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Taking the second option, my first Buddy Rich was with Bobby Shew, Yoshito Murakami, Walter Bagatello, Jim Trimble, John Boice, Dennis Good, Mike Waverley, Gene Quill, Pete Yellin, Jay Corre, Marty Flax, Steve Perlow, John Bunch, Barry Zweig and Carson Smith. Arrangements by Bill Holman, Phil Wilson, Oliver Nelson, John Boice, Jay Corre, Bill Reddie, Arthur Wiggins, Don Rader and Don Piestrop.

Potato Valdes Illinois Jacquet Quentin Crisp

May I insert this as a breath of fresh air? With Nat King Cole and Buddy Rich

Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3 Now playing: Count Basie with Joe Williams, "There Will Never Be Another You" (I remember this one being announced as "The Ram's Lament" at gigs )

Stymied again!

Pass!

Sleepy John Estes Eric Idle Slow Drag Pavageau

I have an American friend, now resident here, who recalls seeing the McCarthy hearings on television at the age of 11! She recalls that adults were riveted by it, yet unprepared to talk about it.

Hangus the Monkey J M Synge Omer Simeon

Half Man Half Biscuit Demi Moore Gus Demmy

Thanks!

Surname of Tony Fruscella: is the "c" pronounced like a "k" and not like an "s" or "ch"?

Greyfriars Bobby Snoop Dogg Huckleberry Hound

Hugh McDiarmid Diamond Lil Lil Hardin

Jerome Richardson Jerome K Jerome Three Men in a Boat

My first Donald Byrd (bought used c.1961): with Gigi Gryce, Tommy Flanagan/Wade Legge, Wendell Marshall, Art Taylor, augmented by Sahib Shihab, Benny Powell/Jimmy Cleveland, Julius Watkins and Don Butterfield.

Yes, Quatermass was riveting stuff for adolescents (which I presume you were at the time). I used to make a nuisance of myself going to a neighbour's house (not yet having a television set in my own home) in 1953 at the age of 13 to see the original six episodes - and I'm still with science fiction today!

Herbert Beerbohm Tree Josph Wood Krutch Twiggy

With Steve Slagle, George Garzone, Ralph Lalama, Gary Smulyan, Tim Hagans, Conrad Herwig, John Hicks and Lewis Nash.

M C Hammer Timmy Mallett Simon Pegg

Duke Jordan Chuck Israels Palestrina

On a slightly different tack, my most unforgettable TV moment was seeing the drunken Brendan Behan, whom Malcolm Muggeridge was attempting to interview live on television in 1964, rise unsteadily to his feet and stagger out of the studio, muttering "Where's the gents?"

Devon Malcolm Kent Larsen Darby and Joan

He was a "he". Cosi Fanni Tutti was the "she"!

Sir Plume Ma Rainey Aunty Rotter