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PhilMH SUBS 27th Jan 2025		CD Album Various Artists - Seasons Greetings From The Calgary Sun	You shouldn't have linked the listings if the MCA issue had a completely different catalogue number, which I think it did (not to mention that it's also on a different label). As this is on Universal Music, this is not a 1989 issue, as that name wasn't used in Canada until 1999; the 1989 copyright year comes from the original US issue linked below.
PhilMH SUBS 20th Jan 2025		CD Album Carole King - Tapestry	I think this is made in Japan for Europe and the rest of the world outside of the Far East and the Americas; the catalogue number is in the style used by Sony in Europe, etc. A Japanese release would have some Japanese text somewhere, as well as the rights society JASRAC. Call it International.
PhilMH SUBS 19th Jan 2025		CD Album Heart - Heart	Lee, I've just looked at that Discogs club edition, and it looks ok to me; Capitol appears as the label at the top of the disc, the back of the booklet, the back insert, and both spines. RCA Direct Marketing, Inc. appears correctly with company roles "manufactured for" and licensed to", neither of which affect the actual branded label of Capitol. To my knowledge, that RCA club always allocated its own catalogue numbers to their releases.
PhilMH SUBS 8th Jan 2025		Vinyl Album Uriah Heep - ...Very 'Eavy...Very 'Umble	Yes, quite possible/probable, but we'll probably never know for sure unless someone can turn up a release sheet, or get access to Universal Music NZ's files. All that can be said at the moment is that the Phonogram Ltd. name makes it no earlier than 9 November 1972.
PhilMH SUBS 7th Jan 2025		Vinyl Album Uriah Heep - ...Very 'Eavy...Very 'Umble	I believe that the info in Discogs is reliable, as it appears to have come directly from the NZ company registry, which I have just looked at myself, and the following appears under the now-defunct company Universal Music Limited: UNIVERSAL MUSIC LIMITED (14087) Removed To maintain this company log on here Hide previous names POLYGRAM RECORDS LIMITED (from 01 Nov 1978 to 24 Nov 1999) PHONOGRAM LIMITED (from 09 Nov 1972 to 01 Nov 1978) POLYGRAM RECORDS LIMITED (from 25 Jun 1970 to 09 Nov 1972) PHILLIPS RECORDS (N.Z.) LIMITED (from 14 May 1963 to 25 Jun 1970) INTERNATIONAL PHONOGRAPHIC SOCIETY N.Z LIMITED (from 11 Dec 1961 to 14 May 1963) Last updated on 03 Nov 2013 It's possible, indeed probable, that some of those "1972" NZ issues in Discogs showing Phonogram Limited fall into one of these possible categories: (1) Represses/reprints of albums that were originally issued by the 1970-1972 iteration of PolyGram Records Limited; (2) the usual discographical headache of assuming that the phonographic copyright (P) year is the release year - not necessarily the case, as that (P) year is set in the country where the recording is first issued, and other countries might issue it later, and also that (P) year should not change on represses and reissues.
PhilMH SUBS 4th Jan 2025		Vinyl Album Uriah Heep - ...Very 'Eavy...Very 'Umble	Probably a bit later than September 1972 - Discogs tells me that the Phonogram Ltd. company name was active in New Zealand from 9 November 1972 to 31 October 1978, before that the NZ company name was PolyGram Records Limited, which most likely explains the PolyGram reference on the labels, in that older label stock was still being used. Discogs doesn't have a date for this version of the LP.
PhilMH SUBS 3rd Jan 2025		Vinyl Album Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells II	Hi Whassup, I don't think this release is just for Germany, as shown by the price code for France, and the Discogs entry, which says Europe, shows that it has the additional catalogue number WX 2002, which was for UK use. There doesn't appear to have been an LP release in Australia (only CD & cassette), so there's not enough information to make this International, but Europe-wide would be a fairly safe bet at the moment.
PhilMH SUBS 1st Jan 2025		CD Album Stevie Wonder - Song Review	There are a couple of errors in the booklet: the note under track 12 saying "issued as B-side to "I Don't Know Why" should be under track 13, "My Cherie Amour", and the album discography suggests that TMSP 6002, "SONG IN THE KEY OF LIFE" was issued on Tamla Motown, whereas it was in fact the first release on the Motown label in the UK (though it was on Tamla Motown in some other countries that were slow to pick up the new label, e.g. India).
PhilMH SUBS 29th Dec 2024		Classical Item Sir Malcolm Sargent, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Smetana	I would just call it EMI, Greg, as the word Angel doesn't actually appear anywhere - that was typically only used on releases in the Americas and Far East. Where the EMI logo appears in conjunction with another recognised label brand like Columbia, Parlophone, HMV, Stateside, Capitol, etc. then just use that label brand, and not EMI/Columbia, etc; the EMI logo was only used to indicate that the label was part of the EMI group, and EMI was only a label where no other label logo (as distinct from series logo) was present.
PhilMH SUBS 24th Dec 2024		CD Album Creedence Clearwater Revival - Mardi Gras	Added 27 February 2006 release date from Platterlog's new release listing that week - all of Creedence's original albums, plus THE CONCERT, were included in that week's Universal releases, which seem to be exclusively from the Fantasy group of labels (Stax, Pablo, Specialty), and somehow Platterlog managed to render one group name as "Sam Cooke & The Soul Strippers"!
PhilMH SUBS 10th Dec 2024		CD Album Marvin Gaye - Marvin Gaye	Main label here should be Columbia, and Sony/BMG is the company. Correction request submitted.
PhilMH SUBS 10th Dec 2024		CD Album Diana Ross - Colour Collection	Label should be Motown, which logo appears on the package and the disc; Universal Music International Division is the company holding the copyright. Correction request submitted.
