The Magnificent Goldberg

Before that, they reunited for Mr Fathead - WB - really pretty awful Keep the dream alive - Prestige (released after "Concrete" but recorded first - better, but not much) and finally Scratch my back - Prestige - which is perhaps the greatest disco album ever! Newman is ecstatic on many cuts. It's not an album that pretends to be a jazz album - it's out an out dance music of the time and who better than Newman? MG

Noj, I bet you didn't know that Groove Holmes' recording with Gerald Wilson was the first jazz organ with big band recording. I had thought that the first was a Jimmy Smith with Oliver Nelson effort, but I was wrong. Milt Buckner played organ with Lionel Hampton's orchestra a decade before Wilson's recording with Holmes . And Count Basie played organ with the Count Basie band in the thirties. I knew Basie recorded on organ with the orchestra in the Fifties but I cited Buckner because I thought he did so slightly before Basie . The Basie organ recordings from the Thirties were with smaller groups not the orchestra weren't they ? Dunno - I noticed Basie playing organ on a track featuring Jimmy Rushing. I'll check whether the whole band's there when the present CD stops. MG

Oh yes! Of course, it was a Presley song before she recorded it. MG

More please. MG

I've never seen a photo of Nellie before. No wonder he wrote a song about her! MG

Love the ink drawings, Jon. MG

I'm getting Alzheimers! I can't remember what song that's from "Rip it up"? "Reddy Teddy"? MG

Really great idea! MG

Two dollars or pounds ? MG

Noj, I bet you didn't know that Groove Holmes' recording with Gerald Wilson was the first jazz organ with big band recording. I had thought that the first was a Jimmy Smith with Oliver Nelson effort, but I was wrong. Milt Buckner played organ with Lionel Hampton's orchestra a decade before Wilson's recording with Holmes . And Count Basie played organ with the Count Basie band in the thirties. MG

I seriously urge you to try this one again. In my view, the Bobby Bryant arrangements are much too brittle for Jug BUT his solo on the title track is the most powerful solo I've ever heard him play. Don't believe the sleeve. This, and "Mama roots" were recorded in about 1969 for the Choice label. We haven't quite, I think, bottomed out what is what with those originals and the reissues on muse, but here's a thread discussing it. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...arland&st=0 Yeah, you got a real nice bunch of stuff for me! MG

That's a most interesting thing. It's not CDs that suck, it's albums. And if you mainly want individual songs, no point in buying CDs. This is a bit of a paradigm shift. MG well, i guess you could also call it the return of the "single" ... Yes, except for one thing (well, I think so). Now there is so much more to choose from. Back in the day, you were more or less limited to what your local shop stocked. Though I suppose the main thrust of most people's buying was (and still is) governed by peer pressure. MG

Ah, now this is more like the Organissimo threads we have come to love and respect! MG

Wossis? Nevrerdervit! MG

Well, well. As far as I've ever been able to find out, that wasn't the case over here. But maybe it just wouldn't have been talked about here. MG

Maybe she sent it to my daughter MG

Try some George Braith. Stuff available at CD Baby http://cdbaby.com/found?allsearch=george+b...p;submit=search He also has a website http://georgebraith.com/ George is a bit of a hero hereabouts. MG

That would be this one: which lists for $17 at Amazon but has used copies starting at $9. Having a different Junior Parker comp of the Sun sessions, I've held off on this but I really ought to go for it just to hear "I'm Gonna Murder My Baby". Thanks folks - looks like the one I should be getting. MG

That doesn't ring quite true as a generalisation, I think. Think back to the thirties and forties; everyone went dancing then. And that was also true for the Rock & Roll audience in the fifties. I think the development of rock in the sixties changed things. But the people who liked sixties/seventies Rock, wouldn't have liked Disco - not because it was for dancing, but because they thought it was rubbish. MG

Keep on truckin'! MG

Nice. I think I had pretty well every one of those Jerry Lee Lewis 45s - except "Money". MG

Bee Houston - Bee Houston - Arhoolie (orig) MG

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I think I heard Junior's "Mystery train" once on the radio in the sixties. Is his Sun material available? MG

And Paul Whiteman and Benny Goodman. About the only kind of American black music that didn't happen to is Gospel, because there was always a white equivalent. MG