The Magnificent Goldberg

Thanks for the reminder about this. That's vol 3 of a set of 2CD sets. I must get them all. Vol 1, includes two STONE CLASSICS - the 27 minute version of Soundiata with Mory Kante singing lead and also Salif Keita doing a 14 minute version a few years later. I keep forgetting to buy these sets. Must get around to them next year. MG MG Got those the wrong way round - the Salif Keita version appears to have been recorded first. Here's a Rail Band discography. It was a VERY frequently recorded band (compared to other Malian bands). http://www.radioafrica.com.au/Discographies/Rail.html MG

Lots of 'Extensions' here to give an indication. I think mine cost about a tenner - NY USA vinyl pretty good but sleeve not so good. Here? Missing link? (with apols to Chuck & Fred Anderson) You paid a lot - mine was 45/- from Dobell's MG

Fats Domino - Legendary masters - Imperial (UA UK) Disc 1 at present, disc 2 after lunch. Bursting for a pee and "Blue Monday" is on - got to hang on for a couple of minutes MG

What sort of money do these normally fetch, lads? (Not promising to sell mine y'know. One moderately careful owner from new.) MG

And Name three people grinds to a shuddering halt.... Mimi Trepel-Jordan (the middle aged lady who spread Rock & Roll & R&B around the world) Mimi Farina Richard Farina

Thanks for the reminder about this. That's vol 3 of a set of 2CD sets. I must get them all. Vol 1, includes two STONE CLASSICS - the 27 minute version of Soundiata with Mory Kante singing lead and also Salif Keita doing a 14 minute version a few years later. I keep forgetting to buy these sets. Must get around to them next year. MG MG

Earlier this morning The New Jersey Mass Choir of GMWA - Live at the Ritz - Savoy MG

It was recorded for Polydor in Britain. Polydor at the time was issuing Atlantic's albums in Britain (and possibly elsewhere, not sure) so this was a tit for tat deal. I don't think Polydor had opened up a US branch at that time. MG

In Britain, in the early 60s, British major labels' pop/jazz issues (London, RCA, HMV, Pye, Philips etc) were 32/- (now GBP1.60). Classical issues were 32/10 (now 1.64). Riversides, as Bill says, were 41/- (2.05). Blue Notes were inordinately expensive at 57/6 (2.85). Soon after Liberty acquired Blue Note, a Blue Note office was opened in Britain (1967), headed by Doug Dobell, and the price of Blue Notes fell to 45/- (2.25) By that time, the general price of British manufactured LPs had risen to about 37/6, so the differential between BN and other jazz material was significantly reduced. For America, my 1967 Schwann gives the following prices Atlantic 8000 series 4$.79 Atlantic 1200/1300 series 5.79 Blue Note 12" mono 4.79 stereo 5.79 Blue Note 10" 4.00 Columbia CL/CS 4.79 Contemporary mono 4.98 stereo 5.98 Everest 5000/1000 series 3.98 Everest 6000/3000 & 9000/8000 series 4.98 Liberty 3000/7000 & 6000/7700 series mono 3.79 stereo 4.79 Liberty 2 rec sets mono 4.79 stereo 5.79 Sunset (Liberty's budget line) 1.98 Pickwick 1.89 Pickwick 4000 series 2.49 Savoy 14000 series 3.98 (all mono at the time) (this was their Gospel series) Savoy 12000 series mono 4.98 stereo 5.98 Tamla/Motown etc mono 3.98 stereo 4.98 Vanguard mono 4.79 stereo 5.79 Vanguard Everyman 2.50 Verve (6)8000 series 5.79 Verve (6)5000 series 4.79 WB mono 3.79 stereo 4.79 WB B series mono 4.79 stereo 5.79 MG

365 days to Christmas! MG

Tom Archia The Archers Mrs Dale

Never heard of him - but you're another whose knowledge and judgement I'd trust. MG

Joya Sherrill The Sheriff MIlt Jackson

It's really good to hear from you again, Randy. I miss those newspaper cuttings and always wondered how you could pick out stuff that was so aposite. A very Happy Christmas to you and keep pressing on in 2010. All the very best. MG

Well, it's a bright and sunny Christmas morning here and we're waiting for my daughter and family (together with her mother-in-law's dog from hell) to arrive in about an hour, if they can struggle through the snow and ice that hasn't gone yet. We haven't opened our presents yet. Waiting for them. Happy Christmas to everyone! MG

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Jesse Powell - It's party time with Jesse Powell - TruSound Rev Cleophus Robinson - Christmas carols and good gospel - Peacock MG

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Yes, Tuts was great. One of my favourite films is "Piano players rarely ever play together"; a German documentary film featuring Tuts, Fesser and Toussaint playing together, rehearsing for a gig they were to do together and talking about how the influence of Jelly Roll Morton had been passed down through their different generations and remembering where it al lcame from. The film and the gig were interrupted by Longhair's death. Must give that another view before we go over to digital and I can't see it any more. MG Oh man, I saw that video in my late teens on Detroit PBS - got me totally hooked on Boogie at that point. Hard to find now, but some clips here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f8E2v33r-c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIwmp7_AcYU That last bit was, to me, one of the most important bits of the film - where Alan Toussaint talks about how three great piano players weren't getting it together, despite their obvious talent, but needed "an organising spirit" to come in, and it was Longhair who took up the challenge and got them working together. Thanks for those. I've got the whole film on soon-to-be-redundant VHS. I see that whoever recorded it for You Tube had the same reception problems we did back in the day (it was shown here on the first night of Channel 4). MG

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Shrdlu, if you do this [ img] address of your pic [/img ] (don't leave any spaces) It'll come out like this (reply to this post and you can see how it's done for real) MG Nice hat, too MG

I thought I'd forgotten! MG

Eddie Taylor William Gaither Loranza Floyd (all tenor players in Roy Milton's Solid Senders)