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Bill Fick 13th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album The Beatles - The Decca Tapes	To Trainman: THIS is the album of the 15-song audition tape made for Decca on 1/1/62, not the "First Movement" album. This was originally released years ago (with the same front/back covers) on the Circuit label. On that issue, the sound quality was good, but all the songs ran slightly too fast. I don't know if that's been corrected on this release. I also don't know if this is an actual legit issue or not, maybe someone can clarify...
Bill Fick 12th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album Glen Campbell - A Satisfied Mind	Aside from the title track, these songs are taken from the LP "Big Bluegrass Special" by Glen & The Green River Boys, Capitol T-1810, from 1962.
Bill Fick 12th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album Jack Scott - What Am I Living For	I didn't know myself originally that all of Jack's early material wound up in one bundle, as far as ownership. When Capitol first came out with their Collector's Series on CD in the early '90s, I passed on Jack's volume, thinking that the earlier songs were re-recordings. I was wrong. I love Jack's early stuff. With the sparse instrumentation & low voice, he reminded me of a more rock & roll version of Johnny Cash. Sadly overlooked nowadays...
Bill Fick 11th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Songs, Pictures And Stories Of The Fabulous Beatles	For anyone who's not familiar with all the twists & turns in the Beatles/Vee-Jay story, every time they come across a legit copy of this LP, they think that they have a mis-matched set, where the record has one title & catalog #, & the cover has another. For any Beatles fans just starting to get into collecting the Vee-Jay stuff, please be careful. This stuff has been counterfeited for almost as long as Vee-Jay has been out of business. The earliest counterfeits are almost as old as the originals. There's a number of reputable publications that explain the Beatles/Vee-Jay story. Familiarize yourself with them before you go out spending all kinds of money on rare (or "rare") records. Don't get burned.
Bill Fick 11th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album The Beatles - First Movement	No, these are the 1961 Hamburg recordings. All are w/Tony Sheridan on lead vocals, except track A1, which is instrumental.
Bill Fick 11th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album Jack Scott - What Am I Living For	It's legit, issued as Jack was switching labels. Once he got to Capitol, EMI wound up owning all of his recordings from the very beginning anyway, ABC-Paramount, Carlton (& Guaranteed), Top Rank & Capitol.
Bill Fick 11th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album Jack Scott - Burning Bridges	With the ST-8 prefix, this would be a Capitol Record Club issue.
Bill Fick 11th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album Bill Haley And The Comets - Rock With Bill Haley And The Comets	This was released on 3 different labels, Somerset, Trans-World & Essex. All 3 covers are identical except for the label names.
Bill Fick 8th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Smash Hits	I'd have to agree with you. Jimi Hendrix is an artist whose music has benefited greatly from the age of digital re-mastering.
Bill Fick 7th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album Jonathan Edwards [Paul Weston] - The Piano Artistry Of Jonathan Edwards	That's sure what it looks like to me...
Bill Fick 7th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album Jonathan Edwards [Paul Weston] - The Piano Artistry Of Jonathan Edwards	Anyone else notice anything odd about this LP cover?
Bill Fick 6th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire	A6 with the Carter Family also.
Bill Fick 6th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album Marty Robbins - More Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs	Original label was the black/red "6-eye" label.
Bill Fick 6th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album Douglas A. Mac Arthur - General Of The Army Douglas A. Mac Arthur' Speech To Congress, April 19, 1951	This was also released at the time by RCA Victor on a set of 78's.
Bill Fick 6th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album Ritchie Valens - Ritchie Valens	1st pressing back cover has track A1 listed as " I Got A Gal Named Sue".
Bill Fick 6th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album The Everly Brothers - Folk Songs By The Everly Brothers	1962 re-issue of "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us" with a different cover & title.
Bill Fick 6th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album The Everly Brothers - The Fabulous Style Of The Everly Brothers	Only part of this LP is in true stereo. The rest are earlier mono-only tracks electronically re-processed.
Bill Fick 6th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album The Million Dollar Quartet - The Complete Million Dollar Session	Not actually "complete", but about 95% of what is currently known to exist of the session is here. Fairly recently, this was re-issued on CD with a few extra minutes added. Rumor has it that one more reel of tape was used (in addition to what is presented here), but has not yet been found. Supposedly, this "lost" reel contains all 4 members of the "quartet", including Johnny Cash, but this will remain unsubstantiated until found. Jack Clement has stated that at least 3 reels of tape were used, but only 2 have been found as of this writing. Both Johnny Cash and the original newspaper article in the Memphis Press-Scimitar have named songs that were sung that day that have yet to be found... Prior to becoming a huge financial success, Sam Phillips tended to try & save money by erasing & re-using tape from sessions that he was not going to master any records from, so it's a distinct possibility that the "lost" songs may be lost forever, much like the majority of the out-takes from Presley's Sun sessions...
Bill Fick 6th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan	First pressing label was the black/red "6-eye" label, very hard to find on that label. Columbia was on the process of changing to the red "2-eye" label at the time.
Bill Fick 6th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album Johnny Mathis - Johnny's Greatest Hits	Original pressing was mono only, black/red "6-eye" label.
Bill Fick 4th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album Neil Young / Neil And The Shocking Pinks - Everybody's Rockin'	I believe that both this album & the "Trans" album contributed to the situation. Yep, "rock & roll" in the most literal sense. Good for Neil...
Bill Fick 4th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album Johnny Cash - With His Hot And Blue Guitar	Yes, the earlier issues had a darker cover, with the background a light blue. Later pressings (such as the one shown) were more washed out. The original configurations of the Sun LP's stayed in print until 1968, when Sam Phillips decided to sell the label, but you could still find new copies of these in the record store bins until the early '70s. Also, the older covers were of a thicker stock.
Bill Fick 4th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album Neil Young / Neil And The Shocking Pinks - Everybody's Rockin'	Geffen Records sued Neil over this release, claiming that he was purposefully making "uncommercial" records. It's a departure for Neil, but I like it.
Bill Fick 4th Aug 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Cruisin' 1961 Featuring Arnie Ginsburg, WMEX, Boston	But you have to get the original set. A few years after this series came out, some of the volumes were re-done with different songs inserted, & in a few cases, some of the songs substituted were inferior re-makes of the original recordings...
Bill Fick 31st Jul 2014		Vinyl Album Marty Robbins - Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs	This is the only version to have. The full version of "El Paso" is on this. The stereo version of this LP has an edited version of the song. A cornerstone of any serious C&W music collection.
Bill Fick 28th Jul 2014		Vinyl Album Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison	Being a live recording, I'm assuming that the mono version is just a fold-down of the stereo? I believe that this is Cash's last US LP released in both mono & stereo formats.
Bill Fick 25th Jul 2014		Vinyl Album Waylon Jennings - Nashville Rebel (From The Original Soundtrack)	The title should be "Nashville Rebel".
Bill Fick 23rd Jul 2014		Vinyl Album The Norman Petty Trio - Moondreams	Yes, it is. "Moondreams" was also released as a single twice on Columbia, first by Petty, then overdubbed with vocals & credited to The Picks.
Bill Fick 23rd Jul 2014		Vinyl Album Eddie Cochran - The Eddie Cochran Memorial Album	Different track listing than the US version.
Bill Fick 20th Jul 2014		Vinyl Album Stonewall Jackson - The Dynamic Stonewall Jackson	2nd pressing. Original would have the "6-eye" label. One of the finest debut LP's by a country artist ever. Every track on this is a gem.

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