The Magnificent Goldberg

Hey Aloc, why don't you say who your pictures show? It's not everyone who can recognise Ray Ellington... MG

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OK, it's a cigar. So kill me. M

Johnny Morissette Matilda Matty T

I hate that one that goes, "And here it is, Merry Christmas, everybody's having fun" by Slade or something like that. MG

Got mine yesterday, too. So did Clunky. Very good performance from DHL, to get copies to Britain on same day as California! MG

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Augie March Randy Marsh Marsha (of John fame)

Big John Patton Sloop John B Snoop Doggy Dogg

Rhoda Scott Shirley Scott Bu Pleasant

Just finished disc 5 - what an evening!!!!!!! I wish I'd looked into this stuff years ago! MG

Just finished disc 3 of the Hampton - wow! That Chu Berry!!!!!! I see there must be a good bit of duplication between this set and Chu's. MG

Now towards the end of disc 2. This is likely to do me until I go to bed tonight MG

Cosmic rays? Are you kidding me? Cosmic rays are like Disneyland compared to this: I thought it was a resording by Ray Charles & Milt Jackson MG

The Lionel Hampton box arrived at lunchtime today. Damn good performance from DHL - it was only shipped on Thursday! Oh boy! What a jumpin' set! And I'm not halfway through disc 1 yet! MG

Isn't there a better image of this set? Which, for those who can't read the tiny writing, is the new Mosaic box, "The complete Lionel Hampton Victor sessions 1937-1941". Eight tracks into disc 1 now and does this stuff fuckin' well JUMP!!!!! Sent on last Thursday, arrived this lunchtime. Wrapping Christmas presents all afternoon, so only just settled down to listen to it. MG

Oh, I KEEP forgetting that album! MG

Mention of CTI reminds me of the huge disco hit "2001" (aka Richard Strauss' "Also sprach Zarathustra") - Deodato Also on the same album was Debussy's "Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faun" and on the follow up, Ravel's "Pavane pour une enfant defunte". In addition, there are hundreds of versions of Borodin's music from "Kismet" (including a whole album by the Montgomerys - "Baubles bangles & beads" must be the most recorded classic. And it's on Deodato's first album, too, which is what reminded me. MG

My favourite Doggett album. Oddly, I was captivated by the feather on the cover when I bought it. I have other Doggett collections, but this one remains my favourite. It's nice. There are a few tracks duplicating ones I have on other albums but, since there's no chance of Mosaic doing a complete Doggett King box, it's something up with which one has to put MG

Ask any handy Science Fiction novellist. MG