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Member	Item		Review/Comment
PhilMH SUBS 28th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Diana Ross - Red Hot Rhythm + Blues	Hi Helen, 9 May 1987 was a Saturday, so it is more likely that this was released on Friday 8th, which is the date that Discogs has; a complication is that the US Copyright Office gives the date of publication as 16th April! However, I am inclined to think that 8th May is the correct date, as this was reviewed in Billboard's issue of 16th May. So, how did the Copyright Office get the April date? My theory is that RCA originally planned the April date, and filed the copyright registration in anticipation of that, but then pushed the release date back to May for some reason.
PhilMH SUBS 28th Jun 2022		CD Album Louis Armstrong - Mack The Knife	US catalogue number was PACD-2310-941-2, released in 1990. This was possibly also released in New Zealand, as the legal text refers to Festival Records Pty. Ltd. Australia and New Zealand, but perhaps a NZ member can advise whether or not this was distributed there.
PhilMH SUBS 25th Jun 2022		CD Album Ella Fitzgerald - Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook	A worldwide release on 24th June 2022, read all about it here. What else is hiding in Norman Granz's vault, I wonder? A marvelous performance from Ella, using the same arranger/conductor (Paul Weston) as on the studio album of THE IRVING BERLIN SONGBOOK, and so far, the only known live recording of any of Ella's songbooks. The sound quality is a bit rough in places, particularly on "Russian Lullaby" and "Always"; I first thought that maybe the engineer was recording at too high a level, but the spottiness of the rough spots makes me now think it is tape damage or deterioration. Kudos to Universal Music Australia for getting this into this country on the worldwide release date; fewer kudos for the $5 increase in price over other recent releases, though, but it's just another symptom of the current worldwide difficulties (and the price is still less than the $A30 that was being charged for CDs when they first became available in 1983, so I shouldn't complain, really).
PhilMH SUBS 24th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Yes - Fragile	Release date for this couldn't have been December 1971, as Atlantic didn't move to Kinney in the UK until March 1972, as reported in Billboard dated 12th February 1972. Mod Edit: Date Fixed.
PhilMH SUBS 22nd Jun 2022		CD Album The Supremes - Motown Legends Stoned Love	Well, they got it right for at least one of the women in the picture (Mary Wilson); I've seen an out-of-copyright digital album by Dinah Washington with a CBS-era Aretha Franklin photo on it!
PhilMH SUBS 22nd Jun 2022		CD Album Diana Ross - Baby It's Me	Hi Helen, US and Canadian Motown catalogue numbers that start with 37463 came into use in October 1991, when Motown changed its distribution from MCA to PolyGram. However, this was previously issued through MCA's distribution as MOTD-5434, probably in very early 1990, based on Schwann catalogues that I have. The 5434 numeric forms part of both catalogue numbers, so a case could be made for treating this PolyGram issue as a variant of the MCA issue, and making the release year 1990, but I think the admins or mods should advise on that!
PhilMH SUBS 21st Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Diana Ross - Ain't No Mountain High Enough	Hi Helen, actual release date (according to Platterlog catalogue) was 23 October 1989; 1st January 1989 was a Sunday, and in any case New Year's Day is a public holiday in Australia, so it is unlikely that anything would have been released on that day anyway (not necessarily true nowadays, as some, if not all, Australian states now allow at least some shops to open on public holidays). I can't say I remember seeing this one in Adelaide - interesting that they used the mono versions of some hits.
PhilMH SUBS 20th Jun 2022		Cassette Album Gregorian - Sadisfaction	The back insert says "Distribution Barclay"; Barclay was a French company, and there is also a French price code BA 581 shown, so both of those plus the French copyright text would suggest just a French release to me.
PhilMH SUBS 20th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Ewan MacColl And Peggy Seeger - The Long Harvest Record 7	Like the stereo version, a 1968 release, presumably April.
PhilMH SUBS 20th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Ewan MacColl And Peggy Seeger - The Long Harvest Record 7	This, and the mono version, can't be 1967 because the labels say (P) 1968; Decca catalogues in my possession give this a release date of April 1968; mono version isn't listed, but presumably released at the same time.
