The Magnificent Goldberg

Monster is my favorite REM date too!! Their worst selling album (or at least used copies can be found everywhere, for pennies on the dollar), and it only gets 2½ starts in the AMG review. But my favorite!! It sold more than 4 million. Two other REM albums sold over 4 mill. In my experience, the biggest selling albums are easiest to find second hand, because there were so many more of them sold. One percent of 4 mill is a lot more than one percent of 100,000. MG

Bennie Green Mosaic disc 1 MG

Duh Has this wandered in from "take three names"? Or "sexy album sleeves"? MG

I picked up the Pee Wee Crayton CDs this morning. No discography included in the sleeve notes of either, but some personnel details given. Some cuts with Harry Edison, Ben Webster, Jay McShann. Is your LP Crown 5175? I'll try to work out who's on which cuts later today. MG

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How about the ubiquitous Peruvian pan flute bands that play in shopping streets restricted to a two tune repertoire of James Taylor's "Everyday" and Gary Puckett's "Lady Willpower"? Or how about they play Puckett's pedophiliac "Young Girl" over and over... (Can you tell I hate Gary Puckett?) British fans of the TV programme "The fast show" will, of course, have a great affection for the Andean pipe street bands so wonderfully and hilariously parodied in the show (if not for their music). (Or was it only one band that circulated around all the major shopping centres of Britain?) Kalo, count yourself lucky you didn't live through the early fifties when pop music was REALLY at its worst. White teenagers would not have turned to R&B in the mid fifties, leading to the creation of Rock n Roll, had the pop music of that period been even slightly less insulting to one's intelligence. If you really want to torture yourself, try Guy Mitchell's early fifties hits. MG Sorry - forgot you were on our side Sidewinder... Hey MG Do you remember The Stargazers, Teddy & Pearl Carr, A White Sportscoat & A Pink Carnation, Alma Cogan & Mario Lanza etc ? Yeah, but that stuff was mid to late fifties. The stuff I'm talking about was even earlier, and even worse, than that. Even as a 7 or 8 year old, I thought it was crap. MG

Jeanne D'Arc Super Diamono Lemzo Diamono MG

I've got "Hear my blues" - it's OK; I give it house room. Jaws and Shirley are on it, which I think makes it quite interesting, and the reason I bought it. But I don't like his voice much. MG

How about the ubiquitous Peruvian pan flute bands that play in shopping streets restricted to a two tune repertoire of James Taylor's "Everyday" and Gary Puckett's "Lady Willpower"? Or how about they play Puckett's pedophiliac "Young Girl" over and over... (Can you tell I hate Gary Puckett?) British fans of the TV programme "The fast show" will, of course, have a great affection for the Andean pipe street bands so wonderfully and hilariously parodied in the show (if not for their music). (Or was it only one band that circulated around all the major shopping centres of Britain?) Kalo, count yourself lucky you didn't live through the early fifties when pop music was REALLY at its worst. White teenagers would not have turned to R&B in the mid fifties, leading to the creation of Rock n Roll, had the pop music of that period been even slightly less insulting to one's intelligence. If you really want to torture yourself, try Guy Mitchell's early fifties hits. MG Sorry - forgot you were on our side Sidewinder...

Leon Ware Leon Spencer Jr Marks & Spencer MG

Thank you, Jim. MG

Old Mother Hubbard Sister Rosetta Tharpe Brother John Sellars MG

B B King King Kong King Cobra MG

Junior Parker Junior Walker Junior Wells MG

You have my unmitigated sympathy. I don't know how bad he is. I've never knowingly heard him. MG

Clement Atlee Atley Chapman Chapman Pincher MG

Yeah, I've seen that one. For my personal hell, it would be any heavy metal band, or all of them at once. For Ambrose Bierce, it would be two clarinets. I think that turned out to be Glen Miller MG

Wasn't my work - I got a mate to do it. I just worked out what would fit where and how I wanted it. He thought up the neat dodge with the screw dowels. MG

Tom Sylvester Tweetie Pie MG

"REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE IN THE BEATLES? THAT WAS AWESOME!" Who's that guy sitting next to Chewy? MG

Bill Bailey Benny Bailey Old Bailey

Thanks for posting that interview with Sonny, Niko. I hadn't seen it before but it's brilliantly clear. I think Johnny Board ran Rev Jesse Jackson's band for Operation PUSH, didn't he? MG

Michelle Farewell Machelle Fonce Mizell MG

I think Bob Porter said something rather like that in the sleeve notes to one of the Sonny Stitt albums he produced. That's why I've only got 58 of them (just over a third). MG

Try the version of "Walk on by" by Don Patterson, Sony Stitt, Grant Green and Billy James on the "Brothers 4" CD. I imagine Houston is well aware of the issue of this. He told my friend around 1979/80 that the tapes had been lost. So he's interested in what happened to this session. And he is a very big record collector, I understand. And he's a great guy. MG