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Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Golden Girls	@Monolith, Yes, I'll be alert - the world needs more "lerts"(ha-ha).
Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 40 Super Greats	@Monolith, the fellow who submitted this is our German contributor, Darktownjunkie. I think he's the one who's not too keen on the K-Tel product, particularly that from his own stamping ground, Germany. Yet he appears to have quite a few examples of the Deutsche K-Tel releases. Also Darktownjunkie, Wie geht's Ihnen? Wir haben zur Zeit noch nichts zu viel von Ihnen gehort. Wird alles gut? English translation: Well, Darktownjunkie,, How are you? We haven't heard too much from you lately Is everything okay?
Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Golden Girls	Hey Monolith, in your reply to me, "....The wee buggers get everywhere". :wink:" Another one snuck in with it! To be sure, To be sure, To be sure!"
Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Golden Girls	55bluesman, try the search engine, it might reveal such an album. Over on 45Cat there's a forum page on record labels named for girls, Jamie label listed among them, but Jamie is generally a boy's name(short for James), e.g.: Jamie Redfern.
Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Golden Girls	For a start, Monolith, how the heck did you get the smiley icon in there? As to the question, Honey could be a girl's nickname, as in Anne "Honey" Lantry, drummer/vocalist with The Honeycombs("Have I The Right", a hit for them in 1964) but as an actual name, I don't rightly know.
Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Golden Girls	55bluesman, go to it! I just put a CD together of 60s Girl Groups comprising 18 tracks, complete with my own cover and label artwork. In it is featured Diana Ross & The Supremes; The Angels; The Chiffons; Martha Reeves & The Vandellas; The Marvelettes; The Toys; The Velvelettes; Paper Dolls(1 track each); The Cookies(4 tracks); The Crystals; The Dixie-Cups; The Shirelles(2 tracks each). It's the best way to go, put together YOUR OWN CD! Then you can absolutely guarantee the authenticity of its contents!
Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 40 Super Greats	A quick peak showed the composer credits are there on the back sleeve. It also shows the titling mistakes are exactly as they are on that sleeve and our friend, Darktownjunkie was simply copying out the titles as they appeared. Alle Fehle dieser Langspielplatte, sind von K-Tel Deutschland gemacht!
Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 40 Super Greats	What, no composer credits? Gotta ask myself re: A5 - as it is billed John Kincade, does this mean it's a later re-recording by the former lead singer of the group that bore his surname? Or is it the original recording? And on A3, poor ol' Suzi Quatro, it's a wonder she's still alive after her 48th Crash! She'd be one very battered and bruised lady! Of course I'm only joking. The title had an extra bit that shouldn't have been there, namely the 'th'.
Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Golden Girls	Not altogether past history, RC, as there are CD labels(companies) out there doing the exact same thing... and it's a practice that needs to be *STAMPED OUT*...er, no pun intended.
Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album The Motors - 1	Saddle it up and take it for a ride along Abbey Road.... no, sorry, that's the cat, not the computer!(ha-ha)
Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		TV Red Dwarf (1988 - Now)	Smeggin' great! Can't wait to see the new series, so hurry up ABC, get it on quick! Ditch that stupid QI rubbish(Steven Fry's done far better than that) and give us Aussies the new Red Dwarf series, pronto! And don't forget to practice your Arnold Rimmer salutes!
Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album The Motors - 1	Oh, dear MM, might be a corrupted version of the programme.
Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Golden Girls	Sorry if I offend but the language I've used is the only effective method of conveying my utter disgust at the antics of record companies in doing what this one has done. The industry as a whole, would be far better off if companies like this suddenly went bankrupt.
Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Golden Girls	RC, that's exactly what I'm saying! To avoid this piece of vinyl shite LIKE THE PLAGUE!
Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album The Motors - 1	Hi MM, Some time back, nboldock recommended Microsoft's ICE to me(ICE = Image Composite Editor) Bloody great programme! Made preparing my LP covers so much easier. All you do is scan your cover in four sections and ICE stitches it all together automatically. It's a snap!
Neil Forbes 20th Jun 2015		TV South Park (1997 - Now)	Oh, I don't know, Mono, ol' chum. Guess I'm just someone who likes animation the old fashioned way, like they did it in the 1940s and 1950s, the Warner cartoons, you know, the CLASSICS! Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes, truly great stuff that can still crack you up even today!
Neil Forbes 19th Jun 2015		TV Happy Days (1974 - 1984)	@23skidoo, I watched some of the spin-off shows and they were just *"much-of-a-muchness"* affairs. Cindy Williams in Laverne & Shirley can get on your nerves with her whining at times, and Mork & Mindy was a bit too far-fetched. Hardly saw much at all of Blansky's Beauties to make any real comment on it, possibly NBN here in Newcastle only aired one episode. And Joanie Loves Chachi didn't really "click" with me either.
Neil Forbes 19th Jun 2015		DVD Airplane! - Paramount	The gags don't stop when the movie ends, they continue into the closing credits too!
Neil Forbes 19th Jun 2015		DVD Arthur [2011] - Warner Bros.	Come on now, children(Mono, & Henry), play nicely!(ha-ha)
Neil Forbes 19th Jun 2015		TV Heartbeat (1992 - 2010)	This started on our ABC-TV in 1992/93 but after the first or second season it switched to Station ATN-Sydney and Station HSV-Melbourne and their affiliates in our other state capitals and, Prime in Regional NSW and Victoria, which meant those bloody awful intrusive ads - BUMMER!!!
