The Magnificent Goldberg

Playing my way through (most of) Gloria's recordings, I find I've got everything she recorded (as far as I know). So here's a list: Gloria Coleman - Soul sisters - Impulse (1963) Leo Wright - Soul talk - Vortex (1963) Gloria Coleman - Sings and swings organ - Mainstream (1965) Bobbi Humphrey - City beat - Malaco Jazz (1988) (1 track - this is a pretty awful LP) Hank Crawford - Groove master - Milestone (1990) Hank Crawford - South-Central - Milestone (1 track from "Groove master" session) Nat Simpkins - Cookin' with some barbeque - Muse (1995) Gloria Coleman - Sweet Missy - Doodlin' (2007) Not much in 34 years. If you know of any more, please post details. MG

Dennis Goodwin Mary Godwin Frankenstein

Leo Wright (with Gloria Coleman) - Soul talk - Vortex (Promo) RIP Gloria MG

Thank's for the reminder Soul Stream. A very nice album. Earl's album "Brothers for life", is very, very good. I've pulled this one out, too, for listening later. Earl played a heartbreakingly wonderful solo piece at Professor Longhair's funeral. It's part of the film, "Piano players rarely ever play together". MG

Also Eddie Chamblee - tenor sax player, born in Atlanta, GA, 1920. His solo on Sonny Thompson's "Long gone" (Miracle) is classic! MG

Oh, this is so sad for me. I met Gloria in Newark in '96. She was doing a gig with Jesse Morrison, the tenor player, and I introduced myself to her afterwards. She was a very nice lady. And also a very competent one, it seemed to me. Everyone at the gig - including Rahsaan's widow, who was a DJ for WBGO, next door, at the time - called her "Auntie Gloria". She told me how impressed she'd been with Pete Fallico's knowledge of her career, when she'd done an interview with him on a trip to the West Coast. She was surprised there was a white person at the gig and was very happy to chat while she packed up her stuff. It's always been a mystery to me why she wasn't recorded more often; three albums as a leader and only a handful as a sidelady. Almost all of her recordings are very good indeed. MG

Johnny Lytle - The soulful rebel - Milestone Johnny Lytle - People and love - Milestone MG

Maid Marion Blues Woman Ralph Abernathy

I'll go for a download Al. Thanks. MG

Jimmy also plays very nicely on "Two from Duke" by Harold Ashby & Paul Gonsalves (Columbia UK). I don't know whether that's been issued anywhere else. I think he is also on organ with Johnny Hodges instead of Wild Bill Davis - can't be asked to look that up, just at the moment. MG

The Edsels The Impalas The Cadillacs

Michael Foot Clyde Ankle Manny Shinwell

I think I've seen about two in all the years I've had a mailbox - well over ten but I can't remember when I opened it. For your information, I don't feel cheated MG

Oh - where was their EMI material from 1962 & 1963 recorded? I didn't know EMI had any other studios in London. MG

The Brides of Funkenstein P-Funk The Horny Horns

Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Hopalong Cassidy Jumpin' Jack Flash

Orson Kartz Larry Kart Cartman

too MG

Have a good one! MG

I used to go past the studios on the bus every day on the way to work, in 1963. Never saw any of the Beatles. MG

Gerry Teekens Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton Sir Anthony de Tipton

Jesse Powell - It's party time with Jesse Powell - TruSound (mono) now Freddie McCoy - Lonely Avenue - Prestige (mono) next Walter Benton - Out of this world - Jazzland (mono, orange label) MG

Harmonica Fats Olive Oyl Le Palm-Jazz de Macenta

Mungo Jerry Mongo Santamaria Mango Santamania

That lot look even more loony than us MG