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Neil Forbes 13th May 2015		Vinyl Album The Moody Blues With The London Festival Orchestra - Days Of Future Passed	MM, I also have some LPs where the label does not fully cover the are it's meant to on the disc. I had seen one once on the London label in my early years at Port Stephens FM community radio, it was a British-issue Roy Orbison compilation, but the three I have in my collection are MAM-label issues by Gilbert O'Sullivan.
Neil Forbes 13th May 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The World Of Hits Vol. III	Hi, Sheepdip, good onya!. The programme should help a great deal in processing the labels and cover images. By the way, I was not much chop on computers initially but I learned simply through the act of using them. Mind you, I'd be flat-out trying to put one together from scratch si I let the experts take care of that side of things, I just nominate the programmes I want, or hunt down and install specific software pertinent to my needs.
Neil Forbes 13th May 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - What's Happening...Stateside?	Hi, Roger F. Interesting you said some of the content of this album had turned up originally on Liberty and UA(among other labels), this sort-of leads into what I said about an MFP compilation elsewhere on this site, that compilers make no effort at research to check the content they're bringing together for the album. In this case, the compilers did not check EMI's back-lists to see if the tracks they used were actually issued on Stateside in Britain, I specify Britain because artists or groups appearing on Stateside, like Gene Pitney, for example, did not appear on Stateside in other countries. Pitney was on CBS here in Australia through the mid-1960s. So EMI actually revived the Stateside label in the UK, albeit as a reissues label. No such luck here(though I did see the TM on a CD once) but the TM phased out a bit later in Australia, probably around 1974 or 1975, a bit later than in Britain.
Neil Forbes 12th May 2015		Vinyl Album Red Sovine - Teddy Bear	I was going by the trademark and name at the top of the label. Yes, the Gusto name appears in the trademark but isn't as prominent as the stylised "Starday" name under the trademark. I think Starday's old mailing address was P.O. Box 115, Madison, Tennessee, but that is historical(not hysterical - ha-ha).
Neil Forbes 12th May 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Golden Number Ones	Hi, Biff! It seems to me that no amount of research whatsoever goes into the compilations of albums like this. They threw a bunch of songs together 'cause the topped the British charts - but did they? Did the compilers actually go through the Top-40, or Top-50 charts for the relevant years to actually see if the record DID top the chart? Plus my other comment about the decades covered, They need to concentrate on one decade at a time, and dedicate one volume to that decade and another to the following(or even preceding) decade, they may end up with a 4-volume set covering the 1950s(Vol.1) up to the 1980s(Vol.4). Something to mull over, perhaps!
Neil Forbes 12th May 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The World Of Hits Vol. III	Hi, Sheepdip! Usuually the Microsoft Office Picture Manager comes as part of the bundle when you get Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8. It may already be on your computer, if you're running any of these Windows variants. Click on the "start" and select "all programmes", then scroll down the list, it may be there. If you find it, right-click the icon, then select "send to" and select "desktop(create shortcut)" You'll likely find it in "Microsoft Office Tools" which is a folder other potentially useful stuff as well. Cheers.
Neil Forbes 12th May 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - What's Happening...Stateside?	Good to see EMI(UK) kept the Stateside label going in Britain as late as 1987! The label seemed to vanish from the Aussie market in the late 1970s!
Neil Forbes 10th May 2015		Vinyl Album Red Sovine - Teddy Bear	This came out on RCA-Victor here in Australia(to my best recollection) but the soppy sentimentalism of the title cut does much to harm the Country Music genre when we're supposed to take the genre seriously. Probably though, the song that did the most damage to Country Music's credibility was that gosh-awful "Achy-Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus, back about 1989 or 1990. By the way, the label is not Gusto, rather it's the Nashville-based Starday! Gusto is the distribution company which must've bought out Starday sometime between 1972 and when this LP was issued, 1975.
Neil Forbes 10th May 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Golden Number Ones	Seems like this compilation's a bit confused as to the period it's meant to cover - 1960s or 1970s! Best to concentrate on one decade and leave the other for another volume.
Neil Forbes 9th May 2015		Vinyl Album Brook Benton - Endlessly	B1, Endlessly, the title cut, was revived by Sonny James in 1970.
Neil Forbes 9th May 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Motown Hits Of Gold Volume 3	Truly a mouth-watering collection of Motown gems! Gimme, Gimme! Love to get a hold of this, though I have all the tracks spread across other compilation albums!
Neil Forbes 9th May 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Happy Days Fonzie Favorites	Yeah, I think it's the Pratt & McClain & Brother Love version which was issued on single(45rpm) on the Reprise label.
Neil Forbes 9th May 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Happy Days Fonzie Favorites	I'd have to print this page out to compare the list, but in quick scrolling, I note there are a few differences in the content.
Neil Forbes 9th May 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The World Of Hits Vol. III	Hi, Sheepdip! Glad to be of some assistance! Do you have Microsoft Office Picture Manager on your computer? If so, you'll find that programme of some use in cleaning up images.
Neil Forbes 8th May 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Happy Days Fonzie Favorites	RC, the old Gas Works would've been down near the western end of town, somewhere(guessing) around Steel Street. If you visited Newcastle today, guaranteed you wouldn't know the place. Around Steel Street is a huge shopping complex called Market Town. And the Hunter Street Mall now allows cars through it, albeit at 10Km/H(a slow crawl, snails overtake you, ha-ha).
