, "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?". I swear, without a word of a lie, I fell off my chair laughing. If it's been any funnier, I'd have died on the spot from lack of oxygen. Apparently on the way to the airport, he mentioned the tape to the client and put it in to play. His first reaction was that it wasn't in right. So he ejected it and put it back in. Then he decided his tape deck must have a problem, so he put in
>>another tape and it played ok. They tried listening to a couple of songs, and finally gave up.
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>>Unfortunately, it's one of those "you hadda be there's". I can still see his face and I'm actually laughing as I type.