The Magnificent Goldberg

Tommy Dean, with whom GG made his first recordings, didn't run an R&B band. He was a jazz pianist who turned to organ. His organ style appears to have been an influence on Sam Lazar - in the mid fifties, Dean's was one of the main combos in St Louis. It wasn't unlike that of Bill Doggett's but whereas Doggett's band swaggered at a plodding pace, Dean's band flew! That's why those GG cuts seem very interesting. Some of his 1954 and 1955 recordings had Oliver Nelson on them. Gene Easton was on his earliest session, from '49. Here's what I know of the 1956 session: Tommy Dean Tommy Dean (org); Fred Lee (ts); Grant Green (eg); Hattuch Alexander (b); Milton Wilson (d, bgo); Joe Buckner (voc). Universal Recording, Chicago, October 23, 1956 56-562 Boogie Googie (part 1) Vee-Jay unissued 56-563 Boogie Googie (part 2) 56-564 Ain't No Justice 56-565 She Left Me Alone 56-566 Come On I dare say, this Vee-Jay session will never come to light, as it hasn't already. Michael Cuscuna must have had a good riffle around in their tape store and would surely have rescued it, were it there to be rescued. MG

Goodness! So the LICENCE fee depends on sales, as well as publishers & composers royalties. Good Lord, they get paid twice! No wonder so many record companies followed BMI's advice to set up their own publishing companies and publish their artists' music! MG

Donald Trump Legs Diamond Sam Spade

'Grantstand' was recorded on 1 Aug 1961; 'Stop & listen' on 22 May 1961. Here's an old Grant Green discography which no longer has a web page but which I saved years ago. It's pretty good, but doesn't include his 1956 session, which has never issued. (Now, how do I do this?...) Hm, seems to work... nice. MG Grant Green a discography.htm

Oh, that doesn't seem to be a royalty. BSDA told me they collect from companies on the basis of numbers of K7s manufactured, usually a minimum of 20K copies, plus more moola for each subsequent run. It's only small money; K7 albums were selling there for about $1.50, and everyone was making a (minuscule) profit at that price. No Hollywood production costs; probably no more than one take per song and bloody well get it right first time lads! MG

Airey Neave Eric Gale Alan Breeze (for those who remember him)

Oh, this is the first time I've heard about royalties (you were talking about royalties, weren't you?) being paid on the basis of manufactured copies, IN AMERICA. It's standard practice in Senegal; BSDA collects royalties from record companies when their stuff is duplicated or pressed, regardless of whether they sell more than half a dozen copies. So record companies are pretty careful only to release albums that they think are well within the spirit of the times. But everyone gets paid. MG

Dave Dee Lennie Dee Ethel Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEr-AKJr-LI PS - I think she's miming

King Onyina General Prince Adekunle Gentleman Mike Ejeagha

What a brilliant remark! MG

Ah, I never listened to more than the title track of 'Let it be', and then not much, though I have a beautiful cover of the song, sung in Wolof by Cheikh Ndiguel Lo, in several time signatures at once, which I listen to a lot, and still. And thanks for the link on copyright, which confirms that I was about right, though it doesn't mention anything about paying for a license to record a copyrighted song; just how to get your royalty accounting right. MG

Oscar the Grouch Groucho Marx Sheldon Marks

I like the album and yes, 'Blues in Maude's flat' is one of the great blues cuts - I wonder who invented the title? I've always thought of it as Alfred Lion's attempt (or Duke Pearson's attempt) at Esmond Edwards, so Chewy and I are onside there. I never thought, until reading this, that it's not truly a Grant Green album, but I've got to agree with Jim, it's more like Mel Rhyne's 'Organizing' than anything else. Sort of get a bunch of guys in and press play. The kind of thing Bobby Weinstock used to love to do before Esmond came on the scene. In that sense it's like the Gene Ammons jam sessions, also not really Gene Ammons albums, as per 'Tenor sax favourites' (particularly vols 2 & 3) or as we'd come to know and love them after his first spell in prison. MG

I'm imperfectly familiar with the Beatles repertoire, but I've never heard that piece before (except I HAVE heard 'Three blind mice' :)) and I've never heard OF a Beatles tune of that title anyway. Is it really a Beatles tune? And I thought licensing a tune for a cover recording was compulsory. A composer can't prevent a song being covered, and an arranger can't prevent an approach from being copied because he can't copyright an arrangement. So all it costs is that the record company, Big O, has to pay the composers or their estates, and the music publisher, standard royalties for all copies sold. So I don't understand Jim S's question. Nice performance though. Put me down for a copy when it comes out. MG

I've got lists upon lists of cuts I wanted to put in but never did. Often, they fit with a subsequent BFT. Perhaps I agonise too much about what should go in? (Last time I excluded a nice Ben E King cut with good work by Sweets Edison.) MG

Goodness me! Thanks for putting this REALLY interesting bit of music in, Bill. And thank you, too, Jim, for bring this all ON, including TV Slim, who I've not heard before. MG

Heath Ledger St Ledger Simon Templar

What a REALLY nice thread! MG

Man Mountain Mike Mountainous Maurice Dennis (the bearded guy playing banjo) Maurice and Mac

Yeah, but hot in a cool way. Don't want to wait for the end of the month to find out about it - someone get it right quick please! MG And I STILL think #13 is Don Sebesky, even though it isn't. MG

Hank Ballard & the Midnighters Peter Noone The Tymes

Jazz MG

Thank you BIll MG

The Gay Gordons Gay Gordon (who lived in the flat above me in 1963) Marvin Gaye

No results on iTunes for "Dinah Washington The Complete Roulette Collection". Has anyone any idea of what the real title of this set is? It's one I should have bought when it was out. Another point - I looked at the Donaldson and iTunes UK are NOT offering it for anything other than streaming. OK, it sez the streaming is free. That's unhelpful if you want to put the original albums together in tracklist order. Anyone know what the deal is here or where you can actually buy this stuff as downloads? MG