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The Dirty Dozen The Filthystan Trio Muddy Waters

Bobby Stark Robert Peel The Old Bill

Mona Lott Cheerful Charlie Chester Happy Caldwell

Milton Nascimento Milton Berle Harry Berly

Toots Mondello Toots Shor Shorty Petterstein

Conway Twitty David Gower Colwyn Dane

I'd pick Diz's playing on Chico O'Farrill's 'Afro Suite' with Lucky Thompson as being as good as it gets.

Slim Lamar Dorothy Lamour Pepe le Moko

Glenda Slag Cozy Cole Henry Coker

Gimlet Ginger Biggles

Mervyn Griffith Jones Lloyd George My Father

The Wife's Best Friend Dick Johnson Dirk Diggler

Alexandre Dumas Alex Hill Fanny Hill

Lois Lane Sinclair Traill Veronica Lake

Bill and Ben The Wooden Tops Poor Old Kalijah

Hammond Innes Madame Inez Chiquita Banana

Stompy Jones Slam Stewart Punch Miller

Dai Francis Al Jolson G. H. Elliot

Cosmo Topper Joseph Kosma Les Enfants du Paradis

Johnny Weismuller Charles Atlas Ayn Rand

Pablo Sarasate Fritz Kreisler Hernando de Soto

Ford Madox Brown Ford Madox Ford The Maddox Brothers and Rose

Old Gunther Schuller Young Siegfried Harry Roy

Regarding European reissue labels like Master of Jazz, Classics etc - would we prefer to retain our 'moral purity' and do without the opportunity of listening to literally thousands of recordings that, left to the US record industry would be withheld from us forever, save for listening on original issues. Do we honestly think that Major Conglomerate Inc. will put together a CD of 'The Obscure Chicagoans' or give a toss about Bennie Moten or Wardell Gray? A friend who works at SONY tells me that Marketing have declined to put out a Benny Goodman set that had been planned for the centenary. The set had been put together with material that was varied and resourced in such a way that it would have been a useful addition to most collections. Still - Marketing, and I presume. Accounting said 'No' Not even to be made available for download.

T.E. Lawrence Larry Sanders Sanders of the River