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H'Angus the Monkey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%27Angus The Stranglers Baron Strang

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Dobell's damp basement where used discs were sold was staffed by the amiable Johnny Kendal. Youngish (in the 60s), fair hair - perhaps you mean him.

I 'did' that for 'A' Level back in the early 70s. Didn't much care for it. Reread it a few years back and enjoyed it a bit more. Well, that's one that hasn't stood the test of time. It was on my 20th Century Literature reading list at Leeds University in 1962, along with giants like Lawrence, Eliot and Yeats. In a seminar with Geoffrey Hill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hill) when I said that while Lawrence described his characters' state of soul, Snow was concerned with whether or not they got promoted, Hill responded by describing Snow's novel as "Whitehall gibberish". I seem to recall Snow was obsessed with the division between the 'arts' and the 'sciences'. Apparently people worried about that sort of thing then. Yes, he made his name with "the two cultures". All seems a bit irrelevant now that government and business are prepared to junk academia generally. Anyway, from the perspective of cultural studies, Snow's novels and Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time are way more valuable than Lawrence's writings, since it is precisely the office politics of the day that are intriguing, rather than sort of a neo-Rousseauian take on the state of the soul. Point taken, though things seemed different half a century ago in 1962.

I 'did' that for 'A' Level back in the early 70s. Didn't much care for it. Reread it a few years back and enjoyed it a bit more. Well, that's one that hasn't stood the test of time. It was on my 20th Century Literature reading list at Leeds University in 1962, along with giants like Lawrence, Eliot and Yeats. In a seminar with Geoffrey Hill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hill) when I said that while Lawrence described his characters' state of soul, Snow was concerned with whether or not they got promoted, Hill responded by describing Snow's novel as "Whitehall gibberish". I seem to recall Snow was obsessed with the division between the 'arts' and the 'sciences'. Apparently people worried about that sort of thing then. Yes, he made his name with "the two cultures". All seems a bit irrelevant now that government and business are prepared to junk academia generally.

I 'did' that for 'A' Level back in the early 70s. Didn't much care for it. Reread it a few years back and enjoyed it a bit more. Well, that's one that hasn't stood the test of time. It was on my 20th Century Literature reading list at Leeds University in 1962, along with giants like Lawrence, Eliot and Yeats. In a seminar with Geoffrey Hill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hill) when I said that while Lawrence described his characters' state of soul, Snow was concerned with whether or not they got promoted, Hill responded by describing Snow's novel as "Whitehall gibberish".

Tom Gunn Bullitt Tosser Bull

Ahmad Jamal Orlando The Marmalade Cat Virginia Woolf

http://www.chelseaspace.org/ See also 2nd item in John Fordham's blog: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2013/apr/19/john-fordham-month-jazz-april

Do you have a French equivalent of this rhyme? "Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for a living, But the child who is born on the Sabbath Day Is bonny and blithe and good and gay."

Well, I couldn't be that exact, but I can tell you that Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson and Meade Lux Lewis were big time, Muggsy Spanier was leading his Ragtime Band and Charlie Christian was recording with Benny Goodman small groups - but then I think we've already had a thread on this.

Funny you should mention this just now. Yesterday I registered with a website recently set up by my pension provider and I entered my date of birth via a device which gave days of the week. My parents told me my day of birth was a Sunday, but this is the first time I recall seeing that confirmed in writing - 73 years later!

Billy Strayhorn Zoot Horn Rollo Epic Sax Guy

Alfred Jarry Mungo Jerry Mungo Park

The version by the Mulligan Concert Jazz Band with arrangement by Bob Brookmeyer and solos by Mulligan and Brookmeyer.

Tony Miranda Willie Ruff Dick Hertz

Happy Birthday, Flurin!