The Magnificent Goldberg

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Well, I didn't know that! Bet Spector never engineered a Wild Bill Moore date! MG New thread?

Yes, I took my wife to see Lowell, some time in the early '80s I think. Afterwards, she remarked on how professional he was. It was an insult. MG

Note spelling Clem, Oumou isn't one of the extremely numerous Diabates; she's the only (as far as I know) Dioubate (who sings). Damn, shoulda thorter that! AND Lekan Animasaun, as well. MG

John Leyton was a teen idol (who COULD act, as in "Great Escape"). He had several big hits in the UK in the early '60s. I suspect he couldn't sing, but his records were produced by Joe Meek, a British version of Phil Spector, and SOUNDED fantastic. (I think Meek's only US hit was "Telstar" by the Tornadoes.) I tried to get a job with Meek once, but got the brush-off. MG

If I exclude 2-LP sets, the first could be the Ella Fitzgerald Gershwing song book, except that I only bought vols 1-4 of that. So it doesn't count. The first real multi LP set (3 LPs) I bought ALL of, was "The persecution and assisination of Marat as performed by the inmates of the aylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade", a play by Peter Weiss, recorded by the Royal Shakespeare Company, on Caedmon - and it came in a box. I got that in the summer of '67 and it was, I guess, part of my reaction against the idealism of that summer. The first music set I got (3 LPs, not in a box) was "The piano music of Erik Satie" by Frank Glazer on Vox. That was 1970. The first jazz set (not a box) was "The Sonny Clark Trio" - the Toshiba 3 LP set, in 1986. The first music set in an actual box was "Atlantic R&B 1947-1974", a 14 LP set, in 1987. The first jazz sets in a box were the Blue Mitchell and Horace Parlan Mosaics, which I got at the same time, in 2000. (Though, of course, Grover Washington's "Soul Box", which I got in 1975, was a box, but it only had two LPs in it.) MG

Ouza Grant Green Willis Jackson Gene Ammons and the gorgeous Oumou Dioubate (who can really sing and who is a great performer!) MG

We had better than fireworks - a thunderstorm started at about ten minutes to midnight! Phew! Happy New Year to all! MG

So was I! (if that helps ) MG

Musically, yeah, it's pretty, uh... whatever. Although the Eugene McDaniels clip is something else, and in the best possible way. The exhaling of cigarette smoke while singing is sublime. And the trad stuff probably sounds better to my ears now than it would have a few years ago. Hell, it's POP MUSIC, and as such, hey, why not? But it's not the music, it was the directing, especially in the first half. Ray, if all you saw was the last bit, you missed the best stuff. Visual puns and gags out the wazzoo, easily at the level of the best of Kovacs. My favorite - a raucous drum break with the camera aimed fairly close up at the drumsticks, which do not move even a little. WTF!?!?! And lots of camera/editing jokes too. Unlike most of these type movies, I tolerated the music to get to the movie itself. And I was highly entertained! Now you mention it, it was McDaniels' appearance that made me go to see it. If I recall, he sang "Another tear falls", which I think was the B side of "Chip chip". MG

Oh. I thought this was a bop box. Have I lost the plot? What box are we talking about? I NEED something with ALL the early Ammons/Stitt material all neatly together. MG Yeah, seeing Jo Jones name on a bebop box does seem a little strange, but lemme tellya, he MORE than holds his own! Yes, I've got quite a bit of that stuff on the other side of "Woofin' & tweetin'". I didn't realise it had been included in this Bop box. MG

I saw it in the early 60s. It was terrible then. Couldn't IMAGINE how awful it is now. MG

Oh. I thought this was a bop box. Have I lost the plot? What box are we talking about? I NEED something with ALL the early Ammons/Stitt material all neatly together. MG

Hey, it aint my fault you weren't hip to Andy Panda. If you're going to correct somebody, at least know your world history. MG

Should be real cheap. No one wants 'em. MG

etc, etc, etc. THE ANDY PANDA STORY - Andy Panda first appeared on screen in 1939. (11 YEARS BEFORE "ANDY PANDY"). His creation by Walter Lantz was inspired by the national attention given to the donation of a panda to Chicago's Brookfield Zoo the previous year. Andy's first film, the charming cartoon LIFE BEGINS FOR ANDY PANDA, was the one of only two films that featured Andy's mother, a sophisticated sounding lady panda. She was unnamed in the cartoons, but according to CRACKAJACK FUNNIES #39, her name was Permelia Panda. In MOUSE TRAPPERS, a later episode from 1941, she is seen again. She seems not at all happy with her husband, Andrew Sr., who fancies himself a great animal hunter. Andy's dad first appeared in LIFE BEGINS FOR ANDY PANDA. In this cartoon he appears muscle bound, and does not at all overweight, but that changes in his next appearance a couple of cartoons later when he is presented a lumbering buffoon. In each successive cartoon, the characters of Andy, his dad and mother improved, making them more appealing. Another panda in this series Andy's girl friend, Miranda. She did not appear on screen until the very last film (SCRAPPY BIRTHDAY) in 1949, however, any comic book collector worth his weight in gold will tell you she appeared years before in 1941's CRACKAJACK FUNNIES #39 and #40. These were short strips that were probably meant to be a daily or weekly comic strip. They appear to have been designed in 1940 (according to the art) and were drawn by Walter Lantz himself. My guess is that the syndicates passed on the strip, so the 10 or so panels were put in the two issues of CRACKAJACK FUNNIES. The strips also featured a pet dinosaur named Dinah, whose origin is unknown. Andy Panda then left that comic and went to THE FUNNIES. He first appeared in issue #61 in November, 1941. The storyline of the comic is that Andy left his parents to go star in the movies. He was cared for by two human children in these strips and this saga ran from issue #61 through the last issue, #64. The story picked up again under the banner NEW FUNNIES, continuing until issue #69. At this point (issue #70) they started a new story, again featuring the boy and girl, that only ran to issue #74. It seems the story went unfinished because, in issue #75, Andy was drawn by a different artist. This new storyline ran for four issues, until #78. Ah, you obviously had to be there. And I was here MG

Sorry, no. Never heard of it. His first recording with an organist. Coo. I like "The joy of sax". But "Warm and Sonny" (which doesn't have Patrice on it) is one of the most beautiful Disco albums done by a jazz musician. One of my all time favourites. MG

Thurman Green (trombonist) Bennie Green (trombonist) Benny Green (saxophonist)

(btw, it was Andy Pandy) Audrey Atterbury Molly Gibson Freda Lingstrom

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The Partridge Family The Funky Chicken Ganda Fadiga

Indeed! MG

Sum LPs Hank Crawford & Jimmy McGriff - Steppin' up - Milestone orig Freddie Roach - Mo' greens please - BN (Lib) Maynard Parker - Midnight rider - Prestige flimsy, bendy orig MG

Over 5 hours of classics MG

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