The Magnificent Goldberg

Thanks - I guess that's mid-afternoon here. MG

You'll be real expert on the bonus disc! I'm surprised some info came through on track 3 - I thought I'd cleaned everything up. Anyway, you know - I'm certain - the title of #4. Get yourself half a point at least MG

Elton John Elton Dean Ben Elton

Hutch Booby Sam Fox

Here's a wonderful video of Les Amazones de Guinee MG

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Is the programme archived immediately or some time later? MG

Thanks for the hint: Have tried it before - same here Even with the accent on the final letter of "Pathé"? * Never mind; I just tried it and see what you mean.... how frustrating! Yet another reminder that most programs were written by Americans MG

No. It was the horn player's sound... just reminded me of Charles Neville. Ah, right. You prompted me to dig out "Nevillisation" yesterday, and I could see where you were coming from. MG

Margie Hendricks Mable John Mary Ann Fisher (All Raelettes)

Thats really quite an interesting groove. Wonder what it is. MG

Fusion with what? Mention of the WDR big band reminded me of Bernard Purdie - Soul to jazz vols 1 & 2 - ACT (with the WDR big band) Pee Wee Ellis - What you like - Minor Music (with the NDR big band) MG

Yes - unfortunately you don't seem to be able to get to Wales from the IOM any more. MG

See ... what you describe as being sniffy happened to a friend of mine at Ray's when she had picked a (rather rambunctious) R&B/R'n'R compilation from their downstairs "Blues & Roots dept." and asked to listen in (briefly) just to make sure ... The staff upstairs visibly winced at every note coming from the speakers. And I'd had slightly less extreme reactions once or twice before. But ... hey, no need to sneer at what you stock yourselves in your own (specialist) store, gents! :D So as you can see you're right about individual experiences. As for Dobell's, I remember in '75 to '77 there were 2 shops within a few steps from each other (though I seem to remember one was billed the "Jazz" shop and one the "Folk" shop, even though the selection they stocked really overlapped), and one or both seem to have been a sort of "downstairs" shop. Cramped, but full of goodies! I never bothered to listen to anything in Mole. I used to in Dobells - I liked the listening booths. My mate and I wrote "Fred Jackson is the world's greatest jazz musician of all time" just under where someone had written the same about Charlie Parker. But someone on the staff must have cleaned it off (but not the Bird graf), cos it wasn't there next time. So there was some snobbery over grafitti MG

In South Wales, we have "now", which means the approcimately same thing. MG

Two words - Richard Branson. I think that's unfair. Branson had a great idea in the late sixties, absolutely of its time, which was to make record shops a lot more informal. At the Virgin in Brighton, you used to lie on a bed to listen to albums. And it was hugely successful. I never really expect too much from a general record shop. If I went into a shop that specialised in music in which I'm interested - a Gospel shop like Miracle Music in Brixton, a Jazz shop like Mole, or Sterns African music, just up the road from Mole, I expected, and was never disappointed, to find stuff that would give me lessons. You can't expect that from a general shop. What you can hope for from such places is that there'll be a few things that are interesting when(ever) you go in, though it might take a couple of hours to find them; especially if you have to look through R&B, Blues, Soul, Reggae, World, Hip Hop and Gospel sections as well as Jazz. Within those parameters, I always found Virgin to be OK, right from the beginning. I bought Joe Zawinul's "Money in the pocket" and Ira Sullivan's "Horizons" there (Brighton) in 1970 - didn't like them but that's not the point. And, from the time they opened up in Cardiff (late seventies), the Cardiff store was a reliable place to shop. Something is due to local management, despite these chain stores' appearance as corporate monoliths. The HMV shop in Brighton was/is very good, my mate tells me. I had to ask him to stop sending me HMV gift vouchers, but send Virgin ones instead, because HMV in Cardiff was a total desert, which is what he thought of his local Virgin. Of course things have got a lot worse in the last few years, and Virgin (now Zavvi) isn't worth looking in. MG

Not entirely - you had that soprano player down right as a not usually soprano player. How you got that is a mystery; I could never tell. I'm sure the Neville Brothers are capable of playing like the band in #6, but I've never heard them do so. Got a recommendation for us? MG

Go West Young John Young Manfred Mann

That was the top band in West London in the early sixties. We used to see them several times a week and influenced their repertoire a lot. Great band, but Cliff didn't have an original style. He could imitate anything though, from Barbara George, to Piano Red, to Percy Mayfield to Ben E King - and the Beatles - he eventually signed up with Brian Epstein and got access to Beatles repertoire; had big GB hits with "Got to get you into my life" and "Back in the USSR". But the records he made for Joe Meek in the early sixties were a lot better. MG

St Clair Pinckney - Do you like it? - Ichiban Well, it's not bad, St Clair. Not exactly. MG

William Burroughs Edgar Rice Burrows Tarzan

George & Ira's Cousin from Milwaukee Kissing Cousins First Cozins Jazz Ensemble

Sounds Incorporated! They were a favorite of mine. I saw them on Shindig (a US TV show from '64 to early '66). I spent the summer of '67 in Europe (mostly Spain), and during my three days in London I bought both of their albums. Great memories, MG! Yeah! They did a gig in a warehouse in Southall in '62, backing Gene Vincent! What a show! MG

I've seen that before. Just after he gets the strike, DV does somehing hilariously uncharacteristic. But I've forgotten what MG

Is that 'ansome geezer you, Porcy? MG