The Magnificent Goldberg

It's Tony Hancock, British comedian. When I saw the thread about a forthcoming Hancock box, I automatically thought the BBC was reissuing a box of his radio shows. MG

Yes; another with a descending melody line - in the main part The bridge doesn't make me think of Bix, because I don't know his work, but of Woody Shaw. MG

Yes - I've seen it now on Amazon UK. I think I must just have been looking at CDs or something before. Or maybe because it has a much less mysterious sleeve than the original, I just didn't recognise it. Thanks to David and Bev. MG

The Hollywood Flames The Flares The Embers

Oh fine. I don't have any of those and I'd forgotten about them. Good, Mjzee's sleeve is perfect, then. So, after the Redd Foxx Mosaic, we should be getting Mjzee to do an image for the forthcoming Hancock box. MG

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Nice idea for a thread. I was playing 'La vie en rose' a few days ago and thought that this was one of the best I've heard. I'm a sucker for descending melody lines. But also 'Lamine Gueye' a song by Orchestre Baobab praising a prominent socialist politician. And also 'Nanfule' a traditional Mandinke song. There's a magical version by Maa Hawa Kouyate & Soundioulou Cissokho on vol 2 of 'Le couple royal de la musique traditionnelle' - I forget what label it's on but it doesn't matter; you can't get it. You might find a pirate K7 in West Africa somewhere - which is what I've got MG

I thought this thread referred to a BBC box set of Hancock's Half Hour radio programmes. Perhaps Mosaic could do one, after their Redd Foxx set MG

bravo, mjzee... one thing tho' is that photo of Redd is anachronistic for the Dootone set... how about this Redd instead? also, don't forget Redd's Dootoon label mate, Scatman Crothers. Tell Cuscuna to send the check to me. (Font I used: Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold. Can't(?) include the thumbnail in the quote, but, yes, that is perfect. Just f-ing perfect. Except... All the Mosaic sleeves I've seen have dark backgrounds to the photos. Surely they can't all have been taken against black backgrounds? But I doubt if they've been photoshopped by MC. MG

The Supraphon catalogue is still there and widely available for download. The difference now is that there are many more labels at the cheaper end. In Downloadland the price differential between full price, mid and budget is much narrower than it used to be. £7.99 the norm for a full price recording - 10 years ago I was paying up to £15 with the mid price reissues coming in at the 7.99 mark. I never heard a version of the Debussy and Ravel quartets that came anywhere near the Supraphon version by the Vlach Quartet. I was looking for it but nothing turned up - so I started this thread. So, how can you get Supraphon material, Bev? MG

(Hope you've got Freddie Roach's 'Brown sugar' too.) MG

Roy Head Jimmy Durante Delmer 'Mighty Mouth' Evans

Last vinyl, for the day - now have 3 Mbalax K7s lined up George Freeman - New improved funk - Groove Merchant (People UK) MG

Sure - counts as a yes vote. MG

Les Ambassadeurs du motel Kante Manfila Salif Keita

I feel sure I must have posted this before, but I can't remember MG

Loads more vinyl today. This morning Randy Crawford - Now we may begin - WB UK Jimmy Forrest - Forrest fire - New Jazz (OJC) Dixie Hummingbirds - Prayer for peace - Peacock (Peacock LP, MCA stamped on sleeve) This afternoon Sonny Stitt - My buddy - Muse Ronnie Cuber - Cuber libre - Xanadu Salem Travelers - Heaven is my goal - Nashboro (No image on web) Harold Land - Harold in the land of jazz - Contemporary (Ace Boplicity) Philly Joe Jones - Drum song - Galaxy Violinaires - Groovin' with Jesus - Checker This evening (so far) Willis Jackson - Headed and gutted - Muse now Herbie Mann - Mississippi gambler - Atlantic MG

I frequently bought Czech recordings because they were even cheaper. THEY seem to have gone now, too. MG

Am I seeing/interpreting this correctly? Two women on the cover, and the one on the left has a wack drawn-on mustache? Am I seeing/interpreting this correctly? Two women on the cover, and the one on the left has a wack drawn-on mustache? For what it's worth, it doesn't look drawn-on when you see it life size - you can see individual hairs. Apart from anything else, do you really think Joe Fields would have PAID someone to draw a tash on a sleeve? So, sorry, the answer's no. But here's another Houston Person on Muse. MG

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Thanks Jeff & BT - I now get why there are no peaks beyond the graph - there are no possible numbers beyond the graph. Well, back in the early 60s, EMI used to make loud and quiet pressings of (some) 45s. My friend and I bought copies of Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers' "That's what I said' on the day it came out in 1961. Mine, bought in Central London, was a loud one; hers, bought in West London, was a quiet one, which we proved by playing them one after another. I also had a loud copies of 'You can't sit down' by Phil Upchurch, which was issued on HMV here, and Ray Charles' 'Sticks and stones'. Loud pressings were, regrettably, easy to break. The only one I've still got is Screaming Lord Sutch's 'Til the following night'. What causes this? Is it a compression thing or something entirely different? MG

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This evening Harold Vick - Don't look back - Strata East now Johnny Lytle - Happy ground - Riverside (stereo) next Paul Bryant - Burnin' - Pacific Jazz (mono) MG

Oh yes, I remember. Strange... MG

Oh yeah! Dan IS quite right about that Well, that's showbiz. If anyone's interested, you get the same in West Africa MG