paul secor

That could be. I have the Flying Dutchman LP and didn't know there was an RCA issue. However, the recording listed in the Body Meta booklet as unauthorized is the Flying Dutchman.

Still have the lp and a French cd reissue of this too. Funny thing - Uncle Skid was here a couple of days ago and I pulled this out. Last week, when I was looking at the Ornette discography in the Body Meta LP, Friends and Neighbors was listed as "unauthorized". ???

Fine story in Sunday's Times about Conrado Morrero, 100 years old and the oldest living major leaguer, living in Cuba: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/sports/baseball/conrado-marrero-a-bridge-to-cubas-baseball-past.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=bridge%20to%20cubas%20baseball%20past&st=cse The Ted Williams story, even though it's evidently apocryphal, ia a good one.

Johnny Rivers Curt Flood Mississippi John Hurt

Listening now - Good selection of music. Guess I missed Clay Grossman. The host is Peter Kostakis. Still a good show. Probably the first time I've heard Bob & Ray on a jazz show.

Ducky Medwick Goose Goslin Hawk Harrelson

Louis

Happy Birthday!

Tuesday Weld Joe Friday Saturday's Children

Les Crane Mike Heron Lynn Swann

I wouldn't agree with Capitol being the greatest, but don't forget Gene Vincent.

Foxhole would be my second choice.

Them? Don't know the others, but Van Morrison stands out. (At least I think it's he.)

Mort Fega Morgan Freeman Mia Farrow

Snow White Tex Winter Three Blind Mice

Elly Mae Granny Jed

Leslie Caron Caron Butler Jeeves

Happy Birthday! Hope you'll celebrate by listening to some great music & seeing a great film.

Looks like Georgie Fame from back in the 60s.

Golden Circle Vol. 1 is my favorite.

Bach: 6 Suites for cello Solo - Lillian Fuchs - viola (Doremi)

Just to offer another point of view: I've been a subscriber from the beginning (actually the second issue) and never had a problem with receiving the magazine nor any problem with music orders.

Thanks for clearing that up, I remember it now. Simply put, it was a case of "you can't sell what you've already sold once and therefore isn't yours anymore." Sugarhill, co-owned by Joe Robinson, sued MCA in 1986, claiming that MCA and a reputed mobster conspired to weaken Sugarhill financially in order to lower the sale price of the Chess catalog. Sugarhill lost the case and, either before the case was decided or shortly afterward, Robinson "sold" the Chess catalog to Charly.

Well, I'm not too confident about the sound quality on this set. It will probably be mastered by Erick Labson, who mastered Hip-O's other Chess sets (Muddy Waters, Little Walter), and I'm not fond of his work: it's often too harsh and loud to my ears. OK. Listened to the Labson mastered Hip-O Muddy and Walter sets, along with a couple of Labson mastered MCA sets. Compared with the Charly Muddy and Walter boxes, the Labson sets are more harsh and loud, though perhaps they have a bit more clarity. I guess you make your choice of what you want to hear. For now, at least, I'm glad I held on to my Charly boxes. They may not be the best - not sure what else is out there - any suggestions, Hans? - but they're certainly listenable. This kind of listening makes me crazy. I don't have the Charly sets (if I remember correctly those were not legit), so I can't comment on them, but I do have the Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf MCA/Chess boxes and earlier individual MCA/Chess CD reissues and, though they were all mastered by Mr Labson, to my ears they sound less aggressively harsh and loud to me; they're not as fatiguing as Labson's more recent masterings of Chess recordings, which, by the way, include the first set with Muddy Waters' complete Chess recordings, Rollin' Stone: The Golden Anniversary Collection (The Complete Chess Masters, Vol.1, 1947-1952), which was released on Chess, not Hip-O. The advantage of both Muddy Waters sets (Chess + Hip-O), the Little Walter set (Hip-O) and the upcoming Howlin' Wolf set (Hip-O) is that you get their complete recordings from their prime years in chronological order. I hope they will do a Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller) set next. I'm not into buying non-legit issues in general. The Charly/Chess thing was a weird one. Joe Robinson, co-owner of All Platinum, which had purchased the Chess catalog, sold the Chess rights to MCA and later resold the Chess rights to Charly, claiming that MCA had taken advantage of him. Some time later, MCA sued and, years after that, the courts ruled that MCA was the rightful owner of the Chess catalog. So, at least for a while, the issue was up in the air. I guess now the Charlys are not legitimate.

Well, I'm not too confident about the sound quality on this set. It will probably be mastered by Erick Labson, who mastered Hip-O's other Chess sets (Muddy Waters, Little Walter), and I'm not fond of his work: it's often too harsh and loud to my ears. OK. Listened to the Labson mastered Hip-O Muddy and Walter sets, along with a couple of Labson mastered MCA sets. Compared with the Charly Muddy and Walter boxes, the Labson sets are more harsh and loud, though perhaps they have a bit more clarity. I guess you make your choice of what you want to hear. For now, at least, I'm glad I held on to my Charly boxes. They may not be the best - not sure what else is out there - any suggestions, Hans? - but they're certainly listenable. This kind of listening makes me crazy.