I used to work with a guy named Ed Brace.

Early in his career, he worked as an editor of medical dictionaries and encyclopedias about physics. He lived in London at the time, hung out at Ronnie Scott’s, got dissed by Stan Getz and played chess with Dizzy Gillespie in his off hours.

How he ended up a radio newsman in a small upstate New York town, I’ll never know. But, he was one of those fascinating characters you never forget (and you miss whenever you think of him).

He used to sing When Sunny Gets Blue as he waddled (literally) around the radio station. He used to say, “no one gets out of this life alive”. He died in his 50’s of leukemia.

Sarah Vaughan – When Sunny Gets Blue

Jerry Butler – Find Another Girl
Style Council – Life At A Top Peoples Health Farm
T. Rex – Mambo Sun
Groove Collective – Earth To Earth
Seals and Crofts – East of the Ginger Trees
Roxy Music – To Turn You On
The Who – Let’s See Action
The Replacements – Asking Me Lies
Bruce Springsteen – Spare Parts
Rufus and Carla – Night Time Is The Right Time
Marty Robbins – Saddle Tramp
James Taylor – Gorilla
Jules Shear – I Need It
Michael Franti and Spearhead – Yell Fire
Grand Funk – Rain Keeps Fallin’
Sly and The Family Stone – Runnin’ Away
Lou Reed – I’m So Free
The Waterboys – And A Bang On The Ear
Sarah Vaughn – Just Friends

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