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Mack Fussy Mabel Jersey Joe

Wilbur Sweatman Ethel Waters Perce Piron (A.J.'s brother)

Having watched most of the British series 'Life on Mars' I recently saw an episode of the ABC Network American version and was stunned at how the network suits had turned something fast moving, quirky, engagingly acted , with contemporary production values (the Brit prog.) into a piece of leaden, turgid, unimaginative dross that looked like it was made back in the days of 'Columbo', and wasted totally the talents of Harvey Keitel and Michael Imperioli. In fact the direction was so inept that if you had never seen those two actors before you would doubt they had a future in the business.

Harvey Milk Alan Sugar Brian Lemon

Teo Macero Lorenzo Tio Tea Leoni

Big Nick Nicholas Demi Moore Lilttle Jack Little

C. P. Snow Theodore Thiunder Marc Blitzstein

Cecil Beaton Jules Chaikin John Dryden

Fred Otis Eddie Heywood Kate Millett

At first the novelty aspect was foremost - it was quite an extraordinary experience to hear separation if all you'd ever heard was a mono source. I think that element wore off quite quickly for people whose main interest was the music content but there WAS a big market for a while for records that gave you steam locomotives crossing your living room etc. The more serious aspect was an unfortunate one - very good sound engineers skilled at mono recordings were forced to come to terms with something many of them didn't understand, that many of them hated and that contained many pitfalls, not the least being miking problems and 'spread' of sounds to places where it was not wanted.

Susan George Suzie Kendall Felicity Kendall

Frank 'The Mad Axeman' Mitchell Mitch 'The Mad Senator' McConnell Mitch 'The Mad A&R Man' Miller

John Scott Trotter Eddie Cantor George Gallup

John Charles Thomas John McCormack Lawrence Tibbett

Sheridan Morley Robert Morley Bruce Morley

Joe Turner Nigel Planer Ike Carpenter

Wilmer Cook Joel Cairo Kasper Gutman

Julius Marx Zeppo Gummo

The Rude Boys Boy George Little Lord Fauntleroy

St. Francis Xavier Francis X. Bushman The Green Man

Michael Cacoyannis Grigoris Lambrakis Iannis Xenakis

Coco Chanel Jojo the Dog Faced Boy Luigi Nono

Loki Ragnarok Baldr

Kenny Napper Sleepy Stein Snoozer Quinn

A gig's a gig. If you were Brad, or Shorty Rogers, or Jack Lewis in 1958 and someone said "Here's a nice sum of money to go into the studio with the best players in the world and record state-of-the-art jazz" would you say "only if you guarantee the sum you'll spend on promotion" I don't think so. The minimal promotion the company had planned for the product would not have been spelled out anyway.