PhilMH SUBS 10th Dec 2024		CD Album Marvin Gaye - Soul Legends	Label should be Motown, which logo appears on the disc; Universal Music International Division is the company holding the copyright. Correction submitted.
PhilMH SUBS 10th Dec 2024		CD Album Diana Ross And The Supremes - Soul Legends	Label should be Motown, which logo appears on the package and the disc; Universal Music International Division is the company holding the copyright. Correction request submitted.
PhilMH SUBS 4th Dec 2024		CD Album Dorsey Burnette - Hey Little One	ASCAP shows the writer as Herbert Newman (owner of Era Records), and Discogs tells me that Steven Howard was Newman's songwriting alias.
PhilMH SUBS 25th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album The Stooges - Fun House	Agreed, Lee - another reason why this is not 1977 is because the company name WEA Records Pty. Limited started appearing on covers and labels in 1973, and the labels here don't have that; I think the cover here is actually from a later French issue, as it looks like it has the French company name WEA Fillipacchi Music, with the Saul Bass designed [W] Warner Communications logo which came into use in1974, plus the European catalogue number 42 055 in the top right, so definitely a mismatch of cover and record.
PhilMH SUBS 24th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album The Temptations - Meet The Temptations	Re the note about Eddie Kendricks - his family name was actually Kendrick without the S, and "Isn't She Pretty' was originally recorded in 1961, presumably before he added the S. By the same token, the sleeve notes refer to Davis Ruffin rather than "David" - again, his real name.
PhilMH SUBS 22nd Nov 2024		CD Album Carole King - Tapestry	Singapore might be best as the country for this one, because Discogs tells me that Sony Music Asia was based in Singapore from 1993 to 1995, and Hong Kong after that; Discogs doesn't have this actual disc, though.
PhilMH SUBS 20th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Jam Session	RCA Victor Company, Ltd. was the Canadian RCA company, based in Montreal. Before January 1969, RCA was handled in the UK by The Decca Record Company Limited, and then RCA Ltd. Record Division from January 1969.
PhilMH SUBS 15th Nov 2024		Vinyl Album The Ramsey Lewis Trio + Jean DuShon - You Better Believe Me	Label name at this site is Argo [Chicago], not Argo Record.
PhilMH SUBS 2nd Nov 2024		Vinyl Album Sandy Denny - Gold Dust	If this was for Record Store Day, then it was probably a worldwide release; "Made in EU" does not necessarily equate to released only in the EU or Europe. Discogs has it has Europe, but the cover images there aren't large enough or clear enough to tell whether the telltale text "Universal International Music B.V." appears, that would be a strong indicator that it is worldwide or near-worldwide, as that company manages the international domestic release of Universal products.
PhilMH SUBS 31st Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Johnny And The Hurricanes - The Big Sound Of Johnny And The Hurricanes	Actually released in March 1961, according to Paul Pelletier's London Popular LP Listing part 2 in Record Information Issue Two - this possibly explains the "published 1961" on side 2 of Svend's copy.
PhilMH SUBS 14th Oct 2024		Vinyl Album The Critters - Younger Girl	January 1967, according to London (-American) complete Popular L.P.s part five 1964-1969 in issue five of RECORD INFORMATION by Paul Pelletier; in fact, numbers 8301-8304, all from Kapp, were all January 1967 releases.
PhilMH SUBS 10th Oct 2024		CD Album The Who - Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy	It's not really an "additional" catalogue number, it's just a previous LP catalogue number; MCA obviously just photographed an LP cover and reduced it in size for this CD issue. MCA's numbering convention was MCA + numerals for vinyl, MCAC + numerals for cassettes, MCAT plus numerals for 8 tracks, and MCAD + numerals for CDs.
PhilMH SUBS 2nd Oct 2024		CD Album James Brown - Hot Pants	US release of this was on 23rd March 1993, so Europe were unlikely to have got it in 1992 (this, and the reissues of SEX MACHINE, REVOLUTION OF THE MIND, THERE IT IS and the instrumentals double SOUL PRIDE were all released on the same day). [Mod: changed to 93]
PhilMH SUBS 2nd Oct 2024		CD Album James Brown - Sex Machine	US release of this was on 23rd March 1993, so Europe were unlikely to have got it in 1992 (this, and the reissues of HOT PANTS, REVOLUTION OF THE MIND, THERE IT IS and the instrumentals double SOUL PRIDE were all released on the same day). [Mod: changed to 93]
PhilMH SUBS 2nd Oct 2024		CD Album James Brown - Hot Pants	Added release date 23rd March 1993, obtained from Fall 1993 Schwann Spectrum catalogue, March and April 1993 issues of ICE CD Newsletter, plus (via newspapers.com) listings in the Chicago Tribune and Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
PhilMH SUBS 1st Oct 2024		Vinyl Album Simon And Garfunkel - The Graduate (Original Soundtrack)	I think the confusion over the title came about because the original album issued after the hit was titled "Sounds Of Silence" - the plural used because it was a collection of songs, or sounds. Ever since then, people have assumed that album title to be the song's title as well.
PhilMH SUBS 25th Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Mantovani And His Orchestra - The World Of Mantovani	Release month September from Decca catalogues.
PhilMH SUBS 25th Sep 2024		Vinyl Album Mantovani And His Orchestra - The World Of Mantovani	Hi Hawkmarty, I think your version is the first issue; this was reviewed in GRAMOPHONE's December 1968 issue, and the review includes the statement "the sleeve contains hinged details of Mantovani's repertoire and an article about his music". Release month was September, according to Decca's catalogues.

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