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Newt Gingrich Ken Livingstone Stanley Dance

Giant Big Sid Catlett Wee Georgie Wood

Vidal Sassoon Sarah Vaughan Dizzy Gillespie

The Harmful Little Armful The Man With the Golden Arm Goldfinger

Fred Olsen P&O Caledonian MacBrayne

Saw this this afternoon at my local multiplex after reading an encouraging review. OK if you like the eastern martial arts genre, but not my sort of thing.

Wow! You're obviously not a believer in "cast nae a cloot till May is oot"!

Rab Butler Rab C Nesbitt Vesta Tilley

Read at university on my American Literature course. Always fascinating!

You're right! A true Overlooked/Ignored/Neglected candidate. All I have from the session is "Loose Bloos" on this 1970s twofer: P.S. Obviously things have moved on since Orrin Keepnews wrote of the "Loose Bloos" track on the 1970s twofer: "This, I'm afraid, is from a truly lost session .... things just didn't go too smoothly at this ... date, and it was put on the shelf. Later, Bill and engineer Ray Fowler began to do editing work; they put this selection into shape that Evans approved and got started on a second without stopping. They never did resume the project, and now I find that the rest of the tapes have totally vanished - leaving only "Loose Bloos" and a frustrating partial item that ends abruptly in the middle of a piano solo. My gut reaction was to get this one salvaged tune out into the world quickly, before it also disappeared."

John Peel Juicy Lucy

The Hollow Men J Alfred Prufrock J Fred Muggs

Tobacco sponsorship by any chance?

Valeria Grumpy Bill Victor Victor Ludorum

Dork Dweeb Wuss

Wee Dot Andrea Dotti Mad Max

Grant Green Eco Warriors Umberto Eco

Ringo Starr Tim Bell Thimbelina

Piers Brosnan Moss Bros Kate Moss

Marty Flax Ruby Wax Arnold Bax

How I acquired a complete set of Charlie Parker Dial and Savoy 78s between 1945 and 1948 buying them at 5 cents a time with my pocket money between the ages of 5 and 8.

Peter O'Toole Wolfgang Winkler Maudie Littlehampton

Just for curiosity's sake and without wanting to sidetrack this topic unduly: What ROCK (i.e. NOT pre-rock pop ballad crooners and chirps) could there have been in Britain in sizable portions that you already would have tired of in the MID-fifties (like you wrote)? Did the UK really catch on to U.S. Rock(n'roll) to THAT extent that early? Pete Frame's book "The Restless Generation" (great read for those interested in popular music of that era and the culture that goes with it, BTW) doesn't quite sound like it. Just wondering ... If we take mid-50s to mean 1954-57, within that period in the UK we had massive sales of discs by Bill Haley, Elvis, Fats Domino and homegrown rock 'n rollers like Tommy Steele, together with rock 'n roll riots! (See my post #13 above.)