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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Neil Forbes 4th Jan 2015		78 RPM Doris Day - I Only Have Eyes For You / The Comb And Paper Polka	Reminds me of a story I used to tell on one of my programmes on Port Stephens FM after playing Art Garfunkel's version of this song: Fellow walks into a bar and orders a Scotch on the rocks, he gets the Scotch, but not the "rocks". Lady walks in 5 minutes later and asks for same, gets what she asked for. Annoyed, the man asks "Why didn't I get that?" Embarrassed, the lady asks "why did I get what I wanted but not him?" The bartender looks at the lady and says.... wait for it.... "I only have ice for you!".... ah, yeah, right! I can hear you groaning from here!
Neil Forbes 4th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Power Hits	I can spot them too - Free Electric Band(Albert Hammond) was in the Rock Explosion LP, See My Baby Jive(Wizzard) in Unreal LP and Dancin' On A Saturday Night(Barry Blue) on the Fantastic LP. Unreal was issued here in 1974, the other two, Fantastic and Rock Explosion were issued during 1973. My corrected memory has Fantastic as the issue which debuted the K-Tel logo as the large top-centre feature of the K-Tel label after the Majestic label(by then with a solid coloured band around the label perimeter on which the Majestic Records name, around the top, copyright warning around the bottom, and the Majestic crown device on the left and K-Tel logo at right) had been phased out.
Neil Forbes 4th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Super Bad	If I remember correctly, the Australian issue was from 1973 - but I'll check that one! Just found my copy and yes, all 1973 content except for a couple of 1972 vintage tracks. I'll leave it to Record Collector to provide the track list, I won't steal his thunder.
Neil Forbes 4th Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Power Hits	Thought you might've had that one, R.C. - and Vol.2 as well! What do you make of this Dutch compilation?
Neil Forbes 3rd Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - World Of Rock 'N' Fun	With the two 1975-vintage tracks, you could safely assume the album to be of 1975 vintage, Judge, but if you want to err on the side of caution, go one year on and say 1976 until you can ascertain the actual release year.
Neil Forbes 3rd Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Power Hits	There was an Australian LP of this title but the label was Majestic, issue year was 1969 and artwork was vastly different, not to mention the content. I'm sure Record Collector may have come across that LP in his travels as well, ay, R.C.?
Neil Forbes 3rd Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Duane Eddy - Guitar Man	Oh I do love these British labels! Look at how the publishing credits are listed, exactly where and how they SHOULD be shown! Australian record companies would've done well to follow the British example. I look upon our examples from the major companies with a degree of shame when I compare them to their UK counterparts, though Astor and some other smaller operations did at least try to get it right(Sweet Peach, in South Australia, and Tempo in Victoria are two that made an effort, congrats to them for that much), but for the rest, a poor showing indeed!
Neil Forbes 3rd Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Super Bad	The Australian LP issued under the same title(and cover artwork too, I might add) has, as far as I'm aware, NONE of the tracks listed here. A quick close-up on the back cover to see the titles not listed above, confirms this. Over to you for a comment or two, Record Collector. What do you make of this one?
Neil Forbes 1st Jan 2015		Vinyl Album Cat Stevens - The World Of Cat Stevens	The Australian issue had all but two tracks in full stereo. The only two tracks that weren't in stereo were B4, A Bad Night and B6, Where Are You. Also, the front cover artwork had a sketched portrait of Stevens on the front cover. Soon as I can I'll upload the Australian cover. I should also mention Pickwick issued the album on CD simply as "Cat Stevens, using a cropped portion of the British front cover photo on the left of the cover card, and Stevens' name, black print on yellow backdrop on the right of the cover card. Track order was as per the LP and all stereo bar the two already-mentioned tracks.
Neil Forbes 30th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album The Ventures - The Ventures Play Telstar • The Lonely Bull And Others	Probably the better of the two versions of Telstar doing the rounds in 1962. Sounds great in stereo. I have the Australian re-issue of this, the cover carries a vintage Liberty logo and a catalogue number in respect of the Liberty label issue. But pulling the disc from its sleeve reveals a United Artists label of early 1970s vintage and the catalogue prefix adjusted to suit, though the number stays the same.
Neil Forbes 30th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night	If the title is "I'LL CRY INSTEAD" on the British Parlophone issue, then it should be the same on the US/Canadian issue.
Neil Forbes 29th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album The Beatles - The Beatles Ballads	Take a look at the composer credit at the bottom of the Side 1 label.... "six of one, half-a-dozen of the other" is a phrase that springs immediately to mind! Also, It's a bit unnecessary to have the EMI logo twice on the label, at top AND bottom! And production of The Long & Winding Road rightly does belong to George Martin. You've got to remember that the Let It Be album sessions were recorded in 1968 and 1969 with Martin in charge as producer, but arguments between the members of the group left the album in an unfinished state - indefinitely shelved. It was Alan Klein who brought Spector in to sort out the album and he was given producer credit over Martin, And I'm sure George Martin would've felt justifyingly pissed off about it, too!
