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Neil Forbes 23rd Dec 2014		Vinyl Album The Ventures - The Ventures	Clearly the company has no shame! Not content with issuing The Ventures(a Liberty/United Artists-signed group) without EMI's permission, as EMI now holds the Liberty/UA backlists through their US subsidiary, Capitol, This Yung Shen mob even blatantly copy a label design from another organisation not even remotely linked to EMI.
Neil Forbes 22nd Dec 2014		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Past Masters	I think the vocals were mixed over both channels in der beiden versionen dieses liedes!(Here's me, showing off again! Switching from English to German mid-sentence! Ha-Ha! - Cut it out, Forbesie!) Oops - better translate that second half...."in the both versions of this song" Okay?
Neil Forbes 22nd Dec 2014		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Past Masters	Interesting! Veeeerrrrryyyyy interesting! The first four tracks make up the British EP, Long Tall Sally in exactly the correct order! R.C., keep those gloves handy(ha-ha)! and PhilMH, that catalogue number's a real jawbreaker! But as for multi-disc sets, they actually comprise one album(Beatles 1962-66 or 1967-70, the Red and Blue albums cited as examples) so the two(or more) discs should carry the same number. The only variation should be in the matrix numbers for each of the four(or more) sides., Another example would be Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
Neil Forbes 22nd Dec 2014		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Abbey Road	Interesting history around this LP. It marked a return to the studio by the Beatles after indefinite shelving of the Let It Be sessions which started in 1968. Technically, this was THE FINAL album to be completed by the group - from first session through to final packaging and release in 1969. Meanwhile, the Let It Be tapes were still on the shelf awaiting mix-down and the controversial choice of Phil Spector to finish the product, pushing George Martin aside(and even robbing him of label credit for the work he'd already done). To say he'd have been "miffed" would be the mother of all understatements! He'd have been really hacked off about it, as he should've been. The finally-completed Let It Be album usurped Abbey Road's claim to be the Beatles' "swansong" LP. Also, the VW in the cover photo shows the rego plate with 28 IF as its number. Paul McCartney barefoot. this continued the myth of McCartney's "death", the reference in the plate was, he'd have been 28 years old IF he'd lived. But of course, Paul is very much alive, but sadly it's George and John who we lost.
Neil Forbes 21st Dec 2014		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - Smash Hits	This one I accidently referred to as Hits '67, in an earlier post on Hits'68(my goof), but I believe this to be the first of the series, and though not stated on cover or label, I believe this to be in stereo, the Australian issue certainly was! Note also the somewhat "cute" device for indicating the sides on the back cover, the "Smash Hits" design once for side A and twice for Side B. And the green label too. But now to the controversy... which of the tracks was David Bowie falsely accredited with?
Neil Forbes 21st Dec 2014		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - Hits '68	R.C. asked: Has this also I think the label layout changed in 1971? Answer, yes! The MFP label severed connection with EMI for Australia(but retained the connection in Britain for some years into the 1980s or beyond). The oval label design we saw on the Summit labels was adapted for MFP issues when MFP started issuing albums by artists and groups not in the EMI roster, the only variance was the colour scheme. Oval? More like a rugby-league ball shape! With the copyright warning below the "shape" and in three lines, following the curve.
Neil Forbes 21st Dec 2014		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - Hits '68	I don't know if you've noticed, but the address for Music For Pleasure is the same on both the British and Australian versions on some releases, 176 South Creek Road, Dee Why West, 2099 NSW. I've seen the Australian address on some British-made LPs. I suspect the Brit pressings were for export to bolster the supply to meet the "demand(?)" for a given title, hmmm.....!
Neil Forbes 21st Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Best Of Country Music, Vol. 7	There was quite a lot of good stuff over the four sides of that compilation, but there was a lot of "chaff among the wheat", so yes, if you take out that "chaff" it would come down to a pretty-good single LP compilation, but what to leave in and what to take out? For me, Donna Fargo's Funny Face would cop the chop for too much sop(ha, I rhymed!) but it's all to do with taste!
