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Neil Forbes 16th Oct 2015		Cinema The Ghost And Mrs. Muir (1947)	I've seen both the movie and the TV series based(loosely, very loosely) upon it. The actor who played the ghost, Capt. Gregg in the TV version, Edward Mulhare, was strikingly similar in appearance to Rex Harrison, who played the ghost role in this movie.
Neil Forbes 16th Oct 2015		TV Beavis And Butt-Head (1993 - 2011)	I'd only seen a short snippet of this and I regret seeing even that much!
Neil Forbes 15th Oct 2015		78 RPM Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want) / Oh I Apologize	I think the year is a bit out. Try 1959 for size! It was Shop Around by The Miracles that took the Tamla label to national distribution later that same year.
Neil Forbes 15th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Dr. Hook And The Medicine Show - Sloppy Seconds	I've seen Dr. Hook "live" a couple of times, both as & the Medicine Show while still with CBS, then later when they were with EMI(on their Capitol label) and had dropped the "Medicine Show" tag. In both instances I saw them at the Civic Theatre, Newcastle, and in both instances they were total crack-ups! A great deal of their show involved mad-cap carry-on between songs. The only downside was when Dennis Locorriere did his "Kiss It Away", a dirge of a song that carried on seemingly far too long.
Neil Forbes 15th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 16 Top Hits November / Dezember ´86	@RC, Vielen dank!
Neil Forbes 15th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Dr. Hook And The Medicine Show - Sloppy Seconds	@RC, it's because they dared to plug a magazine and the stodgy ol' BBC couldn't allow it, being, as they were, strictly non-commercial.
Neil Forbes 15th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 16 Top Hits November / Dezember ´86	Three volumes of this series are on display here but it seems the content of each originates in Britain or America. Are there any indigenous German recordings in these sets, sung in German?
Neil Forbes 15th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Dr. Hook And The Medicine Show - Sloppy Seconds	I knew of this album and several tracks from it have turned up on other "best-of"-type albums, but this LP seems to be "rare as hens' teeth".
Neil Forbes 15th Oct 2015		CD Album Various Artists - Soul Satisfaction 4	Looks like a collection of real rarities here. Last time I saw Stevie Wonder's "Music Talk" it was on his 3LP set, "*Anthology"(M9-804A3) also issued as "Looking Back*".Don't think it's been issued anywhere else until it turned up here.
Neil Forbes 14th Oct 2015		TV Whodunnit? (1973 - 1978)	Whodunit? - - - - - *The butler did it!* Geez, anyone would know who that culprit was! HA-HA!
Neil Forbes 14th Oct 2015		78 RPM Nervous Norvus - Transfusion / Dig	Yep, Pop the fluid in me, Louie! Just as well I did have a listen or I'd have missed it too.
Neil Forbes 14th Oct 2015		78 RPM Nervous Norvus - Transfusion / Dig	Not long after logging out, I fired up my turntable for recording 78s, and recorded first "Dig"(the B-side), somewhat ordinary as tracks go, nothing much to "write home" about! Then, on spec, I put on the A-side, just to listen to it, initially, I got a surprise when I heard a verse in the song that had been edited out of the track that appears on the K-Tel Looney Tunes LP. The verse goes: Rollin' down a hill on a rainy day, When you see me comin', better start to pray! I'm cuttin' up the road and I'm the boss all the way! Transfusion, transfusion, oh Doc, pardon me for this crazy intrusion! Never, never, never gonna speed again, Pop the fluid in me Louie! What gets me is why K-Tel cut that verse out when the song, in total clocks in at 2 minutes 23 seconds(the time I got after trimming down). There was no need to cut the verse out at all! I note also, Mod has added the linked releases! Cheers!.
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		TV New Tricks (2003 - 2015)	Thanks for that, Pridesdale! As I was typing my post my mind went blank trying to remember Bolam's character name. I already knew about his wife, Susan Jamieson playing Esther Lane opposite Alun Armstrong's Brian Lane.
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		78 RPM Nervous Norvus - Transfusion / Dig	Oh, well yeah! We were a tad slow on the uptake, RC!
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		78 RPM Nervous Norvus - Transfusion / Dig	In 1956, RC?... Rock & Roll started in 1953 with Jackie Brenston's "*Rocket 88", then came Bill Haley & His Comets' "Rock Around The Clock*" in 1954!
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		78 RPM Nervous Norvus - Transfusion / Dig	"Be zorch, daddy-o, go Ape".... A pteradactyle was a flyin' fool, just a breeze-flappin' daddy of the old school, but a Mama-Dactyle could sure make him drool...." But as for this one... "Barnyard drivers are found in two classes, line-crowding hogs and speeding jack-asses...." Ha-ha.
