The Magnificent Goldberg

I thought I had! I asked if you knew about any album releases for that one and the one with Hank Marr. If I thought I could get them on an album - even with a load of (other) trash on it - I would have my tongue hanging out. MG Yes - it's still there - post 16, top of page.

Manuel Emmanuel Riggins Joe Liggins

Slim & the Supreme Angels - More than alive - Nashboro 7209 (orig) The Savannah Community Choir - He cares for me - Atlanta International 10104 (orig) MG

Rev Leo Daniels - Quit talkin' to your self (sermon) - Peacock PLP161 (ABC pressing) The Loving Sisters - Trying time - Vogue (Fr) INT 40 010 Mildred Clark & the Melodyaires - Lord help me to hold out - Savoy SL14588 (original) Benny Cummings & the Kings Temple Choir - Now - Creed 3083 (original) MG

I didn't realise it was a specific chain. You get the same thing here - they're always crowded - but they only deal in books and there's hardly any on jazz or any other kind of black music. At least in Cardiff - other cities here have a wider range. MG

Buddy Guy - In the beginning (Red Lightnin' original) Lightnin' Slim - Rooster blues (Excello probably a reissue) Randy Crawford - Now we may begin (WB, UK pressing) King Curtis - Live at Fillmore West (Atco, UK pressing) MG

Artemus Ward Carlos Ward Montgomery Ward

Well, can a place be useless that usually yields nothing of interest, but then coughs up an $80 copy of the Mosaic Nat King Cole Trio set? Sometimes persistance in the face of overall uselessness yields a gem....... In my town, Cardiff, Wales, they're useless. That's what the thread's about - how are the cheapo bookshops in your town? MG

Margaret Thatcher Jerry Goldsmith Raymond Chandler

Ordered! Gawd blesher Guv! ($7.80 for p&p! Phew!) MG

Howard Keel Richard Rodgers Oscar Hammerstein III

Excuses, excuses! We know you were in there, telling yourself secrets. MG

Thomas Mann Carl Mann John Manning

Been through this disc in detail now with the answers and I've now got 5 albums to find. Christian McBride – Getting’ to it – Verve (I've tended to ignore McBride in the past and, on the strength of this, that was, as usual, a mistake. Any other stuff I should put in the list for early investigation - a euphemism for purchase?) Shelley Carroll – Lone star shuffle – Leaning house jazz Frank Morgan – Raising the standard – High note Buck Clayton – Songs for swingers – Columbia Joe Wilder – Alone with just my dreams – Evening star I think that indicates that you damn well got through to me, Dan. Thanks! MG

I've got the King Curtis and the original Aretha album. Didn't know there was a 2 disc version. I see there are only 4 extra songs but a big heap of alternative performances by Aretha. I also see that the reprise of "Spirit in the dark" with Ray Charles is stated to be 19 minutes, as opposed to about 8. I'm not sure how much extra value you get, though. I've always preferred the King Curtis album to Aretha's. "Young gifted and black", "Amazing grace", and "Songs of faith" are the Ree albums that turn me completely OUT! MG

Useless. The main retailers are useless, too, nowadays. MG

John Zorn Joel Dorn Calvin Newborn

Not nearly as many as I've bought. When my mother ran away to sea in '67, I had to move into a bedsit and there was no room for my singles, so I gave maybe more than a thousand away! I guess I must have about 20-30, without going through them. I have 33 albums. MG

Wilbert Hogan Fred Jackson Earl van Dyke

Indeed! Shelley's about my age, maybe a few years younger, but if anybody qualifies as an "old soul", it's him. He's always played like this. He also plays more "modern", but with this same type feel. It's because he grew up in houston, and was intimate (in the non-sexual way ) with Wilkerson and Arnett Cobb from a very early age. I think he told me that he even dated Cobb's daughter for a while. Shelley can tell you stories about Don that you wouldn't believe. And he thinks of Arnett as his "father", that's how close they were. Point is, this shit is in his blood, not from a distance, or through some "love" for the music that is from afar, but because of his environment. A lot of younger guys can "play the style", but if you haven't lived it, really lived it, there's going to be something, a crucial something imo, missing. Shelley's lived it, and ain't nothing missing. All right. MG

Thanks very much SS1 - a useful site. Haven't got the book. Probably I should do so. MG

Debbie Reynolds Tab Hunter Tab Smith

Jim must have been talking to himself in the chat room. Best way to keep a secret, I reckon. MG

The Mar-Keys simply were Booker T. & The MG's combined with the Memphis Horns. The Bar-Kays were Otis Redding's backing band. The others probably used different combinations of the Mar-Keys musicians I know that Albert King did for his lone Stax LP. The original Mar-Keys had a different organist. Difficult to identify who was, in fact, on all the Mar-Keys records because the personnel was whoever was hanging around the studio on the day. The CD issue of the 2 LPs "Last night" and "Do the Popeye with the Mar-keys" has what info there is on the early Mar-key's sessions, but it is, I think, from the memories of some of the musicians involved - no records. I was wondering who bands/musicians such as The Triumphs, Eddie Kirk, Billy & the King Bees, the Vardells, the Cobras, the Baracudas, Sir Isaac & the Doo Dads (obviously Hayes but plus who?) all were. I've never come across any of them in my extensive purchases of Stax singles in the '60s. MG

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