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I've read the book and when the film was announced I couldn't see how they could faithfully recreate it, as with the people you have talked with the book is a really good read. Much like the film of Where the Crawdads Sing which I saw after reading the book you didn't get a sense of the depth of the people portrayed in the film as you do in the book. With a film I think you either engage with actor playing the part or you don't whereas with a book you get to know the characters more slowly and build up how they look etc in your imagination. A case in point being Tom Cruise cast as Jack Reacher, I have neither read the books or seen the films but my mate being a fan found it hard to accept Cruise as Jack due to a height difference as Reacher was described as 6' 5" and an imposing figure, Cruise being 5' 7".

Different day different gravy, heard Memphis Soul Stew on a tv ad this morning and thought I'll play that this afternoon. Because of the way I file my collection some boxes are single label or group of labels, others are mixed recent buys, funk, Philly, Motown etc. Hence and Atlantic hour or so, Memphis Soul Stew King Curtis Got To Get You Back Sons of robin Stone Funky fever Clarence Carter Whole Lotta Woman Arthur Conley I Can't turn you Loose Otis Hard to Handle Otis Don't Knock My love Wilson Pickett Look Me Up Blue Magic Sweet Charlie babe Jackie Moore Don't Go Breaking My Heart Aretha Angel Baby Darrell Banks Baby What I mean The Drifters Baby Help Me Percy Sledge Looking for a Fox Clarence Carter Some Kinda Wonderful Soul Brothers Six at the other end of the spectrum yesterdays selection was from contemporary releases over the last 5 yrs or so Where Would I be Kim Tibbs Paint me In A Corner Nicole Willis If This Ain't Love Nicole willis It's Understanding Ben Pirani Look Up The Harlem Gospel Travellers Better days Josh Hoyer Nothing Lasts Forever Smith and the Honeybadgers Your Love's Too Cold Bobby Oroza Without You The Sextones The Tibbs Ain't It funny I Am Laura Rain In A Moment Broken Hearts Inc Turn This Thing Around New Mastersounds Good Love Mamas Gun Joy and Pain Ca$h Bonus Fantasy Dennis taylor Come around and Love Me Jalen Ngonda Sittin on Top of the world Jay Nemor Nothing But His Love Harlem Gospel Travellers Find Myself Another Man Rachel Maxann Find Myself another Man Raye Cole All of This and Nothing Rachel Maxann One and Only Oliver James But For the Love Oliver James Love and hate In a Different time Gabriels

Contemporary releases make up about 20% of what I buy Mike and in the past I've bought several posted on this thread. I subscribe to several on line retailers and regularly trawl Bandcamp for new releases. I've found the last few months a bit of a wasteland for my own particular tastes with a lot of releases sounding very much the same. There have been a lot which I've found ok and would have no problem listening to in a bar etc but few i would want to purchase. Personally I wouldn't post a tune up if I wasn't buying it myself. Maybe I should rethink that stance . I could well be wrong, I often am but I do think that people who don't dip their toes into new contemporary tunes would be surprised at the volume of releases out there.

Hotel piped music in Corfu. SherriTaylor He's The one That Rings my Bell, along with Aretha, James Hunter .

Seems reasonable to me Mike, I think the majorcontributors to both threads are more or less the same people.

Off topic but this amused me and is about AI. We were just discussing the film Dr Zhivago trying to remember who played the Balalika in the film. Lou thought it was the character played by Rita Tushingham. I asked the question did Rita Tushungham play the Balilka in Dr Zhivago. AI to its credit quickly cleared it up by saying "no Rita Tishingham di not play the Balilki in the film, the Balilika is a musical instrument" go8ng on to say the character Rita actually played. Sorry off topic, on all inclusive holiday in Corfu 🍻🍷🥂

As did I Kathryn, you obviously found a better site with more info. When I looked it didn't give a name and just said Pyre was loosely based on a real life detective. Cheers for that, interesting site " the cinemaholic", thanks for that too.

Binge watched The last Anniversary , really good, a lot going on what with flashbacks etc, very clever at the end how they tie up all the loose ends so you're not left with any questions about what happened to who, who did what etc. highly recommended.

I was slightly disappointed Kathryn to find that Jeb Pyre was a fictional character as was the other detective,can't remember his name. Still a gripping tale though.

This happened to me a few years ago, I wanted a record from a Uk seller but it also had "not available in the Uk" which I thought rather odd. I contacted the seller to ask why he wasn't selling to the uk when he was based here. I got a reply pretty quick ,he wasn't aware that his listings had the "not available" line attached , he didn't know how it had got there and quickly sorted it. Always worth asking the seller , my experience could well be a one off but you never know.

Great series Kathryn,we enjoyed it, when you have finished the series have a look on the net about the series, I'll say no more.

All good here Peter thank you, likewise I wish you well.

Currently watching Memento Mori a Spanish Walter presents, serial killer on the loose, lead actor has me convinced, I tense up every time he's on the screen. Think there's going to be an interesting twist somewhere along the line or maybe one line of dialogue was a red herring?

Missed that but no saw it many moons ago but thanks for pointing out my error, happy to be on the receiving end of one of your pithy comments that always make me smile 👍

I'm no audiophile and have a cheap set up so I'm sure someone will put me right on this, I read somewhere might even have been on here that the easiest way to set up anti skate is to use a single sided record on the reverse with no groove, and adjust until the arm stays in one place. Not promoting this as a method just interested to know if in any way it is correct .