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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Neil Forbes 29th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The No. 1 Hits Of The '60's	B1, D1, H1 and H4 do not belong in this set because they are from 1970. Goes to show that when albums like this are being compiled, research is either slip-shod or totally out the window(missing, gone)! Same with CDs. I've an EMI 2-CD set of Seventies hits where there are at least 2 from 1969 and another two from 1981. It's one of two separate and distinct compilations that share the title "The 70s(or Seventies) Collection". If an album like this is to be compiled, strict observance must be paid to the charts of the era intended to be covered, in order that(in this case) only those tracks that were ISSUED in the 1960s decade are used AND reached the coveted #1 spot during, not before or after the decade in question. I may seem like a hard taskmaster but after some of the compilations I've seen, someone has to be!
Neil Forbes 29th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Best Of '66, Volume 2	Yeah, Trainman, this one looks like it's been aimed at the over-50s brigade. I'd hardly think that in 1966 any self-respecting 16-year-olds would be busting down any record shop doors to get their hands on this album!
Neil Forbes 28th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - The Best Of 'Top Of The Pops' 1973	As the photographer said as he stood in his dark-room - "It's an interesting development!"(ha-ha) But seriously, it's interesting that while MFP broke away from EMI here in Australia, in Britain MFP remained an integral part of EMI, even to this day. But in Australia, MFP has just about vanished, as has Summit.
Neil Forbes 28th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Doctor Hook And The Medicine Show - Doctor Hook	A colour version of the photo on this LP appeared on the back of the Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show Revisited LP just a few years later. And an uncropped version of this album's back-cover photo was used as the front cover shot of the Revisited LP.
Neil Forbes 28th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album The Isley Brothers - This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)	Like they say, R.C., you just had to be there! I'm sure the station you were with had a presenter with dead-pan delivery that could intro or back-announce a title and cause a laugh-riot in the process!(possibly you, yourself, R.C.!).
Neil Forbes 28th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Doctor Hook And The Medicine Show - Doctor Hook	The biggie from this one is "Sylvia's Mother" but it didn't show up in Australia until 1972, but worth the wait as it topped our charts that year.
Neil Forbes 28th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album The Isley Brothers - This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)	When I was at Port Stephens FM Community Radio, a little over a decade ago we had this young blind girl(in her early 20s) named Lyla who presented a Saturday afternoon show called "This Way To Soul". Her mother operated the panel as Lyla did the intros and back-announcements. I was in the studio with her one day in, I think 2004, when she introduced the title cut of this album as "The Angina Song"! Such dead-pan delivery! I near fell off my chair, it was such a crack-up.
Neil Forbes 28th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Original All-time Greats Of The 60's	This is an EMI product, the EMI trademark is at top-left of the cover. Kab2112, could you, please, at some time add the labels (and possibly the back cover) so we can have a good look at this one... you know, scrutinise this with extreme scrute(ha-ha)!
Neil Forbes 28th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - The Best Of 'Top Of The Pops' 1973	It's a strange and curious thing.... Here in Australia, Music For Pleasure had split away from EMI because they were issuing content by artists and groups not in EMI's "fold" Summit was issuing much of the same as MFP here. Now I don't know who the company was that processed the discs, but it must've been the same handling both labels and that's likely the reason why the MFP and Summit layouts were so similar(apart from colour schemes), a job-lot design, just substitute one trademark for the other.
Neil Forbes 28th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Memories	K-Tel launched Impact as an extra outlet to issue mainly specific-artist compilations but also put out various artist issues as well. I don't think K-Tel in Australia had any real idea what they were using the Impact label for, much less why they launched it... probably explains why it didn't last all that long.
Neil Forbes 28th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - The Best Of 'Top Of The Pops' 1973	Hi, Zabadak! The Brit and Aussie Summits are indeed branches of the same company, the logo's the same here in Australia as well, as is the label design.
Neil Forbes 28th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Memories	It appears to be, because it IS! K-Tel "recycled" their Majestic crown device for the purpose of this label. Note also the NU- prefix. That track, B9, unless I miss my guess, Bobby Sherman also recorded this for the Metromedia label(give me a minute and I'll check)..... Nope! Wrong song! Sherman's was "La La(If I Had You)" penned by David Janssen.
Neil Forbes 28th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Past Masters	I'd seen the "Anthology" when it was aired here(I think on commercial TV - the ads ruined a good show). But that should not take anything away from The Compleat Beatles, which, at a shade under 2 hours, was a fairly comprehensive doco, Anthology fills in some gaps and brings the story up-to-date, or at least to the point before George passed away. That reminds me, Living In The Material World Pt.2 airs on SBS-TV this Sunday at 8.30pm( for Australian audiences).
