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JRR again.

Donna Tartt Duane Tatro Buddy Tate

The Lady of the Camellias Sam Cameron Tadd Dameron

Monica Mint Peter Crouch Squatty Roo

Bradford St George's Hall? Indeed it was!

Pizza on the Park Mungo Park Ringo Starr

Tadd Sweeney Todd Teddy Tail

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Hal Singer The Jazz Singer Eddie Cantor

Never saw that cover. Thanks. Classic 50s design!

"Suddenly It's Spring" from Pairing Off. Phil and Quill are something else on this one!

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No, they certainly weren't hip. In 1962 in one of my first jobs at the age of 22, a colleague who was 30 years older but clearly aimed to be hip, said to me, "My son likes Brubeck. I should try to get him on to Monk, shouldn't I." In 1959 I saw a package show with the Brubeck quartet, the Gillespie quintet with Les Spann, Junior Mance and Sam Jones and the Buck Clayton All Stars with Emmett Berry, Buddy Tate, Dicky Wells and Earl Warren. The majority opinion afterwards was that Brubeck was "fabulous", but the others were "rubbish". Brubeck, like the MJQ, drew audiences in those days who were pretty distant from jazz listeners, as we now know them.

I have twenty times as many discs with Louis Jordan leader dates than I have John Coltrane leader dates. So what? One man's meat is another man's poison. Did Brubeck cover that? (Seems like we cannot get away from "meat" right now anyway. ) You're right about meat and poison - your figures for Coltrane and Jordan are reversed in my case. Re "Hey Pete ...", I've only ever heard it by Dizzy's big band. Is there a story behind that tune? I mean Handy's "Loveless Love" with its lyric about "meatless meat" was to do with First World War food shortages IIRC.

Some facts I saw the Dave Brubeck Quartet three times. I have a thousand discs in my collection. Ten are by Paul Desmond. None are by Dave Brubeck. No further comment.

Hey, Sidewinder, you're trespassing on my socialist territory! Cow Cow Davenport Sofa Surfers Chairman of the Board

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Archbishop Sentamu Dollar Brand Buck Rogers

Karin Krog Jeffrey Archer (shepherd's pie and Krug) Jimmy Archey

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No coincidence. My wife googled UK flights for her sister and London properties for our daughter. Shortly afterwards Organissimo brought me offers for both.

Hugh Dalton Stafford Cripps Herbert Morrison

Mac Davies Bernard Jenkins Harold Pinter

Marty Flax Ernest Borgnine Lucretia Borgia