The Magnificent Goldberg

Von Freeman Billy Vaughn Frankie Vaughan

Surely not TODAY'S young couple? Today's young couple would be swallowing pills in Ibiza. MG

Bobby Bland - Ain't nothin' you can do - Duke (ABC repress) MG

Yes, my favourite version is Jaws' too. MG

Charlotte Bronte Heathcliff Cliff Bennett

Jimmy "Fastfingers" Dawkins - Delmark MG

Herman was in King Curtis' band through the late fifties - when he wasn't in Lou Donaldson's band He swapped from one to the other. The main KC album he was on is "Have tenor sax, will blow". He also played on Al Casey's "Buck jumpin'" (Swingville) which is an utterly marvellous album mde by the Curtis band with Rudy Powell instead of Curtis. In this period he was also on Gloria Lynne's "Thunderbird" album, which I keep meaning to buy. He was also on Jean DuShon's first LP - another I ought to get. I also wish I had "Ready & willing" - I have his other 3 albums. In the eighties, he was with Lou Donaldson again and they made four lovely albums together - two for Muse, to for Timeless - that were Lou's return to straight ahead jazz after the crap he did for Cotilion. Not reissued on CD I think. Herman had an interesting approach to dynamics. Some of the notes he hits on ballads just go right through me! Truly, as Lou always used to say - "The one and only Herman Foster!" MG

Illinois Jacquet - Midnight slows vol 8 - Black & Blue MG

SPV put out a load of those cheapo blues compilations a couple of years ago, with crummy packaging and no discographical info. I wonder if they came a cropper on them. MG

Until I looked, I thought you were Chuck MG

How in the name of Hell do you get stuff like this in Scotland? E-bay? MG Never bought any 78s on ebay. These were from my local record store . Really,,,,,,,, here in Edinburgh. The Gramophone Emporium in Stockbridge. Open Wed afternoons and Saturday. No phone, No mail order, no credit cards but lots of 78s, I mean lots.... Jazz Review did a little feature on the place several years ago. Struth! MG

Yes - over here, too. Your average record shop or department store, or the WH Smiths bookshops would cover a whole range of music - at least, the range that was issued over here on British labels. And they often had a good back catalogue (45s and LPs) in stock. A shop I used to visit in Hove in the sixties had a shelf full of old London American 45s, going well back to the mid fifties, behind the counter and they'd let me sit on the floor pulling them out and filling in my Chuck Willis etc collections. All that changed when retail price maintenance was made illegal in 1964 or 1965. Once the big stores could sell for what they thought was a competitive price, the indie shops didn't have a chance and the range of music reduced quite soon. MG

"Don't mess around with my love" also is on Joe Carroll's album for Charlie Parker, "Man with a happy sound". Again, it's credited to M Gee. MG

All the best, Chris! MG

I had that one - played it a couple of times, but it wasn't doing anything for me - not even ten bobs' worth Chris Connor was my idol in those days (still is for that kind of singing). Didn't keep it long. MG

How in the name of Hell do you get stuff like this in Scotland? E-bay? MG

John Coltrane - Plays the blues - Atlantic (80s pressing) MG

Grey Gowrie Blackadder Brown Owl

If he's right of centre here, then I guess Weizen regards him as another damn leftie! Of course, the British and French Empires in Africa were a mixed curse. Travel in Senegambia and you'll find the English taught the Gambians to cook (not the Welsh - they don't cook cawl or laverbread out there ) while the French taught the Senegalese. The same traditional dishes are completely different. MG

Organissimo's version of that is effin' brilliant!!!!! MG

Robert Louis Stevenson Long John Silver Jim Lad

Just consulted a friend who's a military historian specialising in the Great War. He doesn't know positively but thinks it most unlikely that it didn't come out in hardback. MG

Yeah, you're right, even if you're wrong. MG

Friendly Chap Joe Splink Izzy Goldberg

And also, I suspect, because their studies crossed disciplinary divides, having the effect of bringing economics closer to real life. I've thought frequently that the insight of game theorists that, to keep people playing by the rules, carrots are better than sticks but you can't abandon sticks, is one of the great revelations of human nature and explains much of the world. MG whose insight was that? and does one really need (formal) game theory to get there... I can't remember. I've a feeling it was in something Guy posted here a while back. No it wasn't - it was in a BBC World Service programme that dealt with comparative religion, or some such related subject. But I don't know the name of the academic who was speaking - he was British, I recall, from his accent. MG