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Done that, got the t-shirt. MG

Yes, I've cleaned it. No result, though there was a bunch of dust inside But I don't know how to reinstall the driver. MG

Thanks. It tells me I've only got the touchpad connected. The help system doesn't tell me how to reinstall the mouse driver. How do I do that? MG

No Come come - British jazz musician who wrote the theme for Newley's TV series "Life of Gurney Slade". It was a big hit. Only for those who live in the country where it was aired! We Americans know Newley, of course, but have never heard of the series. Yes, but Sidewinder's here! MG Don't know the series It was what he made his name with. Very off-beat humour for the time. MG

Interesting post Chris. Thanks. MG

My mouse just stopped working while I was reading a thread. I've unplugged it and plugged it in several times, to no effect. I've rebooted, to no effect. I'm using the touchpad (and finding it awkward) at the moment. How can I tell whether it's the physical mouse that's gone or if there's some kind of software problem, or some connection problem inside the laptop? Anyone any ideas? MG

No Come come - British jazz musician who wrote the theme for Newley's TV series "Life of Gurney Slade". It was a big hit. Only for those who live in the country where it was aired! We Americans know Newley, of course, but have never heard of the series. Yes, but Sidewinder's here! MG

What a waste of time! MG

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No Come come - British jazz musician who wrote the theme for Newley's TV series "Life of Gurney Slade". It was a big hit. MG

Alexander, whatever your problems are with Clem, and whatever is going on right now, you need to cut the crap. You know how Clem expresses himself and you know what he is like in this forum. If you can't handle his put-downs, its a pretty simple thing to put him on "ignore". But most importantly, I shouldn't have to post this in this thread. Get over yourself. Hear hear. If Clem's getting at you somewhere, handle it on THAT thread, not every other one. MG

No - I agree; it certainly didn't have a negative effect on the economy. But I was saying that it had a misleading effect on the statistics. While it's certainly true that, as Conn said above, there would have been trade (and Native Americans' purchases wouldn't have counted for GDP - only the furs etc they sold) compared with the industrial weight of the eastern states and the infrastructure developments you mention, it wouldn't have been a very significant element. So the averages would have tended to be depressed from time to time, as more bits of the continent, and their not terribly productive populations, started to be counted. MG

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In my experience, the same can be said for most people, not just Americans. I think that is not true. I was struck, on my first visit to Africa, how wide-ranging people's general knowledge of the world and world affairs was. I tend to avoid tourist centres when I go on holiday and on my first trip to Africa stayed in a town with a European population of about two, in a motel whose clientele was exclusively African. And I did a lot of listening; not so much to the other guests, who obviously were able to afford to stay in a cheap motel, but to the staff - the dishwasher, cleaner, receptionist, cook, laundry girls, and so on. Their knowledge of world current events went WAY beyond my own. And almost all of them spoke three, four or five languages. MG

No question about it. Not just in the US - that was the case all over ther Western world. But it wasn't sustainable. It may well be that nothing is sustainable; that everything falls apart through its own virtues. The point I was making earlier was that bad management has a role to play in forming history, and not neccessarily a bad one. If Galbraith is right about soft money (bad management) forming a crucial part of the mix that enabled the West to be won so quickly, the world would be a very different place had the views of the hard money men of the East been allowed to prevail. It would plausibly have taken a lot longer for the process to have been completed; and may never have been, had Native Americans the time to formulate different responses to the encroachment of European Americans on their land. But it's anyway unlikely that, given a slower pace of takeover, America would have been in a position to have made a difference in WWI; and that would have given a different situation in WWII. So, there's a time for every kind of policy; every kind of situation. And a time when each has to end. MG

Nice . What's the pressing like on side 2? Sorry for the delay, I was in Turkey. Holiday Side 2 is good, as far I remember. Why are you asking it? Welcome back. I was asking re: the side 2 as every copy I've ever heard had less than great pressing quality on the last track. Not sure why this is. You're right: the sound of the last track is "congested", overall all side 2 is worst then side 1. I checked it on my Coltrane's Prestige cd set, even on the cd the tracks on side 1 of the vinyl are better then side 2, though they sounds better then my 50th pressing's side 2. Pretty bizzare. No clues in the box set's libretto. I was playing the OJC CD of that the other day - didn't notice a thing except the music. MG If you listen to carefully at "Super Jet" you should find a less defined sound, I would say "congested", the instruments are melted togheter. Try to compare this track with the others. In my vinyl and my cd I can hear a difference. If you don't, just drop the issue and think "Fuck those anally retentive audiophiles, this is a great record". Thanks Porcy. I'll try both methods MG

Have you read Galbraith's "Money: whence it came and where it went"? It includes a very good and detailed account of America's adventures with money. He reckons the West was won by bank failures and soft money. MG

1956. It'll be out on classics next year Frankly, I'd prefer the material to come out like the original LPs did, but they were released in a mess worse than some Prestige sessions, so I suppose it's better to have all the tracks from one session together. MG