Neil Forbes 21st Dec 2014		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Help!	I bought my Italian issue at a shop called "Graphic Novel" in Newcastle's East End(Pacific Street), owned by a fellow called Dietmar Lederwasch. This was in the early 1980s, the shop is long gone now. It sold LPs and singles as a sideline to its main purpose of selling comics(sorry, graphic novels) and had a good choice of mainly imported records in both LPs and singles, some Australian-made stuff mingled with the overseas stuff too. By the way, R.C., ease up on those mothballs, will ya? They're beginning to stink the place out(ha-ha).
Neil Forbes 21st Dec 2014		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - Hits '68	For the Australian version, substitute the catalogue number on the cover to MFP-A-8017(but on the label as SMFP-8017, bit of inconsistency there), and the price on the front cover from Brit. from 13/11, then 14/6, to Australian $1.99, then add those oh-so-ugly publishing company trademarks across the centre of the label at spindle-hole level, you have the Australian issue of this album. A few other points, I think you'll find the preceding LP, Hits '67 was also in Stereo, that's it pictured below in the List of 12 compiled by Top-Popper, the Stereo/Mono tag was simply a marketing thing to tell the owner the record was compatible with mono players(I had a HMV Minigram, back in 1968), and on occasional Brit. LPs under the EMI manufacture, the copyright warning around the edge would go missing.
Neil Forbes 21st Dec 2014		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Help!	I actually have an Italian issue of this LP. But as for the Chung Sheng label, I suspect I've seen it before, carrying Roy Orbison and Nancy Sinatra albums, and if memory serves correct, they're always pressed in translucent red vinyl.
Neil Forbes 21st Dec 2014		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Help!	And it's more than likely Chung Sheng did NOT obtain copyright clearance from EMI to issue this album. Only in Asia(some countries therein) could a company get away with such a thing with complete impunity! Try the stunt anywhere else in the world and the copyright owners would slap you with a lawsuit that could have you in court for the rest of your life(seemingly)! Even the cover isn't genuine!
Neil Forbes 21st Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Best Of Country Music, Vol. 7	I think you might be right, R.C. I have the LP in question, I think it(Australian LP) had a brown cover with a large cowboy hat and photos of the featured artists superimposed within its outline. The first volume was simply "20 Country Greats, then by Volume two, became "Town & Country Greats" which lasted until Volume 5, then they dropped the "Town & Country" tag altogether after that.
Neil Forbes 21st Dec 2014		Vinyl Album New World - New World	Track B4 was not produced by Mickey Most, nor Nicky Chinn & Mike Chapman in the UK,, rather, it was an Australian production for the Parlophone label by Albert Productions after an appearance on an Australian TV talent show, "Showcase '67". However, there is the possibility that on arriving in the UK, they re-recorded the song for Mickey Most's RAK label somewhere around 1969 to 1971.
Neil Forbes 21st Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Miguel Ríos - A Song Of Joy	Hi, R.C. Had you noticed the sleeve to the single of this title track? It's an American-produced job, but when you first buy it and pull out the disc, thinking you've bought the American pressing, only to find it's an Australian-pressed disc(or made for New Zealand) contained in that sleeve, a feeling of disappointment comes over you. The LP shown here is American but what nationality is your LP copy of this album?
Neil Forbes 20th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Best Of Country Music, Vol. 7	Well, it's gettin' kinda late for me(at nearly half-past 4 in the morning, 21st December, 2014) so I'm a-gonna log out for now! Catch you all on the flip-side! Bye!
Neil Forbes 20th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Best Of Country Music, Vol. 7	Redpunk, many thanks! But I thought it might've been a shortcoming of the website that only so many titles could be listed as spaces are provided for them, apparently I must've been wrong(doh!)
Neil Forbes 20th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Mr. Acker Bilk And His Paramount Jazz Band - A Golden Treasury Of Bilk	Something missing on the label... Recording First Published 1961 should've been printed somewhere on the label but is totally missing!
Neil Forbes 20th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album The Mighty Moog - Everything You Always Wanted To Hear On The Moog*	Aah, but R.C., that's the way ALL stereo recordings should be listened to..... with the speakers as wide apart as your room dimensions, or the speaker wire will permit!
Neil Forbes 20th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album The Beatles - The Essential Beatles	TopPopper, you are correct! TheSgt. Pepper portion had been edited off for this release, and, if my memory serves correctly, this compilation was for the Australian(and possibly New Zealand) market only. I bought this brand new just after it came out, but, through second-hand book & record store, Rice's in Newcastle West(Australia), managed to snaffle a new replacement copy for myself, then a friend gives me some of his old unwanted LPs and what should be there among the gems(and some chaff)? You guessed it! Needless to say I had, some time back, committed the contents to CD!.
