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Fokeman
3 hours ago
Vinyl Album
Magma - Magma
The currently showing labels are a 1980s reissue (see other Vertigo 1980 black labels). The originals were on a blue paper label.

Fokeman
3rd Nov 2024
Vinyl Album
Sandy Denny - Gold Dust
Having visited a popular online site you can see that the majority of these available for sale are in the USA, so I have no doubt that it was released in the USA too. For the reasons I have already listed below and the fact that I bought it from a record shop in France, I think that at least it has a European release too. It seems to me though, that it was truly an internation release. So shall we all agree to change it to International as annaloog suggests? No criticism intended anywhere.

Fokeman
2nd Nov 2024
Vinyl Album
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
Some copies came on White Vinyl, I believe.

Fokeman
2nd Nov 2024
Vinyl Album
Thin Lizzy - The Continuing Saga Of The Ageing Orphans
My copy very specifically says Publishing date 1978 on both labels. Is this unusual?

Fokeman
2nd Nov 2024
Vinyl Album
Cream - Cream
My copy has exactly the same vinyl but a slight sleeve variant with "Special Price Series" and a thick green border all around the front of the sleeve.

Fokeman
2nd Nov 2024
Vinyl Album
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next
Publishing date of 1973 on the labels and rear of sleeve. Also came on the Vertigo Swirl label with all information about tracs on the B side.

Fokeman
1st Nov 2024
Vinyl Album
Sandy Denny - Gold Dust
I can't see anything that suggests that this is a US release. It is made in the EU and certainly intended for the European/UK market. Looking at the label it has BIEM/SDRM which makes it clear that the rights collection will be carried out across the whole of Europe. SDRM is specifically a French collection agency and BIEM operates throughout Europe. I have just bought this in Europe so I'm surprised that it is considered a US release?

Universal Island Records Ltd. suggests a UK Ltd. Company, something that doesn't exist in the USA.

I wouldn't be surprised that people in the USA were also able to buy this but I would consider it principally a European release.

Fokeman
31st Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
Martin Carthy - Selections
I think that these were Pegasus recordings which were recorded by Terry Brown. See here... and were not necessarily Fontana recordings. Oh, I see what you mean. It says in the Notes "from the first two albums". I suppose the tracks were on the first two albums but these may have been separate recordings of the songs and tunes in their repertoire. What is also odd, is that the early records had no credits at all for who produced them, so in theory, this could have been the original recordings (which might have been...) produced by Terry Brown.

Fokeman
31st Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
The Choir Of King's College Cambridge, David Willcocks - G.P. Da Palestrina: Stabat Mater
Excellent. Thanks for your detective work, TJ. I'm always a bit wary when we find a Stereo or Mono LP on its own.

Fokeman
31st Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Bill Ward, wanting to look a bit different was wearing his girlfriend's red tights for this but didn't have any underpants. So he asked Ozzy to lend him his underpants which then required Ozzy to wear his robe with nothing on underneath. It looks a bit ridiculous but they were trying to avoid just wearing normal, everyday clothes on the album cover.

Fokeman
31st Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Apparently the plan was to call this LP "Walpurgis" - The Witches' Sabbath. But the obsession with evil magic and satanism was beginning to cause problems for the group who were just about to tour in the US. Therfore the track Walpurgis was changed to become War Pigs and the lyrics rewritten to reflect the change in title. Then, in a hurry to get the the album released, they organised a hurried photo shoot with a man in a pig mask. All of this was much against the will and taste of the band members. The final insult, was to change the name from War Pigs to Paranoid, again against the band's wishes with no coherence between the blurry picture of a man in a pig's head mask and the title Paranoid.

Having said all that, this album is universally considered a classic, so I don't think the story of the cover really detracts from what a stupendous record Black Sabbath produced for their second LP release.

Fokeman
31st Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
Lord Sutch And Heavy Friends - Hands Of Jack The Ripper
Sadly, my copy is cover only. Wrong LP inside the sleeve.

Fokeman
31st Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
Status Quo - Hello!
I have the black and white poster but without any catalogue number to be found on the poster. It is definitely original and came with the first issue Spaceship label UK release.

Fokeman
31st Oct 2024
CD Album
Mark Knopfler - Down The Road Wherever Tour
It states that this is on British Grove Records/Virgin EMI Records. I chose to list first things first because I couldn't see this release. It's so complicated to work out exactly who is the releasing label. It's licensed to Mercury Records too in this release.

