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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Pop Hits	I figaroed you'd say that, R.C.(that WAS a TERRIBLE pun! Ouch!)
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Neil Diamond - The Feel Of Neil Diamond	I have every track here tucked away in MP3 audio files. This is one album I can make up for myself. Always liked these earlier works by Neil Diamond. IMHO better than what he did at MCA.
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Mick Greenwood - Living Game	I thought that if I searched by label, the example I'm after might come up in the 1971-1973 period, but alas no luck. I bombed out!
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Pop Hits	Artist on Tr.B7, David Parton penned song: "Sad Sweet Dreamer" in 1974 for group, Sweet Sensation, whose lead vocalist had a voice similar to Michael Jackson in his early teens.
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Mick Greenwood - Living Game	I'll do a bit of digging and see if I can find out where that design came from, R.C.
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Chartstoppers Vol.2	Ah, R.C., You've done some detective work! But that title.... has anybody seen any copies of it floating around?.... Or has it, like the Select label itself, vanished without a trace? OOOOooooo! Spooky!
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Mick Greenwood - Living Game	This Italian MCA label is, I assume, the stock version rather than a promo label, anyway, it's similar to the Australia/New Zealand version except for the lack of colour, The Australia/NZ version had five colours in the triangles around the spindle-hole, this was set against a black background across the centre of the label(naturally the MCA trademark was white with black lettering & TM white on black dot). Above and below this the label was a navy-blue colour.
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Chartstoppers Vol.2	R.C., you mean to tell me you're stumped on this one? Wow!
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Chartstoppers Vol.2	I figured this LP as a 1972 issue, likely very early 1972 as a buffer period between the issue of this album and the latest 1971-vintage track in the set. No-one seems to know what LP # US-1004 was as yet. Record Collector hasn't even come up with an answer.
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Machine Rock	Ah, I see the moderator has filled in the "blanks" with artist/group credits. Thanks, Mod! George, I've started the forum thread as "Tommy Roe's Sheila". Add to it at your own time. Cheers!
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Machine Rock	George, I'm with you on that one! If I can get the authentic version, thank's muchly! But if the track's a re-recording, I run in the opposite direction to get plenty of space between myself and that "fake" version. It's the reason I stopped buying CDs some time back and now haunt places like Rices in Newcastle's Hunter Street West, or other places like Cooks Hill Books & Records in the nearby suburb, Cooks Hill, or recycling centres, like the one here at Salamander Bay(Port Stephens, north of Newcastle) or another one in the outer Newcastle suburb of Sandgate. Places like that are veritable treasure troves for someone like me. As for the forum discussion, yeah, fire it up and I'll see you there!
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Machine Rock	George, I'm at a loss then. I've no answer to this one, but it does prove my point that labels like TeeVee and others I've named elsewhere are not to be trusted if you're on the hunt for authentic versions of your favourite songs of the 1960s or any decade for that matter. What I said 5 hours earlier about erasing rejected "takes" so only the authentic(issued) version remains, that remark still stands. It would go a long way toward weeding out these little cheaters like TeeVee, If we could get rid of them.... Good riddance!
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Chartstoppers Vol.2	R.C., yes there was! Keep watching because that's the next one I'll be uploading. And after that, I'll be posting the 20 Country Chartsoppers. Just been looking at the catalogue numbers and found a gap: 20 Chartstoppers Vol.1 US-1001 20 Chartstoppers Vol.2 US-1002 20 Country Chartstoppers US-1003 ???????????????????? US-1004 20 Chartstoppers Vol.3 US-1005 What was Select issue US-1004? There's a mystery to solve. Have you any ideas, R.C.?
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Machine Rock	George, I've just listened to the YT clip of Sheila. The station was playing the original 45rpm single. If this is the version used on this LP, then it's in a minority as it's one of the few AUTHENTIC versions on this set. It was issued on ABC-Paramount in the USA and the label and recording was licenced to Festival in Australia in 1962. For Britain the track appeared on HMV in the same year, and by the way, it's a self-penned hit for Tommy Roe.
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Fabulous 50's	I'm no longer in community radio(not by choice but by a gross injustice committed against me by the station's committee) but LPs like these have, in spite of themselves, become staple fare for community stations operating on tight budgets. Albums like this are often donated to the station, some volunteer presenter may offer to transfer them to CD or MP3 files for a computer playback system. That's where composer credit details come into play. Depending on policies or reporting requirements, community broadcasters may well need to note the composer of a song or musical piece(instrumental), and if these LPs don't have such detail, problems will likely arise. Record companies really have no legitimate excuse for leaving such detail off their labels, no matter how big or small the company is, no matter whether the album is budget- or full-priced.
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Machine Rock	Hi, George. You know what would've been a great idea? If the record companies kept ONLY the "takes" that were actually used for the singles or album tracks that were ACTUALLY issued by those companies(like EMI, Warner, RCA, Motown, Stax, etc.) and WIPED, ERASED, OBLITERATED the rejected versions that never saw the light of day through those labels, then those labels themselves, along with the likes of Ronco, K-Tel, TeeVee, Concept, Music World or any other re-issue label that comes sniffing around, looking for content for their latest "original hits" album, would have absolutely NO CHOICE but to issue authentic product on that album, be it vinyl or CD.
