The Magnificent Goldberg

Many happy returns! MG

I'm VERY pleased with the Onzy Mattnews Select I got in the cut price shipping sale a few weeks ago. I had a LONG look just now at the Farmer/Golson box but decided that even at $105 + postage, I had better give it a miss for a while. MG

Sorry to hear that. RIP. MG

Could be... but then there's been so many BN reissues in the past years, and some albums have come out several times within short periods of time, so I guess there's no need. And honestly, not much interest here for more BN Mosaics, either... there's lots of other much more interesting ground for them to cover! Dan Gould and I want a Three Sounds box. MG

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Thanks Chewy - I always wondered about that. MG

I'm thinking about Prometheus stealing fire from the Gods. I'm thinking about Eve making Forbidden Fruit salad. I'm thinking about Rabbi Loew and his big clay friend. I'm thinking about Mary Shelley's ghost story. I'm thinking of Einstein, Marie Curie, and Robert Oppenheimer unleashing armageddon. I'm thinking about a big sign that says, "Do NOT pass this point." Don't say we haven't been warned. There's a reason that so much of our mythology deals with forbidden knowledge and the consequences therein. Paradise Lost, indeed... Well put, but we are shaped to pass points. It remind me a book: Roy Lewis' The Evolution Man. Very true - both of you But... As Porcy says... MG

John Lee Hooker John Lee Williamson Rice Miller

We get the same treatment here... we get taken to Google.fr clicking the link "Google.com in English" on the main google page will take you to google.com. A cookie will be set that remembers you actually want to use google.com if you go to google.com I see, thanks. MG

Shades of Pathe records! What happened at the end of the side? Did the tone arm fly off the edge of the disc? MG

Very interesting. MG

Cotton chinos and a t-shirt with (mostly) enlarged sleeves of Senegalese cassettes on front (or Senegalese national football team, WBGO or Spillers Records t-shirts). For going out I add a rather disreputable old jacket with the sleeves rolled up Miami Vice style It's really NICE not to have to wear suits any more (except for funerals). MG

And we're in the middle of a postal strike, and all my stuff is stuck in it MG

Only thing that's running slow around here is Google UK. The number of times I've had to pass on "Name 3 people" because I couldn't be asked to wait ten minutes for Google to fire up (and another ten to find the search terms)... (And if you use Google.com from the UK, it just refers you back to Google UK.) MG

Good question. I always wondered what that was supposed to say. MG

Dr Watson Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

? "The race is on and it looks like pride up the back straght" or something? MG

Uh-oh. Seconded! MG

Cor!!!! Wasn't it an exciting last 15 minutes? Wow! Fantastic defending from France! Gripping! MG

13 all now. Looks like developing into an exciting match. I'm going to see if I can find a TV channel with it on. MG

Showed those three to my daughter earlier - she liked them too. MG

Thanks very much folks. My daughter and her 3 kids (husband and two grandsons) came over for the afternoon, then she took us out to a nice restaurant for dinner. Just back home now. Very nice birthday. (Very relaxed 'cos my wife is on holiday in Namibia at present and I haven't yet noticed if grandsons wrote on the walls. ) MG

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I think a big part of the answer is Ella Fitzgerald. She had had three or four albums on the pop LP charts before MGM bought Verve (not sure when that was exactly). A few singles made the R&B charts, as well: Illinois Jacquet's "Port of Rico" and "Mordido" by the JATP All Stars are ones I can remember offhand. But Brownie's right; even without hits, Granz' labels were probably making money. Granz was a good businessman. Of course, with MGM's financing and industrial push, Verve did even better in the following years. I don't know if Granz maintained his connection with the firm after the sale or if this was mainly Creed Taylor's doing. MG Oh, and PS - Verve had certainly been bought by the time Jimmy Smith's "Bashin'" came out - and that was five years before Liberty bought BN.

How about "New Jersey - bigger than Jersey" John Patton lived in Montclair, which is very nice, like an English country town, but full of Americans. MG