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Member	Item		Review/Comment
PhilMH 13 hours ago		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Incredible Medleys	This European Motown/Tamla Motown 72000 series via RCA started in 1984; the October 1983 UK issue of this was STMS 5106. I think Motown was still licensed to companies other than RCA on the Continent in 1983 - Vogue in France and Benelux, Bellaphon in Germany, etc.
PhilMH 29th Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Ruby Murray - Your Favourite Colleen	1966 sounds right; Music For Pleasure was founded in 1965, so the catalogue numbers were most probably up to 1094 by 1966.
PhilMH 22nd Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Styx - Cornerstone	US Copyright Office registration says September 17th, viz: Cornerstone / [performed by] Styx. Relevance: Type of Work: Sound Recording Registration Number / Date: SR0000012849 / 1979-10-15 Title: Cornerstone / [performed by] Styx. Imprint: c1979. Publisher Number: A&M Records SP-3711 Description: 1 sound disc : 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in. Notes: Lyrics on container. Copyright Claimant: © ℗ A & M Records, Inc. Date of Creation: 1979 Date of Publication: 1979-09-17 Authorship on Application: sound recording & artwork: A & M Records, Inc., employer for hire. Contents: Lights -- Why me? -- Babe -- Never say never -- Boat on the river -- Borrowed time -- First time -- Eddie -- Love in the midnight. Names: Styx A&M Records, Inc.
PhilMH 22nd Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Carly Simon - No Secrets	P.S. later pressings after Elektra returned to WEA for distribution in late 1975/early 1976 have the Warner Communications text and logo at the label circumference, as in this example.
PhilMH 22nd Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Carly Simon - No Secrets	The one with the EKS matrices is the earlier, as it doesn't have "EMI RECORDS LTD." on the label circumference; the back cover for the earlier issue shows "DISTRIBUTED BY WEA RECORDS LTD" (image 1353536); images 863864-863866 are for the October 1973 or later EMI issue.
PhilMH 22nd Jun 2024		Vinyl Album John Fogerty - John Fogerty	Not an "Export Issue" - this was made for Ace Records Limited in London, who usually had their vinyl product manufactured in Germany or France. I think Fantasy's German licensee in this period (late 80s) was Bernhard Mikulsi, which later became ZYX Music. 1988 Music Master catalogue gives September 1987 as the release date, which I think is about the time that Ace acquired the Fantasy license.
PhilMH 19th Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees	Apple Music/itunes and Amazon both have 18th February 1976 (a Wednesday) as the original release date; that date was presumably supplied to the sites by Columbia/Sony. However, the US Copyright office registration shows 20th February 1976 (Friday), and that date would also have been originally supplied by Columbia to the Copyright Office. I'm inclined to go with the Copyright Office, as it is a contemporaneous source.
PhilMH 18th Jun 2024		CD Album Kevin Ayers - John Cale	I suspect that the reason for separating them is because the UK one below shows MCPS as the rights society, whereas this one shows STEMRA (Dutch society). However, looking at the eight releases in Discogs with this barcode, I don't know that we can necessarily go by the rights society to determine the release market, because some of them showing the UK society MCPS were manufactured on the Continent, and others manufactured in the UK show STEMRA! All of them seem to show the German label code and the French distribution code on the back cover. It might be better to show them all under Europe, as any store ordering this from within UK and Europe would have been supplied by whichever PolyGram warehouse had stock; the linked Italian entry should remain separate, though, as it doesn't have the barcode, nor the 842 552-2 catalogue number, as it was distributed by Dischi Ricordi rather than PolyGram.
PhilMH 12th Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Dean Martin - Swingin' Down Yonder	Another reason for it not being 1955 is because E.M.I. didn't get the rights to Capitol until the start of 1956, Australian Record Company had the rights to the end of 1955.
PhilMH 12th Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Dean Martin - Swingin' Down Yonder	Michael de Looper's list of the EMI budget series' doesn't give a date for this one, the nearest dated entry in the Encore series being HMV OELP-9014, FRENCH HOLIDAY, by Various artists, so this is probably 1964 or 1965; the 1956 Australian original had catalogue number T-003.
PhilMH 9th Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Lena Horne - Lena Sings Your Requests	Added year 1963; this is a "Pop Special Merit" album in Billboard's issue dated 6th April 1963, so it could be either a March or an April release.
PhilMH 6th Jun 2024		CD Album Plácido Domingo - Forever Domingo	Not a 1992 release, as this shows Universal Music's name and logo - DG didn't become part of Universal until 1999, it was still a PolyGram label in 1992. Looking in Discogs, there doesn't appear to have been any prior PolyGram issue, only a Universal Europe issue which had been entered as 1994 (now corrected).
PhilMH 6th Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Bill Haley And His Comets - Crazy Man, Crazy	Sorry WM, I don't know for sure, but I note that Michael de Looper's London listing has this as March 1957, so Michael might like to chime in here if he's lurking? The matrix numbers XLON1 and XLON2 might be a clue - I note that in 45cat, the 7XLON matrices seem to have started appearing on labels in early 1957, and I found some fairly low 2-digit numbers there, so presuming that LPs and singles used the same numerical series, then it looks like this series started in 1957.
