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Neil Forbes 8th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - Course In Radio Announcing	RC, PSFM didn't just break their "constitution & rules", they flushed them down the toilet!
Neil Forbes 8th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Gene Pitney - The Big Sixteen	Well, RC, that's why I referred to this as a Musicore issue as that's the trademark on the label, and it's what's on the label that counts most.
Neil Forbes 8th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - Course In Radio Announcing	When I started at PSFM, I'd spend anything up to a week compiling and preparing notes and banging them out on a typewriter(I didn't have a computer back in 1997). I'd prepare my script and pack a bag of CDs, LPs and 45s to cover the tracks I presented initially in a show I called "70s Retrospective". Later I expanded my field to cover from the 60s to the 80s and the title of the show became "Rock Retrospective"(by then I had an old Windows 3.1.1 computer that someone from the station gave me when they bumped up to Windows 95. But the same practice, spend up to a week research and writing, then pack necessary content. The key word was "research". To that end I delved into books written in, or as near to the period I covered as was possible. I got caught out a few times playing tracks from a CEL-label CD that WERE NOT authentic(these things can and do sneak up on you). But overall I tried to keep to authentic tracks and I'd read my script, detailing three songs, then play them back-to-back.
Neil Forbes 8th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Gene Pitney - The Big Sixteen	My notes pretty-much say it all. Bought this album because it contained(apart from some of the usual suspects), some rare tracks that don't always get an airing on a Gene Pitney LP. Aladdin's Lamp was originally on the back of I'm Gonna Be Strong(I have a British Stateside of that pairing), and Pitney's version of Helen Shapiro's Not Responsible is another rare cut. This album really proved itself a fantastic "find" for me.
Neil Forbes 8th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Gene Pitney - Gene Pitney's Big Sixteen	I've got my copy ready to go up on this website. I'm about to upload it. I'm sure it will make an interesting comparison to this and the US issue.
Neil Forbes 8th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - Course In Radio Announcing	Unless you have a good working knowledge of the music you're playing, yes, it's a good idea to just "shut the trap and play the track!" I've heard people back-announce "Blinded By The Light" by Electric Light Orchestra, when even the dumbest of the dumb would know it was Manfred Mann's Earth Band, or "Escape(Pina Colada Song)" as by Dr. Hook, when in fact it's by Rupert Holmes. While I laud the merits of Community over Commercial in radio terms, if you're gonna present a music show with an element of the history behind that music, then DO THE RESEARCH!!! Make absolutely sure you know what you're bloody-well talkin' about! And if you get it wrong, find out what the correct info is, and put it right!
Neil Forbes 8th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Greatest Hits Of 1968	I stand by my comments on this one, Terence. There are far too many "gaps" in the composer credit details that are inexcusable in any kind of compilation. And because there are a great number of "re-recordings", I would avoid this and all others in this series "like the plague" no matter how well the rerecordings are done. Give me the original versions any day! Flush the rerecordings down the toilet 'cause that's where they belong!
Neil Forbes 7th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - Course In Radio Announcing	Don't think any of the discs in this series would be of any use to an Australian radio presenter. Australian radio's best representative is community broadcasting, a no-nonsense, straight-forward, honest style of broadcasting without resorting to gimmickry. Commercial radio in Australia, though, that's another matter! I despair of gimmick-laden, hyped-up, full of self-important "shock-jocks", commercial radio. These commercial jocks might've "learned" from records like this! Learned the wrong things, more like!
Neil Forbes 7th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory	Every single track on this album turned up on a 2CD compilation called "Keep On Chooglin'" issued sometime in mid-1990s. It would be easy for me to assemble this album in its entirety from the contents of that other compilation.
Neil Forbes 7th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Gene Pitney - Gene Pitney's Big Sixteen	This LP is of same vintage as the US issue but a later release in Stereo, around 1972 will have the catalogue number SOSL-10086. That's the number shown in brackets on the label of my Australian issue Interfuson/Musicore L-34582.
Neil Forbes 7th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Gene Pitney - Gene Pitney's Big Sixteen	I have this LP(same title - same content - same order - different cover) issued by Festival on their Interfusion label, well... the Interfusion logo's on the cover, but on the label.... Musicore(orange label with trademark turned 90 degrees anti-clockwise). The catalogue is L-34582 and the label also shows the UK Stateside number, SOSL-10086 in brackets. I'm guessing my copy is about 1973-1974 issue because of the simple L-34000 series as against the SITFL-934000 series numbering before 1973. The cover and label show the compilation as "Published 1972 Musicore Records" a full 8 years after this USA issue.
Neil Forbes 6th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Dimension Dolls Volume 1	Comparing the contents list noted some variations in the song titles between the US original and German re-issue(under different title).