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Fabulous 50's	What's the matter with this Columbia Special Products mob? Would it really kill them to put composer credits on their labels?
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 25 #1 Hits From 25 Years	If you're at all curious about what "UpM stands for, let me enlighten you! In German its "Umdrehungen pro Minute", or in plain ol' English, Revolutions Per Minute. There, bet you're glad you found that out, ay?!(yeah, right!).
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Machine Rock	Hi, R.C.! The albums you mentioned were recorded by a studio musician(usually uncredited), particularly for the label, but when labels like this try to put out "original artists/original hits" compilations, you can bet your last dollar that hardly ANY of the tracks will be "original".
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Chartstoppers Vol.2	Well, here it is folks! The second Chartstoppers volume. The newest cut is Johnny Chester's Gwen from 1972. Much of the rest of content is of 1970 or 1971 vintage. This was a short-lived label that issued(as far as I'm aware) only three volumes of these "Pop" Chartstoppers abums and one "Country" Chartstoppers LP. Volume 3 and the country LP are still to come.
Neil Forbes 2nd Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Machine Rock	B1 is a re-recording? How many more of these tracks are thus? I look on labels like these(TeeVee, Ronco, Concept, Music World and latter K-Tel) has highly suspect as you can't trust them to use authentic versions. No good saying "what do you expect for $(whatever number)", I expect at least they make the effort to get the proper authentic versions to justify the price they charge, whatever that price may be.
Neil Forbes 1st Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Wings - Wings Greatest	Well, TopPopper, I was just trying to be fair to Linda(or at least her memory). By the way, did anyone in Australia see Part 2 of the George Harrison doco, "Living In The Material World" which aired on SBS last night at 8.30pm?
Neil Forbes 1st Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Kraftwerk - Autobahn	Spaziergang is the usual way to write that word, rather than Spazier Gang. And when unable to use an umlaut, place an 'e'(upper or lower case as required) after the letter which is to be so-affected, these are the 'a', 'o' and 'u'.
Neil Forbes 1st Feb 2015		Vinyl Album The Ding Dongs [Motown] - Gimme Dat Ding	I think I have it. Remember playing it once. Wasn't all that impressed with it. Much prefer Frankie Davidson's version myself, R.C..
Neil Forbes 1st Feb 2015		Vinyl Album The Ding Dongs [Motown] - Gimme Dat Ding	R.C. said "Now you got me singing now neil haha" - he-he! Knew I'd getcha! Trainman, I recently picked up a copy of the Pipkins version on 45rpm(EMI-Columbia Australian issue DO-9135, noted as an "A.I.R."[London] Production). The Benny Hill Show used this tune, mainly for sketches during the show and also used Yakety-Axe for the closing credit chase sequences.
Neil Forbes 1st Feb 2015		Vinyl Album The Ding Dongs [Motown] - Gimme Dat Ding	That's right, that's right, I'm sad and blue, 'Cos I can't do the Boogaloo! I'm lost, I'm lost, Can't do my thing, that's why I sing Gimme, Gimme Dat Ding! (with due acknowledgements to Albert Hammond and Mike Hazelwood) Gosh! How many versions of this have done the rounds! Here in Australia there were two competing versions, one by Maple Lace, the other by Frankie Davidson.
Neil Forbes 1st Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Rock Legends	Ronco is another of those labels, like Concept(Australia) and Music World(New Zealand) that people should be very wary of as they don't always use authentic versions of songs in their compilations. By "Authentic" I mean the version that appeared on that artist's/group's own album or on 45rpm single. Often they'll "cheat" by using a re-recorded version made by the lead singer or soloist, some years older than when he/she first recorded the track(you can hear the change in the voice) or some other member of the group if the original vocalist isn't available through illness or death, to record the song, then they'll try to pass it off as Original Artist or Group....yeah, right!
Neil Forbes 1st Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Kraftwerk - Autobahn	Okay, not so much "minority appeal", then, but hardly "mass appeal" - everyone going ga-ga over it! As Magic Marmalade said to his friend, "That's, um... super!"! trying to be polite, I guess. Just like Motown and Stax R. & B. never really caught on in Australia except for keen interest from a small cadre of people(like this little black duck - i.e. "me" quack, quack!) who can't get enough of it, 'specially Motown - Ooh, gimme, gimme!
Neil Forbes 1st Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Wings - Wings Greatest	Perhaps if EMI(and I flatly refuse to acknowledge the insatiably greedy Universal[MCA] as their owner) were to re-issue this album on a new CD they could honour Linda's memory and reinstate her share of composer credits on all but Tracks A5(LP), Tr.5(CD) and B6(LP), Tr.12(CD).
Neil Forbes 1st Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Kraftwerk - Autobahn	The album was first issued 8 years before the advent of the Compact Disc. I don't see any record company, let alone Phonogram GmbH, BV, Pty, Ltd. Inc.(or any other corporate make-up) sitting on an album in anticipation of a technological advance that might never have come along, no, they'd be wanting to get the album out to an eager(?) audience as soon as possible! Why the "?" after eager? Kraftwerk's output would be an "acquired taste", appreciated by a minority audience, I would think.

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