The Magnificent Goldberg

Amphibious tank. MG

Gerry Mulligan Leo Parker Ronnie Cuber

Now I've retired, I find I've time to absorb more new albums. But there's still a limit and forty in a month is just a trifle past it. (Done that twice this year and twice >35. It's kind of like having a job again ) MG

Ah, so 'Train & the river' was in 'Jazz on a summer's day'? I saw that in '59 or '60 - got my Dad to take me to a seedy cinema somewhere in London. But I think a neighbour played it to me in 1960 or '61, as well. No wonder I remembered it Really, I try NOT to remember music, so it surprises me for longer - better value for money, don't y'know? So what surprised me with this is that I did actually remember it. MG

Midnight Rambler Midnight Creeper Teddy Edwards

Just looked at the Ace site. Didn't see the Roy Haynes, but did notice two albums formerly on Crown by Coleperson Hawkins and Chico Hamilton. MG

Of course, and Hitler probably allowed you and I to be born in some way or another. The point of the article is that the sound of golden-age Hollywood film scores, as we know them, would not have existed, because it's primary architects were refugees. Just as the 1905 pogrom of Odessa caused heaps of Eastern European Jews to flee to America, with the same impact on the Great American Songbook, which probably wouldn't have existed otherwise. (Well, there'd have been Cole Porter.) Of course, I wouldn't have been born had my grandmother, in the company of her little sister and their Mum, NOT got out of Odessa before it happened MG

The Raelettes The Ikettes The Ouzettes

That's bleedin' awful. I'm surprised - but very pleased - that some of us have some expertise in stuff like this. MG

This is what Wikipedia has to say about Pye/PRT. I didn't know - just thought Pye had been taken over by PRT. MG

I never got propositioned there MG Must have been the student scarf that did it I think I must have looked TOO prosperous for a slapper MG

Celia Cruz Gloria Estevan Miami Sound Machine

Horrid Henry Anne Boleyn Bullwinkle

They were a pretty common site in the UK cut-out racks of the mid-late 70s. I've an Illinois Jacquet twofer - 'Go power' and 'The message' issued by an Italian company - 'Greenline' (NOT the bus company ). Also a double of Jug - ' Early vision's' - oh no, that's PRT's. Greenline also issued lots of Chuck Berry and Etta James single LPs. I didn't know 'Cool cookin'' was a twofer. I have a UK edition on the Checker label, which is only a onefer. It has 'How could you do a thing like that to me' but no other unissued VV material. Don't know who issued it here - no manufacturer mentioned, but it looks like Philips. Got it in June '75 but I've never seen any other Chess records issued here by what looks like Philips. MG

I never got propositioned there In the eighties, nineties and early 00s I used to stay at a sleazy little hotel (which did the best breakfasts I've ever had) across the road and up the street a few yards from KC Station - thirty quid a night! Each visit I made to London included a trip around the corner to Mole. There were loads of ne'er do wells around, I grant you. And not many decent places to eat after about six. But It was an OK place. With Sterns up the road past the British Library, it was a good location for me. MG

Silly Old Moo Alf Garnett Garnett Mimms

The Cellar Dweller Basement Jaxx Underground Ernie

What's the UK edition of "Sonny Stitt" that you've got MG? Marble Arch!!!!! MG it's "propapacoon", is it not? spinning the mini lp for the first time in many a moon this evening. what a gem.... Well, on my edition - cheapo Marble Arch from the 60s - is says Propapagoon on the sleeve and label. MG

That's the one with 'Jack Spratt', 'Propapagoon' (what?), 'This is always' & 'Dancing on the ceiling', on it, ain't it? Got a UK issue a short while ago. Never realised it was the Ramsey Lewis trio. Been meaning to give it another listen. Thanks Larry. MG

Campesino embullao by Felix del Rosario - a very hot two and a half minutes! MG

Oh, already! Download for me please, Thom. MG

John Wilkes Booth Dinah Washington Snaggle Tooth Ruth

I love the Hamp and the JCs boxes. Wouldn't be without them. MG

Bear Family Mosaic Rhino

Monkey Kuan Yin Wu Cheng'en