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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Neil Forbes 10th Oct 2015		TV Mister Ed (1958 - 1966)	Yep! How many times has this show turned up on late-afternoon schedules through the 1970s(and possibly later). Guess you could accuse the TV execs of "horsing around!"
Neil Forbes 10th Oct 2015		CD Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Volume 1	The correct title of this and Vol.2 is "British Motown Chartbusters" Spectrum is doing a disservice to these albums and the memories thereof in interfering with the titles and graphic designs. I much prefer the original first CD versions, but even more-so, the original British EMI-issued LPs as they are "the genuine articles".
Neil Forbes 10th Oct 2015		CD Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Vol. 3	There's a notable difference in the cover of this version compared to the earlier CD version which used the EMI-devised "portrait" version of the Tamla/Motown trademark and the effect placed on the cover artwork. I think I prefer the first CD version as they replicated the LP's cover art more accurately.
Neil Forbes 10th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Vol.3	For the Australian issue, add a silver border(about an inch wide) around the rear sleeve. I have this on British LP and on CD, but not with the CD packaging, to which Roger Forster provided the link. Where I saw the Aussie issue? It was at a rehab centre in Hornsby(outer northern suburb of Sydney) in 1972.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Cinema Francis In The Haunted House (1956)	Ha-ha? Shouldn't that be "Hee-Haw"?(Ooooh I'm awful, ain't I? - don't answer that!)
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Cinema Carry On At Your Convenience (1971)	Yes, Pack 2, as per the list I provided.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Cinema Francis In The Haunted House (1956)	Yeah... Francis made a real "ass" of himself! ......And for Americans, "Ass" is a donkey or mule, a person's backside is colloquially referred to as an "arse"!
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Cinema Carry On At Your Convenience (1971)	That means the collection ran to ten packs! But I never saw the packs 6 to 10 anywhere.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Cinema Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)	Werner Klemperer was also in this movie, five years before he became internationally known for his role as Kommandant Klink in "Hogan's Heroes". Likely the only time you'd see him in a serious role.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Cinema Carry On At Your Convenience (1971)	It is!, there were five packs, each containing 3 DVDs in their own plastic cases under the heading "The Carry On Collection" issued by Magna Pacific. They were as follows: Pack 1:Carry On Doctor/Carry On Up The Khyber/Carry On Again Doctor. Pack 2:Carry On Abroad/Carry On Up The Jungle/Carry On At Your Convenience. Pack 3:Carry On Matron/Carry On Girls/Carry On Dick Pack 4:Carry On Behind/Carry On England/Carry On Henry. Pack 5:Carry On... Don't Lose Your Head/Carry On Camping/Carry On Loving. The packs weren't in chronological order, as far as I can ascertain, but it was a good representation of the Rank-era. There was another set put out by Studio Canal+ through Universal that carried the earlier Anglo-Amalgamated Carry On movies but I don't have the whole set. There was one, Follow That Camel(starred Phil Silvers in a Bilko-like character) but as far as I know, it hasn't been issued on DVD... or has it?
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Cinema The Duchess And The Dirtwater Fox (1976)	One of the first VHS movie tapes I owned when the distributor was still branded as "Magnetic Video"(later 20th Century Fox Video, then CBS-Fox... and the saga continued....). Good movie, went a long way toward helping Goldie Hawn shed her old "Laugh-In" dumb blonde image.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Cinema Carry On At Your Convenience (1971)	I have this on DVD... still good for a laugh!
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		78 RPM Roy Leslie - Round The Marble Arch / We're All Jolly Good Pals	er.... right! (LOEL = laugh out extra loud!)
