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mickey rat 28th Oct 2019		Book Debbie Harry - Face It	Autobiography. Classy first U.K. hardcover edition, quality glossy paper, includes numerous artwork illustrations and vintage photographs.
mickey rat 22nd Jul 2019		78 RPM Sister Bonnie Bradford - He Stopped Me From Straying / Glorify His Name	Recorded December 1953, Los Angeles. Ruppli indicates accompaniment by Johnny Otis’s pianist Devonia Williams plus bass and drums [possibly Mario Delagarde and Rudy Pitts?] Label pix here. He stopped me from straying; [by] Mary Rubin. [Melody and chord symbols, with words] © Armo Music Corp., Cincinnati; lMar54; EP78629.
mickey rat 19th Jul 2019		78 RPM The Four Internes - Holy Father / Stepped In The Water	Both sides recorded 2Mar53, Cincinnati Holy Father; [by] Alonzo Eubanks. [Melody and chord symbols, with words] © Jay & Cee Music Corp., Cincinnati; 7Sep53; EP74067. Stepped in the water; [by] Harold White. [Melody and chord symbols, with words] © Jay & Cee Music Corp., Cincinnati; 19Nov53; EP76098.
mickey rat 18th Jul 2019		78 RPM Chiemi Eri - Pretty-Eyed Baby / Gomenasi	This would have to be the oddest release on Federal. Dj copies indicate recorded in Japan.
mickey rat 30th Jun 2019		Book Guy Deghy - Cafe Royal	A social history of the old Cafe Royal in London, including detailed accounts of the behaviour of its many famous (and infamous) regular customers, including Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Frank Harris and Aleister Crowley. Includes photographs and other illustrations.
mickey rat 15th Jun 2019		Book Ion L. Idriess - Madman's Island	This is Idriess's account of his experiences stranded on Howick Island with a companion (who went mad) on the Great Barrier Reef north of Cooktown in the 1920s. His original 1927 account (his first published book) was heavily fictionalised at the insistance of his publisher, but this 1938 re-write was categorised as "true adventure" so I've listed it here as non-fiction although it includes some dialog between the two men.
mickey rat 9th Jun 2019		78 RPM The Golden Eagles - Throw Out The Life Line / The Lord Will Make A Way Somehow	Recorded 29Nov 52, Mobile Alabama. Two unreleased tracks also recorded at this session: Everybody Ought To Love Their Soul (F1081) and Jesus Prayed (F1082). The Lord will make a way somehow; [by] Ralph Powe. [Melody and chord symbols; with words] © Jay & Cee Music Corp., Cincinnati; 2Feb53; EP69064.
mickey rat 9th Jun 2019		78 RPM The Four Internes - Newborn Again / Home Again	Both sides recorded June 1952. Newborn again; [by] Alonzo Eubanks. [Melody and chord symbols, with words] © Armo Music Corp., Cincinnati; 20Oct52; EP66071. Home again; [by] Alonzo Eubanks. [Melody and chord symbols, with words] © Armo Music Corp., Cincinnati; 160ct52: EP66032.
mickey rat 9th Jun 2019		78 RPM Thelma Bumpess And The Royalettes - God's Soldier / Precious Father	Recorded 30Nov51. Shirley Caesar possibly with this group? Two other tracks were recorded at this session but unissued: Feast On Milk And Honey (F202) and Need God Every Hour (F203). God's soldier; [by] Thelma Bumpess. [Melody and chord symbols; with words] © Armo Music Corp., Cincinnati, 26Jul52; EP64040. Precious Father; [by] Thelma Bumpess. [Melody and chord symbols; with words] © Armo Music Corp., Cincinnati; 26Jul52; EP64041.
mickey rat 7th Jun 2019		Book Paul Steinberg - Speak You Also	This is the author's account of his survival tactics in Auschwitz and an answer to Primo Levi's disparaging description of him in his If This Is A Man.
mickey rat 31st May 2019		Book Mona Stuart Webster - John McDouall Stuart	My favourite Australian explorer - a hardy loner who shunned fame, travelled light with a small group on horseback, living off the land while expensive government expeditions floundered. He was sponsored by an Adelaide entrepreneur and after six attempts traversed the unknown heart of Australia from Adelaide to near where Darwin is now, and back again.
mickey rat 30th May 2019		Book John Newton - Slaver Captain	John Newton is best known as the composer of "Amazing Grace" but before he became an abolitionist clergyman he had a very different career as the captain of a slaving ship. I can remember reading the harrowing but matter-of-fact log of one of his ships with daily accounts of how slaves were purchased in West Africa, the nightmare of the Middle Passage and eventual sale of the survivors, when I was a teenager and not connecting him to that wonderful song until many years later. This book includes his memoir and illuminating letters.
mickey rat 26th May 2019		Book Jack Kerouac - The Town And The City	Jack Kerouac's first book (as John Kerouac), published six years before On The Road. My copy is a rare first U.K. edition but unfortunately is a worn ex-library copy with the expected rubber stamps, pasted card pocket and no dust jacket.
mickey rat 25th May 2019		Book W. Heath Robinson - Bill The Minder	This one's a gem. 25 cm x 19 cm, hard cover, an exact repro of the first Hodder & Stoughton edition, written and illustrated by Heath Robinson. Worth having just for the numerous bizarre illustrations.
mickey rat 24th May 2019		Book Arthur Koestler - The Thirteenth Tribe	Intriguing book which suggests that modern European Jews are not descended from the twelve tribes of Israel but from the Khazars of Asia who converted to Judaism in the Middle Ages as a political move.