Neil Forbes 28th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Ronnie Dove - The Best Of Ronnie Dove, Volume 2	I note that Dancin' Out Of My Heart is not in this compilation, but its original 45rpm B-side turns up at Tr.B4, Back From Baltimore. Good up-tempo number, penned by Neil Diamond at a time when he himself was just beginning to establish himself as a singer on Bert Berns' Bang label in New York.
Neil Forbes 28th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Rock 'N' Roll Music Volume I	Yep, that's the one! The two LP set has been broken up and issued as two separate "volumes". We, regrettably had the American cover art for the Axis issues, EMI Australia should've used the British MFP cover artwork instead.
Neil Forbes 28th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Rock 'N' Roll Music	This album was also issued in Australia, with same cover art and content sequence. EMI in Australia would later re-issue the album as two separate volumes on its budget Axis label.
Neil Forbes 28th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Past Masters	What you were seeing there, R.C. was the last few minutes, just before the closing credits sequence, showing what happened to the members at that time(only John had gone at that time), The closing credit sequence had the song "Blackbird" playing over it.
Neil Forbes 28th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Past Masters	If I remember what was said in The Compleat Beatles, the recording process was, in those far-off days, to simply "record direct to stereo". No mixing was done. It was like when you got your first stereo tape recorder(open-reel, then later, cassette), you'd put the two microphones as far apart as the length of their leads allowed if you were going to record a live performance. Though I'd imagine EMI's Abbey Road studio would've had some slightly-more-elaborate equipment than a domestic stereo tape recorder!
Neil Forbes 28th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Joe South - A Look Inside	R.C., B3 - Walk A Mile In My Shoes, seems to be a not-too-well-defined stereo spread, other than that it isn't too bad(have the song on another LP, not this one).
Neil Forbes 28th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Beatles '65	The Americans probably realised these were made-up albums thrown together by Capitol. But Electrola has no excuse! They should've been issuing the albums EXACTLY as they came out of England. After all, Electrola GmbH was a DIVISION of EMI, Capitol Industries was, and is, merely a subsidiary.
Neil Forbes 27th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Smokey Robinson And The Miracles - Make It Happen	Two very significant cuts from this LP, Tears Of A Clown only became a single in the USA after prompting by EMI when they issued it in Britain as a single first. The opening cut on Side 2, More Love was also reworked by Kim Carnes.
Neil Forbes 27th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Beatles '65	This is basically a short-changed version of Beatles For Sale(oops, sorry! I'll say that in German - "Beatles Zum Verkauf!"). There are three tracks missing from the BFS album and I suppose this justifies EMI-Electrola giving this album such a title as seen here.
Neil Forbes 27th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Herman's Hermits - Blaze	Something somewhat backward about Mickey Most's production company.
Neil Forbes 27th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album The Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother	Maybe it's best to show it as a Harvest issue, but just add in the notes that it's part of the Hoer Zu series(note here: I spelt the word Hoer because I don't have access at the moment to type the 'o' with an umlaut above it. In such situations, add an 'e'[upper or lower case as required] after any thus-affected letter[usually 'a', 'o' or 'u']).
Neil Forbes 27th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Britain Is Rockin'	And I think I know the one you meant, R,C. another of those ubiquitous K-Tel issues, but again, mid-70s as it carried a red K-Tel(rather than a Majestic) label. You got the title right, it was indeed "Best Of British". I'll upload as son as I can.
Neil Forbes 27th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Britain Is Rockin'	Actually, about mid-1970s, a two-LP set on the Columbia label, titled "History Of British Pop"(SOEX-9982/3) Featured brackets of songs by the following(numbers in brackets show how many tracks per artist or group): Cliff Richard(3); Dave Clark 5(5); The Animals(6); Georgie Fame(3); Manfred Mann(4); The Hollies(4); Peter & Gordon(3). There's no copyright date on the cover or labels so I can't be sure exactly when it was issued. It belongs to a friend and I should be getting it back to him, but I had it so I could make a CD of it for him(it required 2 CDs to do so).
Neil Forbes 27th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Britain Is Rockin'	Interesting this one's come up again in the random lot. The only comment made about it came from me just 5 days before Xmas, last year. Hmmmm....
Neil Forbes 27th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Explosive Hits '73	R.C.'s comment: "I made a yogi yes that's a booboo the album was issued in May not April and superstition made the Brisbane charts in February that year". Shall we put this one in our Maxwell Smart Moments" file, R.C.?
Neil Forbes 27th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Abbey Road	Just exactly which side of the street was the EMI studios on? And how far along from that zebra-crossing was it they'd have to walk before getting to those studios?
Neil Forbes 27th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Abbey Road	If Paul IS dead, that's one solid ghost still hangin' around, givin' interviews to all and sundry on his life as a Beatle and his career afterwards... but if he were dead, would he have been giving spirited performances or just making a spectre-cle of himself.

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