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Neil Forbes 24th Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Twelve Plus Three Equals Fifteen	Track B2 has a story attached: Fellow walks into a bar and orders "Scotch On The Rocks". He gets the Scotch, but not the "Rocks". Lady walks in 20 minutes later and asks for the same, and gets it! Fellow protests, Why didn't I get what I asked for and this lady does? He demands, the lady, now embarrassed asks the same question, to which the barman replies "I only have ice(eyes) for you!..... everyone screams in unison...Yeah, right!
Neil Forbes 24th Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Jeanne Hayes, Mike Russo, The Dellwoods - Fink Along With Mad	This.... from the label that brought us Del Shannon? Ooooooohhhhh!
Neil Forbes 24th Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Twelve Plus Three Equals Fifteen	Sounds like you've sprung a leak in your system there, RC!
Neil Forbes 24th Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Twelve Plus Three Equals Fifteen	Considering that some Early Miracles sides were issued through this label(while Tamla had not yet gone national at that stage), I'd half expected a couple included here, but here they are...not!
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		78 RPM Columbia Band - Liberty Bell March / Manisot March	Adding to what I've already said about the Columbia Graphophone label, an interesting turnabout comes during the 1950s when American CBS recordings are no longer going to their British "namesake", rather, they're showing up on Philips and (later), Fontana, meaning the American arm has now gone its separate way and the link with its British "saviour" is now well-and-truly severed. Comes the 1960s and the now-giant American CBS is looking to establish itself in Britain, buying up the small Oriole outfit and converting it into CBS (UK) Ltd. And that's where the story ended... for the time being... until several decades later when Japanese electronics firm Sony opened wide and swallowed CBS in one gulp! (burp!)
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		78 RPM Ray Anthony - Serenade In Blue / Moonlight Serenade	Considering some Norwegian Capitols have been added here lately, maybe this one is also from Norway...Hmmmm.
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Bee Gees - Best Of Bee Gees	Fascinating, RC, Where did you find that info?
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Bee Gees - Best Of Bee Gees	B2, World is a bit deceptive, when first heard it sounds like a mono track, but toward the end it kicks into a full stereo effect.
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Bee Gees - Best Of Bee Gees	On this album, the Bee Gees must've had Words with Bobby Stigwood because A4(The Paper Sheet position, A4, get it?) was most definitely STEREO on this compilation!
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Gene Pitney - Gene Pitney	Festival issued a 20-hits compilation of Pitney's hits, sometime between 1976 and 1978 on their Interfusion label that carried the two tracks you mention, RC. Naturally Festival had to seek clearance from Warners because that company was distributing the Bronze label between 1974 and 1975, which carried the songs. Ironically, Festival later acquired the Bronze label as they'd issued Manfred Mann's Earth Band's "Blinded By The Light" and "You Angel, You" on that label.
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Bee Gees - Best Of Bee Gees	A commercially-issued mix and an unissued alternate mix, that's my best guess on A2.
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Gene Pitney - Gene Pitney	Pretty-much "standard fare" in a Gene Pitney compilation, all except that last track on Side 2. It's not all that often the B-side of "Love My Life Away" as a single, gets an outing on any of Pitney's compilations. "I Laughed So Hard I Cried"is truly a rarity!
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Bee Gees - Best Of Bee Gees	I had the cassette of the Festival/Spin issue, then later bought this on CD, The Volume Two I acquired a year or so ago(Australian Festival/Spin again) but only after I acquired the CD Best Of Vol.2 issued by Pickwick under a different title but having the same tracks as the B.O.B.G. Vol.2 in the same order. Pickwick was known for that sort of thing, y'see!
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Cat Stevens - 20 Super Hits By Cat Stevens	Watch what you eat/drink/smoke before hitting the sack or YOU shall have a "Cat Stevens Moment"(A Bad Night)! Ha-ha.
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Abbey Road	You had that one "nailed", RC(ha-ha)!
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Bee Gees - Best Of Bee Gees	Intersting.... Veeeerrrrryyyyy interesting! This is the same contents list as per the Australian Festival/Spin issue of about the same time, even down to inclusion of The Bee Gees' last-ever Australian-produced single, Spicks & Specks, which was replaced on later issues with Tomorrow, Tomorrow. The boys recorded Spicks & Specks in 1966(I think at Festival's Ultimo studios in Sydney) and it was the first major hit in Australia(as well as being the last Australian recording). It gave its name to a TV comedy game show on the ABC here where the host(Adam Hills, known in Britain for his show, The Last Leg) would ask music-related questions to two teams of three members, each with a regular leader(Allan Brough and Myf Warhurst) and two guests for each team(four in all, usually celebrities) Tina Arena was a guest on one show and when the song came up in a question, she innocently suggested it could be a theme tune for the show, When Adam Hills told her it WAS the theme, she slid down below the desk with embarrassment.... poor Tina!
