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Neil Forbes 6th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Deep Purple - Who Do We Think We Are!	the "Made In Gt. Britain" tag is still there, it's just been moved to the end of the copyright warning blurb around the bottom edge of the label and its font size and style reduced to match that of the c/right warning.
Neil Forbes 6th Oct 2015		TV Crown Court (1972 - 1984)	1974? I could've sworn it was earlier than that! But I, unlike Cptbeefheart, am glad to see the end of licence fees. When you buy the TV set, you should NOT be forced to pay for the "privilege(?)" of watching it. You've already forked out a heap of dollars, deutschmarks, drachmas, pounds or whatever currencies you're using to buy the set, so why should you have to keep forking out just to watch it? The licence fee(for both radio and TV) in Australia, was an enforced subscription to the ABC which, back in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s was so damned elitist and snobbish that, for most, it wasn't worth the money spent on those fees. When the fees were abolished, we saw a slow-but-steady makeover of the ABC here, the snobbish elitism was giving way to a more egalitarian programming policy that, by the turn of the century(2001 being the first year of the new century/millennium), the ABC became far better to watch than the commercial stations with their tabloid-style current affairs and crappy reality(?) shows.
Neil Forbes 5th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - Benson & Hedges Celebration	Could be Iranian(B-side in Arabic to allow those who can't decipher English to read the title in their own script) but made in England as an export product.
Neil Forbes 5th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Beatles For Sale	I have a stereo issue of this, yes, it's the British issue and, because of the labels on mine, which are the same as those put up by Roboleyton(second set), I figure my pressing may be of about 1969 or 1970 vintage(or later).
Neil Forbes 5th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Original Golden Hits	I've got this one as well, but I think the label of my copy carries the same number as seen on the sleeve. Give me a minute or three and I'll fetch it out....... Okay, I found it and, I was wrong. Labels bear the same number on label as yours, US-96100 while cover has L-15183 affixed via sticker. Maybe Mod could include both numbers with a slash between them, if we ask him nicely. There is an American version of this album with 6 tracks per side.
Neil Forbes 5th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Hitsville USA	Ah, we're both burning the midnight oil, RC!(no, we're not setting fire to Peter Garrett - ha-ha). If you can get hold of that set, go for it!
Neil Forbes 5th Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Hitsville USA	This and one other Tamla-Motown LP, I could ALMOST reconstruct my own versions of these LPs but I'm shy three tracks off this one, A6, B3 and B8.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Chase - Chase	I'm logging out. Catch you all later!
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Chase - Chase	Bitte schoen!
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Trio Los Panchos - Advertencia / Pa' Todo El Año	Just remember to clear the spaghetti off before attempting to read the label, ha-ha.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Trio Los Panchos - Advertencia / Pa' Todo El Año	For LPs on CBS, Orange was regular popular content while blue was reserved for classical recordings. I don't think they ever used green. In the USA, red was the main colour for popular music, followed later(around 1972) by gold. I've not seen many American Columbia classical LPs so I wouldn't know what colour those labels were.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		Cassette Album The Beatles - Abbey Road	Sometimes if you see a cassette issue with no branding, beware, it might well be an Asian bootleg. The practice was common through the 1970s and early 1980s, pre-CD.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Don Lang - The Bird On My Head / Hey Daddy	A-side composer, Bagdasarian? Think... David Seville! Got it?
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Trio Los Panchos - Advertencia / Pa' Todo El Año	I was going by the Magic Notes trademark, which American CBS had long ago abandoned in favour of their "Speaker on Stand" otherwise described as "walking eye" or, as Fixbutte once suggested, stylus on record(you'd have to turn the trademark 180 degrees to see that). But I've always believed South American Columbia to be affiliated with EMI.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Juggernauts Of The Early 70's	Hmmmm.... I'd half expected Emitt Rhodes to have made it into this set.... Nope! Not there. Pity, that!
