Miraclo Miles

      Pal Laney Loftin brought these up in a facebook post just over two years ago, which gradually thawed and shifted a small block of memory.        Checking into it, I was right when I estimated that these would have come out in '66 - both from the characters and art, and that being when Marvel was getting a little mainstream media traction with those limited animation cartoons, the artwork lifted directly from comics.        These looked very familiar, but at the same time I don't recall getting any of them. As best I can piece together from the dates, selection, and (uncorroborated) memory, I probably only saw these at the decades-gone Kay's 5 &10 on Woerner Ave. back in Levittown, PA in '67 -- possibly even '68, depending on how long they sat on their wooden shelves. I was likely only seeing them at the end of their run in the store. I vaguely recall the display and the envelopes, both of which had been mauled by the passing interest of who knows

        The concept for this sub-theme for this sub-series for the blog - my Musical Mulligans - is outlined here. That will pop out into its own window, so it won't close this one. I want the chance reader to know what I have in mind without having several paragraphs of boilerplate starting each one of these off.       I wrote the following while listening to the album, making use of my Amazon Music subscription. (It was a 2002 remastered version.) If you have access to the album I'd suggest you play that while reading, or at least listen to it fairly close to when you read it. I'm not necessarily going to go track by track in any detail, but I will be trying to give attention to the complete album. In aiming to best appreciate it for what it originally was, I'll be trying to experience it with the original, physical separations that were part of the format. Maintaining a sense of album sides, from back when we had to get up, carefully lift the tone arm out of the way

      A series of posts are planned, the first of them tomorrow (11 January, 2021). These will be, especially at the beginning, well spread out. Based on a slightly-expanded version of the initial list, I currently only have that one planned for January, two for February, four for March, three for April, etc. If I can manage the ones I have outlined that'll be enough of an accomplishment.        Rather than clutter up that and each piece with this outline/preamble, I thought I'd make a separate post of it then let it be a pop-up link I'd start each piece off with, for those who wanted the backstory.    Blog sub-theme concept:       An early 2021 meme image - really more of a milestone/memorial piece - listed albums that would turn 50 this year.        1971 was the year I turned 10, and I casually soaked in the ambient sounds coming out of mostly radio speakers at the time. Music was largely unremarked background for me. I wasn't collecting records, nor following ar