The Magnificent Goldberg

Dickie Valentine Valentine Dyall The Man in Black

The House of Lords? MG

The Reds under the beds Eric Bedser Alec Bedser

Well, if place B is in Nigeria, where I spend most of my time, and the internet signal at home, when it exists, is almost never strong enough to stream anything, then you might be damn happy to have a handful of iPod classics lying around, which I do. I don't doubt that most people out there are still using K7s in their players. Well off people may be using CDs. Rich people may have ipods, but probably won't soon. MG

So, that's a 36 CD set, Ubu? Does it have everything he did? I mean, really? MG

Thomas Mann Wonder Woman Boy Wonder

Definitely! MG

St Custards Nigel Molesworth Sigismund Arbuthnot, the mad maths master

Oliver Mellors Oliver Twist Chubby Checker

I'd have been happy to see Illinois under any circumstances, I think. MG

Oh my! I've only seen him once - in 1997 in St Louis, Senegal - the square in front of the regional governor's house was jammed solid! He was great! MG

Hah! Prescient! He wrote the book in 1967. MG

Norman Tebbitt The Iron Lady The Ironing Lady Ltd

Funnily enough, Gator Tail got better and better. This was his last Nothing butt, with Charles Earland, Pat Martino & Grady Tate. Some unexpected tunes in this really brought it on for me - 'Nuages' and 'Move' - well! MG

Billy Butlin Billy Butler The Butler who did it

They are not talking about economics, but about personal preferences. No need to argue about that. I would have agreed too, except that I'm not an Apple guy and have never owned an "i"-product. "Recurring charges. Constant revenue." Unless I took the wrong class in school, that is indeed economics. Can only echo what MG posted. It is one of the clunkier pieces of software I've ever used. And it seemingly gets worse with every new release and update. Very frustrating. This too is basic economics. Do things because you can, not because there is a need for them. In 'The new industrial state', John Kenneth Galbraith discussed the creation of a fictional pop-up toaster which would etch in darker carbon a message (selected from a range at the time of purchase) from politicians, priests or advertisers and noted the ways such items could be made successful by firms in control of their markets. MG

The Gospel Paraders Rebert H Harris Lord Tweedsmuir

I think it's crap - I only use it to rip CDs and to sync my ipod. And even for that, amazingly, iTunes doesn't behave the same way as the ipod, which for two things supposed to work together, is incredibly rough. EG - iTunes recognises that the genre 'Jazz' = (perfectly) the genre 'JAZZ'. And that 'Willis Jackson' = 'WILLIS JACKSON'. But to the ipod, they're not the same. So, unless you're fetishistically consistent in labelling genres and artists, scrolling down the genres on your ipod, you get hundreds of Jazz/JAZZ genres, as it changes each time, and ditto artists. And this is a total pain in the arse if you're looking for R&B or Township Jive. I used to be able to use iTunes to check my labelling, but can't now because I have v11 of iTunes, because I had to reload my PC a few months ago and couldn't get v10. So this further embuggerance factor means that, when I look at genres in iTunes, it doesn't allow me to look at the albums by artist but only alphabetically. But the ipod does. Or it would if I don't make a mistake in labelling Achieving consistency is bloody difficult. Of course, they both agree in what alphabetical order isn't - it isn't what everyone in the world thinks it is, so 22 Band comes after Zacks Nkosi, not before Abdoulaye Diabate. I haven't YET managed to avoid the panic of thinking that my 22 Band albums have disappeared. Actually, I haven't a problem with iTunes ripping CDs. About a quarter of my CD collection is on hard drive now, which isn't too bad. K7s take a lot longer; they can't be done in one step, as I have to record them onto a CD first, then read it into the PC. And I have to sit over them, to mark the end of each track. (But that's hardly iTunes fault, of course.) MG

Very nice post, Steve. MG

Booby Booby's Girl Susan Maugham

'My jug & I' is all I've got. Never knew about the Rhino edition until it was deleted. MG

Sir John Anderson William Paterson Oscar Carl Kerrison (last 2 - designers of the Anderson shelter)

I think even more overlooked than John's list of pre-bop would be the following great big bands: Buddy Johnson Erskine Hawkins Lucky Millinder MG

Thank you, John. It would be interesting to know which was done by whom. Is it published anywhere? MG

Billy Hart Jon Hart Johnny Heartbreaker