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Neil Forbes 21st Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Long Tall Sally	Hi, Phil, How goes it? I was referring to the cover artwork(photo grouping). Quite apart from it being on the US "Beatles Second Album", It was also used for the Canadian "Long Tall Sally" LP and a Rhodesian compilation. I'' come back and edit this with the title as soon as I find it. Ah, found it, "Big Beat Of The Beatles".
Neil Forbes 21st Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Bee Gees - The Bee Gees	@Jasper, Hi! I was wondering if anyone else was about on this site.. hate to be alone here, my typing echoing through empty internet catacombs...... There are some other good Bee Gees tracks that have turned up on various LPs, only one of them made this set, I Was A Lover A Leader Of Men, Others are Wine & Women and Cherry Red, all three are from about 1965.
Neil Forbes 21st Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - The Big Beat Of The Beatles	Here's that photo grouping again, this time on a Rhodesian EMI/Parlophone LP. Elsewhere it's used on Canadian Capitol issue, Long Tall Sally.
Neil Forbes 21st Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Long Tall Sally	The grouping of photos on the front cover seem to turn up on several different Beatles compilation LPs from America or Canada. I think I saw another title earlier with the same artwork.
Neil Forbes 21st Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Bee Gees - The Bee Gees	@Jasper, was it you who forked out that $58.70? Whoever it was, paid a tad too much, even for The Bee Gees' early works. @RC, that Blue Columbia label for 20 Explosive Hits, I can't recall seeing any other issue on Columbia using that label colour, must've been a one-off!
Neil Forbes 21st Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Herman's Hermits - The Most Of Herman's Hermits	Just a note, the title and artwork are sourced from EMI, UK which issues these albums on their MFP label, not all, mind you. EMI Australia sometimes comes up with their own compilations and creates the artwork for the covers, but quite a few Axis albums are sourced from British MFP releases.
Neil Forbes 21st Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Herman's Hermits - The Most Of Herman's Hermits	The year shown is the correct one, 1971, as this was only the third issue on the label. All the Axis issues of the early 1970s had an AXIS-6000-series catalogue number. The numbering changed in the early 1980s with the first redesign of the trademark and label. The Johnny Farnham LP cited by Jasper(on 18th Sept.) might more likely be AXIS-6001. So I had this album a couple times over. Bought new in 1971, then a copy given to me much later on(within the last few years).
Neil Forbes 18th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Bee Gees - The Bee Gees	Yep, thought so. I have a cassette issue which uses the original artwork - Columbia TC-SPR-1.
Neil Forbes 18th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Bee Gees - The Bee Gees	I think the 1980s Axis issue used the artwork from the mid-70s Drum/Columbia reissue. Landscape Image?
Neil Forbes 18th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Bee Gees - The Bee Gees	@RC, you have the first issue(circa 1967 or 1968) then.
Neil Forbes 18th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Bee Gees - The Bee Gees	Which cover, RC? The original(brown with a hat sitting on what looks to be a sawhorse) or the newer "Drum" issue(landscape image). Cat.#'s the same, as is the label, Columbia SPR-1 first issued about 1967 or 1968. Red label early design for first issue, second issue, mid-1970s, unified label design(think colour was orange).
Neil Forbes 18th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Bee Gees - The Bee Gees	Could've been any colour! EMI would "rehash" an album that had previously been issued and stick it out as a Drum release but do nothing more than add the Drum logo to the original cover artwork(occasionally they'll redesign the cover, as in Neil Diamond's "Shilo" or "Our Kinda Country"[various artists] but the original catalogue number still applied.)
Neil Forbes 18th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Bee Gees - The Bee Gees	@RC, Summit weren't the only ones to do that. EMI did it with their MFP, then Axis(after MFP went independent of EMI for Australia/NZ) and other albums in their budget "Drum" series(issued on regular labels, Columbia, HMV, Parlophone, Stateside etc., but carrying a Drum logo on the cover), as well as Festival with their Calendar and Horizon output. They's all gone an' done it, y'all!
Neil Forbes 18th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Bee Gees - The Bee Gees	@RC, two different albums thrown together to make a double? Yeah, Summit would do something similar, and have done so, particularly with Herb Alpert & TJB albums, but sometimes they get caught out when a track on an album intended as the first of a 2LP set, shows up again on what was intended as the second LP in that set. RC, If you have any Summit doubles, have a look through them, you might find that situation turning up on one or two(or more) of them.
Neil Forbes 18th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Bee Gees - The Bee Gees	This album has pulled together a lot of very early Bee Gees recordings up to and including Spicks & Specks. Apart from Universal Record Club and Summit issuing this, I suspect Festival may have also issued it on either of their budget labels, Calendar(SR66-series) or Horizon(SH66-series).
Neil Forbes 18th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Bee Gees - The Bee Gees	Yep, Summit(probably no longer in existence) used to do quite a lot of "recycling" of old albums. Sometimes they'd take the A-side of one album, add the B-side of another different album by the same artist or group, and voila! a new album emerges. Or, they simply reissue the original A-B coupling under a different title, Pickwick did similar, as did MFP.
