The Magnificent Goldberg

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

Tell them to have a look at any TOP RANK 45. A Google picture search for Top Rank Record Label will yield about a million examples. Oh yes, I forgot. But most American's wouldn't know who J A Rank was. MG

J Arthur Rank on gong is nicest, I think. Don't know if Americans could get it, though. MG

What ARE you doing when you post pics? Those two are invisible, too. MG

Mountainous Maurice Dennis (bjo) John Muxlow (d) Harry Strutters Hot Rhythm Orchestra

Still censored MG

I bet they're good, if they're so heavily censored MG

Bob Monkhouse Lester Flatt Charlotte Church

Yes, that's a thought - but I only have a Cuban quartet, and they don't spell it right - Cuarteto Patria. MG

Egon Krenz Alfreds Petrovich Rubiks Wojciech Jaruzelski

Q isn't a letter used much, if at all, in West Africa, so it's just Ike Quebec and Luisito Qunitero for me. MG

Cheers (*clink*) - a very nice record indeed! NP: Recorded in '61, w/ G.Green, T. Flanagan, P. Chambers, and Art Taylor This is one record where I find the CD sounds much better than the DMM LP. Great stuff too. Oh - I love the album, but I haven't heard it on CD. Which edition are you talking about? MG

Well, the only musician in the whole BFT I've EVER heard before - and like quite a bit, actually - is Carmell Jones - oh and the rhythm section behind him. So this has been really exploratory for me and at least I know why I haven't explored this area much. Many thanks. MG

Jack Train Pearl Carr Teddy Johnson

First day for a month it hasn't rained here. The trick-or-treaters were out in force. MG

Wilbur Sweatman Keith Sweat Sweat Band

In fairness, I think others commanded the same sort of love and respect in the black community: Arthur Prysock is another or whom people were turning out and filling halls up to soon before his death in 1997. MG

Ol' Dirty Bastard Russell Tyrone Jones Tyrone Shoelaces

This one, ordered at the same time and the same Amazon seller as the earlier one, turned up today. Edgar Hayes - 1938-1948 - Classics Hayes ought to be a LOT better known, MG

I bet NO ONE votes for Illinois Jacquet's 'Blues part 2) or ANYTHING by Gene Ammons. Those ultra-big saxes are pretty neat, so long as you don't have to go to a gig with them. MG

Must have been a boring day at the coalface MG