The Magnificent Goldberg

Not sure what you mean, chewy. Up to the end of 1969, BN had 21 LPs on the pop album charts and none of them were "Always something there". Here they are, in the order they hit: JIMMY SMITH MIDNIGHT SPECIAL JIMMY SMITH BACK AT THE CHICKEN SHACK LOU DONALDSON THE NATURAL SOUL JIMMY SMITH ROCKIN' THE BOAT DONALD BYRD A NEW PERSPECTIVE JIMMY SMITH PRAYER MEETIN' LEE MORGAN SIDEWINDER HORACE SILVER SONG FOR MY FATHER HORACE SILVER CAPE VERDEAN BLUES JIMMY SMITH BUCKET LEE MORGAN SEARCH FOR THE NEW LAND STANLEY TURRENTINE ROUGH 'N TUMBLE LOU DONALDSON ALLIGATOR BOGALOO JIMMY SMITH JIMMY SMITH'S GREATEST HITS LOU DONALDSON MIDNIGHT CREEPER STANLEY TURRENTINE THE LOOK OF LOVE ST LEE MORGAN CARAMBA LOU DONALDSON SAY IT LOUD DUKE PEARSON PHANTOM LOU DONALDSON HOT DOG JACK MCDUFF DOWN HOME STYLE (Some of these didn't get very high But if you're looking for albums of that type, "The look of love" looks like the first one to actually cross over to the pop audience. And that was out before "Always something there". In addition, BN had 5 more on the R&B charts that didn't go pop LOU DONALDSON MR SHING-A-LING HORACE SILVER SERENADE TO A SOUL SISTER DONALD BYRD SLOW DRAG LONNIE SMITH THINK GENE HARRIS ELEGANT SOUL No sign of "Always something there" in that lot, either. MG

Not sure what you mean, chewy. Up to the end of 1969, BN had 21 LPs on the pop album charts and none of them were "Always something there". Here they are, in the order they hit: JIMMY SMITH MIDNIGHT SPECIAL JIMMY SMITH BACK AT THE CHICKEN SHACK LOU DONALDSON THE NATURAL SOUL JIMMY SMITH ROCKIN' THE BOAT DONALD BYRD A NEW PERSPECTIVE JIMMY SMITH PRAYER MEETIN' LEE MORGAN SIDEWINDER HORACE SILVER SONG FOR MY FATHER HORACE SILVER CAPE VERDEAN BLUES JIMMY SMITH BUCKET LEE MORGAN SEARCH FOR THE NEW LAND STANLEY TURRENTINE ROUGH 'N TUMBLE LOU DONALDSON ALLIGATOR BOGALOO JIMMY SMITH JIMMY SMITH'S GREATEST HITS LOU DONALDSON MIDNIGHT CREEPER STANLEY TURRENTINE THE LOOK OF LOVE ST LEE MORGAN CARAMBA LOU DONALDSON SAY IT LOUD DUKE PEARSON PHANTOM LOU DONALDSON HOT DOG JACK MCDUFF DOWN HOME STYLE (Some of these didn't get very high But if you're looking for albums of that type, "The look of love" looks like the first one to actually cross over to the pop audience. And that was out before "Always something there". In addition, BN had 5 more on the R&B charts that didn't go pop LOU DONALDSON MR SHING-A-LING HORACE SILVER SERENADE TO A SOUL SISTER DONALD BYRD SLOW DRAG LONNIE SMITH THINK GENE HARRIS ELEGANT SOUL No sign of "Always something there" in that lot, either. MG

Amanda Duke Pearson Machelle

Odell Brown & the Organisers - Ducky - Cadet MG

Spike Milligan Mack the Knife Butcher knife totin' Annie

Interesting - I can see how most of these cuts fit into your "Something old, something new" theme, but damned if I can get that connection from the Vince Guaraldi. Please put me out of my misery MG

MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MG

Well, despite having bought a Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday this week, what really grabbed mee this morning was "Sudan" from Idris Muhammad's "House of the rising sun" (Kudu), which I've had for aeons. Fabulous groove! Great solos from Fred Wesley, Tom Harrell, Sir Roland Hanna and Idris. In particular, Tom Harrell really got through this time. I think I should perhaps look into him a bit. MG

Blue Mitchell - Blue Mitchell - Mainstream MG

Leon Spencer Melvin Sparks Idris Muhammad

Ah, but those Grant Greens &c were very unusual for you, because they're not unusual MG

Oh, I forgot Leon Spencer - Louisiana slim - PR (Grover W, Sparks, Idris) (in Legends of Acid Jazz - oop) MG