PhilMH 4th Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Ike And Tina Turner And The Ikettes - Come Together	I'm not sure about "normal", but looking in Discogs, there seem to be a few, especially on the later UA "sunburst" label for Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Vikki Carr, and others. Perhaps at some point they ran out of (or destroyed?) Liberty label blanks and just pressed any further copies on UA as needed.
PhilMH 4th Jun 2024		Vinyl Album Ike And Tina Turner And The Ikettes - Come Together	United Artists shut down the Liberty label in 1971, and the artist roster and catalogue was transferred to United Artists. But wait, there's more - after EMI bought United Artists Records in the late 70s, they were no longer able to use the United Artists name, so Liberty was revived! In the last decade or so, Liberty was again phased out, and the catalogue is now with Capitol Records (ditto for the Aladdin, Imperial and Minit labels, all previously under UA's control).
PhilMH 4th Jun 2024		Vinyl Album King Floyd - Heart Of The Matter	Originally issued in 1969 on the Pulsar label, distributed by Mercury, as A MAN IN LOVE, hence the use of that title in the liner notes. I still don't know how this got from Mercury to Motown, or why Motown changed the title!
PhilMH 25th May 2024		CD Album Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard And Soft	Although pressed in the EU, this is the pressing being sold retail in Canada Does the company name Universal Music International B.V. appear on the disc and/or package? If so, then this is an edition intended to be sold internationally, not just in Europe. The same might apply to the other Europe edition linked below.
PhilMH 18th May 2024		Vinyl Album Ravi Shankar And Ali Akbar Khan - The Exotic Sitar And Sarod	Apparently a November 1967 release in the US, according to the news item "Capitol Sets November LP's & Tapes" in Cash Box issue date 4th November 1967.
PhilMH 16th May 2024		Classical Item Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 In B Flat Minor "Babi Yar" Op. 113 / Six Poems Of Marina Tsvetaeva Op 143a / From Jewish Folk Poetry Op 79	And indeed, Discogs has the UK/Europe release on Decca.
PhilMH 16th May 2024		Classical Item Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 In B Flat Minor "Babi Yar" Op. 113 / Six Poems Of Marina Tsvetaeva Op 143a / From Jewish Folk Poetry Op 79	Sheepdip1234 is right; at that time, classical releases on London were reserved for the Americas and Far East, where MCA Records had the rights to the Decca name; adverts for London in the US Schwann catalogue in the 1980s highlighted the fact that the records were made in the Netherlands. Releases for UK, Europe and the rest of the world were on Decca, and most likely one pressing from the Netherlands would have been used for all those territories, Decca's UK factory at New Malden having closed shortly after the PolyGram takeover.
PhilMH 13th May 2024		Vinyl Album Vivien Leigh, Cyril Ornadel And David Croft - The Beatrix Potter Stories 1	Actually released in 1971; the (P) 1960 comes from the original issue of this material on 4 EPs; plus, the Music For Pleasure label wasn't founded until 1965. Correction will be requested.
PhilMH 8th May 2024		8-Track The Electric Light Orchestra - The Electric Light Orchestra [Quadraphonic]	Probably June 1974; the Discogs entry has 7406 EJD printer date added, but it doesn't appear on any of the images shown there, it might be on the back of the slipcase.
PhilMH 30th Apr 2024		Classical Item London Philharmonic Orchestra And Chorus - Holst: The Planets (Suite For Large Orchestra)	Though this is made in England, this is a US release; the UK release was on Decca Phase 4 PFS 4184. [mod: corrected]
PhilMH 26th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - The Motown Story Volume One	Was this actually released separately? The discography in Sharon Davis' book MOTOWN: THE HISTORY suggests that this was only released as part of the box set TMSP 1130 in February 1972.
PhilMH 22nd Apr 2024		CD Album Patricia Conroy - You Can't Resist	Discogs also has the real Canadian release, manufactured by Cinram, which shows catalogue number CD 97541, whereas the images here are for the European version with catalogue number 4509-97541-2, and with the European rights societies GEMA and BIEM which do not appear on the Canadian copy. Again, it looks to me like this was meant to be the US Intersound version with completely different details to the Canadian and Euopean WEA versions, but images for the European were added by mistake. Mod: made new European entry and moved images over
PhilMH 22nd Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Matchbox - Settin' The Woods On Fire	1978 is the phonographic copyright year, from the original release of this album on the Chiswick label, with the same catalogue number; the Ace label didn't come into being until the early 1980s.
PhilMH 21st Apr 2024		CD Album Patricia Conroy - You Can't Resist	It seems to me that the wrong images have been added to this item; this looks like the European version, whereas the US version looks like this.
PhilMH 20th Apr 2024		CD Album Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet	Given the era, before most countries had CD factories, German-made discs were released not just in Germany, but throughout most of the world, so if anything this should be made International.
PhilMH 20th Apr 2024		CD Album Various Artists - The Frisco Records Story	Just that one? What about all the other tracks composed by Al Reed? Anyway, if you think anything here wasn't authorized (which I doubt), take it up with Ace Records and/or Frisco Records.
PhilMH 20th Apr 2024		Vinyl Album Otis Redding - In Person At The Whisky A Go Go	Surely ελλαδίσκ α.ε. (Helladisc A.E.) is just the record company that distributed Atco in Greece, and not an actual label for this record?

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