The Magnificent Goldberg

that fredddie mccoy album is THE after hour album - strange, cool and good - janis joplin is next around the corner ! now spinnng: (inspired by the mccoy album) - neal creque - s/t - cobblestone - hysear don walker - complete expressions I've had it for a very long time but last night it really got to me in a way it hasn't before. And I also wondered if the last track, the beautiful "Time for my children", had something to do with the fact that we never heard from Freddie again afterwards - did he actually retire from music to have a family life?. I'm going to be getting this out more frequently for a while, I think. MG

Larry Young Lawrence Olds Lawrence of Newark

That's a heartwarming article, Chris. Thanks. MG

I ordered the Stitt yesterday. It seems to be a bit cheaper - in terms of foreign exchange - to pay through Paypal than my credit card. First time using Paypal yesterday. Mistyped password three times! MG

Freddie McCoy - Gimme some - Cobblestone orig Houston Person - Get outta my way! - Westbound orig Etta Jones - My mother's eyes - Muse orig Jimmy Smith - It's necessary (live with H Land, T Edwards & B Mitchell) - Mercury orig MG

Billie Poole - Sermonette - Riverside 425 mono original. Taping a gospel music compilation off LPs. Checking it's OK. MG

Scarface La Face LaShun Pace

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