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Banjo Patterson Ukelele Lady Al Viola

Alan Roper Caster McCord Howard Stringer

After 'Bill' and ''Back to Back' I think I'd pick an RCA Lp of the 1950 band - 'The Seattle Concert' which has possibly the best version of 'Harlem' on record and shows the band in very fine form. I'd really prefer a 78 collection though, especially from the early 30s. (Blue Ramble, Merry Go Round, Slippery Horn etc.)

Norma Shearer Lynn Barber Lorena Bobbitt

Fog Mistinguette Evelyn

The (posthumous) Bob Florence album is very fine indeed

Frank Buck Jane Doe Bambi Sickafoose

(not going there) Arnold Bennett Bennett Cerf Old Surfer Dude

let's not forget Bud Shank!

Asa Briggs The Aga Khan Aja

Karl Popper Hedda Hopper Eddie Sauter

William Whitebait Albert Sammons Rene Char

That's the set I was recommending in my earlier post

There's an excellent 4CD box on JSP that has all of the recordings by Sam Morgan's band, A. J. Piron, Doc Cooke, the first Kid Orys etc. From a 'dixieland' point of view you wouldn't want to miss the Bob Crosby/Matty Matlock/Eddie Miller/Yank Lawson/Irving Fazola- evoling into the Rampart Street Paraders strand, including albums by the Lawson-Haggart Band - and collections under the names of both Wingy Manone and Red McKenzie carry many delights. Someone mentioned the Muggsy Spanier Ragtimers - to me they are absolutely seminal - maybe because I grew up with them!

Hadrian Adrienne Lecouvreur Yvonne Printemps

Liz Windsor Winsor McKay Little Nemo

A Boy Named Sue A Man Called Horse The Gal from Joe's

'South' by Graeme Bell - one of the first 78s I ever bought. Great memoir from Bill.

Gracie Fields Sid Field Elmer Feldkamp

Thamon Hayes Clancy Hayes Hayfoot Strawfoot

The Brown Bomber The Green Hornet The Yellow Peril

Albert Hall Lord Kitchener Ernst Roehm

OK from the vintage footage point of view but a very slight and somewhat speculative story stretched and padded to twice its real content often with images ill-chosen for the relevant point in the commentary. Crouch self-important as usual. Ultimately the film seemed to be more about Monk than Nica and we were left in the dark about much of her life after her case was thrown out. Nor did it seem clear as to whether she was jailed, out on bail until the case was heard, or held on remand until charged. At the end the main impression left was the time honored one of the eccentric upper class English at it again and this was not helped by Helen Mirren's totally over-the-top reading performance - wow she sounded like the Duchess in a bad thirties British movie full of RADA types. Much was made of 'The Bentley' Couldn't they find a photo?

Jerry Weintraub Albert Bierstadt Rummy

Professor Longhair Marcel Marceau Mme de Pompadour