![]() ![]() I immediately hied me hence to YouTube, where I knew it would be easy to find Rundgren's tune. Picture my eyebrows shooting up no, I replied, this was news to me. He wanted to know if I were aware of the fact that Todd Rundgren, ah, "borrowed" portions of "Treat Street" for his instrumental, "Breathless," which appeared on the famed rocker's Something/Anything album. Sometimes it just takes the rest of the world awhile, to catch up to the artistic geniuses in our midst.Īnyway, I received a nice little note from Vinny Marino today, a fellow who obtained an advance review copy of the CD from Concord. I was privileged to write the new liner notes, which gave me a chance to relate - once again - how Guaraldi hoped that "Treat Street" would become his follow-up hit to "Cast Your Fate to the Wind." Didn't happen, of course, but that's all right quite a few of his songs didn't crack the charts during his lifetime, but have become very familiar these days. Concord released The Very Best of Vince Guaraldi yesterday, a lovely collection of 14 tracks that includes some familiar faces ("Cast Your Fate to the Wind," "Christmas Time Is Here") with a few tracks ("Django," "The Lady's in Love with You") that haven't popped up on earlier career retrospectives. ![]()
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