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Cat Stevens - 20 Super Hits By Cat Stevens	I'd have thought there'd be a bit more comment on this one by now but..... Have all our 33Catters gone beddy-byes?(gone to sleep).
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Abbey Road	Ach, RC, Showin' yer age agin, laddie!(attempt at Scottish accent there - well, I'm part-Scottish).
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		78 RPM Ray Anthony - Serenade In Blue / Moonlight Serenade	Could be a Scandinavian country(rough guess). The NCB on the label is the only clue.
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Abbey Road	Jeez, it's been 46 years and they still haven't finished crossing that street yet! Is that John Lennon's and George Harrison's "ghosts" we see on the cover?(ha-ha)
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Neil Diamond - Serenade	Kabb2112, Methinks you've become another victim of those dreaded "keyboard gremlins", as witnessed by the typing of B4, "The Gilf Of Song"(should've been Gift). Oops!
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Neil Diamond - Classics: The Early Years	Well RC, you've certainly "joined the dots" to get to this one(ha-ha)!
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Cat Stevens - 20 Super Hits By Cat Stevens	Yeah... It does, a bit, now you mention it, RC! But then who was copying whom? Though I think J. & B. didn't start up until around 1976, this LP was issued in 1975. By the way, RC, scroll down and take a look at the "20 Super Hits" by Neil Diamond cover(you'll have to click on "more comments" to get to it, though). See what you think of the cover design.
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Neil Diamond - Classics: The Early Years	Is this the album that contained it? or, I should rephrase that and say, was your wanted version, the same as the one on this album?
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Hank C. Burnette - The Original Oneman-Rockabilly-Band	The front cover shows an Australian "Wizard" label(bottom, second-from right) Don't quite know if it was a genuine label or a mock-up!
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Neil Diamond - Classics: The Early Years	LP on CBS-Columbia as that company had acquired the Bang backlists(archive). This LP was later re-issued on CD as CDCBS-25531. My CD was made in Austria(Hergestellt in Österreich). This, I believe, is the album that carries the version of Shilo that Record Collector was so keen to chase down.
Neil Forbes 23rd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Cat Stevens - 20 Super Hits By Cat Stevens	As you can see, the cover design for this and the Neil Diamond LP recently posted, are strikingly similar, which leads me to believe this is a series of "20 Super Hits" albums issued by Teldec, spread over several of the labels, for which they had licencing. The copyright warning around the edge is in German, but they opted for the English "Side 1/Side 2" rather than the German "Seite....". But anyhow, there it is. Make of it what you will.
Neil Forbes 22nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Neil Diamond - 20 Super Hits	This LP seems to me to be part of a series issued by Telefunken-Decca in Germany, who obviously had the German rights to the MCA label. I say this as there was another of these "Super Hits" LPs that featured Cat Stevens and appeared on the London label. I'll upload that one during the coming week.
Neil Forbes 20th Feb 2015		78 RPM Columbia Band - Liberty Bell March / Manisot March	I noted in the examples shown, the earlier ones had "New York - London" on the label. This bears out what I said in my notes about the British arm then turning around and helping to re-establish the Columbia name in the USA. The US company that made those early 78s was the fore-runner to one-half of EMI but it would be that American early company that went ker-blooey while the British arm thrived and became a separate company in its own right (until its merger with The Gramophone Co., in 1938 to form EMI). The Columbia of the 1950s in the USA does not have a line of ancestry back to that earlier label. The Columbia Records of today (now swallowed up by Sony) owes its existence to the Pre-EMI British arm which became that separate British-owned entity which helped to re-establish the brand in the USA. As for the trademark we became familiar with in the 1960s, the trademark straddled the spindle-hole on orange-label discs that replaced the Coronet label in 1962 (but were still briefly using Coronet serial prefixes). The label we had was based on the Brit. LP design, and that trademark had been described elsewhere as a "speaker on a stand" thought it could've been described as an eye.
Neil Forbes 20th Feb 2015		78 RPM Bunk Johnson And His New Orleans Band - Alexander's Ragtime Band / My Maryland	I've seen some 78s on Brunswick, made in Australia, and you can just barely make out the brand-name. As for reading anything else on the labels - FORGET IT! the print's faded away to near blank label!

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