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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Neil Forbes 2nd Aug 2015		Vinyl Album The Easybeats - Vigil	If this is a 1968 issue, by that year The Easybeats were back in Australia and within a year of disbanding.
Neil Forbes 2nd Aug 2015		Vinyl Album Dr. Hook And The Medicine Show - The Ballad Of Lucy Jordon	I have a copy of this, issued by CBS(as they were) in Australia under their budget label "Harmony". Other than the label, the presentation is the same, in respect to the sleeve artwork(front and back). The only variants are the Harmony trademark replacing CBS and the absence of the LC number code at bottom-right. I noted the publishing date on "Ballad Of Lucy Jordan" on the A-side label of this LP as 1975. This is incorrect. I have a British-issue CBS 45 of the track with the title shown as "Ballard Of Lucy Jordan" and the publishing year shown is 1974.
Neil Forbes 31st Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Super 20 Super Neu	RC, as Maxwell Smart used to say... "missed it by tha-a-a-at much, Chief!"
Neil Forbes 31st Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Super 20 Super Neu	The actual English translation of A3 is "A Song Goes Out In The World".
Neil Forbes 31st Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Hits Of The Rocking 70s	RC, you posted while I was still editing my comment. I just realised my mistake about this Contour LP. And I think I also have that LP you mentioned. Not all the cuts are stereo but most will be.
Neil Forbes 31st Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Hits Of The Rocking 70s	Electronically created stereo? What a waste! I happen to know that several of these tracks are in full stereo on 45rpm. A1, A5 and B4 I have these on Polydor UK issues. One of which is beside me on my desk as I write this. It's "Pushbike Song" by The Mixtures (Polydor 2058-083) issued in 1972. The British issue was in stereo while the Aussie original issue(on the Fable label) was only in Mono. Yeah, the Brits got the better deal there....! Ooh what I said! I just took a close look at Side 2 label.... Whoops! The last two cuts on Side 2 are "Electronically created stereo", all the others are normal stereo. Sorry 'bout that, everybody!
Neil Forbes 31st Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Super 20 Super Neu	A3 I have as a 45rpm single. The German record companies really made an effort with their singles. Not for them ordinary paper sleeves... nosiree! Full picture sleeves are the order of the day in Deutschland! And in other parts of Europe too, as evidenced on 45cat.com!
Neil Forbes 31st Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Super 20 Super Neu	The inclusion of Paloma Blanca by George Baker Selection makes it a safe bet this LP was issued in 1975 at the earliest.
Neil Forbes 31st Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Jerry Butler - Jerry Butler Sings	Something decidedly amateurish about the presentation of this label. Space below each title could've been used for composer credits.
Neil Forbes 31st Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Explosive Hits '74	There were two "ring-in" versions on here as well. A6 by the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble, as opposed to Marvin Hamlisch and A9 by Bobby Wright as opposed to Terry Jacks. Easy enough to explain. EMI Australia did not have access to MCA content, even though EMI in Britain was distributing the MCA label through 1973 and 1974. So EMI(Aust.) couldn't use the Marvin Hamlisch version of "The Entertainer". And a local artist's version of "Seasons In The Sun" had to suffice as EMI had lost the Bell label(which had the Terry Jacks version) to Phonogram(as it was then). EMI regained the Bell label in 1975, just in time to see the name changed to Arista.
Neil Forbes 31st Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Explosive Hits '74	RC's comment: "The cassette had had a blue border but due to age it's now green" Aah, fading memories.... NO I absolutely *REFUSE* to sing that Barbra Streisand song....! Ha-Ha!
Neil Forbes 31st Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Explosive Hits '74	... A "Yogi", RC? That's more than I can "bear"! Ha-Ha!
Neil Forbes 31st Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Explosive Hits '74	Actually, RC, K-Mart(Australia) IS related to the American K-Mart. That's why the trademark is the same. Ours is a division, the American is the parent organisation.
Neil Forbes 31st Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Explosive Hits '74	Technically speaking, the label isn't EMI but His Master's Voice, one of EMI's two "flagship" labels, the other is, of course, Columbia(or at least it was).