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Cinema Carry On At Your Convenience (1971)	Kenneth Cope was in this, playing the part of the union organiser, alongside Bernie Breslaw. Cope had been in "Randall & Hopkirk(Deceased)" prior to his two Carry-On appearances.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - That'll Be The Day	This album was issued in Australia by EMI on the Stateside label, a follow-up movie called "Stardust", also starring David Essex in the role of Jim McLain, had its soundtrack also carried here on the Stateside label.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Power House	It's fairly futile trying to compare the US and Australian K-Tel LPs beyond the "cosmetics"(cover and label designs) because the titles and track content vary wildly between them.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		78 RPM Roy Leslie - Round The Marble Arch / We're All Jolly Good Pals	Who ya callin' "Old"? Sonny! (ha-ha)
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		78 RPM Roy Leslie - Round The Marble Arch / We're All Jolly Good Pals	Re: this label -"That's a shocker, Barry Crocker!"(What would he think of his name rhyming with "Shocker"?)
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		78 RPM Roy Leslie - Round The Marble Arch / We're All Jolly Good Pals	...Before anyone takes me to task about my remark on the Brunswicks, yes, I've noted the clear, well-defined labels displayed on this page of 45worlds, but the ones I've seen and actually held in my hands to attempt to read the labels..... The labels had faded to such a degree that hey were nearly all black with just a feint trace of where the print was.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		78 RPM Roy Leslie - Round The Marble Arch / We're All Jolly Good Pals	Whooooh! This one's been through the grinder a few times! I thought those old Brunswicks were hard to read(badly faded) but this one takes the cake for total annihilation of any legible print.
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Motown Memories Vol. 3	Geez.... the tracks on this are right out of the vault! They(EMI Britain) must've snuck into Record Collector's deep, dark, cavernous archive to get this lot! Ay, RC? Ha-ha!
Neil Forbes 9th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Volume 8	There were just three tracks from this album that actually made our charts directly, RC. They were A1, A6 and B5. I don't really count cover versions. Cover versions are sourced from elsewhere, not this album.
Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Volume 8	This one did make it to the Australian market via EMI Australia, but other volumes didn't(see my comment elsewhere), though we didn't get the clear purple disc, we just got the run-of-the-mill black job. The content of this LP seems to scan the years 1970 up to late 1972 or early 1973.
Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - British Motown Chartbusters Vol.2	Took a quick look, yep! That's the one, all right! EMI Australia did not issue the entire Chartbusters series, though they did issue this volume. But, as I said other volumes were broken down and "rejigged" into other titles and only a few of the volumes made it to our shores "intact" but we never got anymore after Volume 8. There were a few EMI-issued Australian compilations put out since Chartbusters 8, but EMI Australia, pretty-much did its own thing when it came to Motown.
Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		Cinema Scaramouche	.....Thunderbolt and lightning, very very fright'ning me.....! ha-ha!
Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		Cinema Escape To Paradise	The boy in this movie, Bobby Breen, was the first to record "Rainbow On The River" a song given to Jamie Redfern to record in 1972 because his voice was similar to that of Breen. A pity really because Jamie Redfern should've been given more contemporary songs to do back in 1972.
Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		Cinema Fun In Acapulco (1963)	This, along with "Follow That Dream" were typical of the crap that Presley was forced to do, he hated doing them. They were so contrived. Presley wanted to be an actor but his manager(parasite, more like it) Cl. Tom Parker kept shoving him into these rubbishy films. The only time he really got to do a meaty role was in *Charro* where, apart from the theme song(perhaps), he wasn't required to sing in the movie.
Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		Cinema Death Becomes Her (1992)	Had its moments.... not a particularly great comedy, though. Hawn and Streep have had better roles.
Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		Cinema Police Academy (1984)	I have a 20th-Anniversary issue DVD of this, and somewhere else I have the original Australian VHS issue of this, as well as PA2. I should get my DVD out and give it a play. Classic moment: when(Lt. Harris) G.W. commandeers a motorbike but hits a car in front of him and goes flying over the handlebars toward a horse float - occupied! *Get the picture?* Total crack-up!(Mike Winslow's sound effect afterward made it doubly funny).
Neil Forbes 8th Oct 2015		TV Carry On Laughing (1975)	Oh here we go again....Maxwell Smart strikes again! *Missed it by tha-a-a-a-a-at much!* ha-ha.

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