The Magnificent Goldberg

Well - Miriam Makeba! That really IS a surprise! Will look at this in more detail tomorrow maybe. The board isn't working well for me at present. MG

Pretty good playlist. I hears Sonny Knight's "Let's get it on" in the 60s and have been looking for it ever since - well, really, waiting for my mate to die and leave it to me in his will (but he hasn't got "Belly rub" ). I've been watching Larry Grogan for a while, but slipped lately. Thanks for letting me know about this. MG

Britain's been flooded. Around here, though, we haven't had much more rain than usual - a lot. My father-in-law came from Bentley, in Yorkshire, where the flooding is worst. My wife's cousin - about 60-ish, lives on slightly higher ground - had to wade through waist deep water to rescue her aunt in her 80s. How people in that position are going to be able to put their lives back together again is quite hard to see. Apparently, my wife's cousin says, there was a dam which hadn't been maintained as it should by Yorkshire Water (the worst water firm in Britain, by all accounts) and they had to release a lot out of some kind of side channel - through Bentley. That was OK, because Bentley is an old coal mining village and full of socialists. If they'd released the water on the other side of the reservoir, it would have flooded a golf course. MG

Tonto The Lone Ranger Johnny "Guitar " Watson

There's been a wine lake for decades. The whole of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy stinks. An interesting technical point for you, Guy, is that the GVA of the agriculture industry includes subsidies. If you subtract the value of the subsidies from the GVA of the industry in Wales, you get 0. MG

Well, on Saturday, the postman brought this which is vol 1 of a set of two that I ordered together, but which have been despatched separately. These two CDs contain all the tracks from three LPs Sax 5th Avenue - by Johnny Beecher (a pseudonym) - Charter 102 (1963) On the scene - by Johnny Beecher (a pseudonym) - Charter 104 (1963) (I have a couple of 45s of the Charter material) Blue martini - by Plas Johnson - Ava 24 (1964) Unfortunately, they don't appear to have included the best of these Charter tracks - "Jack sax the city" which JUMPS! (Though that may have been a retitling ofr the British issue of something that I'll find on vol 2.) The Charter material has the great Bert Kendricks on organ. Kendricks is best known for playing on Jimmy Witherspoon's "Evenin' blues". The Ava material has an orchestral accompaniment. Very nice stuff! And today, volume 2 arrived. I am very pissed off that none of the tracks has turned out to be a renamed "Jack sax the city". Thank God I have the 45! (Should have put it in the BFT.) MG

Charles Kynard & Buddy Collette - Warm winds - World Pacific WP1823 mono MG

I'm playing, at this very moment Charles Kynard & Buddy Colette - Warm winds - World Pacific WP1823 mono Buddy is on flute throughout. Very nice album - not over-greasy, but nice stuff. Lots of lLatin percussion. MG

Very helpful SS1 - this lot is no great revelation. But YOU should get "Gravy train" and "Midnight special" - two ultra greasy albums - 4078 & 4079 - a good week for grease that was (with "Workout" 4080). MG

That was my thought, too. MG

Hi folks. Just discovered you were up and running - I'm not getting any e-mail notifications of postings to the threads to which I'm subscribed. But I really want to say thanks to Jim for all the work he's put in. Thank you Jim for all the work you've put in. MG

Young men from Memphis - Down home reunion - UA King MG

Ah, the other thing I notice is that you don't have the link at the bottom that pulls up the last three or so pages of new posts. Is that another job for later? MG

Looks GREAT Jim. Thanks for all the hard work you've put in. MG

Oh Ho! Thanks Kilian MG

Thaswonderful! Purdie is such a nice guy and this comes right through. MG

I don't think education is a good measure of intelligence. I left school at 16 with 4 "O" levels - in today's terms, that's pretty well without qualifications. I tend to agree with Paul - you do what you do and you become what you become. And that's more about you than your family. MG

Al B Tru Mustapha Liq Peter Knight (before you go to bed)

Strange that wasn't issued on OJC. It does look nice. Not for $38, though. MG I'd avoid the dreaded 'Remastered for Stereo' Mm yes - hadn't noticed that. Actually, I never saw a Prestige album with that on it - or can't remember. MG

Old and medium-old school Two great LPs with sleevenotes by the incredible Dzondria LaIsaac Bobby Bland - Two stes from the blues - Duke - MCA reissue The Gospelaires - Camp meetin' - Peacock - ABC reissue And the master James Brown - I got the feelin' - Polydor reissue MG

Two more candidates for a CD twofer Lou Donaldson - Coleslaw - Cadet (GRT repress) Lou Donaldson - Blowing in the wind - Cadet (plain blue label - original?) MG

Thanks Ghost. Yes, this is Atlantic 1255, issued in 1957 but, according to the sleeve notes, recorded in 1955. Reissued in Europe in the Atlantic Masters series. Cheapo. It's certainly loungey - but with the Buckner-style organ accompaniment - and some good guitar solos from Lee Robinson - and a rather quirky deliver of the vocals, it's a good deal more interesting than most of that kind of thing, I reckon. MG

Don Patterson - Satisfaction - Prestige Transatlantic UK issue Don Patterson - Soul happening - Prestige Saba Germany issue These two would make an excellent twofer. Apart from the LP he made under Paul Weeden's name, these are the only oran, guitar, drums albums Don Made (I think). MG

I feel terribly cheated that "Soul train" was never shown over here.... Thanks Jim. MG

Anyone heard the Grover Washington at Monterey 1994? I never even heard of it before. The Etta James album, "Etta James" is one I've been waiting to be reissued on CD forever. I think this is its first CD issue. Her greatest LP ever! MG