The Magnificent Goldberg

Nice story, Allen. I always wondered why she didn't give the NOW! the right kind of triumphal feel. If she was feeling like that, I can understand it. MG

And Guy Lombardo (So did O V Wright) And none of it matters. MG

Eh? How come Kenya coffee comes from Alaska?" MG

Most of the morning Cab Calloway - Volume 2: 1935-1940 - JSP MG

Johnny "Hammond" Smith John Hammond John Hammond

I'm like Steve - shelves on or in front of most of the walls. In the free space, I have a calendar with pics of pigs. And a cartoon of me playing a saxophone, done by one of my former staff as a retirement present. It's behind glass, so I can't scan it in. MG

Tea - it's gone cold while I've been googling for St Custard's MG

St Custard Nigel Molesworth Skool dog

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Phew! All the best to all five of you, Jim! MG

Jim - let us know how you get on with the lady. MG

Swamp Dogg Jay Miller Johnny Vincent

Richie Benaud Richie Barrett Lionel Richie

Thank you - good song. MG

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I found this very long interview with Leroy Hurte, who started Flash Records in LA in 1939, then Bronze in 1944. What a guy! Links to the eight transcripts of the interview on the left of the screen http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb4m3n...=&brand=oac MG

The Cat in the Hat Dr Seuss Flit

Happy Birthday, HG!!!!! MG

Here's some more - format's not too helpful, but it looks like all her sessions from 1939-1990. Louise_Tobin_sessions.doc MG

Oh, but she was the first to record "I didn't know what time it was". MG

Further note Bing had the biggest hit with "What's new", but his version got on the chart a few weeks after the A side of the Goodman record. So Louise Tobin MAY have made the original version of the song. (Nan Wynn also recorded it with Hal Kemp - I like her singing. Wonder if I could pick that up in something.) MG No - Charlie Barnet did a vocal version a month before Goodman's recording. (And Bob Crosby did an instrumental version called "I'm free" the year before.)

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. I think you do need a theory in this case, or all you've got are your own observations and a load of contrary opinions from interested parties such as religions. MG

Too damn right it does! I was listening to his "Trilogy" (ABC stuff) earlier, but posted it in the ordinary listening thread. Now I'm back on Cab Calloway - Volume 1: 1930-1934 - JSP Hi-dee-hi folks, it's Minnie the Moocher's wedding day! MG

Oh, so it's Trane, is it? I wasn't too far off on 4, though I should have got Dudu. MG

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