Fokeman 3 hours ago | | Vinyl AlbumMagma - Magma | The currently showing labels are a 1980s reissue (see other Vertigo 1980 black labels). The originals were on a blue paper label.
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Fokeman 3rd Nov 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumSandy 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.
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Fokeman 2nd Nov 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumPink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason | Some copies came on White Vinyl, I believe.
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Fokeman 2nd Nov 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumThin Lizzy - The Continuing Saga Of The Ageing Orphans | My copy very specifically says Publishing date 1978 on both labels. Is this unusual?
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Fokeman 2nd Nov 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumCream - 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.
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Fokeman 2nd Nov 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumThe 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.
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Fokeman 1st Nov 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumSandy 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.
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Fokeman 31st Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumMartin 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.
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Fokeman 31st Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumThe 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.
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Fokeman 31st Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumBlack 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.
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Fokeman 31st Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumBlack 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.
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Fokeman 31st Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumLord Sutch And Heavy Friends - Hands Of Jack The Ripper | Sadly, my copy is cover only. Wrong LP inside the sleeve.
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Fokeman 31st Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumStatus 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.
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Fokeman 31st Oct 2024 | | CD AlbumMark 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.
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Fokeman 31st Oct 2024 | | CD AlbumMark 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...
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Fokeman 29th Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumJudas 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.
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Fokeman 29th Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumNic 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.
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Fokeman 28th Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumNic 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.
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Fokeman 27th Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumLinda Hoyle - Pieces Of Me | Exactly! And that is probably less than 10% of the actual owners.
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Fokeman 27th Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumThe Chantels - We Are The Chantels | Front cover image deleted. We can't accept watermarked images from the web. It damages the site.
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Fokeman 27th Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumLinda 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.
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Fokeman 26th Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumThe 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!
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Fokeman 26th Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumPlasmatics - New Hope For The Wretched | You've added two B sides @Jo Altmon
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Fokeman 22nd Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumLa Chorale De Saint-Martin De Dunkerque - Chorale Saint-Martin | Date is 1973 as is given in the catalogue number 1973 30cm 16
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Fokeman 20th Oct 2024 | | 78 RPMAl 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.
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Fokeman 19th Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumÉmile 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
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Fokeman 10th Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumBob 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.
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Fokeman 7th Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumThe Brighouse And Rastrick Band - The Floral Dance | Rear of sleeve image provided by Malcyramone.
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Fokeman 7th Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumThe 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.
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Fokeman 6th Oct 2024 | | Vinyl AlbumLes 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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