Tim in any of his "Eldie" iterations is spectacular, YES! He loved doing Eldorado Caddy incarnations and we loved watching him. Tim you live on in our memories of great music and in our funny bones.
I did never see the Manhattan Transfer perform, my mom used to love their song "Operator," and their television show. I began buying their records with "Extensions." I did see Janis Siegel perform as a quartet with Jon Hendricks, Bobby McFerrin and Dianne Reeves (SF Opera House), Tim Hauser joined at the end making it quintet... a wonderful live performance.
1986 was the year these guys won two Grammy awards, both linked to the album "Vocalese", where this piece was taken from. I cannot remember, though, that the Fashion Award that year had been given to Tim for his 1m-$-outfit.
LOVE----------LOVE ! ELDORADO CADDY ! WHEN I GROW UP I WANNA BE ELDORADO CADDY . ----------AND SO, RIP, BROTHER ---------WE MISS YA SO VERY MUCH. ----------------MJL, 76 y/o
The original narrative on the recording by Art Farmer and Benny Golson does not have Joe dressed like that, mix matched over the top gawdy. And what's with that sneaky creepy walk like the stereotypical cartoons that depicted black men as crows. My uncle gave me my first jazz recording on a 45 back in the 1950s. It was Killer Joe and this is not the image that came into my mind. As good as MT is they totally missed the mark here. Some will say that this is modern black face.
