The Magnificent Goldberg

Ricky Nelson Tricky Dickie Ricky Livid

Harold Land Benny Waters Skyy

Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Roy Ayers - Music of many colours (Phonodisc Intl 003 Nigerian original) MG

The Dead The The A coal porter

Sir Lancelot Willie "Little Axe" Broadnax Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons (late Queen Mother)

Arrived in the post this morning It's taken me over 30 years to get round to Billie's second album. Every bit as good as her first! Strange they've never reissued that one... MG

Subject: Final word on nutrition and health For those of you who watch what you eat... Here's the final word on nutrition and health. It's a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting medical studies. 1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. 2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. 3. The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. 4. The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. 5. The Germans drink a lot of beers and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. CONCLUSION: Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.

Elmer Fudd Elmer Gantry Elmer Bernstein

Don't bust a gut. EMI have released the other 3 on CD and I'm sure '69 will come out within a reasonable time. MG

Stanley Turrentine - The Man - Time S/2086 (but my copy feels like a Japanese reissue, though it doesn't say) MG

Barbarella Jane Fonda Henry Fonda

Sonny Criss Pape Fall Grand Papa Diabate

Why does Jack Bowers, the reviewer, look so much like Gene Ludwig? MG

I've got to agree with Sidewinder. PCs became part of my life (they were called microcomputers in those days) in the early '80s. The Internet may have existed then, but only as a set of links between some universities (and possibly only in the US at that stage). At least I missed out on the punched cards:) We all wanted to learn BASIC, because it was great for games. But at a more basic level, PCs only enabled people to do the things they were doing already - faster, or perhaps in a slightly different way. The Internet enables people to do different things. And that seems to be more significant. I voted for cellphones as the most annoying. Not because of all the people in libraries who yell down their phone, "I'm in the library! Shout!" (Brits will know who this is.) Though I've got to admit that that's pretty annoying. What really annoys me about them is that every three weeks you've got to switch your provider or some oher thing, in order to get the best deal on costs. It's as bad as gas and electricity. MG

Boy Marone Boy George Gorgeous George

Don Cockell Rocky Marciano Sylvester Stall One

B B King - King of the blues guitar - Ace CH152 Junior Parker & Jimmy McGriff - Good things don't happen every day - GM2205 UK issue Junior Wells - Hoodoo man blues - Delmark DS612 (repressing) Bobby Bland - Sweet vibrations - MCA5145 (orig) - surprisingly, one of his best MG

That is the album House Warmin' and is one of my favorite McGhee albums. Definitely not any sort of pre-existing backing track, just warm, very bluesy and soulful blowing by all concerned. Highly recommended. Funny you should say that - I think of it as one of my favouriteAmmons albums! MG that's funny - didn't they keep Ammons' name off the album because he was signed to Prestige at the time? And if you have the LP anyway - what makes you think that the rhythm tracks are separate? I never heard the rhythm tracks as separate, though I'm not sure I'd always be able to recognise it. I simply thought, knowing Winley's rep, "I wonder if...", y'know? Because there's this rhythm section with what are maybe made-up names. MG

That is the album House Warmin' and is one of my favorite McGhee albums. Definitely not any sort of pre-existing backing track, just warm, very bluesy and soulful blowing by all concerned. Highly recommended. Funny you should say that - I think of it as one of my favouriteAmmons albums! MG

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The Williams Singers - It was you Jesus - Checker 10073 (orig) MG

Paul Winley was ace at using the same stuff for backing tracks. The whole of "Harlem underground" by the Harlem Underground Band is run over tracks recorded (for Winley) by Willis Jackson, which were issued on Trip. They come from his LPs "Mellow blues", "Funky reggae" and "Willis Jackson plays around with the hits". I believe the same tracks were also used for an album I haven't got called "Erotic moods" by George Benson, who was said to be one of the guitarists on the first two Jackson LPs (though he's unrecognisable). Winley also recorded an album by Gene Ammons with Howard McGhee, which apparently first issued on Argo 4020, with a rhythm section I've never heard of. Barney Richmond on bass; Jake Fisher on guitar; Willie Mashburn on drums; and Waco on bongos. I've often wondered if this was another case of running solos over an pre-existing backing track. Anyone know? MG

I know that Rance Allen's been well covered by Fantasy reissues. I have some Violinaires, but not that one. I'd love to hear it! This is definitely a niche-product, whose purpose seems to be to collect/issue stuff that nobody else would. Hell, most people probably don't even know about it. I wish that Gospel would get the quality reissuing that it so richly deserves, but until it does, I'll take whatever I can get, by whoever puts it out. If I get what I'm expecting, I'll be getting a collection of mostly "local" acts whose passion might well exceed their skill. I'm ok with that, especially with Gospel music, where the passion is really the object of the game. There's probably going to be gems and duds side-by-side, and not necessarily in a favorable ratio. I'm ok with that too, because with this type of compiling, getting access to the gems is really the object of the game. This is a good set to get if you're into "obsucurities", and enjoy pondering the stories of the people who came to make records such as these. There's also some really good music here as well. Nothing "essential", but very, very few duds. Far from "essential", but definitely enjoyable, and at many levels. Looks like it came up trumps! Since you were keen to hear the Violinaires "Groovin' with Jesus", I thought I'd do a tape of late '60s-mid '80s Gospel groups, if you're interested and can play cassettes. It won't ALL be funky; some of the best stuff is always going to be slow and very soulful. (All this stuff is on vinyl, so I can't yet put it on CD, something I need to correct before it's my turn in the BFT barrel.) PM me if you're interested. MG

The Loving Sisters - In God's bosom - Peacock 45 MG

And it's Glengettie for me, again. My wife says I'm addicted to tea even more than music. But she refuses to get Ceylon from the Supermarket. MG