PhilMH SUBS 19th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Diana Ross - To Love Again	A correction has been submitted to change the label to Motown; EMI was the record company, not the label.
PhilMH SUBS 18th Jun 2022		CD Album Various Artists - Board Boogie	Licensed from Festival Records, who released this in Australia on 5th May 2003.
PhilMH SUBS 18th Jun 2022		CD Album Various Artists - Hot Generation !	Licensed from Festival Records, who released this in Australia on 5th May 2003.
PhilMH SUBS 18th Jun 2022		CD Album Various Artists - Of Hopes And Dreams And Tombstones	Licensed from Festival Records, who released this in Australia on 5th May 2003.
PhilMH SUBS 17th Jun 2022		CD Album Diana Ross - All The Great Love Songs	I respectfully disagree, MM - I think this is the US release, as it has the US catalogue number and barcode, and no mention of RCA, who were distributing Motown in the UK and Europe at that time; Discogs has a Europe copy showing the European ZD catalogue number (though it doesn't show the back insert, which would have had the RCA distribution information). Also, some US releases on other labels were pressed in Europe at that time, so it's perfectly possible that there would be some UK-pressed US issues too. And, Sharon Davis' book MOTOWN: THE HISTORY, which contains US & UK discographies compiled by UK label manager Gordon Frewin, lists the UK release as ZD 72221 in October 1984.
PhilMH SUBS 16th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Dionne Warwicke - Soulful	Dionne did change her last name to Warwicke in the early 70s on the advice of a numerologist, and her sister Dee Dee followed suit; she reverted to Warwick on signing with Arista in 1979, and said at that time, "When I added the e, all hell broke loose: when I dropped the e, all hell stopped". Both versions of her name are linked in this site, and neither of them is her real surname anyway - she is actually Warrick, but Scepter misspelled the name on her first single, "Don't Make Me Over", and when that became a hit, she kept on using Warwick.
PhilMH SUBS 15th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Jerry Butler - The Best Of Jerry Butler	I suspect this one has a similar history to this Caravans album; catalogue number first used in 1966 according to Both Sides Now, but still being pressed in the 1970s; my copy, bought in 1977, has "4-4-72" etched in the runouts.
PhilMH SUBS 15th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album The Caravans [Gospel] - The Soul Of The Caravans	This might be a 1972 pressing, but Both Sides Now's Exodus label page suggests that this catalogue number was first issued in 1966; the Chicago address on the back cover would tend to support that, as the later re-incarnation of Vee-Jay as VJ International was based in Hollywood, so either the latter company still had a lot of unused album covers left over, or they didn't bother to update the address for later printings.
PhilMH SUBS 15th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album The Chi-Lites - Chi-Litetime: The Very Best Of The Chi-Lites	The 1976 date applies to the previous issue on Brunswick BRLS 3023. This London reissue is from December 1978, along with other Brunswick recordings on SHU 8521 through 8523, and ZGU 142, listed as new releases in Music Week for 2nd December 1978,and reviewed in Music Week for 16th December 1978. It's a mystery (at least to me) why the 5 albums were reissued on London when they were previously on Brunswick, and there don't appear to be any further Brunswick reissues via British Decca. All I can think of is that they had sold well, and when stocks ran out, Decca had no more Brunswick label blanks, and perhaps anticipating that there would be no more issues from Brunswick, they used the London label instead.
PhilMH SUBS 15th Jun 2022		Classical Item ORF Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Lamberto Gardelli - Cherubini: Requiem In C Minor	Added release month of February from new release listing and Philips advert in that month's issue of Gramophone. I feel that this one could be made International rather than just Netherlands; as well as the Gramophone mentions, the reference to Phonographic Performance Ltd. on the back cover suggests that this was also a UK issue, and this catalogue number is also listed in the April 1982 issue of the Schwann catalogue in the US (not in the August 1981 issue, which is the next earliest issue I have, so I suspect US release was some months after Europe); PolyGram in the US were importing much of their classical product by then (not just Philips, but Decca and DG too) and ads in Schwann for those labels would typically state that the releases were imports.
