The Magnificent Goldberg

Kenneth "Spider" Webb Trevor Lawrence Gabriel Mekler

Sound sucks. Ignore it. I've no complaints about the LP. But so long as I can hear something, I can't be asked to be too critical about the sound. MG

Joe turner is one of many guys who I didn't buy too much of, because I thought I'd always be able to get his recordings. But I never thought they be issuing boxed sets of his early cuts. Today, I decided it was time to get this What a compilation! It covers nearly everything he recorded between the Spirituals to Swing concert in December 1938 to "Shake, rattle & roll" in 1954. Perfect, and crucial recordings. MG

I was thinking the exact same thing. The probability of seeing a guy with a Leroy Vinnegar LP at a bus stop must be as high a being struck by lightning. And you were nearer to London than Jim! And you still missed me waiting for a bus up to Sterns African music store at the bus stop not far from Mole Jazz! MG

Dennis Coffey Dennis Compton Dennis the Menace

The Corporation Holland-Dozier-Holland Barrett Strong-Norman Whitfield

Chester-Le-Street Ashby-de-la-Zouche Chorlton-cum-Hardy

Gary Larsen Ronald Searle Bestie

I've BEEN at a bus stop with a Leroy album in my bag! Where were you? MG

You changed! Does that album have Harold OUsley on it, by any chance? MG

Judging by the title "Damn My Feet Hurt", all that walking took its toll... That looks a good 'un. "The kid" is a Harold Ousley tune that Lou Donaldson did, as well as Harold. "Doin' that thing" is a Leroy composition that Les McCann did on his LP "Much Les" - has a great groove. Leroy was on so many great modern/mainstream albums that you (not you Jim) might easily forget that he was at the HEART of '60s funky Soul Jazz. MG

Me too - that's the ONLY Cal I've got (except for the ones I get during dinner and never seem to get rid of). But I used to have the 45 of "Soul sauce". This is a helpful thread - I must make a resolution for next year. MG

If this is it, then it did: http://www.dustygroove.com/warehouslp.htm#21846 If it's not, then I don't know... You're bleedin' dreadful, Jim! I just ordered it! Thanks - no really, thanks. MG

This one, Chewy. Personnel is Vic Feldman - vibes Gerald Wilson - tpt Teddy Edwards - tenor Carl Perkins - piano Tony Bazely - drums A lovely album. Recorded July & September 1957. Out on OJC. There's a follow up. Personnel is Freddie Hill - tpt Teddy Edwards - tenor Vic Feldman or Mike Melvoin - piano Vic Feldman or Roy Ayers - vibes Ron Jefferson or Milt Turner - drums Another lovely one. Recorded August 1962 and March 1963. Also out on OJC. Much treasured here. MG

PS - just noticed Jim was asking about the organists backing some of the raps - Sonny actually announced one of them - Bill Doggett's "Popcorn". Wish I'd bought that single when I saw it - never come out on an album I think. MG

Bon voyage Bon Jovi Jove

This turned up yesterday MG

This turned up yesterday A most amazing document! Mucho thanks to Jim for putting me on to it! For those who don’t know, this is a hour of broadcasting from August 1969 (though how “Express yourself” by Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Band got in there, I don’t know – the single must have been a sleeper), complete with adverts (one for Schlitz by Kenny Burrell). Sonny Hopson is fantastic! A relentless, captivating, dance with words. No wonder he and people like him across the USA could break records out! Records like Charles Earland’s “Black talk”, which hit #7 on the R&B album chart and certainly had Hopson behind it; “The mighty burner” on that LP was named after Hopson, who also wrote the sleeve notes (and, it appears from the notes to this CD, was Earland’s manager – and incidentally George Freeman’s). Being British, I never had the opportunity to listen to a REAL deejay. When I first visited the US, I was in Newark and listened a lot to WBGO. But the DJs there (and I assume they’re typical) are like the ones on the BBC. Listening to Hopson made me wonder to what extent Bop became less popular than it needed to have been because the DJs were so boring. MG

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Frankie & Johnnie Betty & Dupree Bonnie & Clyde

Carmen Cavallaro Carmen Jones Carmen rollers

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Have a very good one, and many more. MG

Phew! I was going to hang on for a bit, then I saw you'd ordered it and decided I'd better get my skates on. Now on the way. (Plus "Cherokee", which I haven't even got on LP.) MG

Alcide "Slow Drag" Pavageau Avery "Kid" Howard Alton Purnell