Neil Forbes 6th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Ricky Segall And The Segalls - Ricky Segall And The Segalls	Many thankings, Auto_Da_Fe! I didn't think the kid could've written such a volume of songs as that! He must've been no more than 10 years old at that time(1973) which would make him 52 years old this year(did I say that?.....Aaaaaaggggghhhhh!) Scary thought that four decades have passed since that LP was issued!
Neil Forbes 6th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Electric Light Orchestra - [untitled]	Yes, a Greatest Hits-style album, but without that actual title on the cover, just take it as a self-title album for the group(LEO, ELO, ELO, What 'ave we 'ere?).
Neil Forbes 6th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Michael Jackson - Forever, Michael	One Day In Your Life, RC, You'll see my 45!(How'd you like my working the title into that sentence, ay?) Keep a watch on 45Cat(Miaow).......Moderator chimes in.... Now cut that out, Forbesey!(ha-ha)
Neil Forbes 6th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Electric Light Orchestra - [untitled]	This LP is eponymously titled(self-titled, in other words).
Neil Forbes 6th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Michael Jackson - Forever, Michael	I see I'll have to put my copy of A3 as a single up on 45Cat some time soon.
Neil Forbes 6th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Oldies But Goldies	Hi, Yankeedisc! This LP was also "electronically reprocessed" for stereo effect, though neither label nor cover states the fact. I bought the album around 1975 or so from a store called "Mid City Music" which, during its four-or-five-year history had two locations along Hunter Street, Newcastle, NSW Australia. At the time I bought this, the store was located in what was then the "Hunter Shopping Village", just a short distance east of Union Street. The other shop was still further east in a shop just a few doors west of Brown Street in what I believe to have at one time been the Reg A. Baker Electrical shop(TVs, stereograms, radios etc.) That shop, like Mid City Music, is long gone from Newcastle. It was a great shop for music(Mid City Music, that is). I found quite a few goodies there, including the one seen here!
Neil Forbes 5th Mar 2015		CD Album Various Artists - Motown: Old Navy	Might've been a good idea to put these tracks in a chronological order so they flow from year to year instead of jumping around from mid-60s to early-70s and back again.
Neil Forbes 5th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	I will give EMI NZ credit for publishing company placement - up on left of label, below matrix number, But I would've shown it as Northern Songs Publ. Ltd., not just Northern Songs.
Neil Forbes 5th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	So what are you doin' writin' on this site when you could be in a recording studio as the sound engineer? Ay, RC?!
Neil Forbes 5th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Oldies But Goldies	I look forward eagerly to seeing your British issue, to see how it looks against this German issue, and the original US issue.
Neil Forbes 5th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Mary Wells - Mary Wells	As with many of my comments, I'm speculating the purposes behind how they set their prefixes. Interesting though with Gene Pitney, In Australia his records(singles mainly) first showed up on CBS-Coronet, which was made and distributed by Australian Record Company. Then, until about 1964 or 1965 he was on United Artists, which, at the time was also handled by ARC. About 1965 he was put onto the CBS label here(almost coinciding with the time ARC sold the UA rights to Festival). Then, about 1966 his run of hits stalled in Australia though he was still highly popular in Britain where EMI were issuing his records, first on United Artists, then from 1964 onwards on Stateside. I don't know when the Stateside run finished. Perhaps I'll use the search facility to find that question's answer(on 45Ca.).
Neil Forbes 5th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Oldies But Goldies	Cheers! Thanks muchly!
Neil Forbes 5th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - The Beatles Ballads	EMI was bound to issue that James Bond theme compilation at that point. They were "bonded" to it(oh dear!).
Neil Forbes 5th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album The Green River Boys Featuring Glen Campbell - Big Bluegrass Special	I just saw the last comment you made and I did LOL laugh out loud... you crack me up, RC, you really do!. Though I have to say, I noted the 1962 issue date on this LP. This is the label design used back then, the trademark shifted from left to top of label.... fast-forward to the late 1980s and what design should pop up again...? Yep You guessed it. Though I think the rainbow perimeter isn't quite as wide as what's on this one.
Neil Forbes 5th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - The Beatles Ballads	This release proves what I said about the PLAY-1000 series operating across all labels. This one, the 5th in the series, being on Parlophone.
Neil Forbes 5th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album The Green River Boys Featuring Glen Campbell - Big Bluegrass Special	That label design that you've shown here RC, is of the late 1980s/early 1990s, but it's basically a revival of a much earlier design in some way, the return of the rainbow colouring around the perimeter, and the Capitol trademark in the silver elyptical shape harks back to the 1950s, only back then the trademark was at left of the spindle centre, now it's at the top of the label. Capitol revived this design in the latter half of the 1980s. Up to then they were using the plain purple label with the Capitol TM prominent in the top half.
Neil Forbes 5th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Anne Murray - Greatest Hits	Cover and labels say "compilation published 1980" I go by that date as the default issue year.
Neil Forbes 5th Mar 2015		Vinyl Album Here And Now - Give And Take	A-side label - convenient placing of centre spindle hole ay, what?

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