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Neil Forbes 6th Jul 2015		Vinyl Album The Kiki Dee Band - I've Got The Music In Me	@Gian_Paulo, I wasn't aware of the Island connection. Sorry 'bout that. Actually though, considering Elton John owned the label, I'd have expected PYE to have initially distributed Rocket, as they were distributing DJM in 1973 when Island first appeared, and Elton John was still appearing on DJM as late as 1975(Island Girl being from that year). Here in Australia, when Kiki Dee had Amoureuse as her first Aussie hit(first we'd heard of her), Rocket was handled by Festival. When Kiki teamed up with Elton for Don't Go Breaking My Heart in 1976, Rocket had, by then switched to EMI. By the time Elton John had Part Time Love in 1978 and was himself appearing on Rocket, the label had switched to Polygram.
Neil Forbes 6th Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Frank Ifield - I'll Remember You	Curious! 14 tracks, issued in 1963 and yet a title like this should suggest his 1962 hit, *I Remember You* should've been included, but it's nowhere to be seen on this album.... Hey EMI, What Gives?
Neil Forbes 6th Jul 2015		TV Jonny Quest (1964 - 1965)	Remember this from when I was about 10 to 12 years old(thereabouts) Station NBN-Newcastle(Australia) used to run it in an afternoon timeslot. I think they also ran it some years later in colour when Australian TV had switched to colour broadcasting. I was well out of my teens by then and the show no longer appealed to me. I remember several episodes having a supernatural theme.
Neil Forbes 5th Jul 2015		TV The Littlest Hobo (1963 - 1985)	Remember this show fondly and loved the theme song!
Neil Forbes 5th Jul 2015		Vinyl Album The Kiki Dee Band - I've Got The Music In Me	EMI distributed Rocket initially, then came Polygram's turn, as far as Britain was concerned. But for Australia/NZ, it was Festival at first(1973/74 or so) then EMI(1974 or so, to ?) then Polygram.
Neil Forbes 5th Jul 2015		Vinyl Album The Kiki Dee Band - I've Got The Music In Me	Actually, the number 0C 062 97813 is the complete Euro catalogue system number for the album, not just the prefix. The prefix here is just the 0C 062 bit.
Neil Forbes 5th Jul 2015		DVD Young Frankenstein - 20th Century Fox	@Monolith: Oh you mean Blücher" Yeah, smarty! For me(probably you, too, Monolith) to add the umlaut, I'd have to type the name in "Word" ten copy/paste it in here with that accent attached.
Neil Forbes 5th Jul 2015		DVD Young Frankenstein - 20th Century Fox	Awww! Shouldn't have read that Snopes item about Frau Bluecher! It ruined the joke(boo-hoo!), still, I was right about the umlaut over the 'u', that's why the 'e' follows, to compensate for not being able(at the moment) to use the umlaut.
Neil Forbes 5th Jul 2015		DVD Young Frankenstein - 20th Century Fox	The reason I spelt "Bluecher" the way I did is because I believe the 'u' had an umlaut over it, and when that bit of accent punctuation is unavailable, an 'e' is placed after the accented letter.
Neil Forbes 5th Jul 2015		DVD Young Frankenstein - 20th Century Fox	Classic moments - and what about that police chief with the fake arm? Ain't he somethin'?
Neil Forbes 5th Jul 2015		DVD Young Frankenstein - 20th Century Fox	"BLUECHER!" (Whinney-y-y-y-y!)
Neil Forbes 5th Jul 2015		DVD American Graffiti - Universal	Aah them time warps, they getcha every time! Gotta be extra careful, mein Freund!
Neil Forbes 5th Jul 2015		TV Most Haunted (2002 - Now)	I have seasons 1, 2 and 3 stored on my external hard-drive, each season in its own folder. Series 1 was made up of 18 nominally half-hour episodes(actually close to 22 minutes on average), Episodes 17 and 18 were "Best-Of..." shows looking back over the series thus far while Series 2 and 3 were 10 episodes each, nominally 1 hour(though actually, roughly 45 minutes) *The half- or 1-hour would be made up of ad breaks during the show. it was commercial TV, after all!
Neil Forbes 5th Jul 2015		DVD American Graffiti - Universal	I think I got the point, RC!.....I think I got the point, RC!.....I think I got the point, RC! (ha-ha) You've just now realised what you did, ay?
Neil Forbes 5th Jul 2015		DVD Young Frankenstein - 20th Century Fox	Shooting the movie in Black & White usually helps, RC! Did I say "shooting"? Deary me! the thought of all those bullet-holes in the film stock(ha-ha)!
Neil Forbes 5th Jul 2015		DVD American Graffiti - Universal	Though this has one of the funniest scenes I can remember(police car gives chase to hoons, only to have its rear axle ripped out as it was chained to a post), there is one element that spoiled bot the movie and the soundtrack album... the moronic rantings of that idiot, Wolfman Jack! Glad we don't have his type on Australian radio, ABC, commercial or community stations!
