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Boursin 24th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Peter, Paul And Mary - Peter, Paul And Mary	When Warner Bros. went from Decca to Pye in 1965, the album was renumbered from WM 4064 to W 1449. Both have flipback sleeves, the first issue (Decca) with grey labels and the second (Pye) with gold labels.
Boursin 22nd Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Focus - In And Out Of Focus	Not to mention ST-11721.
Boursin 20th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Chuck Berry - One Dozen Berrys	The National Library of France catalogues this as 1978. Probably a mismatched disc, or just possibly a leftover from the GRT period exported to France without sleeves?
Boursin 18th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Roy Orbison - Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits	Discogs is wrong, for maybe the hundredth thousandth time. Billboard's mono LP chart listed this as 8000 starting from the issue dated 2 February 1963. (8009 is Jerry Byrd's Byrd Of Paradise, released November 1963.)
Boursin 18th Apr 2015		78 RPM Bing Crosby - With Summer Coming On / Love Me Tonight	"Love Me Tonight" is also the B side, as shown by the "–B" suffix to the catalogue number.
Boursin 18th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Shirley Bassey - In The Still Of The Night	Part of this series' launch in November 1969.
Boursin 16th Apr 2015		78 RPM Jimmie Davis - Get On Board, Aunt Susan / Market House Blues	The blocking of videos in Germany is done by GEMA, the composers and lyricists' copyright society. They're foolish to do it, but they are within their rights. All records released before 1963 are in the public domain in Europe, but Jimmie Davis only died in 2000 (aged 101!), so his words and music are themselves still in copyright until the year 2071.
Boursin 15th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Boulders	This was released by Dave Gibson from Los Angeles (later Oregon). His wife was from the Philippines, and it's probably a reference to that. Sadly they're both long dead now.
Boursin 15th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album The Nightcaps - Wine, Wine, Wine	RCA matrix numbers M8OP-8124 / M8OP-8125. The "M" means 1961, not 1960. Corrected.
Boursin 15th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Put On Your Dancing Shoes : 16 Vintage Dance Singles	Yes. Corrected.
Boursin 15th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album David Rose - Holiday For Strings	This was released in October 1952, and reviewed in Melody Maker, 11 October 1952, p. 4. In fact this was one of the first LPs that EMI ever released on its labels. In Britain, only Decca had LPs already in 1950. The US version (linked below) is from 1950, and the incorrect 1950 date probably comes from that.
Boursin 15th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album The Zombies - Begin Here	With just a few exceptions, Decca generally omitted all the LP titles from the labels starting around 1959. The titles only reappeared in 1969 with the new boxed Decca labels.
Boursin 15th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Buddy Holly - The Buddy Holly Story	Not even the worst on a Buddy Holly record. On the 1958 Buddy Holly LP, John Marascalco is listed as "Naras Calca" on "Ready Teddy", on both the cover and label.
Boursin 15th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Buddy Holly - The Buddy Holly Story	Back cover redesign was released 9 August 1965, at the same time as this was put out in (electronic) stereo as CRL 757279.
Boursin 15th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Buddy Holly And The Crickets - Rave On	June 1968. They're not new compilations, they're the same old Coral label albums with new titles and sleeves (see links below). Issued to keep them available after Coral was killed off at the turn of 1967/1968.
Boursin 15th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Andrew Leigh - Magician	Reviewed as a new release in Billboard, 22 August 1970.
Boursin 15th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - A Week At The Bridge E16	The Aylesbury factory was started already in 1964 by Oriole, just prior to the CBS takeover, and its newness may even have been a factor in CBS's wanting it. The move from the old Aston Clinton location, which had been used by Oriole since the 78 era, was completed by CBS in the summer of 1965. Billboard, 14 August 1965, p. 22.
Boursin 15th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Neil Diamond - Gold Diamond	You do know, do you, that Pelletier did an LP listing for London too? Showing this as November 1973, with a Vol. 2 (London ZGM 134) following in September 1974.
