The Magnificent Goldberg

"Lover" is on neither my 10" or 12" copy of "Black Coffee." I'm guessing it was on one of the other Decca albums (don't think she made too many on Decca; she was on Capitol, left for Decca for a couple of years, and then went back to Capitol). Of course, "Lover" had an orchestral backing so, if "Black coffee" is with small jazz groups, I guess it wouldn't be there. Silly me. I do remember the "Black coffee" track on the double LP had a jazz band backing. MG

Now giving weekly plays to disc 4 of the Lionel Hampton box. MG

I'm drinking tea, too. But I boil the water in a kettle. Microwave? I suppose it's as broad as it's long. MG

"Culpa mea" from Concha Buika's new album, "Nina de fuego". "OH MY!!!! MG

The Five Keys Alicia Keyes Carlton your Doorman

Let it go, Mama. None of us is perfect. Thirty-six years married, plus an extra year living in sin MG

Yep, they kinda go together. "Almost, cut my hair...." Some are - some aren't. "Where do you go to, my lovely" isn't - it's straightforward satire. So are "Taxman" and "Alice's restaurant". The stoned ones don't get through to me MG I think that those of us posting the stoned ones are doing it with an air of bemusement. I know that I am. With me it's just amusement. "Taxman" a 'hippie' song? I never saw it that way, though it's certainly satire. But you don't have to be a hippie to write satire. Indeed! But, in that period, to satirise what we now call "suits" is definitely hippie stuff. MG

Waymon Reed had an interesting career, for a musician few people have heard of. Worked with Ira Sullivan, James Brown, Count Basie, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, All Star Trumpet Spectacular and Sarah Vaughan (to whom he was married), before dying of cancer.

Ollie Collins, the Man with the Golden Voice Oliver Hardy Stan Laurel

Yes please MG. Download will do for me, as long as it's not too complicated! Richard Hope it'll be all right. Rapidshare fucked me about so much on Berigan's BFT that I had to ask for discs in the end. But I'm hoping that was just operator error. I get a lot of that MG

Yep, they kinda go together. "Almost, cut my hair...." Some are - some aren't. "Where do you go to, my lovely" isn't - it's straightforward satire. So are "Taxman" and "Alice's restaurant". The stoned ones don't get through to me MG

John Prescott Tony Blair Gordon Brown

I don't like this song, or the way it was sung. But it does have good words. You talk like Marlene Dietrich And you dance like Zizi Jeanmaire Your clothes are all made by Balmain And there's diamonds and pearls in your hair, yes there are You live in a fancy apartment Off the Boulevard Saint-Michel Where you keep your Rolling Stones records And a friend of Sacha Distel, yes you do But where do you go to my lovely When you're alone in your bed Tell me the thoughts that surround you I want to look inside your head, yes I do I've seen all your qualifications You got from the Sorbonne And the painting you stole from Picasso Your loveliness goes on and on, yes it does When you go on your summer vacation You go to Juan-les-Pins With your carefully designed topless swimsuit You get an even suntan on your back and on your legs And when the snow falls you're found in Saint Moritz With the others of the jet-set And you sip your Napoleon brandy But you never get your lips wet, no you don't But where do you go to my lovely When you're alone in your bed Won't you tell me the thoughts that surround you I want to look inside your head, yes I do Your name, it is heard in high places You know the Aga Khan He sent you a racehorse for Christmas And you keep it just for fun, for a laugh, a-ha-ha-ha They say that when you get married It'll be to a millionaire But they don't realize where you came from And I wonder if they really care, or give a damn Where do you go to my lovely When you're alone in your bed Tell me the thoughts that surround you I want to look inside your head, yes I do I remember the back streets of Naples Two children begging in rags Both touched with a burning ambition To shake off their lowly-born tags, so they try So look into my face Marie-Claire And remember just who you are Then go and forget me forever But I know you still bear the scar, deep inside, yes you do I know where you go to my lovely When you're alone in your bed I know the thoughts that surround you 'Cause I can look inside your head (na na-na-na na na-na-na na-na na na na na) (na na-na-na na na-na-na na-na na na na na) The last two lines are gems!

Only disappointment for me with this one is that they left off "Pearl Harbor Parts 1&2" and "Why I Like Roosevelt Parts 1&2" - probably because they concern secular topics, and possibly because Willie Eason sings lead and plays Hawaiian steel guitar on them. Leaving them off annoyed me because I figured I could get rid of my old Imperial LP from the 70's. Still have it because of those tracks. Oh, I thought it was complete. But there was certainly not enough time to get those into the two discs - they're 77:46 and 78:08. A three disc set would have cost a hell of a lot more. MG

War Eric Burdon The Animals

Grant Green's birthday today - in case no one's noticed Visions - BN UA orig Shades of Green - BN UA orig MG

Get "Black Coffee" on Decca. It's one her jazziest ever, and it's her most easy to find album from her Decca period (a few years in the mid 50s). Nearly all of her Capitol albums from the 50s up to at least the mid 60s are really solid. Also, I always loved the live album with George Shearing, "Beauty and the Beat." Yes - I have "Beauty & the beat" - it was one of the first albums I ever bought and I'm on my third copy now I also had, in those days, a two LP set called "The best of Peggy Lee" on UK Brunswick, from her Decca period. The track that always got me - and I still can hear it over 45 years later - was "Lover". Is that on the "Black coffee" album? MG

Yes, interesting. Well, if American families haven't got enough money to pay their mortgages after their petrol and food bills are paid, they'll just have to eat less. Seems like cuts in health bills might result. MG

If I recall correctly, that' the truth, the highest British marginal tax rate at the time actually was 95%. Indeed it was - and rightly so. So those fat cat hippie Beatles didn't want to provide their fair share of tax. MG

I was playing that the other day. It was reissued on Polydor in the late sixties under the title "Atmosphere for lovers and thieves". A lovely album. And I think the new title is so evocative and completely right. MG

Happy Birthday!!!! MG

And I like It's one for you, nineteen for me. MG

Have a GREAT one!!! MG

You can have anything you want At Alice's Restaurant (Covers a multitude of sins, that. Then) I wanna kill! I wanna kill! I wanna kill! You seem like just the type we need. MG

Nainy Diabate Sidiki Diabate Sekouba Bambino