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George Slv 14th Mar 2017		Vinyl Album Jo Stafford - The Hits Of Jo Stafford	So this would be rerecordings of her Columbia hits. How is it?
George Slv 12th Mar 2017		TV The Jimmy Dean Show (1963 - 1966)	I've added a title coming directly from a 16mm film of the first episode. On sale currently at ebay. The history of their titles I don't know.
George Slv 3rd Mar 2017		Vinyl Album The Coasters - Wake Me, Shake Me	The Snake And The Bookworm is a strange edition. Not the same as the single release, it is missing the group refrains of the title between the verses. There is just empty instrumental fill there. All reissues were this way, I'd like to know why. Here is the original single on YT from GSMusicMoments [YouTube Video] Here's the version on this collection: [YouTube Video]
George Slv 3rd Mar 2017		Vinyl Album Teresa Brewer - Midnight Cafe (A Few More For The Road)	What Are We Gonna Do is special, written by Teresa Brewer herself as a dedication to her marriage with Bob Thiele. Hear an archive copy.
George Slv 14th Feb 2017		CD Album Connie Francis - 26 Greatest Hits (Audiophile Version)	This is another one of those disc titles that's a joke. 26 Greatest Hits? I count half a dozen, from her first hits package in 1960 only. The rest being album songs. But at least they state that in the contents.
George Slv 14th Feb 2017		CD Album Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Lorin Maazel - Sibelius: Symphony No.1, Karelia Suite	Review I've had a chance to listen to this on computer, using a 32-bit fp conversion, with external stereo speakers. While allowing that it's not the full DSD sound, the sound is smoother and fuller than CD. But compared to my vinyl recording the tone is not as pleasant to me. Not as full and rounded, with harsher treble and less bass. I will be drawn to listen to my 64-bit recording of my vinyl. But the labels are right to give attention to the Maazel Vienna recordings. I consider them the best of Sibelius' symphonies. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 14th Feb 2017		DVD Box Set The Hammer Horror Series - Universal	Reissued in 2014.
George Slv 13th Feb 2017		DVD The Hammer Horror Series 8-Film Collection - Universal	A reissue of the 2005 release, this time without squeezing four movies on each disc. I had trouble playing 3 of the films on the 2005 set.
George Slv 1st Feb 2017		Vinyl Album Fats Domino - Fats Domino Sings Million Record Hits	Review This amounts to a Volume 2 of his hits, almost. It has some great hits from 1959, some fair hits. Then it's one of those head-scratchers about what the executives were thinking. A1, A2, A5, B1, B6 did not chart but four of these were flip sides of hits, which are not included: Rose Mary (1953), Wait And See, Valley Of Tears, and The Big Beat. So it's only moderately interesting. By the way the stereo LP has only mono songs. "Million Record Hits" is a blatantly deceptive title. Actually there's not a single gold record on this. But two of the missing hits were gold. Volume 1 would be Fats Domino Swings. Volume 3 is the one titled (also deceptively) Million Sellers. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 28th Jan 2017		Vinyl Album Bobby Curtola - Curtola	Playing With Fire on Youtube: [YouTube Video] Also find there all the songs on this album.
George Slv 24th Jan 2017		TV S.H.E. (1980)	Review Review Some reviews from old Movie Guide books. Reviews are dropped from later editions for minor films. Leonard Maltin 1993: James Bondish derring-do involving a woman superspy who crosses swords with a suave playboy head of an international crime ring. (SHE stands for security hazards expert.) Script by Bond veteran Richard Maibaum. Average. Steven Scheuer 1990: Slick production values, exotic location shooting, and the beautiful Cornelia Sharpe as a sexy female James Bond-type are the draws here. SHE (Securities Hazards Expert) is hot on the trail of international blackmailers who plan to jeopardize the world's oil supply if their demands aren't met. 2/4 Martin and Porter 2003: This average made-for-TV spy-action thriller has one twist .. a female James Bond. Beautiful Cornelia Sharpe is S.H.E. (Security Hazards Expert). She pursues Robert Lansing, the US syndicate boss, throughout Europe. Omar Sharif makes an appearance as a wine baron. 3/5 Richard Maibaum, James Bond writer, wrote a big-time screenplay but the result was weak. The entire film is available at Youtube at the moment but beware the shape is all wrong. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 22nd Jan 2017		VHS S.H.E. - Avant Vision	Abbreviating the title with a character other than period creates a problem for search. I don't take the + seriously, it was a decorative way of abbreviating. If this site allowed TV movies I would list it there.
George Slv 16th Jan 2017		DVD Satin Dolls - The Johnny Knorr Story	The correct title is "Satin Dolls - The Johnny Knorr Story". I can't get the moderator to make the right correction.
George Slv 13th Jan 2017		Vinyl Album Bobby Curtola - Curtola	Review They stopped trying to issue pop-rock hits on the Tartan label in 1969. Then Bobby shifted to contemporary pop, continuing to work with Basil Hurdon as his manager. This one is super-rare. Way Down Deep received airplay in Canada. Playing With Fire is a surprise, written by the Hurdon brothers, it's back to his 1960s rock and roll style sounding around 1968, and quite great. But otherwise the album is nothing strong or desirable. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 6th Jan 2017		DVD Satin Dolls - The Johnny Knorr Story	A 26 minute documentary by Michael Drew Shaw. The orchestra was popular in the mid-west from 1960 on as a Big Band revival band. There is some mention of some of the great female vocalists at the start. Some footage of his orchestra playing in some ballrooms. I have a DVD I could sell.