I can't remember a similar thread, Bev. Not one concentrating on albums with long performances. Here's a list of albums from that period that have at least one side with only two tracks on it. Oh, good 'uns, of course Lonnie Smith - Think - BN (Lee Morgan, Fathead, Sparks) Lonnie Smith - Turning point - BN (Lee, Maupin, Sparks) Lonnie Smith - Move your hand - BN (live with regular band inc Cuber) (Lots of O members prefer this to "Mozambique") Lonnie Smith - Drives - BN (D Hubbard, Cuber) (I think this is in the BN deletions list for last month, but you should be able to get it.) Charles Earland - Living black - PR (G Washington Jr, M Parker) Charles Earland - Leaving this planet - PR (F & D Hubbard, Joe Henderson) Charles Earland - Intensity - PR (Lee, B Harper, M Parker) Charles Earland - Black talk - PR (Person, Sparks, Idris) (was on Ace as twofer with "Black drops" - might be gettable as single CD OJC) Johnny "Hammond" Smith - Higher ground - Kudu (Joe Henderson, H Crawford & usual suspects) Melvin Sparks - Sparks and Spark plug - PR (both on Legends of Acid Jazz OOP but you could get it, I reckon) Nat Addereley - Workin' - Timeless. (From '93 but entirely in the spirit - now on emusic?) George Freeman - Frantic diagnosis - Bam-boo (Von Freeman, Earland) (reissued on Ubiquity LP only - very hard to find but very, very, fantastic - I've got one on the way from Da Barstids!) Rusty Bryant - Fire eater - PR (Spencer, Longmire) (in Legends of Acid jazz vol 2) Rusty Bryant - Soul liberation - PR (Earland, Sparks, Idris)(in Legends of Acid jazz) Rusty Bryant - Friday night funk for Saturday night brothers - PR (Rusty's regular band) (only on CD in UK - Ace - but oop now - probably hard to get, but maybe easier here than US) Charles Kynard - Soul brotherhood - PR (Blue Mitchell, Newman, Green, Roker) (in CD twofer of same title OOP) Herbie Mann - Memphis underground - Atlantic (Sharrock, Ayers) Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Swiss movement - Atlantic (Benny Bailey) Idris Muhammad - Black rhythm revolution - PR (Mabern, Sparks, Clarence Thomas) Idris Muhammad - Power of soul - Kudu (G Washington Jr, Randy B, Bob James) Idris Muhammad - House of the rising sun - Kudu (Sanborn, Cuber, George Young, Gale) John Patton - Got a good thing goin' - BN (Green, Hugh Walker) John Patton - Accent on the blues - BN (Marvin Cabell!!!! James "Blood" Ullmer!!!) Jimmy Smith - Root down - Verve I thought you'd been playing some unusual material in the past day or two. Good luck with this lot. You're probably just about a year too late, because a lot of these went in Concord's clearout at the end of 2007. But you can probably grab copies from Amazon sellers. MG

And a very happy birthday to you! (as well as to Cedar) MG

Yes, happy birthday and thanks for years of pleasure. MG

Sure it's not "Nghghgh"? MG

Little shopping trip to Cardiff and a visit to the second hand record shop. Snagged cheap copies of Nice 2CD set and I've only got 8 tracks on my other Reed compilation. Even cheaper and just as well, because I'd forgotten that I already had "Plug me in" on a Collectables twofer (coupled with "High voltage"). So. OK. MG

Roosevelt Wardell Roosevelt Sykes Baby Face Willette

I bought her 45 of "How glad I am" when it was out and liked it a lot - but not enough to keep it through the vicissitudes of life over the past 44 years. But, amazingly, I never listened to her again until I picked up a twofer of "Like in love" and "Something wonderful" a couple of years back. They were all right, but a bit mannered - not for real. So I got her album with Cannonball a couple of weeks ago, to see if working with a real jazzman made a difference. Well, it's a much better album, but because of the band. Nancy just seems like she's trying to be a clever jazz singer. Very good at it, but not what I would expect from someone who came up with Rusty Bryant. MG

Damn! I knew there had to be a reason I wasn't really WITH Nancy! MG

1 No. It was done on 3 March 1969. "Ain't no way" was done 23 June 1969. And Stanley was on McGriff's "Electric funk", recorded September 1969. 2 It's good. If you're a Thad Jones fan as well as a Stan fan, it's bloody good. 3 Yes - except maybe there was a Japanese issue on CD. Never saw one, though. 4 Sounds very much like Stan, Thad, Cedar, Buster and Mickey. MG

Verdi Ismail, Khedive of Egypt The six sultry dancing girls who, after the premiere, were borne into the dining hall on gold platters, garnished with custard

Right. Thanks folks. That sorts it out. Well... one wonders who got paid for the McGriff and Cohn/sims recordings of the song? MG

A few things that just hit me. "Hong Kong blues" by Hoagy from one of those Bogart films noir. Was it "Casablanca"? For background music, there's that guy Bronislav Kaper, who was doing film noir stuff. Not "Green Dolphin Street" but some others - "Invitation" maybe. Not a blues, but very blue. He did some other stuff, too, but titles elude me just at present. I bet TTK knows ALL about him. I've mentioned this before but the Ernie Andrews "Articulation blues"/"Parker's mood" medley contains a little story of how Walter Brown and the McShann band went to Hollywood to appear in a film. Andrews doesn't say what the film was, but I don't think this is fiction. Somewhere there's a film with Walter and the McShann band. MG

Sure - but I'm sure you recollect the speed with which CDs took over from LPs. That didn't rely on a new generation coming up, which takes a long time. It relied on people generally - of all age groups - wanting to change over; and a good part of the reason was the appearance on CD of material that wasn't available on LP. And I reckon that, to do the same, with similar rapidity, companies will have to release in download format material - oceans of material - that isn't out on CD (or LP, for that matter). It looks, from the WSJ article we've both read just now, like the industry is slowly coming round to the view that they need a new way of making money. I think they need to hurry up and get a lot more unavailable stuff out on downloads - not reissue as downloads stuff you can get on CD. MG