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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Fokeman 14th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath	Also came out with the later Spaceship Labels. But this later issue was allocated another catalogue number.
Fokeman 13th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album 11. Panzer-Grenadier-Division,Conductor-Major Hans Friess - Singing And Marching	The previous two and the following catalogue numbers in this series were all issued in 1975. Other records issued in Ireland in 1975 have exactly this layout on the label. Compare with The Bards for example. This is clearly not a 1961 issue, despite the publishing date given.
Fokeman 11th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Annie Ross And The Tony Kinsey Quintet - Loguerhythms	@swbcfc ,Your images don't look like they belong here. Are they perhaps from a CD reissue? They've used the tracks from the original recording and used the image from the XTRA reissue. It doesn't look at all like a vinyl reissue. And after looking in record shops and online for about 40 years, I've never seen it, hence my belief that it is not a vinyl reissue and it is certainly not something reissued during the life of the Transatlantic label.
Fokeman 11th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Heather And Glen	Albatros released a whole host of Everest LPs. This was first released in the US on the Everest label but even saw a UK release on Ember if memory serves me correctly.
Fokeman 8th Nov 2024		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

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