The Magnificent Goldberg

If Danny Small sold it to Fuqua & Gordy, he must have bought it back. Just looked at Bobo Stenson's version, which credits Small & Moore. https://www.discogs.com/Bobo-Stenson-Trio-Cantando/release/1456287 Ergo, someone's on the fiddle. MG

Dunno. If there WAS another song with the same, or a similar, title, then it COULD be a mistake. But I can't find one in the right timeframe through Google. Who's generally responsible for getting this right? The producer or some geezer in the office? MG

Same song. The Miles Davis and Wynton Kelly recordings have the same credits - Moore & Small So... Who's mistaken? No one, I think. Who benefits? Fuqua and Gordy, but they didn't need any royalties by sixty-one. But hell, it can't be a genuine error, can it? I don't get it. MG

Gawd blesher Guv! MG

AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!! I's tryin' to find out the album title and artist!!!!! GROOOOOO! MG

OK, I've done this one, too. Cover is attached. I'm glad to have put this together and listened to it as a whole. I think Jug wasn't nearly as comfortable with Oliver and the band as with a piano or organ trio. I don't think he felt able to phrase as freely as he usually did. This seems to give it a flavour of being a bunch of experiments, rather than an album that conveys something as a whole thing - as the Mal Waldron session does. Mind you, repeated plays might change my view. The outstanding track, for me, is 'Love' I've found you'. I've had this since the sixties on the B side of Tubby (both edited down to les than three minutes). On the full length version, we get the full Gene Ammons treatment. But where the hell did that song COME from? It was written by Berry Gordy and Harvey Fuqua, which clearly suggests some Motown single was the original, but I can't find it on Google. The only versions in Lord are by Gloria Lynne (1959 - arr Melba Liston); Wynton Kelly, with and without Miles, (Mar 1961), Ammons, and Budd Johnson - on a various artist compilation on Argo - 1963. Then Bobo Stenson in 2007. Chequered career for a song. Gloria's COULDN'T have been the original... could it? MG

Can't be. Candy Darling died in 1974. And was an actress anyway. So, who? MG

Someone in a hospital bed? MG

Lord, just read this for the first time. I put the Ammons Mal Waldron session together on 2008 and put it on a CD with 'Night Lights', half from 'Stranger in Town', half ripped from LP. But I NEVER noticed there was another session divided up like the one with Nelson, Holloway, et al. Will put that together today some time. Anyone got a suggestion for a cover? This is what I did for the Mal Waldron Session MG

Breakfast with Empire Bakuba - Allah - Rhythmes et Musique 1985 Orquesta Aragon - Baila con Aragon - Areito 1987 Shleu Shleu - OSS (Original Shleu Shleu) - SS 1975 Next Eliades Ochoa - Un bolero para ti - Egrem 2011 MG

This evening, entertainment from MJQ - Under the jasmin tree - Apple Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey - Vanity - Obey Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey - Womanhood - Obey MG

It is. That's where I got the photo of the sleeve. You have to search for 'The Gene Russell Trio', not Gene Russell. So you have to know about it to find it https://www.discogs.com/The-Gene-Russell-Trio-Takin-Care-Of-Business/master/1188835 MG

Gardening this afternoon, but I DID rip one this morning. Gene Russell - Takin' care of business - Dot 1966 Lots of reasons to prefer Les McCann, and this is one of them But I can still listen occasionally. MG

Thanks TTK. MG

Breakfast this morning with Manu Dibango - Waka Juju - Esperance 1982 Now, Nemours Jean-Baptiste - A visit to Haiti - Seeco 1958 Next, Defao de Choc Stars - Kaluila 1988 MG

I dare say the Mills Brothers did as they had a good deal of market power. They kept on adding relatives as older ones retired. But the reissues on LP...? MG

This afternoon's LP rips were The Barrett Sisters - God so loved the world - Creed 1972 and another by the Barrett Sisters - What shall I render (unto God) - New Birth 1980 Mildred Clark - Help me Jesus - Heat - 1986 MG

Almost certainly true, I dare say. MG

I find there's something somewhat decadent (in the French literature sense) about all Strayorn's material - and Duke's song, too. MG

As well as Stanley Turrentine, I have versions of the Joe Scott song by: Aretha Franklin; Al Smith (with Jaws & Shirley); Houston Person - three recordings from '68, '82 and '17; and Hank Crawford. (I've only searched among the albums I've ripped to my hard drive.) Wikipedia lists: Luther Vandross; Roy Hamilton; Bob Dylan; John Martyn; and Katie Webster. MG

I was thinking about the Dixie Hummingbirds and all the changes in personnel they had. Then about the Mills Brothers. Both groups are still going. And all those other vocal groups whose personnel changed quite a bit, over and over. But royalties would have been due on past recordings made with different personnel. Do the record companies pay the previous (correct) members on the records they made? Or do they just give the money to the manager and let him/her decide who's supposed to get a share? OK, some groups were/are OWNED by someone. The Inkspots and the Drifters fell into that category. I'm not talking about that kind of thing. SO... anyone know? MG

According to the credits on the Johnny Ace and Stanley Turrentine recordings, it was written by Joe Scott, who ran the band at Peacock Records for about thirty years and wrote scores of R&B songs. Probably some Gospel songs, too, though I can't call any to mind. Jay Livingstone wrote a song called 'Never let me go' for a 1956 film called 'The scarlet hour', but that has to be a different song because it was two years after Johnny Ace was on the R&B charts with the Joe Scott song. MG

This'll blow your socks off! Just got this off a blog last night. But I see there's a lot of Vernard Johnson on YouTube. MG

Do you mean the Johnny Ace song that Stanley and Shirley recorded? MG

'Just friends' is a wonderfully strange song. The tune wants to be a burner, but the words want it to be a slow sad song. I think this gives performers inspiration. Etta Jones was the one who brought me to notice this. MG What I should have mentioned fifteen years ago is I'm just a lucky so and so MG