The Magnificent Goldberg

I note the quick edit Yes, it's an Acer. We have several. Here's a bigger pic of the big one at the back. Actually I prefer the little one in front of it. Tried to take a pic just now, but my hand was unsteady. MG Er... unsteadier.

Mel's Impules LPs would make an interesting Mosaic Select CHICKEN FAT THE WIZARD BLUES FOR WE I'D RATHER SUCK MY THUMB MEL BROWN'S FIFTH BIG FOOT COUNTRY GIRL I shan't hold my breath MG

Some saxy R&B Bill Doggett - Monster party - King (Odeon France) Lynn Hope & his tenor sax - Aladdin (Pathe Marconi France) Maxwell Davis & his tenor sax - Aladdin (Official Demark) now a bit of gospel Willie Banks & the Messengers - Heaven must be a beautiful place - Peacock (ABC) next Junior Parker - Like it is - Mercury UK MG

'ave a real good 'un! And a Happy Birthday, too. MG

Some Reggae from 1977 Winston Wright & the Aggrovators - Jump the fence - Third World (quate nace) Tommy McCook - Hot lava - Third World (very good) next Bobby Ellis & the Professionals meet the Revolutionaries - Black unity - Third World (brilliant! Well, it usually is ) MG

After a very hard winter and spring, a more or less dry May, with 10 days of excellent weather, then a lot of rain yesterday, the garden's looking quite decent, today. MG

I keep meaning to ask; Who is it in your avatar, who's standing out of the way in the corner, watching a giant harmonica fall through the floorboards? MG

Glad to see I'm not the only one beyond the pale, here MG

More R&B instrumentals - going north to Detroit Todd Rhodes - Dance music that hits the spot - King (Swingtime, Denmark) For those interested in such matters, Todd Rhodes was a founder member of McKinney's Cotton Pickers in 1923 (and the reason I got interested in that band a couple of years ago). He stayed with the band until 1934. Formed an R&B band in the late forties and had a #1 R&B hit with "Blues for the red boy". Great little band. Halley Dismukes on alto was a great fan of Jeep and "Red boy is based on "Jeep's blues". MG

Cultural relativism is always roundly dismissed by other cultures... Probably true, but Spain and Mexico aren't actually other cultures from ours. MG

I remember seeing that; nice quaint sleeve. But Dennis Preston & Joe Meek?!?!?!? When was this? Before "Johnny remember me" and "Telstar"? Was it a Lansdowne production issued on Columbia UK? MG It was a Dennis Preston production recorded by Joe Meek. Issued in UK and US on MGM - before Dennis's UK Columbia days (recorded in 1956). So a few years before Telstar etc. - probably when Meek was first starting out. And yes - the Joe Meek effects are there in abbundance. Weird sound effects, spooky echos, B-movie horror filmish wordless female vocals. Stan Tracey on accordion, even duck quacking noises on side 2 ! On the whole, not disimilar in sound to those Gil Melle Blue Note 10"s and even hints of 50s Sun Ra exotica. Artwork by Jean Miro ! Unfortunately, they couldn't use it on the reissue due to copyright/costs. Jean Miro! Wow! Just finished King Curtis plays the great Memphis hits - Atco now B B King - King of the blues guitar: Guitar instrumentals - Modern material first issued by Ace. Personnel unknown, except for the lead guitarist But it's BEAUTIFUL. Astoundingly, NO image of this LP on the web. MG

How many people would look at a pile of trashed LPs starting with Bert Kaempfert, in an alley? How many would keep looking after the fifth Kaempfert LP? Or the twenty-seventh? What's that football chant? "One Aric Effron, There's only one Aric Effron" Sung to the tune of "Guantanamera". MG

Posted in Audio forum, but of interest here, too. MG

I noticed this yesterday evening, while having a surf around the African music blogs. Full article: http://wrldsrv.blogspot.com/2010/04/xeme-festival.html Sory Kandia Kouyaté (usually billed as Kouyaté Sory Kandia) had one of the great voices of the 20th Century, so this is serious stuff. I have all the Syllart reissues of this material; and also a couple of K7s - but they were almost certainly pirate tapes - bought in The Gambia - so you can't rely on them, (and anyway, they're in a box in the garage under an old TV and some other stuff). But I did a back to back listen to the only actual Syliphone LP I have (Camayenne Sofa's "Le percée") with the Syllart reissue and I quite like the reissue. I expect that makes me a pariah around here. Or perhaps this one was OK. I dunno. Anyway, for what it's worth, this is the view of an expert, which I am certainly not. MG

I remember seeing that; nice quaint sleeve. But Dennis Preston & Joe Meek?!?!?!? When was this? Before "Johnny remember me" and "Telstar"? Was it a Lansdowne production issued on Columbia UK? MG

Phew! Just looked at Amazon UK. Bit pricey! But you can get it as a download for a reasonable price there. MG

Yes, but I haven't got much. More Jackson/Harris, actually. Some nice stuff on some Jamaican albums, too, as I recollect. MG

You are just fuckin' amazing, my man!!!! MG

Bein' as 'ow it's 'is birfday... Thornel Schwartz - Soul cookin' - Audio Odyssey by Argo MG

Thanks - I'll try that now! I've been having a look every month or so, but not since before my hols. MG Just ordered it. Thanks RD44.

Who's Alastair? How do you get him and get stuff from him please? MG Alastair is Alastair Robertson, founder and owner of Hep. Hep website (you can also find the link elsewhere in this thread) Thanks Hans - but "Warmin' up" is still "temporarily unavailable". How does one get a copy, as Ghost did? MG

I think its some clever editing...they ran the film backwards.... Edit: oh, you mean the apple part, not the earlier time...oh well...her feet are in slots, or straps of some kind perhaps??? Amazing no matter how it was done! Yes, I think you're right, Conrad. The apple seemed to jump into her mouth, too. The youngest one was only 15 when they did that bit of video. And she later married Dickie Henderson, the British (so called) comedian, when she was 19. And died at 34 (bored to death, no doubt - buried at Gunnersbury, near Ealing). MG

Mixed bag of LPs this morning MJQ - Blues at Carnegie Hall - Atlantic Jimmy Witherspoon & Jack McDuff - The blues is now - Verve mono promo now Rev W Leo Daniels - The answer to Watergate (sermon) - Jewel MG

What a lot of jazz musicians born on 29 May! Ron Levy - organ, 1951, Cambridge, MA David "Bubba" Brooks - tenor sax, 1922, Fayetteville, NC Thornel Schwartz - guitar, 1927, Philadelphia, PA MG

Don't remember the French releasing that one.. Shouldn't it be Pissin' Off? Surely not! The LP would have had to have been called "Goin'" - as in Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis' "Pissin' off to the meetin'", to which (coincidentally) I've just been listening (on CD). MG Ah, just got it! Oh, you thought I meant this one MG