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Kilgore Trout Theodore Sturgeon Newton Minow

Caldonia Hard Hearted Hannah Bloody Morag

Le Puant Macéré de Béthune Brie Larson Herman Munster

Modus Operandi (obscure Italian tenor player) Idée Fixe (French-Canadian starlet) Honi, Soit, Quimal y Pense (Spanish Flamenco troupe)

Still reading......'Against the Day' Thomas Pynchon. (Getting there)

The Donner Party The Munchkins Barbecue Bob

Elmer Crumbley Chick Crumpacker Chester Krumholz

Bomber Harris King Bomba Mine Host

Spotted Dick Raoul Custard John Junket

George Grosz Alphonse Mucha Mr. Creosote

Shufflin' Sadie Crawling Arnold Creepin' Jesus

Don Martin Jack Davis Will Elder

Chiselin' Sam Diane Sawyer Bernard Buffet

My earliest memory is singing along with my Mum to "Open the door, Richard". But I was only three. Old man What did you think of early fifties pop music - "Bimbo", "How much is that doggie", and those Guy Mitchell songs? At 8/9 I thought they were absolutely dire. MG Absolutely dreadful - but the dirty little secret is,once the personnel on many of those records is revealed, the number of players noted normally for their jazz reputations turned up on the dates! (A gig's a gig and the rent is due...and you never turn down a contractor)

Interesting ... I'm probably a little younger than you, though I do remember a "jazzy" content on NZ radio of the sixties when my ears first started flapping. In any case, those ears soon went off on a journey of their own: The Bob Wills above was my first introduction to his music. I now have the Bear Family set which is magnificent.

Zampano Gelsomina The Fool

Growing up in New Zealand in the 40s we were fortunate to have state owned radio that provided both commercial and commercial- free stations that played a very wide cross section of music, both popular and classical. Not much jazz - but as a child I was attracted by the 'hot' backings on many popular records of the day by Crosby, the Andrews Sisters, Connie Boswell et al. There was plenty of big band stuff - Les Brown, Goodman, Shaw, Miller, Harry James, Woody Herman to be heard too. The sound and style of 'dixieland' bands like Muggsy Spanier's, Bob Crosby's, the Condon guys was what hooked me first - then I began to play the saxophone.....

Derek Neville Freddy Gardner Joe Crossman

Champion the Wonder Dog Mutt Carey Offisa Pupp

Jack Purvis Melvin Purvis Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Wally Heider Sr Walter Raleigh Theodore Bikel

Youssou N'Dour 'Er Indoors Rose Room

Enoch Arden Fanny Ardent Eager Beaver

Ms Anne Thrope Earl Swope The Anti-Pope

Snudge Smudge Field Marshall Smuts