Neil Forbes 20th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Best Of Country Music, Vol. 7	The two missing songs at the end of side 2 are: Today Will Be The First Day Of The Rest Of My Life(Lawada Lindsay) and Born To Be With You(Sonny James).It seems the provision on this website is somewhat limited when it comes to listing all the content of these 24-track compilations, not all titles will fit as not enough spaces are provided. That's something the moderator may need to address as some time or other, hopefully soon.
Neil Forbes 20th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Britain Is Rockin'	This label, Leedon, resurrected by EMI, rivals of the company that once manufactured and distributed the label on behalf of its owner, Lee Gordon, namely Festival, seems to have dug deep into the vaults of EMI in Britain for the contents of this album!(or else they've snuck into Record Collector's private vinyl stash![ha-ha!]) Either way there's a lot of rare stuff in this mix, though in compiling, I would not have an artist twice in successive tracks. I'd always break them up by having at least two other artists in between. The worst examples are B7 through to B10, all Shane Fenton. To this end I would've added a few more acts, like Helen Shapiro and other female acts to break up the all-male line-up of this album.
Neil Forbes 20th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album [no artist listed] - Top Of The Pops: Vol. 10	I've seen these LPs, several volumes of which, at second-hand book & record shops and recycling centres in and around Newcastle(Australia) and Sandgate(a suburb of Newcastle), and up in my "neck of the woods", Port Stephens(40 or so minutes' drive north of Newcastle). Now I'm not sure who copied whom but EMI, in partnership with book publishers, Paul Hamlyn, were issuing several budget LPs on the Music For Pleasure label that had uncredited studio artists covering the then-current hits of the latter-half of the 1960s, the same recordings also turned up on Canadian ARC LPs around the same time.... curious, that!
Neil Forbes 20th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Cadence Classics / Volume One	Interesting to note the Barnaby trademark now inside a circle(black outline, no fill) where, on the singles the Barnaby trademark was superimposed on the Janus trademark(yellow solid backdrop in shape of trademark for Janus, no black outline).
Neil Forbes 20th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Goofy Greats	Actually, R.C., I'd have suggested "I've Had Everything" by Geoff "Tangletongue" Mack. He took the basic idea from what he'd already written as "I've Been Everywhere" and turned it into a hypochondriac's anthem! I found the single of this some time back and I'm looking for an excuse(chance) to include it on one of my "Vinyl To CD" compilations which I occasionally throw together.
Neil Forbes 20th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Goofy Greats	Yeah, R.C., look what the Brits missed out on, but by the same token, look what we in Australia missed out on!
Neil Forbes 20th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Believe In Music	The sleeve and labels show 11 tracks per side, the list for submission only shows 10 per side. Two are thus not listed in this Canadian version. The missing tracks are "Sealed With A Kiss"(Bobby Vinton) Side 1/Tr.11 and "I Believe In Music"(Gallery) Side 2/Tr.11.
Neil Forbes 19th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album The Ventures - The Ventures	Misspellings! You just know it's got to be a Japanese LP! They're hopeless in their handling of English, especially in print. I note also the CBS-Sony(styled) label design. I wonder if they(the maker of this set) sought copyright clearance from EMI, who now own all the Liberty/United Artists back-catalogue through their American subsidiary, Capitol? Likely as not, they didn't!
Neil Forbes 19th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Goofy Greats	There are(after a breakdown of contents) only 13 tracks this version has in common with the Australian compilation. There are 11 from the Brit. version we did not get, as opposed to only 7 which the Brits missed out on. I won't list them, it'd take too much space!
Neil Forbes 19th Dec 2014		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Goofy Greats	I think the Brits might've been duded on this one, in spite of the fact that there are 24 tracks, or more likely because of this, several of the longer tracks may have been "edited"(shortened) so you don't get the complete version, I cite the 1969 issue, 24 Solid Hits(Australian edition) as an example of this, plus the complete lack of composer credits, but that's a side-issue. But once again, a lack of originality, same title, save cover art, but in essence a completely different album!

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