The Magnificent Goldberg

Captain Cook Captain Bligh Fletcher Christian

Yes - RIP Eddy. I didn't realise he recorded the original version of Dorothy Moore's "Misty blue". Just to note - those long-standing #1 hits were Country Chart hits, not Pop Chart hits. His biggest pop hit was indeed "Make the world go away", which got to #6. MG

Once upon a time, there was a serious point to this thread. I haven't seen the TV show, but I do agree with the serious point, whatever it was. MG

Good news indeed! Let's hope the progress continues. MG

Acamapichtli Axayacatl Huitzilihuitl

"Poor pilgrim of sorrow" by Donald Vails Choraleers, featuring Dolores Taylor, from the LP "In deep water", Savoy. A 1976 recording. "Menkasen" by Tic-Tac, from the CD "Wope", TN records, Ghana, 2004. One of the world's greatest grooves! Just can't keep still! MG

Tommy Tucker Mickey Tucker Ben Tucker

$3.98 was the norm, IIRC. Maybe $4.98 for stereo. Or maybe at one (earlier) point, a dollar less both ways. I bought my first LP in 1968, and that's what prices were then. How many pints of beer could you buy then for the price of an LP? And how many can you buy now for the price of a (new) CD? MG

Maxi Priest Father Ted Deacon L Shinault

Tom Walls Winston Walls Van "Piano Man" Walls

So did I - but birds means something different in English MG

No complaints from me either on the sound for the UK and US issues (often the UK issues had US sleeves anyway). The ones I have more of a problem with are the French 'Carerre', which can be spotty. Remember when that first series of RCA/Prestiges twofers came out - it was like Alladin's Cave ! Right in the middle of the first oil crisis too (the thickness of vinyl dropped significantly during the period so you sometimes find the first titles in the series with nice heavy slabs of vinyl and the later twofers from 77-78 with frisbees). Mind you, the original Prestige issues in 1973 were the REAL frisbees. However, I suspect few here will have had the originals of: 10053 Rusty Bryant - Friiday night funk 10054 Maynard Parker - Midnight rider 10055 Houston Person - Sweet buns & barbecue 10056 Boogaloo Joe Jones - Snake rhythm rock 10058 Gene Ammons - Got my own 10059 Funk inc - Hangin' out by 10061 - Earland's "Charles III", the pressings had firmed up again. MG

Gladys Hampton Gladys Knight The Pips

The Ace LPs are pretty much from the fag-end of the LP era, flimsy vinyl with light card covers , many seem to indicate that they're from digital masters. The few I have however , sound fine. Mose Allison Sings sounds as good as a Prestige original I have. I think I agree with you on the sound. I feel they damage easily. I was thinking more of albums like Bernard Purdie's "Shaft" and Ammons/Stitt "You talk that talk". Looking through the Prestige discography, I think they were about the only two contemporary Prestige albums that RCA issued in Britain; almost everything I bought on Prestige (and it was one of their best periods) in those days had to be imported from the US. The only twofer I bought on RCA was Ammons' "Organ combos", which is pretty well all right - but that was a few years later - 1977, as opposed to 1973 for the single LPs. But the Musidisc stuff is a lot worse. MG

Hard to tell, but I don't think so - he appears to have a rather rounder face than Newman. MG

J D Rockefeller Howard Hughes Croesus

Katie Bell Nubin & Dizzy Gillespie - Soul, soul searching - Verve Mono black label (1960 recording, would that be the original? Is this in the Mosaic box?) Dorothy Norwood - Motherless child (how far is heaven) - Atlanta International orig MG

Oliver Jackson Oliver Hardy Stan Laurel

Wrong timing. The LP issued in August 1961, with that sleeve. In fact, the photo may be considerably earlier than that. It was taken by Jay Maisel, who used to do sleeve photos for Atlantic in the 1956/57 period. MG

How much did "Listen here" go for? MG

I wish they'd hit the Muse material HARD! MG

I don't think it's an Oscar. Looking at the actual 12" sleeve, the arms are in a different position from an Oscar. Perhaps it's a statuette of Jimmy Smiff. MG

I think Stan Getz' playing (and Desmond's for that matter) is anything but simple! Even in the most mundane of settings, he always manages to play with great inspiration and artistry. Well, he's improvising simple catchy tunes that people can get easily. That's what it sounds like. I don't think that's easy. MG

Irving Berlin Irving Mills Glynn Mills

I don't think the early seventies RCA UK, or the early eighties Ace, pressings for Prestige material were terribly good. Nor the French Carrere Fantasy stuff. MG