Boursin 10th Apr 2015		78 RPM Rosemary Clooney - Mambo Italiano / We'll Be Together Again	It's Finnish. This label style was used by Levytukku, which represented Philips in Finland from 1953 to 1959. Both of the two owners we have for this 78 are also Finnish.
Boursin 24th Oct 2014		Vinyl Album Eric Burdon And The Animals - Remember The Liverpool Sound 3	In 1964 there was the Liverpool Sound label in the US. Three releases, by The Paramounts and John Leyton (both from the Essex seafront) and Mike Sheridan & The Nightriders (Birmingham). Well, the latter at least was only 100 miles south from Liverpool...
Boursin 17th May 2014		Vinyl Album The Fireballs - Come On, React!	Gilmer had only left the credits - it's him on vocals, and on the cover, only unrecognisable behind a beard and dark glasses. Drummer Doug Roberts looks disturbingly like a young Gérard Depardieu, BTW.
Boursin 6th Apr 2014		Vinyl Album The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland	It has the number 2657 001. Polydor's 2xxx xxx numbering system only started in 1970.
Boursin 6th Apr 2014		Vinyl Album Bill Haley And The Comets - Just Rock And Roll Music	The way I understand the Sam Charters sleeve notes, Jerry Shook was just mentioned as being on the new Tom T. Hall record as well as this one. Similar to Lloyd Green being mentioned as being on the Byrds' Sweetheart Of The Rodeo, earlier in the same paragraph.
Boursin 28th Mar 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Screening The Blues	Reviewed in the Melody Maker on 7 September 1968. It's a companion to Paul Oliver's scholarly book of the same title, which had been published a few months earlier.
Boursin 27th Mar 2014		Vinyl Album Johnny Winter - The Johnny Winter Story	The insert has been torn off from this copy - feel free to scan it if you have it.
Boursin 27th Mar 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Oldies	Although this looks on the surface like a cheap cover version job, all tracks are the original Cameo label single versions: A1, B4 - Charlie Gracie A2 - Melvin Smith A3 - Billy Scott A4 - Timmie "Oh Yeah!" Rogers A5, B1 - The Applejacks B2 - Ray Vernon B3 - John Zacherle B5 - Georgie Young & The Rockin' Bocs
Boursin 1st May 2014		78 RPM Ginny Greer - Five Oranges, Four Apples / Kiss Me Hello (But Never Goodbye)	[YouTube Video]
Boursin 30th Mar 2014		78 RPM Johnny Oliver - Chain Gang / These Hands	[YouTube Video]
Boursin 22nd Jan 2014		78 RPM Art Hickman's Orchestra - Hold Me / Dance It Again With Me	There isn't any more reliable publication available, because as Brooks notes, the data required for compiling such a publication simply don't exist and have never existed. Nobody collected the information at the time, so it's lost forever. The closest thing would conceivably be a book that did not set out to imitate the chart book format at all, such as is mooted by Brooks in the section headed "What Can Be Done?" near the end. But in the quarter century since he wrote, no such book has yet emerged, regrettably. It needs emphasising that Whitburn's book is not reliable even for determining, however vaguely, that something was a hit or was not. As Brooks explains, some record companies' complete files still survive, which gives us the exact sales figures for their releases. And so it turns out that some records which sold as much as 300,000+ copies are omitted completely by Whitburn. While records which the same files say sold just a few thousand, but were the subject of promotional drum-banging by the record company at the time, or hype and hearsay later, are included in the book as "hits". Much of what Whitburn includes in his book of hits was never any sort of a hit. It's still a useful book for some limited purposes – but taken with a whole cellar of salt.
Boursin 21st Jan 2014		78 RPM Art Hickman's Orchestra - Hold Me / Dance It Again With Me	Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 was an attempt to compile a chart book retroactively for the period before there simply were any accurate charts. Sadly, it is in many ways a complete disaster, and the good reputation of Whitburn's Billboard chart books has caused it to be much more trusted and quoted than would be the case otherwise. See, for instance, the 1989 review of the book by media historian Tim Brooks.

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