Neil Forbes 5th Jul 2015		DVD Young Frankenstein - 20th Century Fox	You got me curious, Trainman! C'mon, rack that brain!
Neil Forbes 5th Jul 2015		TV Most Haunted (2002 - Now)	Hmmm, seems no-one remembers this show!
Neil Forbes 5th Jul 2015		Cinema Thir13een Ghosts (Thirteen Ghosts) (2001)	@Henry29, a couple of points, first, you said the opening was in colour, it would've been for cinema but when they transferred it to VHS(and later to DVD), it's likely they took the colour saturation right back to monochrome to render the whole movie thus. Secondly, and this will have something to do with cutting back the saturation of colour, the instances where the ghosts appeared had a pinkish tint applied(if I remember rightly), to see the ghosts you looked through blue cellophane, to not see them, red cellophane. special "glasses" were issued to cinema patrons, made by William Castle Inc.,(the movie's producers) with strips of each coloured cellophane attached to a card with two horizontal slits cut into it(about 3 inches long and a half-inch wide). I'm working from memory here as it's been yonks since I've seen the movie!
Neil Forbes 5th Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Dr. Hook - Sometimes You Win	Axis was(as far as I'm aware) an Australia/New Zealand EMI label. Not sure if EMI is keeping it going. Fame and MFP are, or were, for all campers and marine mammals(all in tents and porpoises - all intents and purposes) British EMI budget labels. MFP disappeared off the radar here in Australia many moons ago but when they were active, they had effectively divorced themselves from EMI Australia by issuing content sourced from CBS and other companies as early as 1970.
Neil Forbes 4th Jul 2015		DVD Young Frankenstein - 20th Century Fox	Terri Garr really ripped apart that German accent! And what about the horses going crazy at the speaking of the name... Frau "Bluecher"?
Neil Forbes 4th Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Dr. Hook - Sometimes You Win ...	Apart from the addition of 'E' in the prefix, the Australian and British catalogue numbers tracked(pun not intended) each other fairly closely. I wonder if the US issue had the same catalogue number? Probably did!
Neil Forbes 4th Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Dr. Hook - Sometimes You Win	@Graham7, I'll have another go during the week but the problem is the same(in a way) to scanning 78s. There's a raised edge around the sides and ends of the scanner's glass "bed" and 78s, rigid as they are, and LPs rest on this raised edge so the focus isn't exactly the best. The lid of the scanner isn't heavy so it doesn't press the LP label down onto the glass "bed" surface.
Neil Forbes 4th Jul 2015		TV Most Haunted (2002 - Now)	A friend loaned me some DVDs of this so I copied them to my external hard-drive(one of three connected to my computer, this one dedicated to movies, TV and cartoons among other things) I showed it as 2002-now but I'm not sure if it's still in production. The funny thing about this series is that it was all about ghosts yet it was broadcast by a station in the UK called.... wait for it.... Living TV! The three names given here are as they were in the first episode which featured Atholhampton House.
Neil Forbes 4th Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Dr. Hook - Sometimes You Win ...	I knew how to do it, just didn't want to take all that time bangin' away at my keyboard(lazy bugger, ain't I? - er... don't answer that!)
Neil Forbes 4th Jul 2015		Cinema Thir13een Ghosts (Thirteen Ghosts) (2001)	@Henry29, Opening in colour huh? I forgot that bit. It's absolutely yonks since I saw it at the Savoy Theatre in my original home town, Stockton NSW. It was the second(and main) feature of a Friday, 13th(Black Friday) double feature way back about 1969 or 1970(me still in my teens) and the movie looked new to me(didn't know back then that it was already almost a decade old - WOW!) In all this time it has never shown up in any late night movies on TV(ABC or commercial)... Bummer! Would like to see it again though!
Neil Forbes 3rd Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Dr. Hook - Sometimes You Win ...	Ah, just found the original 1979 issue of Sometimes You Win. Composer credits are missing here but can be seen by looking at the Fame reissue. And, sure enough the catalogue number is as I said it was, and survives as the matrix number for the Fame issue. The only variants to the cover for the original issue are: on front, no Fame logo across top-right corner(oblique), and on rear, the English and Euro catalogue numbers at top-right, and at bottom-right(right of Capitol tm), EMI Records Ltd., Hayes Middlesex England.
Neil Forbes 3rd Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Dr. Hook - Sometimes You Win	But Axis predates Fame by more than a decade, even with its late-70s makeover.
Neil Forbes 3rd Jul 2015		Cinema Thir13een Ghosts (Thirteen Ghosts) (2001)	This was a supposed remake from the early 21st century of a movie shot in black & white with tinted segments where the theatre audience would look through "glasses" of two different colours of cellophane to either see or not see the ghosts. This "remake" made no attempt to follow the original story. I'd much rather see the original, though I do have this one stored on my external hard-drive(lifted from a VHS tape). F. Murray Abraham was also in this new version, by the way.
Neil Forbes 3rd Jul 2015		Vinyl Album Dr. Hook - Sometimes You Win	MM, Ass see what you mean!

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