Neil Forbes 17th Sep 2015		Cinema Along Came Jones (1945)	O, doch ja! Leiber und Stoller mussen bei Fernsehaparat gesitzt, ihre berühmtes Lied, *Along Came Jones* schreiben gewessen, als dieses Spielfilm vorgestellt war. ...And for those who don't speak Deutsch.... Ah yes! Leiber and Stoller must've been sitting in front of their TV set, writing their famous song, *Along Came Jones* as this movie was being shown.
Neil Forbes 17th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Johnny Rivers - Outside Help	@RC.... And Warners have a presence here as well... WHAT GIVES HERE? Surely if a company like Warners has a division in each major market, then they should keep their product from going to "outside" labels in those markets. Warners have been in Australia since 1970, and prior to that were represented by Australian Record Company(who concentrated their efforts on CBS after relinquishing the rights to Warners), so surely they shouldn't need to offload a single like Swaying To The Music, or this album either, to a Festival-owned label when they had already established the Big Tree label here with a single by the group, Hot(Angel In Your Arms). Surely they could do that!.... Yes they could and will you PLEASE stop calling me "Shirley"(ha-ha).
Neil Forbes 17th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Johnny Rivers - Outside Help	The opening two cuts on this album form the 45rpm single with track A2 on the A-side of the single. It was issued on Warner's Big Tree label(I'll have to find my copy to confirm the Cat.#), with that said, why is this on Polydor in the "Yook" when Warner clearly has a presence there?
Neil Forbes 17th Sep 2015		Cinema Along Came Jones (1945)	Aah, zis must be ze movie ze Coasters zang aboot!(sorry, Fake German accent there, Entschuldigen Sie bitte!.... Normal: Ah, this must be the movie The Coasters sang about!)
Neil Forbes 17th Sep 2015		Cinema American Graffiti (1973)	@RC, yes, and the Wilson in that group(more likely duo) was the daughter of either Brian, Carl or Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys(not sure which one, but by naming all three I have a 33-and-a-third% chance of being correct, revolutionary odds! ha-ha).
Neil Forbes 17th Sep 2015		Cinema American Graffiti (1973)	Starting with Rock Around The Clock(Haley & Comets) and ending with All Summer Long(Beach Boys), one disc has 20 tracks, the other has 21. Scan the front cover from either the LP(using "I.C.E." to stitch the four segments together, or scanning the CD cover(a lot easier). Type in the more detailed track list on an inner card and a basic track listing on the rear inlay card(the bit that goes under the disc holder). I'm gonna have some fun puttin' this one together! ha-ha.
Neil Forbes 17th Sep 2015		Cinema American Graffiti (1973)	@RC, Did you follow the track order? A dumb question, I know, but I felt I had to ask.
Neil Forbes 17th Sep 2015		Cinema American Graffiti (1973)	@RC, having the songs in their pure form, without WJ's inane, stupid chatter, You'd be able to assemble your own CD, as I may do. I have a couple of the songs without his rants, Just have to chase up a few more to complete the set.
Neil Forbes 17th Sep 2015		Cinema American Graffiti (1973)	Thank you, Zabadak! If Wolfman Jack is(or was, he did fall off the twig some twenty-odd years ago) an example of American radio presenters(I no longer call them "Disc Jockeys") then American commercial radio is rubbish!
Neil Forbes 16th Sep 2015		TV The Beatles Anthology (1995)	I'll bet this is one Record Collector is keen to get his hands on... Ay, RC?
Neil Forbes 16th Sep 2015		Cinema American Graffiti (1973)	The accompanying soundtrack album would've been a thousand times better if they'd only kept that moron, Wolfman Jack out of it. His stupid ramblings spoilt the album. Bad enough he was in the movie at all!
Neil Forbes 16th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Danny Bonaduce - Danny Bonaduce	Bonaduce, Susanne Crough and the rest of the TV "family"(including Susan Dey) never actually performed on the Partridge Family records, so I guess we'll never really know how he sounded as a singer. The only two who were on those records were David Cassidy and his mum, Shirley Jones. The rest were session musicians.
Neil Forbes 16th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Danny Bonaduce - Danny Bonaduce	@RC, you missed the point of what I said. Did he genuinely have a singing ability, "talent"/ Or was this album(and a single taken from it) made purely to "cash in" on his popularity from The Partridge Family. In close-up, I read the cover notes claiming the album to be Bonaduce's idea. I very much doubt that. I don't believe this kid(as he was then) entertained, even for a second, the notion that he could, or even would record an album. The whole idea would've been dreamt up as a publicity gimmick.
Neil Forbes 16th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Danny Bonaduce - Danny Bonaduce	I wonder if anyone at MGM or its division, Lion, ever bothered to actually check if this "cute kid" actually could sing! Too often American record companies would issue singles or albums of these TV kids, based not on any real or perceived talent, but because they were simply "cute kids" and cashed in on their TV popularity. Call me cynical but that's how I perceive American record companies to operate(or used to operate). Talent, actual talent, counted for very little.

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