Neil Forbes 29th Jul 2015		TV Adventures Of Superman (1952 - 1958)	Jim Nabors as an alien from space.... Go-o-o-o-ll-ll-ll-y! That surely does boggle the brainbox!
Neil Forbes 29th Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Smokey Robinson And The Miracles - Special Occasion	This is a 1968 release, so why are they using a label design for Tamla that had been superseded two years earlier?
Neil Forbes 29th Jul 2015		TV St. Elsewhere (1982 - 1986)	I also recall G.W. Bayley appearing in this show, playing the part of a psychiatrist(character name unknown).
Neil Forbes 29th Jul 2015		TV St. Elsewhere (1982 - 1986)	This show was screened by NBN, here in Newcastle(Australia) for a number of weeks, then suddenly disappeared from NBN's schedule without any kind of explanation. This was back in the mid-1980s. We never saw that last episode. Shame, really, I quite liked the show.
Neil Forbes 28th Jul 2015		TV Adventures Of Superman (1952 - 1958)	It's one of those shows that end up as "schedule filler" when there's nothing else available to fill a timeslot "hole". It could turn up in a weekday afternoon slot, about 3.30 or 4.00pm, or even, as you said, RC, Saturday mornings, anywhere between 7.30 and 11.30. Funny, ain't it, now we have digital TV, these shows seem to be deemed "too old" to be aired today.
Neil Forbes 28th Jul 2015		78 RPM Pace Jubilee Singers - Oh Death / Shouting On	Also, danke vielmals fuer die information, Fixbutte! It's been a while since you and I last chatted. I know Berliner had established Deutsche Grammophon(which eventually evolved into Polygram) and also got the British outfit, The Gramophone Company up and running, but I was sure Berliner had a hand in Victor, somewhere.... No? Nonetheless, my remarks about the HMV trademark on the Victor label still stand. In 1929 when RCA bought the Victor plant, That's the point where the Dog & Gramophone trademark should've vanished from the label, to be replaced by RCA's "button" logo. The HMV name and TM should've returned to the USA/Canada ONLY through EMI's near-outright purchase of Capitol in 1955.
Neil Forbes 28th Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Si Nous Dansions N° 7 En 16 Tours	Think of the Vertigo label rotating at 16(and two-thirds) RPM.... It'd take much longer to be hypnotised! Ha-ha!
Neil Forbes 28th Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Carole King - Tapestry	Guess I might add mine to this list(if it isn't already put up by someone else, that is). Er... watch this space(as they say in the classics.... do they really say that in the classics? ha-ha).
Neil Forbes 28th Jul 2015		TV My Favorite Martian (1963 - 1966)	Saw Ray Walston playing a judge in the movie, From The Hip(courtroom comedy) brilliant comic actor!
Neil Forbes 28th Jul 2015		TV Night Court (1984 - 1992)	Just had a quick peak at the Wile E. Coyote bit. Still cracks me up! Great stuff!
Neil Forbes 28th Jul 2015		TV My Favorite Martian (1963 - 1966)	Yep, here's a character(Walston) who had his own built-in VHF antenna! (ha-ha)
Neil Forbes 28th Jul 2015		TV Adventures Of Superman (1952 - 1958)	@RC, Surely it was printed, couldn't have been hand-written(ha-ha).
Neil Forbes 28th Jul 2015		TV Adventures Of Superman (1952 - 1958)	I remember(the late) Christopher Reeve in a movie called "Broadcast News" where he played a TV station employee with... get this... a fear of heights! A scene in an elevator has him on the floor of the elevator, scared out of his wits! This from the man who played Superman.....?
Neil Forbes 28th Jul 2015		TV Tales From The Crypt (1989 - 1996)	I think I might've seen these on VHS video. Not too sure if the show was aired on any stations here, though!
Neil Forbes 28th Jul 2015		TV Adventures Of Superman (1952 - 1958)	Yeah, Monolith! It took ages to wind 'em up! Really made us crank-y!(ha-ha)
Neil Forbes 28th Jul 2015		TV Burnside (2000)	We had "The Bill" as regular Saturday evening viewing on ABC since the early 1980s(or earlier), but this spin-off show was not, to my knowledge, ever shown here in Australia.

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