Neil Forbes 29th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album The Mugwumps - An Historic Recording	Would've half-solved the problem but grammatically.... it always rankled me when someone said "an historic... this or that" It was like fingers dragged down a blackboard to me.
Neil Forbes 29th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album The Mugwumps - An Historic Recording	The title should've been "A Historic Recording", not An...! The H in Historic is NOT silent, thus takes "A" as its preposition, not "An"! Sorry to be pedantic on this but this mishandling of the word, History, noun and adjectival forms thereof, really sticks in my claw. Come to think of it, any word beginning with "H' where the letter is aspirated(pronounced), such as "herb" for instance. "he used a herbal remedy". Take note America! HERB, not ERB!
Neil Forbes 27th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	The original issue(on Parlophone for the UK, Australia/NZ and some parts of Europe) was 1967, but if the record carries an Apple label, as Record Collector suggests, then the issue year will be any time after 1968.
Neil Forbes 27th Dec 2014		CD Single Helen Love - It's My Club	You know what I'm getting at, don't you, R.C.? The technology's changed so new terms need to be applied. The only term from the vinyl era that can still apply now is "album" - a collection of songs by one artist or group, or by various artists/groups. The term "single" or EP(extended play) really only applies to vinyl. More so for EP because that referred to a 45rpm disc with two tracks(sometimes 3 if an extra track could be squeezed in) per side. With a CD having an 80-minute playing time, the EP term is rendered obsolete, as is the term "long-playing(LP)". When I do my own CDs, depending on the length of track, I can sometimes squeeze in a bit over 30 tracks.
Neil Forbes 26th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Tina Turner - Favourites	Yeah, R.C. And sadly, some of the major labels have been caught issuing CDs with non-authentic versions contained on them. It's no wonder I've given up buying commercial CDs and make my own instead. At least by recording from the original vinyl single, EP or LP track, or from cassette, I can be assured of getting the proper authentic version of a wanted song or instrumental track.
Neil Forbes 26th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Elvis Presley - The Best Of Elvis	This is NOT an American product! It is indeed British! Click on the label and the rear cover and you'll see for yourselves in the close-up. Clearly at this stage, EMI had simply adapted their 78rpm label design to serve as an LP label. Yes, EMI DID issue very early Presley records, but Decca took over when they acquired the rights to the RCA-Victor product for the UK. I don't think it's a reproduction, it would have stated so somewhere on the label if that had been the case.
Neil Forbes 26th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Volume 12	Record Collector wrote, re: Michael Jackson - "One day in your life one of his best". I'll agree. A lot of... nay, just about all his Motown work is far superior to anything he's done at CBS-Epic! At least back then he didn't have the(sadly, well-deserved) tag of Whacko Jacko!
Neil Forbes 26th Dec 2014		CD Single Helen Love - It's My Club	I do wish they would NOT call these things "singles"! The term simply does not fit. A single has one track on one side and another on the opposite side, but when placed on a turntable, only the upward-facing side is accessible for the pick-up to "read"(play), whereas these things have sometimes three, sometimes four or five "tracks" hat are all accessible to be read by the laser beam. Yes, you only play one at a time, but that's not the point. The point is that all the content is accessible at once where on a 45rpm "true" single, one side is up for play while the other is face-down against the felt turntable mat. It would be better to call these "CD samplers" because they contain a few tracks from a current or forthcoming album.... Hmmm, album, there's a term that can fit both vinyl LP and CD media, as it refers to "a collection of tracks".
Neil Forbes 26th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Tina Turner - Favourites	This is a label you'd need to be very wary of. They may NOT always use authentic versions of songs in their compilations. Another label you should not trust is the New Zealand-based Music World, part of Hughes Leisure Corp. In fact, this company has a number of labels and none of them can be trusted to issue authentic versions of anything!
Neil Forbes 26th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Diana Ross And The Supremes - Reflections	EMI Britain obviously "farmed out" a lot of its disc-stamping jobs to its Euro divisions. The Motown Chartbusters Vol.7, some of the pressings for that one were done by Electrola, Germany(I have the LP and the CD of that volume) Sleeve by Garrod & Lofthouse, yep, quite the normal, G. & L. did covers for several, if not all the British labels. Wouldn't surprise me if they printed some for Decca as well!
Neil Forbes 26th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Volume 12	My single of One Day In Your Life is the black Tamla/Motown issue, so it will likely be TMG-946. I bought the LP "It's Summer" off the Axis rack at a small electrical and mixed business years ago at Stockton(inner suburb of Newcastle, and oldest too, I hasten to add). I bought the Motown Chartbusters Vol.6 in Newcastle but forget which store. It was a Polygram reissue and I think they only had Volumes 1 to 8 at the time but my collection fell short, ending at Vol.7(the three-reel poker machine cover). When I got Vol.6 I too saw that two tracks had been dropped for the Australian Axis LP. They were: These Things Will Keep Me Loving You(Velvelettes) and Heaven Must Have Sent You(Elgins), both 1966. From Vol.5 the tracks cut were: It's All In The Game(Four Tops), It's Wonderful(Jimmy Ruffin), Abraham, Martin & John(Marvin Gaye) and It's A Shame(Spinners). The first and fourth were 1970, the middle two were 1969. The cover for Vol.5 and "Giants was the same, artwork-wise but just a change in title on the cover was the cosmetic change.