Nice . What's the pressing like on side 2? Sorry for the delay, I was in Turkey. Holiday Side 2 is good, as far I remember. Why are you asking it? Welcome back. I was asking re: the side 2 as every copy I've ever heard had less than great pressing quality on the last track. Not sure why this is. You're right: the sound of the last track is "congested", overall all side 2 is worst then side 1. I checked it on my Coltrane's Prestige cd set, even on the cd the tracks on side 1 of the vinyl are better then side 2, though they sounds better then my 50th pressing's side 2. Pretty bizzare. No clues in the box set's libretto. I was playing the OJC CD of that the other day - didn't notice a thing except the music. MG

Thanks for posting the track list, SS. I’ve been doin’ a bit of diggin’. I Only Have Eyes For You [1952] Chihuahua [1952] This Can't Be Love Nightingale [1952] Bingo Domingo Secret Love [1952] K9602 There's A Small Hotel [18 Apr ‘55] K9603 Bean-O [18 Apr ‘55] K9604 This Is Always [18 Apr ‘55] K9605 Leaping On Lenox [18 Apr ‘55] K9606 Tenderly [18 Apr ‘55] K9607 I'll Remember April [19 Apr ‘55] K9608 Moonlight In Vermont [19 Apr ‘55] K9609 Yesterdays [19 Apr ‘55] K9610 Little White Lies [19 Apr ‘55] MISSING K9611 You go to my head [19 Apr ‘55] K9612 You Go To My Head [19 Apr ‘55] K9613 What Is This Thing Called Love [19 Apr ‘55] K9614 Holler [19 Apr ‘55] K9615 Tickle Toe [19 Apr ‘55] K9616 Punch [19 Apr ‘55] MISSING K9617 A smooth ride [19 Apr ‘55] Fireball [?2 & 3 Feb 1956] K9618 I Want A Little Girl [20 Apr 1955 – by Doc Bagby] K9619 Hay Ride [20 Apr 1955 – by Doc Bagby] K9620 Soft One [20 Apr 1955 – by Doc Bagby] K9621 Grinding [20 Apr 1955 – by Doc Bagby] This is a funny bunch of stuff. The tracks I’ve marked [1952] are from a Roost session attributed by Lord to 1952. Jaws himself was adamant (sleeve notes to “Hey Lock”) that he recorded them before he joined Basie in 1952, because he gave up recording under his own name while he was with Basie. In either case, I would be interested to know how Classics are attributing them to 1953. I don’t know where “Bingo Domingo” and “This can’t be love” come from. The Birdland session was produced by Teddy Reig in its entirety. However, the four tracks by Jaws without Stitt were not released until they came out on the “Hey Lock” double LP on Vogue VJD548, in 1978. That material is marked on the label as © 1978 – and THAT is the reason Classics didn’t issue it. It won’t be out of copyright until 2028 (in Europe). The material with Sonny Stitt, from April 1954, is marked as © 1953 (oh yes?). These four tracks were originally released in 1955 as: Roost RST-1203 - Battle of Birdland - Eddie Davis & Sonny Stitt [1955] Marchin'/S.O.S./Jaws/I Can't Get Started Four further tracks from the gig: Roller coaster All the things you are Whoops Don’t blame me were issued on CDP7975072, the reissue of 1203, titled “Jaws and Stitt at Birdland”. These tracks would be copyrighted even more recently than those that appeared on VJD548, so I can see the point of not including the four which are out of copyright. Now, as to the later material, that all appears to be from April 1955. Four of the tracks, as I’ve noted against them, were recorded under Doc Bagby’s name on 20 April. But there were four other tracks done on that day, under Jaws’ name: K9622 Johnny come lately K9623 Dizzy atmosphere K9624 Just friends K9625 Talk of the town OK, I guess there wasn’t room on the CD for these four, but it does seem strange to put the Doc Bagby sides in. If they wanted to include everything he recorded, why not include the recordings he made with Gene Krupa, or Dinah Washington within the period? In a couple of years, a Doc Bagby complete CD could be put together with all 28 tracks this important organist recorded as a leader. Oh, and what happened to the missing tracks? "You go to my head" was issued on King LP506 "Modern jazz expressions". "A smooth ride" was apparently issued on King LP606 "Uptown", but it isn't in the King LP tracklist I've got. But "Fireball" is. So maybe there's been some retitling of this track on other releases and people have become confused. MG

A further thought while I was out having a ciggy: wouldn't the period while the West was being won have seen large increases in the Native American population of the new territories - people who were largely outside the money economy and who wouldn't, therefore, have contributed any (or significant) GDP? MG

That's very interesting Guy. thanks. I wondered why there was such a steep decline towards the end of WWII. But then I realised that a per capita GDP chart for the US is going to be equally sensitive to changes in immigration as to changes in output. Many of the steep declines look as if they occurred at times of great immigration. Newcomers take a while before they're as effective at producing as the older hands. So the absence of the wide swings seen before the war may simply reflect lower levels of immigration - or rather the smaller proportion (and lesser impact on the averages) of recent immigrants in the population - rather than better management on the part of the Government or the Fed. You might want to set an immigration graph alongside the per capita GDP graph and see whether it suggests anything. MG

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