PhilMH SUBS 14th Jun 2022		CD Album Diana Ross - Lady Sings The Blues – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Hi Helen, the first CD release of this album was in April 1985 as MCD06133MD; MCD09046MD was released in June 1987, according to the discography in Sharon Davis' 1988 book MOTOWN: THE HISTORY (and I don't know why I didn't think to check that when I previously commented in 2014!). The renumbering to MOTD-758 (numerically the same as the original LP and cassette issues) took place sometime between June 1988 (when Motown was sold to the joint venture of MCA Records and Boston Ventures, and became Motown Record Company, L.P.) and July 1989, where it appears with that catalogue number in MCA's catalogue. MCA's catalogue numbers in the 80's were a nightmare! It wasn't unusual for LP, cassette, and CD to all have completely different numbers (Motown, from 1983-1988 distributed by MCA, but not yet owned by them, had some vinyl issues in the 2800 series, cassettes in the 5000 series, and CDs in the 9000 series), but after the MCA/Boston Ventures takeover, MCA started rationalising their numbers to have all formats numerically the same; I remember seeing the The Supremes GREATEST HITS CD, which was originally in the 8000 series, renumbered to MOTD-237, matching the 1982 LP and cassette reissue, by way of a sticker on the jewel case, and this was also done for Stevie Wonder's 1970s albums and the CD versions of the 1970s ANTHOLOGIES. This is analogous to MCA's early 80s renumberings of their LP back catalogues by way of gold stamps on the front covers, and sometimes those old stamped covers would contain new pressings with the new numbers on them! EDIT: It's probable that your copy with 9046 on the cover and 758 on the disc had a sticker showing the new number 758 (and corresponding barcode) on the jewel case at some point, and it came off.
PhilMH SUBS 13th Jun 2022		CD Album Diana Ross And The Supremes - The Rodgers & Hart Collection	Not just Germany, but UK & Europe too, going by the distribution credits and price codes on the back insert. This one didn't make it to Australia though, I had to buy it as an import (IIRC, from Virgin Records when they revived their mail order service for a short time), and my copy shows the GEMA rights society too, but that doesn't necessarily restrict release to just Germany.
PhilMH SUBS 13th Jun 2022		CD Album The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones	Catalogue no. 800 047-2 (rather similar to 820 047-2) gives us this CD by John McLauglin, Al Di Meola, and Paco de Lucia; originally released on LP in 1981, and worldwide releases split between Columbia/CBS and Philips because Paco de Lucia recorded for the latter label.
PhilMH SUBS 13th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	The JC catalogue number prefix would be from about 1977, when CBS increased their top-line retail price to $7.98, as signified by the J; this album also apparently exists with prefixes KCS ($5.98) and PC ($6.98).
PhilMH SUBS 13th Jun 2022		CD Album Bobby Bland - Blues & Ballads	Release date 18 May 1999 from the May 1999 issue of the Ice CD Newsletter, plus Library of Congress copyright registration.
PhilMH SUBS 13th Jun 2022		CD Album Bobby Bland - Greatest Hits, Vol. Two	Release date 14 July 1998, from the June and July 1998 issues of the Ice CD Newsletter, plus Library of Congress copyright registration.
PhilMH SUBS 13th Jun 2022		CD Album Bobby Bland - Greatest Hits, Vol. One	Release date 16 June 1998 from the June 1998 issue of the Ice CD Newsletter, plus the Library of Congress Copyright Registration.
PhilMH SUBS 13th Jun 2022		CD Album Diana Ross And The Supremes - The No 1's	I agree that this should be UK only; Discogs has a separate European edition with a longer catalogue number, a German Label Code (which this UK version doesn't have), and the same front cover as the US edition, which is the photo used here with the top of the girls' heads chopped off so that Florence Ballard is barely recognisable (and who TF thought that was a good idea?).
PhilMH SUBS 12th Jun 2022		Vinyl Album Them - Them	Yep, the grey labels with the blue and red logo are post the PolyGram takeover, which was finalised in January 1980. Looks like a PolyGram pressing too, with the raised outer ring which I have seen on PolyGram pressings, but I can't tell whether this is pressed in UK, Netherlands, or what (UK would have 420 stamped in the runouts, Netherlands 670).
PhilMH SUBS 12th Jun 2022		CD Album The Rolling Stones - On Air	P.S.: T_V_J, track 6 should be "It's All Over Now".

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