George Slv 5th Jan 2017		Vinyl Album Marty Robbins - More Greatest Hits	Review This album was a mixed bag. One of those where you question what the record executives sitting in plush chairs were thinking. I mean some giant hits and some questionable filler. They omitted Five Brothers, which was one of his most exciting singles in 1960 and charted, but included the lame flip side Ride Cowboy Ride which was nothing. Five Brothers just must have been too strong for their minds. I do recall hearing Streets Of Laredo on the radio in Canada and possibly Red River Valley, but find no record of singles issued. I don't understand what happened there. Others here were flip sides and were good, altho Saddle Tramp is lame. At least the title is not "12 Million Sellers". After this Marty had Vol.3 and Vol.4 Hits albums, and they also were scattered in their choices. You had to seek out Volume 3 to get the classic Devil Woman. So the hits on here were A1, A3, B1, B4, B6. El Paso really started a new phase in Marty's career, so the division between Vol.1 and this one is significant. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 21st Dec 2016		CD Album Teresa Brewer - The Cotton Connection	Teresa sang All Of Me from the album on the Merv Griffin Show in 1985. [YouTube Video] For more videos see the Teresa Brewer Center at teresafans.org.
George Slv 21st Dec 2016		Vinyl Album Teresa Brewer - We Love You Fats	Teresa previewed songs from the album on the NBC Today morning show with Tom Brokaw in 1978 [YouTube Video] See more at the Teresa Brewer Center - teresafans.org.
George Slv 17th Dec 2016		Vinyl Album Teresa Brewer - We Love You Fats	Review This one was never reissued on CD, so it's easy to overlook. In her jazz releases she never again equalled her Duke Ellington and Count Basie albums. This was an easy-going recording with three instrumentalists. Earl Hines' piano stands out thruout. The title song was something Teresa and the others wrote saying a few words about Fats - "we love you Fats, cause you knew where it's ats ..." Two Sleepy People is also a piano instrumental by Hines, running right into the vocal as one track. The two instros were not written by Waller. The 1983 reissue LP did not have a foldout cover. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 17th Dec 2016		CD Album The Beatles - The Early Years Greatest Hits	Separate CDs for 11 songs? The govt should crack down on false copyright claims already. Stargrove claiming copyright protection.
George Slv 11th Dec 2016		TV Tightrope! (1959 - 1960)	This show had a suspenseful atmosphere, and was one of the best. I don't recall it having too much physical violence.
George Slv 8th Dec 2016		TV M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994 - 1995)	Review When Fox TV was young a few people got a chance to see this superhero one-hour series. A variation on the suit that makes you invincible. It was typically well produced, with some weaknesses. In the 1980s media violence was increasing and people were expecting 1990s violence. But the tide turned, and here the producers purposely toned it down. But to the point of eliminating it and killing it. The M.A.N.T.I.S. would not don his suit til the last five minutes, then just walk onto the crime scene and take control. No hitting or fighting or throwing or smashing for Pete's sake. So a waste of time and it did not last the season. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 8th Dec 2016		TV TekWar (1994 - 1996)	At the start Torri Higginson was playing Evigan's assistant. This was an appealing female. I think I made the fatal error of mentionning this to a feminist member of the establishment at the time. Next thing I knew Torri was off the show and then some hard-edged masculine female replaces her - Lexa Doig. Lessons learned too late. Be deathly careful what ya say to whom. or something.
George Slv 6th Dec 2016		Vinyl Album Eddie Cochran - The Very Best Of Eddie Cochran	Does anyone know if this was made from the original masters, or maybe from raw studio tapes? It did not sound impressive to me.
George Slv 4th Dec 2016		CD Album Stephane Grappelli And Teresa Brewer - Live At Carnegie Hall / On The Road Again	Be careful since this is a French release you may not understand the violin. There are a couple CDs on sale at priceminister.com right now. There is also an extended edition of his Carnegie concert available.
George Slv 1st Dec 2016		Vinyl Album The Guess Who - Shakin' All Over	There is a CD reissue of the Canadian edition, with differences in contents. The AllMusic review mistakenly calls the CD the US edition.
George Slv 28th Nov 2016		TV Misfits Of Science (1985 - 1986)	16 episodes produced. Dean Paul Martin was Dean Martin's son, and was killed in a military plane crash later that decade. One guy had the power to throw electric bolts, another had the power to shrink for a period, Courtney had the power of telekinesis.
George Slv 24th Nov 2016		DVD A Promise Kept - The Oksana Baiul Story	Review The story takes you from her infancy to her Olympic win in 1994. This filming seems very suited for females, being extremely sentimental. Monica Keena does a fine job representing Oksana, and at the end she morphs into the real Oksana who skates The Swan as a finale. Curiously Monica's name is not featured as a lead actor in promotional credits. The TV movie and the 1990s cassette release did not get much attention, seemingly because of western bias. I see the DVD with limited availability at Amazon. The top and bottom of the picture has been cropped to create the widescreen TV ratio. I suppose casual viewers will not notice a problem, but us videophiles might object to losing some of Oksana's legs during skates. The technical specifications embedded in the DVD are confused and state that the shape is 4:3, and some computer players might not render it correctly. Video and audio are fine. Length is 1:32. We are waiting for this site to make accomodations for TV movies. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
George Slv 17th Nov 2016		Cinema River Patrol (1948)	A Hammer film produced by Knightsbridge Films. Looks like an aborted attempt at a serial.
George Slv 13th Nov 2016		Vinyl Album John Barry - The Man With The Golden Gun	In Search Of Scaramanga's Island in a Youtube video, my favorite piece in this soundtrack[YouTube Video]

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