mickey rat 24th May 2019		Book Arthur Koestler - Dialogue With Death	Koestler's account of his death sentence and his time in a Falangist prison during the Spanish Civil War. He was eventually released as part of a prisoner exchange after lobbying in the U.K. where he was employed as a war correspondent by the News Chronicle.
mickey rat 23rd May 2019		78 RPM The Golden Eagles - Anywhere Anytime / My God Called Me This Morning	Both sides recorded October 1951. Anywhere, anytime; [by] Larry Keith. [Melody and chord symbols, with words] © Armo Music Corp., Cincinnati; 21Jul52; EP63972.
mickey rat 23rd May 2019		78 RPM Little Esther - Ramblin' Blues / Somebody New	Recorded 4Jan52 and 16Jan52, Los Angeles, with Johnny Otis band. Ramblin' blues; [by] Ravon Darnell, Johnny Otis [and] Mario DeLagarde. [Melody and chord symbols, with words] © Valjo Pub. Co., Cincinnati; 12Jul52; EP63595. Somebody new; [by] Johnny Otis [and] Ravon Darnell. [Melody and chord symbols, with words] © Armo Music Corp., Cincinnati; 12Jul52; EP63588.
mickey rat 23rd May 2019		78 RPM John Lee - Blind's Blues / Baby's Blues	Both sides rec. Jul51, Montgomery, Alabama. John Arthur Lee. Blind's blues; [by] Charles Wernsing. [Melody and chord symbols, with words] © Armo Music Corp., Cincinnati; 12Jul52; EP63590. Baby's blues; [by] Charles Wernsing. [Melody and chord symbols, with words] © Armo Music Corp., Cincinnati; 12Jul52; EP63589.
mickey rat 23rd May 2019		78 RPM The Royals - Moonrise / Fifth Street Blues	Recorded 10May52, Cincinnati. Charles Sutton lead vcl. on Moonrise with Alonzo Tucker additional vcl. {source Ruppli] and Hank Ballard making his first appearance with the group and singing lead on Fifth Street [source Marv Goldberg]. Moonrise; [by] Alonzo Tucker. [Melody and chord symbols, with words] © Armo Music Corp., Cincinnati; 12Jul52; EP63592. Fifth Street blues; [by] Alonzo Tucker, Sonny Woods, Henry Booth, Charles Sutton [and] Henry Ballard. [Melody and chord symbols, with words] © Armo Music Corp., Cincinnati; 12Jul52; EP63591.
mickey rat 23rd May 2019		Book Mungo Park - The Life And Travels Of Mungo Park	This is Mungo Park's own account of his first journey in West Africa in 1795-1797 (first published in 1799) plus an account of his (undocumented by him) second journey in 1805 culminating in his death in Nigeria in 1805. There's also a chapter detailing later European expeditions.
mickey rat 23rd May 2019		Book James C. Malin - Indian Policy And Westward Expansion	Examines US Government policy regarding Native Americans in the Pre-Civil War period.
mickey rat 23rd May 2019		Book Leslie Hewes - Occupying The Cherokee Country Of Oklahoma	Addresses the forced removal of Cherokees from their homeland in Southern Appalachia to the so-called Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma, the establishment of communal farming settlements by the Cherokee, and the gradual erosion of their autonomy by white squatters and continuing Federal legislation through the 19th Century. Interesting to note that the Cherokee had black slaves even before the relocation.
mickey rat 22nd May 2019		Book Wilma Dykeman - Highland Homeland	A social history of The Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina (southern part of the Appalachians) from the Cherokee Nation to National park, illustrated with numerous period photographs. This area familiar to readers of Cormac McCarthy's early novels (and his more recent The Road).
mickey rat 21st May 2019		Book Floy A. Brown - Rehabilitating Historic Hotels	The Peabody is a luxury hotel in Memphis, well-known to generations of blues researchers and blues tourists headed for nearby Beale Street. Pre-war record companies sometimes recorded local blues artists in the hotel. ( see here). Although this booklet doesn't mention this aspect of its history it includes a number of period photographs and detailed descriptions of its interior.
mickey rat 20th May 2019		Book Captain W. E. Johns - Biggles WWII Collection	A not so guilty pleasure. I'm pretty sure this is an almost straight reprinting of a "Biggles omnibus" which I had as a boy in the mid '50s. All four stories had been previously published as separate books. Biggles Fails To Return was a personal fave and on recently re-reading it I was still entranced, despite all the dodgy dialogue and observations which wouldn't stand muster in the 21st century. An observation: I read somewhere that W.E. Johns insisted Biggles never actually killed anyone, but I'm almost 100% sure that in Biggles Delivers The Goods he comes across two Japanese soldiers abusing the body of a dead British pilot (putting a lighted cigarette between the pilot's lips and laughing) in the jungle and Biggles shoots them both dead. Needless to say this passage (if I didn't imagine it) has been excised from this edition.
mickey rat 17th May 2019		Book Shaun Tan - Cicada	Addresses discrimination and bullying in the workplace. Words on back cover: Cicada tell story. Story good. Story simple. Story even human can understand.
mickey rat 17th May 2019		Book Shaun Tan - Rules Of Summer	Wonderful artwork, guaranteed to terrify young children.
mickey rat 17th May 2019		Book Shaun Tan - Tales From Outer Suburbia	Bizarre stories and brilliant illustrations.
mickey rat 17th May 2019		Book Shaun Tan - The Lost Thing	Brilliant picture book by very talented artist. The front cover picture is a cheeky pinch from Jeffrey Smart's iconic Aussie painting "Cahill Expressway" (see here). And here's the animated version: [YouTube Video]

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