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Ivy Benson Holly Golightly Berry Gordy

Late Greetings!

Chuck Nessa Percy Thrower Hu Flung Dung

Bill Crow Nat Peck The Corrs

Eugene Chadbourne Mr Chad Kilroy

Christmas Humphries Yul Brynner Bummer Stirling

Hud The Hustler Fast Eddie

Douglas Jay Collingwood Magpies Magwitch

Yes, but I couldn't get on the board to complain about it. I notice that only 2 posts were made between 5:29 A.M. (GMT) and 1:24 P.M. and none between 1:59 and 4:27 P.M. Sometimes we don't have much to say, but this was carrying taciturnity to ridiculous lengths!

Yogi Bear Yogi Berra Chuck Berry

Tito Burns The Firebird Arthur Brown

Sidewinder Simon Rattle Snake Davis

Wikipedia is now giving date of death as 2013-12-17, which I think means 17.12.2013. Time again to remember Horace's fine autobiography: In that case, I'd rather believe NPR than Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is not listing his death and they're usually very quick with these things. I have most of Horace's recorded output and saw him play twice - in the same week! In 1969 his Quintet (with the Brecker brothers and Billy Cobham) appeared with the Muddy Waters Blues band and a gospel group (Stars of Faith?) at the unlikely venue of the Batley Variety Club in West Yorkshire. The Quintet were great and I wanted to hear more than this brief appearance, so I travelled to London and heard them at Ronnie Scott's at the weekend. Sat right at the front - one of the best gigs I've ever been to! Billy Cobham and Horace really had something going! Fond memories!

Abel Gance Benny Gantz Norman Granz

Pops Papsrus Pip, Squeak & Wilfred

The Artful Dodger The Lodger Bodger & Badger

Spanky DeBrest The Beatles Lady Bird Johnson

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/dec/16/why-do-americans-write-the-month-before-the-day

Ruby My Dear Jewell and Warriss Horace

Toots Thielemans Hootie and the Blowfish

Ned Kelly Red Kelly Ted Kelly

Mobley Duck Hank Cinq The Five Pennies

Odean Pope Osian Roberts Steve Fishwick

Choice inspired by my recent reading of Peter King's autobiography.