Neil Forbes 19th Jun 2015		TV The New 3 Stooges (1965 - 1966)	RC, It depended on economics of running a cinema. Bob Mason(who also owned and operated the Lake Cinema, Boolaroo, in the Lake MacQuarie area) didn't run his cinemas during the week, He concentrated on weekend trade with Friday evenings, and Saturday afternoons(matinee session) and evenings. It was his normal routine to run a "double feature" with a not-so-well-known movie on before intermission, a cartoon or serial, or even a Three Stooges short after advertising slides for businesses that supported whichever of his cinemas, then into the main feature. If a movie was so long that it would occupy the entire session, he'd run the ad slides, a short, then the feature would be spread across the session, before and after intermission. Set-ups like the Tower Cinemas in King Street Newcastle, Scotty's Cinemas at Raymond Terrace or the Cinema 300 Complex here at Nelson Bay will run the schedules that you suggest(11.am, 2.pm, 5.pm and 8.pm or variants of those times, offset by 15 or 30 minutes maybe) but with only the feature movie after some advertising. no cartoons(aww!) no shorts(double-aww! Bummer!). Cinema 300 is closed on Mondays but runs Tuesdays to Sundays.
Neil Forbes 19th Jun 2015		TV Happy Days (1974 - 1984)	@23skidoo - I dunno! Happy days started to wear thin on me after about the fourth or fifth season, especially after Ron Howard effectively "left" the show while his character, "Ritchie" was off at college or whatever. I think the show was well beyond its "use-by" date(getting stale) by the fifth season.
Neil Forbes 19th Jun 2015		TV The New 3 Stooges (1965 - 1966)	@23skidoo, I'm not exactly sure who was in the movie as I didn't see the very start or the end credits. I take your point on Curly's real name, though, Like many, I always believed it to be Joe. Sorry I can't help with the actor names but I do agree with you on being annoyed with people calling these shorts "TV episodes", they most certainly were not! They were short twenty-five minute featurettes intended for screening in cinemas between the support film and the main feature where double-features were the "order of the day" or as openers for the feature movies where a cinema may only run the advertised feature without a supporting film. My old theatre at Stockton, NSW(Australia) where I grew up, was The Savoy, only operated on Friday evenings and Saturdays(matinee and evening sessions) and ran double features. You'd get a Warner cartoon, a serial(very early "Batman") or Three Stooges shorts, and depending on the length of the features, you'd get at least two of those three "extras" in the programme. I guess it depended on what cinema proprietor, Bob Mason had at hand. Oh, There was also the midnight horror doubles on "Black Fridays"(Friday, 13th of any given month) and New Years Eves. The cinema closed a couple of decades ago and the building is now a back-packers' hostel.
Neil Forbes 18th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Golden Girls	As a result of many of these tracks being K-Tel re-recordings(cheating!), now I've seen it here, I'll know to avoid this album "like the plague" if I see it anywhere here in Australia. I hold such companies that do this sort of thing in utter and complete contempt. To ANY record company that sees this: Give us the AUTHENTIC versions or GET THE F* OUT OF THE MARKETPLACE!!!**
Neil Forbes 18th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - The Beatles Ballads	Substitute His Master's Voice, Columbia or Stateside in the black box where the Parlophone trademark is, though the label colours for each may vary, and the design then "unifies" EMI's four main labels, including the two "flagship" labels, HMV and Columbia, just as the 45rpm label design did for the singles and EPs. Though Tamla/Motown was "unified" in the 45rpm singles/EPs(albeit with the border round the edge which does not appear on British T/M singles/EPs) but was not included in the unification of the LP labels.
Neil Forbes 18th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Hüsker Dü - Candy Apple Grey	Whoops! How did the Traveling Wilburys Vol.3 cover get in here?
Neil Forbes 18th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Another Hit Wave	The HMV, Columbia, Parlophone and Stateside labels with the thin horizontal lines coming out either side of the box which carried the trademark did start appearing around 1970, they were an immediate successor to the variant designs for the labels pre-1970 and, I believe, was EMI's method to "unify" the four labels in one group design to compliment the singles/EPs with the large 45rpm device. The only label which wasn't unified into this group was Tamla/Motown which had the trademark without the lines out from either side of the trademark.
Neil Forbes 18th Jun 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Another Hit Wave	I wouldn't know the answer to that question, RC. The first copy I had was a Xmas present in 1968(many months after its initial issue) but the second copy came from Rices Book & Record Shop in Newcastle West. And the album wasn't even in stereo!
Neil Forbes 18th Jun 2015		TV Happy Days (1974 - 1984)	Yeah, 23Skidoo, but a live audience kills the show in my personal view. Quite frankly the show sometimes forgot that it was supposed to be a situation comedy when you had dance sequences performed in the Cunningham lounge-room or when Suzi Quatro(appearing as "Leather Tuscadero") is doing her own Devil Gate Drive(vintage 1974) in a show supposedly set ten years or more earlier....Hmmm!
Neil Forbes 18th Jun 2015		TV The New 3 Stooges (1965 - 1966)	And to 23skidoo as well, thanks! I wasn't aware Larry Fine had also suffered a stroke. Again, I'd like to have another look at that movie I referred to. It's good to get a behind-the-scenes look at the careers of these people. There was a sequence in the movie where Moe and Joe Howard were checking into a hotel, other guests started poking and prodding at him, thinking he wouldn't feel it because of what they saw in the featurettes, but Joe fell to the floor from the pain and was distressed by it. That sequence really stood out for me.

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