The Magnificent Goldberg

Ahhhhhh! We MUST have a track list for that one, Brownie! MG

B B King - Completely well - Bluesway (MCA) Stars of Faith - Living in the last days - Vanguard Les McCann - The longer you wait - JAM MG

EJP - could you tell me what four cities these are MG

Big Al can offer you a link or you can send me a pm ( for a link or a copy). Durum Oh, are we off already? PM coming. MG

Seem to be a few originals on that page. I suppose the prices will go sky high in the last ten seconds. MG

Stanley Turrentine - Everybody come on out - Fantasy Stanley Turrentine - Use the stairs - Fantasy Two very good albums - several cuts above what else he was doing at the time. Glad I pulled these out this morning. MG

Funny this. "Prayer meeting" and "Sidewinder" were on the pop charts at roughly the same time - the Smith was a couple of months before the Morgan, but stayed on the chart five months, so they overlapped. But "Natural Soul" was on the pop chart over a year before "Prayer meeting" hit. It must have continued to sell well after its brief chart appearance, so that a new pressing run was required a year later. We could probably tell, if there'd been an R&B album chart in those days, because "Natural soul" would surely have been on that for a long time. But there was no such thing as an R&B album chart in '63. Blue Note didn't do their own pressings. Can you see Alfred and Francis sweating over hot presses, trying to keep up with demand on those hits? Oh, and by the way, "Sidewinder" wasn't a 'hit'; it was a hit. An album that makes #25 in the pop chart and spends 7 months on the chart is most decidedly a hit. MG

Alfred Hitchcock Tony Hancock George Babcock

The Crimson King The Mountain King The Furniture King

A nice afternoon of vinyl (5th time I've tried to post this) Hank Crawford - We've got a good thing going - Kudu (Pye UK) Bishop Jeff Banks & Revival Temple Mass Choir - The righteous - Savoy Bright Stars - God is still on the throne - Nashboro Earl Bostic - And his alto sax no 2 - King (Parlophone 10") MG

Piney Brown Pete Johnson Julia Lee

Many happy returns, John! MG

Basil II the Bulgar-slayer John I Tzimiskes Nikephoras II Phokas

That one makes me say, "Er, what is it?" and "Oh, I really don't want to know." MG

The Enchanters Blue Magic Wizzard

Major-General Stanley Field Marshal Garnet Wolsely Alf Garnett

Oh, when I had done what I could, there was about a minute to go, so I hit the "give up?" button and all the missing names came up. MG

Lily Pons Violet Carson Iris

Nice quiz, but perhaps a bit too easy for most. I got 32/38; didn't get Mahavishnu orch (put McLaughlin), Clarke, Metheny, Brecker, Jarrett and Peterson. MG

But she's got yellow fever MG

In addition, in Britain, George Melly, Acker Bilk and Kenny Ball - though it depends how old the people are. Also Ray Charles, Nina Simone, Wynton Marsalis (probably), Diana Krall, Dinah Washington, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Dave Brubeck, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Bix, Harry Connick, Lou Rawls, Kenny G, James Brown, Quincy Jones, Nat "King" Cole - and others, too numerous to mention. I wouldn't expect large numbers of any population to know much about these people, including their music, but I'd expect recognition of their names. MG

Olive Oyl Quentin "Butter" Jackson Marge Proops

Pre-nineteenth century? There is such a tradition in Ghana, but it's as a result of the English colonial influence. I'd be interested to know more about that. One has to remember, when making comments about African influences in US music, that the nationalities most brought in via Charleston were Mandinke and Bambara. New Orleans, under French control in those days, would have been the port of entry mainly for people from the Wolof kingdoms. It is to those nationalities that one must look for influences, such as there are, not to nations whose populations largely turned up in the Caribbean, Central or South America. Africa is probably the least culturally homogenous continent. MG

R For Haynes Roy Haynes Roy Hattersley

"Mobile to Chicago blues" should be an ever present reminder that Sonny was from Alabama (if not precisely from Birmingham ) MG