The Magnificent Goldberg

Good grief! That guy's face must be three times the size of his head!!! Wilfred Pickles Mabel Able Mable

Glad you enjoyed it, Guy, but what's funny about him playing 'The way we were'? MG

Rosie & the Originals Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Rosie the Riveter

But no Gator Tail!!!! MG

Earlier Gene Ammons in Sweden - Enja now Donald Vails Choraleers - In deep water - Savoy MG

She's pretty funny and entertaining for a few minutes. She buys Cannonball records. Saw no mention of Willis Jackson MG

Many happy returns, Jeff MG

Le Oiseau de Sankara Kerfala Kante Djessou Mory Kante

Happy belated birthday, Lou. Shall we try to get it right next year? MG

Various Artists - African sounds for Mandela - Tsafrika With Julian Bahula, Hugh Maekela & Orchestre Jazira MG

Bunny Peter Rabbit Brer Rabbit

Sonny Stitt - Only the blues - Verve (EJM) MG

Laurie Pepper Pepper Salt

How do you get all the lineup &c onto an ipod? I'd like that on mine. MG MG, it was an improvement I thought of spontaneously, since the iPod touch would have a larger screen and more room for information. That info could just display during the song, in a hierarchy of sorts. There would be room for it to stream along below the square cover art. Hell, I'd even like for all of the cover art to show, perhaps animated with gatefolds opening, etc. I can dream, can't I? You can manually enter all that information by selecting a track and hitting File/Get Info, but it doesn't actively display while the song plays or anything. Oh. I haven't got one of those - I've got the 160GB version that's just been discontinued. Oh well... MG

Have a good one, Paul! MG

Penelope Keith Keith Loving Keith Kilgo

How do you get all the lineup &c onto an ipod? I'd like that on mine. MG

Maurice Chevalier My Little Pony The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Le Oiseau de Sankara La Coulombe de la Paix L'Archange du Manding

Ah! Glad to see I haven't come across such books. BTW, even coverage doesn't do it. Importance has to be taken into account. But not to focus on one bit to render the other bits unnoticeable, of course. MG Yes, you are right, even coverage doesn't necessarily do it. But to give you one example in a totally different field (that touched me in my younger days, but not much anymore). Imagine a book about "100 Years of F.A. Cup Finals" where such an even coverage approach is imaginable. A fairly even number of pages for each year's final, right? Each final was as important as next year's in its own day, right, and ought to be so from a historian's perspective too? But how do these bookas look? About 1 page per year at most for the first 30 or 40 or 50 years or so, and for the MOST RECENT years you get 6 or 8 pages PER YEAR in full color and whatnot ... A bit skewed overall ... Or, for example, an imaginary book about the greatest stars of black music of all times. No doubt Charles Brown or Arthur Prysock were BIG in their day but would they be given nearly as much coverage as the most recent chart acts that happen to make the headlines NOW, though it is still unclear if the recent "stars" will be remembered anywhere 5 or 10 years from now? In order to get into such books that cover periods from the past up to the current present you would have to be an undisputed all-time legend if your heyday was, say, 40 or 50 or 60 years ago, whereas it would be sufficient to be a chart flash in the pan (who is long from proving enduring star status) if you are a CURRENT or very recent act. That's what I was alluding to about giving even coverage. "Greatest stars of ALL times" is not necessarily about those who are still considered great stars today after all those decades but about those who were the greatest stars in THEIR respective times. Which might be an aspect relevant to a book on BN too. I agree. (But of course, less information is available about any kind of people/activity a hundred years ago than this year.) MG

Sure, MG, but it all depends on the approach of the publishers. You see, I've come across history books that purported to show the ultimate "100-year history of ... (put in whatever subject comes to mind)", and where, on the face of it, this history ought to give exactly even coverage to each of these 100 years (or at least to each of the 10 decades of that century) but on looking closer you find that the "first" 70 or 80 years are glossed over on the first 30 percent of the book and then the most recent 20 or 30 years take up the other 70 percent of the book, including a large part devoted to whatever the most recent events or stars or celebs are, i.e. those that make headlines TODAY and are what such a books sells for to the superficially interested. Not what somebody interested in the ACTUAL history would want to go for. Ah! Glad to see I haven't come across such books. BTW, even coverage doesn't do it. Importance has to be taken into account. But not to focus on one bit to render the other bits unnoticeable, of course. MG

Thanks - the KC Douglas is magnificent!!! MG

A firm like that CAN get anyone to make bits, but maybe can't get anyone to make bits at a price that's consonant with the price they sell the ipods at. And the equation would likely be worse if sales were declining. MG

I suppose, if it's a history, you've got to put up with the bits you don't like, or else it's kind of like a Hollywood biopic. MG

No one done a complete Lionel Hampton Decca box? I'd buy it like a shot! MG