Fokeman
31st Oct 2024
CD Album
Mark Knopfler - Down The Road Wherever
With at least five different companies mentioned on the release, gone are the days when you can say easily which label a record is on...

Fokeman
29th Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
Judas Priest - Turbo
You're right. If this were just STEMRA it would be Benelux countries but BIEM/STEMRA means that it was also sold in France and other European countries. BIEM operates/operated through all Europe.

Fokeman
29th Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
Nic Jones - Nic Jones
The problem is that the Highway label clearly shows on the discs and it's the same picture. But we could consider that. They're not technically different labels. I'll discuss it with the Mods.

Fokeman
28th Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
Nic Jones - Nic Jones
Yes, I can answer that last question, belatedly.

The Trailer/Leader catalogue was bought wholesale at the point of bankruptcy of the Leader company. The Zollman family who owned Highway and who operated out of Redditch, Worcestershire used the back catalogue, as best they could and reissued Nic Jones, Dick Gaughan and many other of the excellent recordings that came with the label. They also continued to sell existing stock but put a Highway sticker on the back of sleeve. Sadly, they went the same way only about 6 years later, whereupon they were, themselves, bought out, lock stock and barrel, by Celtic Music, owned at the time by Dave Bulmer. Bulmer had been a northern musician who played accordion and accompanied a wonderful flute and piccolo player, John Doonan, touring the festivals with him in the 1970s.

Fokeman
27th Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
Linda Hoyle - Pieces Of Me
Exactly! And that is probably less than 10% of the actual owners.

Fokeman
27th Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
The Chantels - We Are The Chantels
Front cover image deleted. We can't accept watermarked images from the web. It damages the site.

Fokeman
27th Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
Linda Hoyle - Pieces Of Me
I suppose the problem is that one person creating "truth" is then perpetuated by people who quote the "truth" from what they have read or heard elsewhere. I doubt very much that there is anywhere, evidence that the 300 records pressed fact is true. Wikipedia is using another source which is doubtful, in my humble opinion.

Fokeman
26th Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
The Humblebums - The Humblebums
They were The New Humblebums because prior to Rafferty's arrival, The Humblebums were Billy Connolly and Tam Harvey. Note Billy Connolly was spelled Connelly throughout by the early label printers!

Fokeman
26th Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
Plasmatics - New Hope For The Wretched
You've added two B sides @Jo Altmon

Fokeman
22nd Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
La Chorale De Saint-Martin De Dunkerque - Chorale Saint-Martin
Date is 1973 as is given in the catalogue number 1973 30cm 16

Fokeman
20th Oct 2024
78 RPM
Al Stewart And His New Mexicans - Make Yourself A Happiness Pie / What Good Am I Without You ?
He was certainly recording for the same label at the same time.

Fokeman
19th Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
Émile Joulain - Cause Toujôus, Gâs Mile
I have the following, companion volume by the same artist and there is nothing in the run out grooves which indicates a date. The usual Pathé-Marconi numbers would have been very useful, but they are entirely absent from both of these records, I suspect. Probably from round about 1964/5

Fokeman
10th Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys - For The Last Time
I would class this more like a box set, albeit with only two records but it includes a large booklet and a stiff, box sleeve which the two records and the booklet slide out of.

Fokeman
7th Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
The Brighouse And Rastrick Band - The Floral Dance
Rear of sleeve image provided by Malcyramone.

Fokeman
7th Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
The Brighouse And Rastrick Band - The Floral Dance
This TRS 109 is an interesting concept. At the time, Logo, who had just bought Transatlantic were running a TRS reissue series from the most commercial of Transatlantic's back catalogue. This, despite the fact that Transatlantic had already found several different ways of reissuing their back-catalogue with just a little re-packaging. They had, for example, had the TRA-SAM series which in most cases simply reissued a whole album with a different title. They had also used their XTRA label to reissue Transatlantic material.

Following up on their huge hit single - Floral Dance - which had been promoted by Terry Wogan on BBC Radio, they actually put the LP out on Logo, which made it difficult for them to call it a Transatlantic LP. Instead they seem to have given it a reissue series TRS 109 code but not actually created any more Transatlantic labels. Perhaps they overestimated sales and never ran out of the original batch which was printed on LOGO labels?

For completeness sake I would like to use this sleeve to create the TRS 109 which is missing from the Transatlantic catalogue, if there are no objections.

Fokeman
6th Oct 2024
Vinyl Album
Les Gens De Cherves - Une Vie Paysanne En Mireballais
The date coincides with the creation of the Les Gens De Cherves Association


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