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Neil Forbes 30th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Great Tear Jerkers	Well, here it is, the Australian edition of Tear Jerkers, only 20 tracks so there wasn't any need to "crop" any of the songs. I'm fairly certain they're original recordings(no re-rerecorded songs among them), otherwise they wouldn't be able to claim "original hits". Mod, if you could add the American version as the "linked release", please, so comparisons can be made of the contents.
Neil Forbes 30th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Johnny Rivers - Outside Help	Yes, RC, I noted the Soul City trademark, it appears on the rear of my Canadian CBS-Epic copy's cover, but not on the labels.
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Hit Explosion 11	Would've been useful to see the rear sleeve and labels.
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Rockin' Originals	So "cheep" the birds could afford it!(Oooo-eeee, chirpy-chirpy-cheep-cheep....!) ha-ha!
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		TV Time Team (1994 - 2014)	I thought Tony Robinson was looking a bit dizzy(cue Tommy Roe single.... ha-ha), must've been all that "spinning-off" he did! HA-HA!
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Rockin' Originals	They're a bit stingey when it comes to the number of tracks they put on each side of their LPs though!
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Rockin' Originals	What is it(or was it) about this Pickwick label that they wouldn't put more than four or five tracks on one side of their LPs? The contents of this album could've easily been accommodated, without editing any down to shorter versions, on one LP! If K-Tel Australia could do it, why couldn't Pickwick?
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Original Top Hits	Er.... JA! Genau!(English: Er.... YES! Exactly!)
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		TV Time Team (1994 - 2014)	This one seems to have gone missing from the ABC-TV schedules here in Australia.
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 20 Original Top Hits	....and(apparently) not a single German artist or group in this entire set!
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 24 Great Tear Jerkers	Okie-dokes! I'll put it up during the week. As they say in the classics, "Watch this space....!"
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Gilbert O'Sullivan - Back To Front	I've got this and two other G. O'S albums that I'm yet to convert to CD, and in each case, the label does not extend out to the full area of the disc set aside for it(raised up from the playing surface).
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 24 Great Tear Jerkers	Ah, so it wasn't Max Smart but them beastly little Keyboard Gremlins that got ya, RC!. Is it worth me putting my copy of the Aussie issue on the site? or will you do it?
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 24 Great Tear Jerkers	On the record number, you're out by one, RC(Maxwell Smart strikes again... ha-ha), it's NA-472!
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 24 Great Tear Jerkers	There may be more than four tracks missing from our version, RC, it isn't just the numerical difference, it's also what tracks are common to both versions(albeit in different positions in the playing order) and which are not. On Side A, tracks 1 to 5 are the same, then we miss out on US tracks A6,9 and 11. On Side B, the first two tracks are the same but after that it gets confusing. Our track A10 turns up as the US track B5. We miss out on the US tracks B3,6 and 8. The one that is in the Aussie version but not the US version is our track B10(shown as Tr.20 on the Aussie rear sleeve), Hey Paula by Paul & Paula. Also our version only has one Platters track, *The Great Pretender* but it's the original version, not the re-recording used in the US version.
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - 24 Great Tear Jerkers	Same cover artwork but shy four tracks in the Aussie version. A comparative contents list would be useful to see what was included in the two versions and what was left out.
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Superstars Of The 70's	RC's comment: - Actually all the groups listed and singers had hits in the 1970's misses the point. The tracks in this compilation should've ALL been from the 1970s. Instead, there are cuts from 1969, 1968 and possibly earlier that *DON'T* belong in this set precisely because they're from the previous decade. The failure of this album to stay true to its title is a lesson from the past to teach album compilers of today to exercise *one thousand percent* care and diligence to proper research.
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		TV Bewitched (1964 - 1972)	If Bewitched debuted in Australia during 1968, then it was already 4 years old before we got to see it. Pretty-much par-for-the-course for Australian TV in those days.
Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		TV Skippy The Bush Kangaroo (1968 - 1970)	@Zabadak, you cruel beast! Poor little Skippy is shaking like a leaf at the thought of ending up on your dinner plate! Ha-ha!
Neil Forbes 27th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Superstars Of The 70's	RC, I may be going over old history, but if a CD was issued just today(hypothetically speaking) that purports to cover the 1970s, then proper research is OF THE UTMOSAT IMPORTANCE but is sadly lacking, nay, non-existent in such compilations these days.
Neil Forbes 27th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Superstars Of The 70's	Memo to ALL record companies: When putting a compilation together that purports to cover a given decade, such as the 1970s(for example), it is highly important that those who are charged with the responsibility of finding the material for such an album should PAY STRICT ATTENTION TO RESEARCH to ensure that no track appears in the set that does not belong there. The tracks must have a 1970 to 1979 copyright date, no earlier and no later.
Neil Forbes 27th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Superstars Of The 70's	RC must have pulled his comment asking me if I read all the tracks, which prompted my last post.
Neil Forbes 27th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Superstars Of The 70's	There would likely be others that are 1960s vintage but I picked the most obvious ones to highlight this lack - total lack - of proper research into track vintage for such a compilation as this.
Neil Forbes 27th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Past Masters	@TP, my last post on this set was intended as a review.
Neil Forbes 27th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Superstars Of The 70's	The Judy Collins track sticks out like a sore thumb as completely out of place because of its 1968 vintage, as do The Bee Gees, their second track in this set dates back to 1967(Tr.C5), and the Crosby, Stills & Nash cut(C3) is from 1969. These tracks do not belong in a compilation that's supposed to be of 1970s songs. Again this is an example of slipshod compilation with no research carried out at all in relation to the chosen tracks. For this fact alone, the report card on this album should bear a big, fat red "F" for "Failed"!
Neil Forbes 27th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Past Masters	Review For the most part, this set comprises A/B singles couplings with the exception of Tracks B1 to B4 which is the "Long Tall Sally EP in its entirety and in order of tracks. There is the odd A-side here that's missing its relevant B-side, the two German-language songs qualify as an A/B coupling as that's how they appeared on German, Swiss and Austrian Odeon label singles. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Neil Forbes 27th Sep 2015		TV Welcome Back, Kotter (1975 - 1979)	Even so with filmed or videotaped shows, there was a degree of quality loss in conversion, but if the so-called "washed-out" look was deliberate, the conversion from film to NTSC videotape(if indeed they copied the filmed stuff to videotape) then upward conversion from NTSC to PAL would definitely have compounded the quality loss.
Neil Forbes 27th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Past Masters	The only change I'd have made in this set is to move the German versions of She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand across to the second disc in the set rather than have them so close to the original English versions.
Neil Forbes 27th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Past Masters	There was a huge fracas with management arrangements around 1969. Paul wanted his then-new in-laws, Lee and John Eastman to come in as managers but was out-voted by the other three who wanted Alan Klein. It was Klein who brought in Phil Spector to put the "Let It Be" album together. Spector got total production credit and George Martin got snubbed, yet Martin put in most of the work. Martin would've quite rightly been hacked off about that and McCartney was none too happy about it either.
Neil Forbes 27th Sep 2015		Vinyl Album Dr. Hook - Greatest Hits	Cover Of Rolling Stone dates back to 1972(delayed release, showed up here in 1973) and the copyright is owned by Sony Music, Capitol used it under licence from CBS(as it was before Sony gobbled it up), same as they used Sylvia's Mother, which actually dates back to 1971 but turned up here in 1972. EMI showed these two tracks as Copyright 1980 Capitol Records Inc., when they should've given proper credit to CBS Inc. by showing the tracks as C/right 1971(Sylvia's...) and C/right 1972(Rolling...) CBS Inc. respectively.(I edited this comment at 12.25am, Friday, 9th October, 2015 AEDT).

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