Neil Forbes 26th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Volume 12	Hi, Phil. The Brit. issue single of One Day In Your Life is, I suspect, a 1975 vintage(EMI may have issued it as a single BEFORE Motown.... beat them to the punch, as it were, whilst Motown itself might've held back on the track. After all, it was EMI in the UK that pushed Motown into issuing Tears Of A Clown[Smokey & Miracles] as a single in 1970 when Motown were originally going to leave it as an LP track from their 1967 Make It Happen album). As for Chartbusters Vol.5 I have it in both configurations, on CD(issued by Polygram) as Chartbusters 5, and on a pre-Dolby commercial-issue Tamla-Motown cassette as Motown Giants. Four tracks went AWOL from the Chartbuters album to form the Giants album, other than that the sequence of tracks was the same. And Chartbusters Vol.6 turned up here as "It's Summer" on an Axis budget-issue with two tracks missing from the Brit version.
Neil Forbes 26th Dec 2014		CD Album Tina Arena - In Deep	Cute, she was, R.C. but the point was, she was talented! or so that was supposed to be the point of the show, but when a certain American-owned hamburger chain started sponsoring the show, the emphasis swung away from the talent aspect toward the "cute kid who sings" aspect. The influence of that hamburger chain spoiled the show. especially with the addition of puppets and animal characters(people dressed up as a mouse or a dog). Original YTT member, Rod Kirkham even commented on this in the "profiles" section of the YTT Tells All DVD issue. He says he became embarrassed to watch the show in its latter years after those additions.
Neil Forbes 26th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Music Power	And how "Unreal" is that? Actually, that was the title of a Ray Stevens album of 1971. That Ray Stevens album featured "Sunset Strip" and had the B-side of his 1971 novelty number, Bridget The Midget, namely "Night People". That last-mentioned track appears in stereo on the back of "Bridget..." but the A-side, "Bridget..." is only mono! Awwww!
Neil Forbes 26th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Motown Chartbusters Volume 12	I have the B1 track as a single(even though it was in an RCA-produced sleeve, the label of the single still credited EMI as manufacturer. The record, One Day In Your Life(Michael Jackson) is shown as from 1975. It showed up in Australia when Astor had bought Motown(and eventually the purchase sent Astor hurtling head-long into that oh-so-familiar wall of bankruptcy)in 1981, which meant it took six years from issue to chart debut. Usually a record might take a couple of years in this situation, they're usually called "sleepers" but this one must've been comatose!, Still, I guess the longest delay between issue and chart debut, the "record"(pun intended - maybe) is held by Phoebe Snow's version of the Paul McCartney composition, Every Night, issued in 1970, chart debut in 1979.....zzzzzzzzzz...huh? P.S. Just how many volumes were there in this Chartbusters series?
Neil Forbes 24th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Music Power	I wonder what this album morphed into for the Australian market. This might be one for Record Collector. Are you there, R.C.?
Neil Forbes 24th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album The Cyrkle - Red Rubber Ball	Bruce Woodley did indeed collaborate on "Cloudy" with Paul Simon, but Simon turned around afterward and suggested that any future collaborations between himself and Australian Bruce Woodley(still very much part of The Seekers back then) would credit Simon only as thewriter - a clear show of arrogance! Should mention, Red Rubber Ball was also a Simon/Woodley collaboration but Simon gave himself sole credit(or CBS decided that Simon should get sole credit. A Neil Diamond version of the song gives credit to Simon/Woodley). Again I say a clear show of arrogance! By the way, I'm writing this on Xmas Morning(1.51am). HAPPY XMAS, EVERYBODY!!!
Neil Forbes 23rd Dec 2014		CD Album Tina Arena - In Deep	This girl got her start on Australian TV's legendary "Young Talent Time" in about 1977 when she was just 8 years old. She was partnered on the show with John Bowles, who was about 9 or 10 at that time. Bowles went on to head up his own TV production company and his biggest project in 2001 was a tribute special, "Young Talent Time Tells All" where he interviewed Johnny Young and several of the team members from 1971 to 1988, including Tina, Jamie Redfern, Debbie(now Debra) Byrne, Greg Mills, Rod Kirkham, Jane Scali, Phil Gould and, of course, Johnny Young. When YTT was briefly relaunched in 2012, Tina was asked to be a judge on the show, filling the role once held by the late Evie Hayes, and Tina did a great job too! Sadly YTT Mk.2 only lasted 13 episodes. It wasn't given a fair go at all. A pity because the new "team" really packed a lot of talent into their young frames.

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