The Magnificent Goldberg

Don't worry bout growing old! Just enjoy the birthdays! Have a good one! MG

Have a good one, Joe. Best wishes. MG

Thank you, Chuck. MG

I know a banker who looks back with real regret to the days when your bank manager was a Captain Mainwaring type, who knew you, the butcher, the grocer and the guy who could get stuff on the black market, and could make decision based on his knowledge. But we don't live in that kind of world any more. MG

Abdullah Ibrahim Basil "Mannenberg" Coetzee Kippie Moketsi

Frankenstein Young Frankenstein Mel Brooks

Yes, good article that helps the understanding quite a bit. There's a third problem mentioned in the article. That is that Subprime XYZ had to be rated by Moody's within a day. This leaves almost no time for anyone to learn anything about the individual product. It also implies a throughput that may also not allow time for learning about the generality of what's happening (as opposed to the more leisurely life led by economists, that enabled the Moody's man to see what was going on). But I wonder what would be the impact on the world financial sector of slowing things down? MG

Absolutely - Ammons, Turrentine, Gator etc etc. I expect I'm going to get the shit kicked out of me here, but I think one whose playing was rather at one dynamic level all (or a lot of) the time was Sonny Stitt (though I never saw him live and the only live albums I have of his are two with Jug and the Left Bank Label M). But to me, Sonny's playing is all about flow. MG

Dennis "DT" Thomas Kool Spike Mickens

And I got the Boswell Sisters and Adrian Rollini on te last cut. Feeling very proud of myself on those Thanks COnrad - a good trip. Luncchtime. MG

Finn McCool Kool Moe Dee Kool

Never heard of the guy, but that's telling it straight! MG

Oh, do you have to have a camera fixed up? (This post is an official contender for Naive Question of the Month) MG

Me too! I want to get more of this band - and looking at the personnel, it's easy to see why it was so good. Any ideas, Conrad? MG

Chuck has commented otherwise; and I seem to recall that RVG advised Alfred Lion to keep sides no more than about 22 minutes long. I suspect it depends on what the music's actually like. If there isn't a wide dynamic range or frequency range, perhaps you can get more on an LP. But it was noticeable in the seventies, when compilation pop/R&B/Soul LPs began to come out with twenty tracks, that they'd be more likely to skip if your equipment wasn't the best that money could buy. So, they'd skip at home, but not in the shop! MG

Bobby Ellis & Tommy McCook & the Professionals meet the Revolutionaries - Black unity - Third World MG

The postman brought me a couple of Bernard Purdie grooves today Both are on his own label 3Bs. I thought "After hours" was long deleted so I had stopped trying to get it. It's not what I expected of a Bernard Purdie album - some things in there really surprised me. MG

Marion Montgomery Viscount Montgomery of Alamein M E Clifton James

Sly Dunbar - Sly-go-ville - Island Taxi UK orig Rico - Man from Wareika - Island UK orig MG

I didn't know about those. Thanks Allen. MG

I think I jumped too quickly, then didn't listen as I should have done. MG

Bridges mainly stuck around Kansas City. I think he's on some Julia Lee records. But that's about all. Yes - he's on both copies ( ) I have of "Julia's blues" which was recorded, depending on which sleeve note you believe, on 23 August 1946 or September 1946. I don't have any other cuts from the session, though. MG

Bungalow Bill A E Houseman Rt Hon Sir Alec Douglas-Home

Very sad. "I'm sorry, I haven't a clue" was THE best improvised radio comedy show ever. Sidewinder's right about his radio programme - no rubbish and a wide range of stuff. Even Jimmy McGriff playing "Hittin' the Jug". Humph did love those long, slow, funky blues. RIP after a great innings. MG

Never understood why they didn't make them 1 & 3, 2 & 4 so that you could play everything without interruption. If it's 1 & 4, 2 & 3, then you can play everything without interruption. All you need do is turn the pile over and the rest are in the correct order for uninterrrupted playing. Rev C L Franklin's many 6 part sermons before the LP era were 1/6, 2/5, 3/4. So, when you put them on for play, you'd have them like this: 3 - 4 2 - 5 1 - 6 Side 1 would play first, then 2, then 3. Then you'd turn the pile upside down and it would look like this 6 - 1 5 - 2 4 - 3 so the second half of the sermon would play in the correct order. MG