The Magnificent Goldberg

On a little street in Singapore - (De Rose/Hill) recorded by Wild Bill Davis MG

Aral Sea you in my dreams MG

They also missed all the Woolworths' own brand that I bought in the 70s I have some other right cheapos, knocking about somewhere, that aren't in the picture. MG

Georgia on my mind MG

Oh - On a slow boat to China - recorded by Benny Goodman MG

Road to Morocco is just about OK since Bing was slightly a bit jazzy - but we ARE looking for tunes at least done by jazz bands (What about "Ahab the Arab"?) Little Niles - Randy Weston MG

Don't these use the term in the sense of ridding oneself of a drug addiction the hard way, not the country? John Lennon wrote a piece with that title, and the lyrics didn't leave any room for speculation ... Yes - it's like picking songs with a person's name in the title - like "Albatros". MG

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Early this afternoon: Lou Donaldson - Everything I play is funky - BN orig Lou Donaldson - Back street - Muse orig Stanley Turrentine - New time shuffle - BN UK issue MG

Thanks for posting that, HBJ MG

I'm not certain that's true - Guy posted something interesting a few weeks ago that seemed to show that many poor people in South Africa were better off if they could get credit - even if they were paying enormous interest rates for it - than if they couldn't. This is VERY counter-intuitive. Of course, it seems they'd be even better off if they could get credit at a reasonable price, but that would be to ignore the risk factor which is evidently high in such cases. I think, with credit, it's not the ease of getting it, or the price in interest rate terms that matters; it's whether the debtor actually understands what he/she is getting into. I think a lot don't. MG

Not getting ANY ideas here. MG

Arthur Theus worked with McGriff from about '68 to '71 or so, so he COULD be the tenor player. (Or the alto player ) Or Joe Morris, who was also on board. But I haven't heard this album. MG

Noel Pointer Noel Edmunds Santa Claus

I'm sorry to hear this, too. Keep thinking positive. MG

I hadn't seen it before. It doesn't appear to be comprehensive, however. No discussion of LPs with Lex/W63rd labels on either side; no mention of the distinction between Liberty/UA and UA; or between UA and Liberty United - ie the ones made after the management buy-out of the company from Transamerica; no mention of the LT series. And point 8 is definitely wrong; I'm sure he is describing reissues. I was buying these funky things (which he admits not to having) as they came out; they all came out on the traditional BN LP label. I have seen reissues of this material as he describes them. The other explanation is that both label designs were used for originals of different albums in the same timeframe - that seems to me to be so highly unlikely as to be dismissable. Point 3 is wrong too. I can see what he's done. He's got himself a 1967/68 Blue Note/Liberty catalogue and you can see at the end of that that the three highest numbers (4253, 4255 & 4263) all have sleeves designed by Liberty - the ones that do for mono and stereo releases by just shuffling the sleeve up to cover the stereo number. What he hasn't got is the 31 December 1968 addendum, which list all the albums that had issued subsequent to the main catalogue. And these new issues included 4203 4212 4218 4230 4232 4238 4242 4243 5244 4249 But in any case, had he looked at some of the funky stuff, he'd have found Division of Liberty sleeves already issued in the 1967/8 catalogue: 4206 (I think, but it's pretty faint) 4222 4228 4239 4240 4245 4246 and in fact 4252 has a Liberty designed jacket. I don't have all of those, but the ones I do have that I know are original because I bought them when they came out, have a Division of Liberty Records inc on the label. It would be good if someone who really has a big BN collection, which coveres the Soul Jazz side of BN as well as the Hard Bop side - like Porcy or Brownie (quick before he vanishes!) - would do a more thorough study of this. MG

Do you know, and want us to guess? Or don't you know and want help? My guess is it's something from New Orleans. A bit Allen Toussaint- or James Booker-ish. But I really don't know. MG

Ted Ray Teddie McRae Freddie McCoy

No idea of issue date. If you haven't got this, it's worth every cent and much more than Da Barstids are asking. MG

I didn't know you were over here, Phil. Best wishes. MG

Tweety Pie Sylvester Rocky Balboa

Very nice, thanks Mark. I really appreciate your posting these photos. Over here I so rarely see jazz musicians in action. MG

damn. if that's going to be the order of the day, then i might as well take off. i mean really folks, if you can't tolerate different opinions, then stay out of social settings like this board where the free exchange of ideas is welcome, nay essential. Er, what's the point of having an argument about this? MG

In a Liberty pressing I think ! My copy has the Bluenote label with Division of United Artist in the spot where Liberty is usually seen. I'd never noticed this before because I friend had given it to me years ago and I wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth. I don't think I have other examples of this old style Bluenote label with United Artist on it. The cover btw, has the 43 West 61st St. address on it. Maybe somebody could help out more with this, but as I understand it this switch occurred shortly after Transamerica/UA bought out Liberty. This was an interim label design between the blue/white Liberty label and the black/cerulean UA label. I've had the Cecil in this version, as well as a plain ol' blue/white Liberty, before settling on a NY Mono. (no, I didn't keep all three!) I don't think that was uncommon. I just checked my copies of Grant Green's "Visions" (84373), "Shades of Green" (84413),"Final comedown" (84415), "Live at the Lighthouse" (037) and McGriff's "Black pearl" (84374), Lou Donaldson's "Sophisticated Lou" (024) and they're all like that. Lou's "Sassy soul strut" (109) is the blue & black label and has the new Blue Note trademark on the front cover. I don't have originals of the few LPs before "Visions", so I can't tell when it started, but it looks like there was a period of about two to three years when LPs with the traditional BN label, but a div of United Artists, not Liberty, were coming out. It's interesting that this design even went into the period when BNs were getting UA numbers. MG

Japanese sandman - written by someone called R Whiting and Egan, but famously recorded by Paul Whiteman & Benny Goodman The Holy Land - Cedar Walton MG