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Chase - Chase	Looking at the label, likely an Asian pressing, probably Singaporean or Malaysian.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Roger Whittaker - The Very Best Of Roger Whittaker	I've got an Aussie issue, would've liked to see the cover of this to "compare notes" as it were.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Roger Whittaker - The Very Best Of Roger Whittaker	I'd like to have seen the cover for this, to see if it's the same as the Aussie issue I have.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		Vinyl Album Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On	G'day Magic Marmalade! Question: Do you record your tracks into MP3 Audio files? If you do, then you can correct the skip-back....skip-back....skip-back effect. Record your track, and where it starts to skip back, apply light finger pressure on the pickup head to help it past the sticking point(s). At the end of the recording, when the waveform comes up on your screen, you can locate and edit out the skip-back....skip-back....skip-back effect. I think my question is now redundant by reading your 11/3/2015 comments(hope you didn't dampen your pillow too much).
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Trio Los Panchos - Advertencia / Pa' Todo El Año	CBS in the USA ceased using the Magic Notes logo many years before, when the original Columbia Graphophone Company of New York was liquidated(wound up). The trademark lived on in Britain where what had started merely as a UK division, became the parent company because of the demise of the US company. The Hispanic wing, Discos Columbia, would be an offshoot of EMI rather than CBS, as CBS no longer had any stake in EMI whatsoever by 1964. The only reason CBS in the USA would be making this disc, is under contract for an unrelated client.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Jim Dale - Be My Girl / You Shouldn't Do That	He was in Carry On Jack(also titled Carry On Venus) alongside Bernard Cribbins and Juliet Mills, and there was also an appearance by Australian Ed Devereaux.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Jim Dale - Be My Girl / You Shouldn't Do That	Well I am AMAZED! I have a number of his appearances in the Carry-On series, who could forget his role as Marshall P. Nutt(love that name, play on a brand of peanuts) in "Carry On Cowboy", and now to learn he wrote "Georgie Girl" for The Seekers... mind-blowing revelation!
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Guy Mitchell - Feet Up / Angels Cry (When Sweethearts Tell A Lie)	Vacuum is right! Considering this was the type of "pop" music on offer, it's no wonder Rhythm & Blues and Rock & Roll had such an easy time of it, getting started, in spite of church-led bigotry of the day. Rhythm & Blues and Rock & Roll virtually had a "walk-up start" because these new-ish genres had no competition. Country & Western was struggling to overcome its "Hillbilly" image in the 1950s and it wasn't until the late 1960s, the 1970s and into the 1980s that Country music was taken seriously, that is until that idiot, Billy Ray Cyrus recorded "Achy-Breaky Heart" and set Country Music back 60 years. No, this Guy Mitchell record showed just how vacuous "Pop" music was through the 1940s and early 1950s. The new technology of vinyl 45rpm was wasted on records like this(this was issued on 45, albeit with a different B-side).
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		78 RPM Jim Dale - Be My Girl / You Shouldn't Do That	@RC, Did he? I'm trying to work out if it's the same Jim Dale who made his debut in the Carry-On movies, playing an expectant father in "Carry On Cabbie".
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		Cinema Von Ryan's Express (1965)	I don't think I have access to IMDB, sorry.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		Cinema Dances With Wolves (1990)	I think they did a New Zealand version of this, "Dances With Sheep"! Sorry, I'll take that ba-a-a-a-ack!
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		Cinema Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 3D) (2011)	@RC, all eight movies in this series are gems in their own right. Well worth owning!
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		Cinema Von Ryan's Express (1965)	That train ride sequence. I think there may have been a props glitch. I can vaguely remember seeing a late 1960s Australian Holden station-wagon in the shot as the camera pans right and downward to a shot of a gully near the train track. How it got there is a bloody-good question. Certainly it wasn't intended to be there as the movie was set in WW2 Germany..... Hmmmm!
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		Cinema Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 3D) (2011)	Taken together with Part 1, the end of the line for the Harry Potter saga. The mood of each successive movie got ever darker, compared to the near-comedic first two films, Philosopher's Stone and Chamber Of Secrets. But these movies(I have all eight) serve as good viewing over the Aussie Summer when the TV is filled with nothing but dross.
Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		Cinema Young Frankenstein (1974)	A gem of a film! So many punch-lines! Probably Mel Brooks' best-ever work.

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