The Magnificent Goldberg

In the nineties a printers around the corner from the office had a good business printing stuff to order on white t-shirts. I got a lot of albums put on my t-shirts, unfortunately after a dozen years, they're mostly wearing out. From jazz, there was Lonnie Smith live at Club Mozambique and John Patton - Minor swing The others all had African album covers. Walking into a bar in Senegal wearing one of those t-shirts immediately proclaimed whose side you were on and assured a good welcome. MG

I'm listening to Etta Jones singing "Glomy Sunday" at the moment. Just a thought. MG

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A technical point please... When you buy a download from Amazon.com, what happens? I assume you pay for it as usual then they e-mail you a link to the download. Is that how it works? MG

Oh, you mean, you can only get this as a download, not as a CD? I missed this when it came out on that Itialian cheapo series - almost all of them were reissues, but a handful weren't. MG Did a search as I would prefer the real digital deal (oxymoron) and this looks to be just one of those vault type releases, as the label shows nothing in google world, rather than a genuine re-issue. Thanks - guess Amazon.com is gonna get some download business from me. Fortunately, you can get odd things there without having to join and be committed to a regular purchase from e-music. MG

That looks like some more stuff I should get. Would you mind posting the details of all three please? MG

You're telling me you don't have Giblet Gravy? Yes - listen to Joe. George also made a live recording, with Mickey Tucker, George Duvivier and Al Harewood, at the Casa Carib, Plainfield NJ in April 1973 that is very, very good. Different bits of the gig have been issued by different disreputable cheapo labels under different titles. Long tracks - the British edition I have has 6 cuts in 67 minutes, so you can see stretching out was the order of the day. And could you fault that band? MG

1 Thread derealments (a typo, but I thought it was nice) are one of the things that make life on forums interesting. 2 Yes - I did intend to focus on stand-up comedians, because that seemed a thing peculiarly suitable for LP treatment. And also because we didn't have much of that over here - the action was almost exclusively American. So I thought I'd learn summat, and I have. 3 There's no real reason why comedians shouldn't have made 78s and 45s live. I do have a live 45 by a black comedian from the Kennedy era. The work of Joe Von Battle in recording whole sermons of Rev C L Franklin on 3 or 4 78 albums in the forties shows that there was no real technological barrier in the pre-LP era. But it doesn't seem to have happened in comedy. 4 Moran and Mack were wonderful! MG

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To me, the worst aspect of this is that we're forcing decisionson our descendants for thousands of years. I don't think it's right to force decisions on others, now or later. So far, we've created problems that we've had to solve pretty well immediately so that we've had to take the consequences of our decisions ourselves in real time. No one's trying to think up a way of us solving this problem in real time. And yet, in principle, the technology to do so is available. If you fill a series of unmanned spaceships with the stuff and boot it in the direction of the sun, the cost would be very high indeed, but doable and not greatly different from the costs involved in what we're doing now. MG

Hellfire!!!! Glad this thread got bumped - never heard of that one before! "Oof!" "Wee!" "Pow!" any other titles? MG

But I don't want to go to Splott! MG

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There's a difference between knowing something's right and feeling it. I know you're right about this, but what you say doesn't reflect what I feel. Benson's music after the seventies is interesting to me as a reflection of what was happening in society but really, I can't get as enthusiastic about the way that music feels as about that of Gator Tail, for example. It's a class thing and being English, which makes that important. So. MG

So the debt is from some kind of equity release scheme and it looks like she's been poorly advised or something like shafted. I'm sorry to hear this. Ernestine's Sue album from 1963/4 completely turned me out when I got it a couple of years ago. And she was still singing well when Houston Person produced her most recent album, "Love makes the changes" in 2003. MG

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I imagine there was a double standard at work, though. I doubt that the BBC would have permitted a similar, true, representation of one of my former bosses in the sixties and all or any of his boy friends. It was permissible BECAUSE it was about Somerset Maugham, a revered author. MG

'Private Eye' is still going strong, if not quite the cult it was in the 60s. It really came to the fore at the time of the Profumo/Keeler scandals ( 1963 ) and the rise of The Establishment Club ( part owned by Peter Cook ) and the satire boom. It used to be a 'must read' for the under 30s at the time and exposed a number of juicy scandals. If I remember rightly it did sometimes have a cover-mounted flexi-disc which could well have had the 'glum' song on it. I still have one of those Private Eye records - "Dear Sir, Is this a record?" But, sad to say, it doesn't contain the Glum song. It does contain Dudley Moore saying, in a voice simultaneously lugubrious and lascivious (nice work if you can get it) "I love that swelling organ sound". But mentioning it with a capital G, "Round the Horne" (I think it was, but perhaps it was earlier) had Ron and Eth - The Glums. The song may have come from there. MG The Glums were from an earlier show called 'Take It From Here'. I strongly doubt that they would have got away with the 'stick your finger up your bum' song in the Reithian BBC of the day, when there were rule books on what subjects were allowed in jokes ( no mention of rabbit's procreation habits for example ). Difficult to imagine nowadays. Mind you, the music hall comedian Max Miller got banned for 8 years by the BBC for using the following joke in a variety show broadcast: " I was walking on a narrow cliff path when I saw this gorgeous blonde walking towards me. There wasn't room for us to pass each other. I didn't know whether to block her passage or toss myself off!" Boom-boom! Ah yes, "Take it from here". You may be right, then, the Glums were fifties material and that's probably not a fifties song, nor fifties style material I think. I still think the words fit a Bill Oddie type voice. MG

Nuclear power has clearly gotten a bad rap here .... I suspect that table depends on where you live. I think the real issue with nuclear power is decommissioning - how long will it take before a power station becomes harmless? how long before the waste material becomes harmless? and the costs of keeping that site and material secure (REALLY secure) for that length of time. Decommissioning costs for 20 closed British nuclear power stations are presently estimated at £72 billion over the next century - though Greenpeace reckons £100 billion, because some matters have been left out of the estimates. But it takes ten thousand years for spent fuel to decay to safe levels. Civilisation is only about six thousand years old. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/oc...try.environment MG

Thanks - I THINK I remember Cathy Carr (I must be giving away YOUR age ). I only knew of the label through Bill Parson's (Bobby Bare) "All American boy" and a record of Chuck Berry's "Memphis" by some country rock guitarist whose name I've forgotten. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Mack Yes, I remembered it after my connection had gone phut last night. Thanks. MG

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Fraternity was based in Cincinatti, IIRC, but I wouldn't characterize them as a country label. Their biggest hit prior to "So Rare" was "Ivory Tower" by Cathy Carr. I suspect that Dorsey may have produced the session himself, and sold it to Fraternity. Thanks - I THINK I remember Cathy Carr (I must be giving away YOUR age ). I only knew of the label through Bill Parson's (Bobby Bare) "All American boy" and a record of Chuck Berry's "Memphis" by some country rock guitarist whose name I've forgotten. (I knew it was Cincinatti, but couldn't remember how to spell it ) MG