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Neil Forbes 1st Feb 2015		Vinyl Album Elvis Presley - Girls! Girls! Girls!	EMI is the rightful owner of the "Nipper"(Dog & Gramophone trademark), having inherited it in the merger between "The Gramophone Co. Ltd." and "Columbia Graphophone Co. Ltd." which occurred in 1938, just a year(roughly) prior to the outbreak of World War 2. The Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, New Jersey, USA was using the trademark UNDER LICENCE from The Gramophone Co. when some reps from RCA, then(in 1929) little more than a minor subsidiary of General Electric, came sniffing around the Victor plant in New Jersey. When RCA purchased the Victor name and plant, the licence to use the trademark SHOULD'VE BEEN TERMINATED THEN AND THERE! The rights to the trademark should've been non-transferrable and reverted back to the British owner, The Gramophone Co. In 1955 when EMI bought Capitol in all but a tiny minority percentage which stayed in Capitol's hold, EMI could then have used the HMV trademark to launch ALL their major and minor British and Australian artists and groups into the American market, instead of having them showing up on CBS/Epic, Liberty, MGM and other labels.
Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Wings - Wings Greatest	I would prefer to give(the late) Linda McCartney the benefit of the doubt and let her have 50% credit on those songs. She's sadly not around to argue the point anymore.
Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album The Kingston Trio - Best Of The Kingston Trio Volume #3	R.C.: "....This label design would last until 1977". Yep! That's what I said earlier.
Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Electric Light Orchestra - Greatest Hits	This compilation predates Descovery by a month or three, R.C. It carries selections from albums up to, and including the 2LP set, Out Of The Blue.
Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Chartstoppers Vol.1	R.C. you've "chosen" your words well there, but alas I think some of the tracks might've also had outings on the odd Majestic issue. It'd be hard keeping "track" of them(two puns in one post - ain't I a shocker? er, don't answer that!)
Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album The Kingston Trio - Best Of The Kingston Trio Volume #3	Good guess, R.C.! I have a 1972 Joe South single, "Coming Down All Alone"(issue # 3450) which has this label design(but Gold 'Capitol' on red background) which gives me the date for the earliest use of this label design. R.C., your guess of 1973is closer to the mark of when this album would've been issued as a re-release because the initial issue would possibly have the black label with the rainbow around the edge or the orange/yellow swirl.
Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album The Kingston Trio - Best Of The Kingston Trio Volume #3	This would be a post-1972 re-issue, based on the label design. EMI-Capitol Industries didn't use this label design in 1966, it didn't come into use until 1972 at the earliest, and lasted until about 1977.
Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Chartstoppers Vol.1	Thought you might've had this, R.C.! Keep watching, as during this coming week I'll be uploading the 2nd and 3rd volumes, and the Country Chartstoppers LP as well.
Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Chartstoppers Vol.1	This was the first of only three volumes of this series, there was also a Country Chartstoppers. Technically speaking there are only 19 artists & groups as The Mixtures have 2 entries on this album at A9 and B8. Select was a short-lived label which disappeared after about 1972. They tried to muscle in on the 20-hits formula albums that Majestic(later K-Tel) were successful with. I'll put up volumes 2 and 3 plus the country volume in due course.
Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Dollar - The Dollar Album	Okay, MM! We'll pull the pin on this now. I just saw a chance to have a joke(always looking for that kind of chance - I'm a shocker, ain't I? - don't answer that!).
Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Dollar - The Dollar Album	Hmmm, what Magic Marmalade said reminds me, what to call it when you see two American 10-cent pieces slide across a table(or bar) - Paradigm shift(pair of dimes shift) lol.
Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Dollar - The Dollar Album	No, but I just thought I'd "cash in" while I could(ha-ha).
Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album The Searchers - Sugar And Spice	Sleeve design looks fairly typical of covers from those far-off days!
Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Wings - Wings Greatest	Well, as I said, I was working by checking credits on the Wingspan compilation (Parlophone 2CD set 5 32850-2) and "All The Best" (Parlophone 2-cassette pack TC-PCSO-748507), the reason being that I extracted all the tracks bar one from the Wingspan album, the one on Wingspan I didn't use was a shortened(DJ version of) With A Little Luck. I wanted the full version, so I lifted that from a CD I'd made earlier from the tape of All The Best. For the artwork(front cover) I clicked on the image here to enlarge it, then took the top portion by pressing "PrtScn" Just above the "Insert" key on your keyboard. This take the image of what's on your screen at the moment, and puts it into the "Paint" programme, I did likewise for the bottom half, cropped out the unwanted portions to each and pasted the two parts together, result, bitmap image of front cover(FOR MY OWN USE, of course!). I wanted to be sure I had the correct composer credits.
Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Dollar - The Dollar Album	This duo were out to "buck" the system, methinks(ha-ha)!
Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Super Stars, Super Hits	Oops! Here come de Judge!(where have I heard that before? I wonder...)
Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Wings - Wings Greatest	You notice what I notice here? With a slight variation in the prefix, the British and Australian issue numbers are the same. The Brit issue has PCTC- while Australia's is just P- but the number is 256.
Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Wings - Wings Greatest	R.C. said: "Played this album today someone in my family has been using this for breakfast snap crackle and pop old radio announcers joke, haha"! Hey R.C., is this going to be a continuing story - a cereal - er...serial?(ha-ha).
Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Wings - Wings Greatest	I double-checked the tracks in this compilation by reference to the compilations "Wingspan" and "All The Best" by Paul McCartney and Wings and those albums between them, cover every track in this set, and they show Paul and Linda McCartney to be the composers of all but "With A Little Luck"(Paul himself) and "Mull Of Kintyre(Paul with Denny Laine). So I stand by my earlier comment.
Neil Forbes 31st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 72 Original Hits	The cover on this looks like it borrowed the idea from a K-Tel compilation... now let me think. Where have I seen this before....?
Neil Forbes 30th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Wings - Wings Greatest	The composer credits are missing on one person. Apart from Mull Of Kintyre, written by Paul McCartney and Denny Laine, and With A Little Luck written by Paul himself, the rest are co-written with Linda McCartney.
Neil Forbes 30th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Wings - Wild Life	R.C. said: "My comment what B1 title says". - Cheeky boy!(ha-ha). Mind you, their version of Love Is Strange ain't half-bad, quite good actually, chaps!
Neil Forbes 30th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Sensational 60's	I would but it's taking too long to bring up the close-up images.
Neil Forbes 30th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Super Stars, Super Hits	R.C. I warned you to leave that weed alone!(ha-ha) You've been puffin' on the same stuff the compiler of this album has.... c-c-c-c-r-r-r-r-a-a-a-a-z-z-z-z-y-y-y-y!
Neil Forbes 30th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Sensational 60's	Seems they've drawn content from Mercury(Leslie Gore, Singing Nun), M-G-M(David Rose) and EMI(Dave Clark 5 - British group on EMI-Columbia label). as well as from their own vaults.
Neil Forbes 30th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Super Stars, Super Hits	I don't know, T.P.! But whatever it is, it must be bloody potent!
Neil Forbes 30th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Super Stars, Super Hits	Seems like some tracks have three songs tied together, yes! Someone has been puffing on some "weird weed" while putting this one together!
Neil Forbes 30th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Abbey Road	....Thanks, Judge!
Neil Forbes 29th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Greatest Hits Of 1968	That's a case of total failure to research content info, Terence! Everyone knows "Dock Of The Bay" was a posthumous hit for Otis Redding. If Sledge recorded a version, it would've ONLY been a cut for one of his own albums, and done only after he'd heard Redding's original version. So no, it's not a typo, it's ignorance and failure to research. And seeing that some(or just about all - I'd hazard a guess) have been re-recorded. If I saw this in a shop, I'd give a VVVEEERRRYYY wide berth indeed!
Neil Forbes 29th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Wings - Wild Life	Can't give you the British issue number but can provide the Australian one, it was PCSO-7142, and yes, it WAS on Parlophone, issued in 1971. I have a pre-Dolby cassette of it as TC-PSCO-7142, issued in the same year.

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