Pete C

Nat Birnbaum (he works with Norton in the sewer, and he doesn't spell Nat with a G) Nat Sherman Earl Butz

I use Blogger and all of my posts since 2006 are there, and in date order, so I'm not sure what you mean. If it's just a matter of taking old posts down without losing them, I have two suggestions. First, go into edit on a post you want off the blog and do a save as draft. If that doesn't work, see what happens if you change the post date to a future date--I think they'd disappear from the live blog, but you'd still have them in storage to repost at a later date with a changed date if you choose. Yesterday would have been Singing Sumo/Dobie's birthday, and I posted your blog link at JC on the "Sayonara Singing Sumo" thread, since you had mentioned that he was instrumental in getting you to start pouring out the memories.

Wilmer "Vinegar Bend" Mizell Val Wilmer Val Kilmer

Hey Chris, I was trying to go back to early posts in your blog, and it seems that many of the posts marked 2008 or 2009 were written much more recently. What's the story?

Legs Diamond Diamond Lil Selma Diamond

For some reason, the exclamation point is not staying with the link, and it goes to a bad page. Let's see if this works Yes, it works.

Why Art Pepper, rather than any of the other "all-stars"? According to the original cover, the session was "supervised by Quincy Jones," but indeed they don't seem to be his charts. http://www.discogs.com/Quincy-Jones-Go-West-Man/release/2454118

Meat Loaf Reginald Veal Bob Veale

Johnny Pesky Joe Pesce Hamilton Fish

Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer Darla Hood Miss Crabtree (hubba hubba)

Henry Clay Work Henry Clay O'Henry (or, Oh [Ernie] Henry)

Tom Capone (Brazilian music producer) Tom Jobim Jim Beam

Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum La Vern Baker

Claudette Colbert Stephen Colbert Jon Stewart

Moses Black Moses Randy Weston

Did he talk about St. James Infirmary, the club in Greenwich Village he ran with Roswell Rudd in the mid-70s? I remember seeing Roswell, Hod, Sheila Jordan and Enrico Rava there in various combinations, usually with Wilbur Little on bass. I can't remember who would have been the house drummer. This was around the time of Flexible Flyer, but Altschul was more likely gigging with Rivers or Braxton in that period. Roswell's wife at the time, Moselle, was sort of the manager of the club.

Nobby Totah Robby Krieger Bobby Previte

His charts for Dizzy Plays Ellington are fantastic.

I think people in the northwest U.S. might pronounce pod and pawed almost the same. When my friends from Oregon say lawyer I think they're saying liar. I've always said Hod to rhyme with rod, which in Brooklyn also rhymes with hard. But maybe it's pronounced Hahd, to rhyme with the Boston pronunciation of card. I don't know how anybody could have divined any consensus here.

Joe South John East Cornell West

Okie from Muskogie Merle Haggard H. Rider Haggard

Ol Dirty Bastard William the Conqueror fka William the Bastard Love Child (never meant to be)

Tom Bosley David Doyle John Forsythe

Rainer Maria Rilke Heinrich Heine Rita Tushingham

Gaston Acurio Ferran Adria Thomas Keller