Neil Forbes 8th May 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Happy Days Fonzie Favorites	RC's comment: "Trivia I actually bought the album in Newcastle NSW Australia" - Aah, RC, I see you were in my "neck of the woods"! I lived at Stockton(Newcastle's oldest suburb) until moving to Port Stephens in June 2001.
Neil Forbes 8th May 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The World Of Hits Vol. III	Sheepdip, If you have any image processor software, you might try lightening the image(make it brighter) plus tweaking the contrast, that may help. What doesn't help any of us(you included) is when these record companies choose to put black print on dark-coloured labels. When we try to scan same, the image comes up an absolute mess. I've got one set of labels that I'll need to rescan for the album "Oldies But Goldies", but that will have to wait as I must first build up my data reserve.
Neil Forbes 4th May 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Oldies But Goldies	HI again, RC. When I build up a decent amount of data reserve(30 or so gigabytes, preferably more) I'll upload better scans of the labels. But don't hold your breath, anyone. It may take some time. My unused data rollover occurs roughly every 45 days with each time I recharge my broadband internet connection. I get an extra 4 gigabytes with each recharge.
Neil Forbes 4th May 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Oldies But Goldies	Hi, RC - Kind of puts you in a spin, don't it? A belated apology for the quality of label scans.
Neil Forbes 2nd May 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Happy Days Fonzie Favorites	Bill Haley & His Comets' "Rock Around The Clock" served as the opening theme for the first series only. Subsequent series of the show had the Pratt & McClain with Brother Love version at both opening and closing credit sequences.
Neil Forbes 2nd May 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - 1962-1966 [The Red Album]	Because the two discs comprised one album(like any other 2-LP set by any other maker), I always believed the same catalogue number should apply to BOTH discs and only the matrix number should vary. Thus both LPs should've carried the same catalogue number, either PCSO-7171 or PSCO-7172. I've long held this view. If the 1962-66, or even the 1967-70 albums had been issued as separate single-LP albums with Volume 1 and Volume 2 for each, then yes, separate catalogue numbers for each disc would've been quite correct. But in the case of this album, and its companion, the 1967-70 compilation, the two LPs make up two halves of one album, thus the two discs should've had the one unifying catalogue number.
Neil Forbes 1st May 2015		Vinyl Album Stanley Holloway - His Famous Adventures With Old Sam.../The Ramsbottoms	Quickly looking at the label, I note EMI had a presence in the USA as EMI(not as Capitol) as early as 1955(the year EMI bought Capitol). The "Recording Angel" trademark goes back to Emile Berliner's Deutsche Grammomphon in Germany, the company that spawned one half of EMI(the half that owned the HMV trademark). It's a story in itself but too detailed to enter into here.
Neil Forbes 1st May 2015		Vinyl Album Dionne Warwick - Track Of The Cat	Oh dear, I had a feline you'd try to puss this line a bit too far! (ha-ha)
Neil Forbes 1st May 2015		Vinyl Album Anne Murray - Danny's Song	Considering that the title cut, Danny's Song was first issued in 1970, Capitol must've been "dragging the chain" to get an album out around that song, notably because a few of the other cuts are of later vintage(including the Roberta Flack cover[A2], which Flack herself didn't record until at least 1972).
Neil Forbes 26th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album The Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn	78rpm-Maniac, you're obviously based in Germany. EMI-Electrola has an interesting history, might be worth delving into one day.
Neil Forbes 26th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album The Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn	Parlophone and Columbia could operate in India as they were licenced to "The Gramophone Company Of India(Private) Ltd., which was basically(ostensively) an EMI-offshoot but the company was also pressing on behalf of Warner(Warner & Reprise labels) and other companies as well, in the same way EMI in Australia pressed and distributed Decca for many years. The reason EMI couldn't use Columbia in South America is, or was due to CBS holding sway in that part of the world.
Neil Forbes 26th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album Rolf Harris - Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport	No worries, Camshaft! Cheers! While I think of it, Geoff Mack also wrote a hypochondriac's version of I've Been Everywhere, he recorded the song himself in 1966 on the Festival label as *"I've Had Everything"*. His nickname was "Tangle-Tongue"(no prizes for guessing why).
Neil Forbes 26th Apr 2015		Vinyl Album The Buggles - The Age Of Plastic	RC, don't take my comment seriously.... I was just having a light-hearted "dig" at the so-called "fate" of the radio "star". In fact, during my time on PSFM, whenever I played *"Video Killed...."*, I'd often jokingly "protest" against the comments expressed and say pretty-much what I said in my 23/4/2015 post. It was all in fun(ha-ha), Okay?
Neil Forbes 23rd Apr 2015		Vinyl Album The Buggles - The Age Of Plastic	I wish to make this abundantly clear to ALL who are reading this....... "Video did NOT* kill the radio star!"* He/she is alive and well and living in community/public radio stations around the world...... SO THERE!
Neil Forbes 23rd Apr 2015		Vinyl Album The Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn	Usually Odeon is the German(and other Euro countries') substitute for Parlophone, but to see a Columbia LP turn up on Odeon is a bit unusual.

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