The Magnificent Goldberg

Er... I tried hitting the Zip file link, but nowt's happening... Er... help! help! MG

Well, the article isn't talking about a "theory" -- it's talking about the actual evidence, using a statistical examination of the empirical data. I haven't read the paper so I can't vouch for its substance. I'd be also interested in: A) How second-borns compare to third-borns. B) How first-borns in two child families compare to single children. Since (I believe) wealthy families tend to have less children, these kinds of results could have interesting implications for wealth and income inequality. Guy I want to know about B, too. Only child; so's my wife; so's my daughter. MG

There is some SERIOUS stuff on here! I've just ordered the Billy Larkin and the Odell Brown. Some of this stuff will probably NEVER be reissued on CD. MG

John Berger Danny Burger Thorsten Zwingenburger

Stavros (Dukakis) Stavros (the other one) Phil the Greek (Prince Philip)

It's interesting how many came in through Rock. Is that an age thing? MG

Bootsie is very nice - I've got three or four albums with him on them. And I think there are three he's done himself, maybe at CDBaby. Thanks for the reminder. MG

I was thinking of going in search of this thread this evening. Cheers VBII! Thierno Koite Mor Sarr Sanou Diouf (All Senegalese sax players)

I'll get these after dinner! MG

Some false starts in 1959. My first jazz album was the sundtrack to "The five pennies" - but I hardly thought of that as jazz; showbiz really. Soon after, like Mike, I became fascinated by the sounds of the MJQ (and Martin Denny). But again, I wasn't seriously into it. What I was seriously into was R&B & Soul. And my hero at the time was Ray Charles. So it was mostly Ray Charles who got me into Soul Jazz, by introducing me to David Newman, Don Wilkerson and Hank Crawford in 1960. And through Ray's single of "One mint julep" (or maybe it was Phil Upchurch's "You can't sit down" pts 1 & 2 - I don't know which I bought first) I got myself into the organists! But not Blue Note. Blue Notes cost almost a week's wage for me at the time - a LOT more than British releases from Atlantic etc. So I'd take, say, "Midnight special" and a Ray Charles LP into the listening booth, play the Smith and buy the Charles. It was 1965 before I was earning enough to afford Blue Notes. MG

Yes, but you have to watch WHERE in the country the different economic growth occurs. I'm not at all familiar with the regional scene in the US. For illustrative purposes, here's the regional GVA figures for Britain. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/gva1206.pdf About half way through the document, there's a table setting out the changes in the period 1995-2005, when Britain generall was doing reasonably well. But you'll see that most of Britain was in decline. London, the South East, The East and the South West were increasing their share of GVA at the expense of the former manufacturing areas. MG

I got that in the early '70s, but flogged it when I was poor. Regretted it ever since. MG

Have a great one! MG

Indeed! His real name is Lee Otis Bass III. MG

Oh no - this was a very good selection Ubu. I would have picked different stuff and it might, perhaps, not have been so unified. MG

Grass Is Greener is a fun album. I might have to pick this one up as well. "Grass roots" is as good, but in a different way. Not so greasy; Bobby Hutcherson and Harold Ousley are very good. Great instrumentation - tenor, vibes, bass, drums. LOTS of people here would reckon it superior to "Grass is greener". MG

I hope it's something to listen to...cause it sure is painful to look at. Oh yes. I wish they'd reissue it! MG

I think that's a wonderful sleeve!!!! MG

While you are correct to a degree, I don't think it's as big of a degree as you think. The British thought "services" could replace manufacturing, as did other major economic powers of the past. When they reached that stage, they were already fading. As are we. Not sure what you are talking about -- Britain's per capita GDP is now higher than it was 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago. Guy But Britain has been slipping farther and farther down the league table. Since about the 1870s, I think. MG By "league" do you mean European league? If so, then that stat is virtually meaningless in that Britain had the world's largest economy in 1870. Only one way to go from there, baby...and it's down! Precisely! (Actually, Britain hasn't been doing TOO badly in the last decade or so, compared to the G8 or whatever (I forget how many in the numbers I last looked at). But the overall trend since WWII has been down.) MG

But Britain has been slipping farther and farther down the league table. Since about the 1870s, I think. MG What if you had told an Englishman in 1870 that Ireland* would be a substantially wealthier country than Great Britain 140 years later? Guy You'd have got the same reaction as in 1960 In Britain, it's 76.2%. Mfg is 14.4%. (of GVA) (Nyah) MG

While you are correct to a degree, I don't think it's as big of a degree as you think. The British thought "services" could replace manufacturing, as did other major economic powers of the past. When they reached that stage, they were already fading. As are we. Not sure what you are talking about -- Britain's per capita GDP is now higher than it was 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago. Guy But Britain has been slipping farther and farther down the league table. Since about the 1870s, I think. MG

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While you are correct to a degree, I don't think it's as big of a degree as you think. The British thought "services" could replace manufacturing, as did other major economic powers of the past. When they reached that stage, they were already fading. As are we. I never did - I always argued that what people really wanted to buy were things, not life insurance (obviously a record collector ). But the Government's real aim at the time was focused on destroying the trade unions; so it was helpful for this policy that huge chunks of manufacturing industry were "helped" to shut down by a "fixed" exchange rate and extremely tight money, with interest rates so high that most manufacturing return rates on investment couldn't cut it compared with the returns on low investment financial services (and property). MG

That was the BIGGIE! 7 weeks at #1 on the pop album chart. I doubt if any other classical albums did so well. VC's other hits were Rachmaninoff: piano concerto no 3 Schumann: piano concerto in A minor My favorite Chopin Brahms: piano concerto no 2 MG

I would guess you're right - unless Universal aren't losing by the activities of Lonehill etc. as we think they may be. MG