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		Cinema Private Potter (1962)	Harry got drafted, ay? I know he could fix the baddies..... Winguardian Leviosa!!!!(yeah, I know it's not THAT Potter, but I'm not gonna ruin the punch-line over that!)
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		Cinema Haunted Honeymoon (Busman's Honeymoon) (1940)	@RC, the movie might've been a "classic", but I want to know what its storyline(plot) was!
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		78 RPM Nervous Norvus - Transfusion / Dig	@RC Oh I dunno! I got a good laugh out of it the first time I heard it on that Looney Tunes LP, and the other one, Ape Call(doodliyabba!) cracked me up as well! *Slip the blood to me, Bud!* ha-ha!
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Diana Ross And The Supremes Plus	@Jasper, thanks for that info! Looks like the remaining 5 issues were a waste of vinyl! The label started with a modest bang but went out with a whimper! The two that I do have, this and GE-0003 - Simon & Garfunkel, are the only ones I'll bother with.
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		78 RPM Nervous Norvus - Transfusion / Dig	Like I said in the Comments, this exists in a New Zealand issue(I checked before posting, but until I uploaded this, there was no Australian version. I bought this for the princely sum of $8.00(Australian currency) from Rices in Newcastle(NSW) last Sunday. I already had the A-side on a K-Tel compilation so I bought this for its B-side. When I get a moment, I'll copy it(the B-side, that is) to MP3 and add it to my "Nonsense Songs" file.
Neil Forbes 13th Oct 2015		Cinema Haunted Honeymoon (Busman's Honeymoon) (1940)	As soon as I saw the "Haunted" in the title, I took this to be a type of ghost story. Was I correct?
Neil Forbes 12th Oct 2015		TV New Tricks (2003 - 2015)	Classic early line: Dennis Waterman(Gerry Standing) to Amanda Redman(Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman) on learning she shot a dog that bailed her up on her arrival at her new job - *"You're her, aren't you? Woof-Woof, Bang-Bang!"* Other than Dennis Waterman and Alun Armstrong(who portrayed Brian Lane brilliantly), there was James Bolam(and my mind's gone blank for his character name.... Bugger!). Dennis Waterman leaves partway through the series soon to start on ABC here in Australia but Denis Lawson and Nicholas Lindhurst seemed to have settled in well, as has Tamsin Outhwaite.
Neil Forbes 12th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Diana Ross And The Supremes Plus	This and the Glen Campbell LP would've been the only ones made by EMI, unless, out of the ten in total in this limited "Gold Edge series" there were any other EMI acts appearing. Not all had the "gold edge" on the labels either, as evident in GE-0003, Simon & Garfunkel which carries the standard CBS label of the day but with the Gold Edge" serial number instead of the regular SBP-series numbers.
Neil Forbes 12th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Volume 12	Yep, not surprising! Like I said, If Astor had "left well enough alone" and not tried to buy the Motown rights off EMI Australia, maybe, just maybe, Astor might've survived beyond 1982.
Neil Forbes 12th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Volume 12	Unless I miss my guess, I figure that not long after this LP was issued in Britain, EMI relinquished British rights to Motown. EMI had already lost the Australian rights to Astor. Astor's purchase of Motown sent them broke. Not only did the record division go down the "gurgle-hole"(drain) but the consumer electrical/electronics division followed close behind. Astor went *"Ker-Blooey"*! Should've left well enough alone.
Neil Forbes 10th Oct 2015		CD Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Volume 1	No, RC, That one is the "Diana Ross & Supremes Plus" and it didn't come within a bull's roar of the STELO-prefixed issues. MFP was starting to break away from EMI in Australia when that LP hit the budget-price racks.
Neil Forbes 10th Oct 2015		CD Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Volume 1	RC, Have you any other Tamla-Motown LPs with STELO-prefixes? Take a note of the number, STELO-9816 and check it against any other STELO-prefixed issue that you know to be 1971 vintage. If those numbers are lower in range by anything up to 10 numbers, then "Motown Giants" might, just might, be a January, 1972 issue. But I expect it to have been issued in the latter half of 1971.
Neil Forbes 10th Oct 2015		Cinema Carry On At Your Convenience (1971)	Yes, thirty movies, each in their own DVD case(with slicks), but then packaged into boxes of three movies each. What I'd like to know is: what was the make-up of Packs 6 to 10? I've already given the details of Packs 1 to 5.
Neil Forbes 10th Oct 2015		CD Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Volume 1	So have I, but it's an earlier CD issue than the batch that these came from. Chartbusters 5 itself wasn't issued in Australia as such, it was cut down to a twelve-track LP called "Motown Giants"(STELO-9816) and issued in 1971.

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