The Big Apple

Episode 6 and it's pair, Episode 7, are down for rearrangement and layering. I didn't like the way they sounded. It seemed like some of the tracks were out of place and there was a pause that didn't need to be in funky groovy dance music that supposed to keep you moving.

The MadTerran suggested that I break up the pairs into 3 separate mixes, which is what I eventually did. The tracks are marinating and I hope to have them cooking in a few days or so when I think about how I want the mixes to flow, or rather, how the tracks want to flow regardless how I think about them.

In any case, for your amusement, below is a music fun fact about one of America's greatest cities, New York: origins of the name "The Big Apple".

"The term "the Big Apple" came into common usage in the 1930s when touring jazz musicians referred to a town or city as an apple, making New York the Big Apple.

New York, New York, At The Core Of A Linguistic Debate

Places, people, even animals end up with nicknames derived from things associated with them, or just from the whimsy of one person whose sense of humor appealed to others. Not so when it comes to the largest piece of fruit in America, the Big Apple that is New York City.

The term came into common usage in the 1930s, when touring jazz musicians referred to their destination town or city as an apple, hence the biggest place of all to play, was the Big Apple of New York. But the expression was first recorded more than 20 years before that, and arose from a much more prosaic reference.

Edward S. Martin, an editor at Harper's, notes in a book called "The Wayfarer", a description of how people in the Midwest saw the country as a tree whose trunk ran down the Mississippi, and whose branches spread from coast to coast. Its fruit was the great cities of the nation, with the big apple that was New York, getting more than its fair share of the sap.

The city of New York itself, chose yet another explanation that originates with John F. Fitzgerald, a racing columnist with the New York Morning Telegraph in 1924. At the head of his column was an apple with the skyline of New York drawn on it. Fitzgerald admitted to having first heard the expression in the stables of New York's racetracks. "

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