The Magnificent Goldberg

I had to read this to see what you said MG

Lucy Snoopy Linus

And Shirley Bassey appearing with the Woody Herman band, on a tour hung on her hit "Diamonds are forever"! MG

Mine's so old, the paint's worn off several letters - e, a, s, d, c, n, m; most of v & t and half of z. So I keep hitting wrong keys. But I'm learning to type without looking, as a result - after lord knows how many years of eyes down MG

We kill our slugs - don't let 'em in to crawl over the TV. MG

Oh - forgot to say download for me, please. MG

The Bollocks (never mind them) The Sex Pistols Pete Wingfield

Why have I never seen this bunch of crap before: no MG

West African music is very melodic - and memorably so. The entire art of traditional musicians from the Sahel/Sudan regions is remembering melodies - not improvisation. Saved yourelf there, Carnivore MG

I'm sure plenty of people have these albums - UCCV 9419 Hodges,Johnny(as)/Blues A Plenty UCCV 9420 Hodges,Johnny(as)/Castle Rock I've got "Castle rock" (the single) on a honking sax compilation - is that typical of these two albums? Or, what kind of stuff are they? MG

Sid James Tony Hancock Hattie Jacques

Tom's a postman. MG

I already had most of the tracks on the McDuffs, but the rest is new to me. Haven't heard the Hawk, Milt or Hopkins/Tate yet (saving the best for the last), but I'm very pleased with the rest. MG

He was involved with "Operation Breadbasket" and made an album for Cadet at the time, with that title. But I don't think it was his name in lights, I think it was "Operation breadbasket". I saw a copy in Soul Jazz Records a few years ago, but there was so much other stuff to buy... MG

Got my Oldies order in at last! Camille Howard - X-temporaneous boogie Billy Boy Arnold - More blues on the South Side Mildred Anderson - No more in life Twofer of Claude Hopkins - Yes indeed and Buddy Tate - Tate-a-Tate Jack McDuff - The concert McDuff Jack McDuff - Prelude Coleman Hawkins all stars Milt Jackson - Mostly Duke Spent most of the afternoon listening, but lots more to hear, still What a nice afternoon! MG

Phew to both videos! Saw Ronnie in 2000, with Lonnie Smith, Peter Bernstein and someone subbing for Idris, at Brecon - an open air gig. And Cuber tore the whole town down! (It's not a very big town.)) MG

Yes - Argo LPS683 is the stereo version; issued in 1961. MG

This evening, a few crummy Blue Notes for the 'ard bop luvvers Bobby Hutcherson - At Montreux - UA orig Sonny Clark - Cool struttin' - DMM (I hear it) Lee Morgan - The rumproller - DMM (I hear it again) MG

HP, can you clarify this, please. Decca wasn't started until 1934. MG

We're going digital in this area in March, so my wife and I had a slow trot round Comet today to see what was around and the prices. She thought she'd like a 28 inch set, but we didn't find anything between 26" and 32". 32" seems miles too big; our conventional TV is 20" which seems plenty, really A while back, we had a geezer up to repair our existing TV and talked to him briefly about digitising. One of the things he said was that the smaller sets - anything below 28" - had poor sound which wouldn't be powerful enough to fill our lounge (about 30 ft by 15), though a 19" or even smaller would be OK in the bedroom. Does anyone have a 26" set? And what's the sound like? MG

Tom1960 The Beatles The Marvelettes

if you got 5 wrong, you probably haven't seen this great youtube video (monaco remembering the phone call) Never been terribly interested in Tony Monaco. Nor MMW or Joey D, for that matter. MG

The other one - with Nicky Hill on tenor - is damn good, too. I have the twofer and an Italian edition of the LP, issued when Chess was part of Sugar Hill. Looking at the stated times on the LP (I haven't actually clocked anything) one minute and ten+ seconds have been cut out of "Free chicken". I've kept the LP MG

I got 9/12. Got #5, 8 & 10 wrong. Had to look up Sonny Phillips, because I thought he was born in Mobile, but I knew it wasn't any of the others MG

Chas McDevitt (I'm nearly as old as you, Bill Chas Dave Damn! Slow connection did for me! MG