The Magnificent Goldberg

No one's mentioned my favourite on soprano - David Newman. "Everything must change", "Save your love for me" and "Invitation" are among the most soulful records he's ever made in my view. MG

Cold and rainy in South Wales. Ugh!

Margaret Thatcher Benjamin Disraeli Lord Addington

I don't get that lot at all, but Bigus Dickus Incontinentia Buttox Seymour Butts

What label is that record on and who are the sidemen? I have a record of GL on Muse (recorde in the 70's) which I particularly like. Thanks, Peter It's on Mainstream 6032. It was originally issued on Time 2199 under the title of "Hot organ". Recorded in Oct '64. Personnel is: Randy Gelispie - drums Jerry Byrd - guitar Tunes are: Comin' home baby (Tucker) Teach me tonight (Raye-DePaul) Blues waltz (Max Roach) Elder Smith (Ludwig) Moanin' (Timmons) Sermonette (Nat Adderley) The Preacher (Silver) Gino (Ludwig) It's a proper groove throughout. And it's LOUD! (Like it sez on mine) And HOT! (Like it sez on the original) MG Hello, just wanted to clarify that the original LP recording was indeed "Organ Out Loud" on Mainstream in 1964, followed by a re-issue and re-package by Time Records under the name "Hot Organ" in 1967. I'm glad you like the recording. Gene Ludwig Thank you so much Gene. A more than usually cordial welcome to you! Any idea where one can get "Educated sounds of Gene Ludwig" and "This is Gene Ludwig"? They're the only 2 I haven't got. MG Thank you for the welcome. My wife has seen both of these LP's on E-bay in the past several years, in fact in the past several months. I hope you can find them. Gene - www.geneludwig.com Something else I have to learn how to do - buy things on E-Bay. And I can't even get registered for Paypal properly MG

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I've got all but five or six tracks of the Donaldson, so I find it desperately easy to resist. But it's all absolutely lovely stuff, if you don't have too much of the material already. MG

Shirley Scott's Impulse albums would make a decent Mosaic box. Hardly any of that material has been n CD. MG MG - Several Impulse albums (Roll Em, On A Clear Day, Queen Of The Organ) were reissued on CD - US/Japanese editions, all of which are now OOP. You can probably get used copies from Amazon marketplace, or try downloading from the Verve website. Not much out of ten LPs plus Stanley's "Let it go". There's also another LP's worth of live stuff from the "Queen of organ" session which came out on that CD. I expect there's good unissued stuff as well. But at least 12 LPs worth, of an important player like Shirley, and one who's well liked, looks like a good Mosaic project to me. Six/seven disc set. MG

Rev Jasper Williams Rev Leo Daniels Rev C L Franklin

Check out the new cover for Another Workout: I like it better than the original (which I sold a few months ago in preperation for the RVG). That is a WONDERFUL sleeve! Oh definitely YES! A great new photo and the lettering emulating the original "Workout". Someone put thought into what people would like. MG

Shirley Scott's Impulse albums would make a decent Mosaic box. Hardly any of that material has been n CD. MG

Rosemary June Rose Marie Marie Osmond

Bubba Brooks Tina Brooks Christina Aguilera

Model T Slim Slim Harpo Slim Pickens

Kenny Rampton Kenny Rodgers Rodgers Grant

It's Arnett Cobb's birthday today! Arnett Cobb - Blow Arnett Blow (with Jaws) - Prestige (UK Ace pressing) Arnett Cobb - Jumpin' at the woodside - Black & Blue (WEA prssing) Arnett Cobb - Live at Sandy's - Muse (original) Arnett Cobb - Smooth sailing - Prestige (blue label) MG

It's like fucking NOVEMBER today. Raining on and off and bloody cold. I contemplated putting the central heating on earlier, then decided to tough it out. Don't know if I can keep it up, though. MG

Big John Patton General Patton Captain Bird's Eye

Me too -- the funky, squiggly yellow-on-black designs especially. They seemed, in their "Who cares?" squiggliness, to say, "We're over in this other place, and we're confident that it's a good one." I wonder who designed those labels. And whether Bob W asked for something odd like that. MG

Carol Lombard Ike the Lombard (my father) Ike Quebec

Mel Brown & the Housewreckers George Thorogood & the Destroyers Dyke & the Blazers

Marv Johnson Marvin Stamm The Marvelows

You won't read 'em on vis fred... MG

Those people DO have cultural merit; they reflect contemporary culture. MG

Is this something you can actually buy outside Turkey? MG